Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
Digitizing and Lettering
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Digitizing and Lettering
Overview
“In this lesson, we will move from analogue to digital. I will show you how to correctly scan your manga, touching on image quality and file formats. This will allow you to meet the requirements of publishers. You will learn how to prepare your pages and letter them using the program Clip Studio Paint. I will teach you about fonts, their copyrights, and the general regulations for lettering manga. ”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Digitizing and Lettering, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation. Learn how to write and create a manga comic from scratch using professional techniques used by Japanese artists for storytelling and character design.
Partial transcription of the video
“Digitalizing and Lettering In this lesson, we will digitalize your comic. It's time to scan your manga and I'm going to show you also how to letter it. We'll talk about the importance of using copyright-free fonts or buying fonts. Also, I'm going to talk about different file formats. I'll do everything in Clip Studio Paint, a market-leading tool for us manga artists. The first thing you need to learn is about resolution and quality. There's a difference between a screen and a printout. Any screen like the iPad or the one you're watching me on now has 72 DPI as resolution, always. If you pri...”
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Course summary for: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Comic, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storyboard, Traditional illustration
Natalia Batista
A course by Natalia Batista
Natalia Batista is a Swedish manga artist and illustrator with over 15 years of experience. Her passion for the Japanese art started as a child watching Sailor Moon with her sister. Soon, she joined a local manga club, and after graduating from high school, she attended a comic art school. While working for a Swedish magazine as a comic artist, she illustrated the comic Lova, about a young girl who wanted to be a singer in a band.
Since then, she has illustrated and published a number of manga pieces that are centered on female characters who are fighting for their rights. She is the artist and storyteller behind Sword Princess Amaltea and Mjau!, which have been published and printed throughout Europe and the United States. Natalia has also been featured in the German magazine Tokyopop for her comic Ein Lied für Elise.
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