Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
Using Screentones 1
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Using Screentones 1
Overview
“The final – and optional! – step to embellish your manga is screentones, one of this artform's unique, aesthetic components. Screentones can be used to accentuate, shadow, highlight, and create depth. In this lesson, I will teach you why, how, and when to use them in the classic Japanese way! ”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Using Screentones 1, 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
“In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to screen tone your manga, both digitally and analog. First, I want to tell you why screen tones are so important. In manga, we have black and white. The lines are black and the paper is white. But sometimes you want to have a little bit of a shade in between. The thing is, we need to keep the manga in 1200 DPI, so we can't use grayscale. Grayscale is usually at the maximum of 600 dpi. Above that, it's going to be a mess because we can't keep the files that big. It's gonna be too heavy. So what they do in manga is they use dots, small dots that crea...”
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Course summary for: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
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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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