Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
Using Screentones 2
A course by Natalia Batista , Manga Artist and illustrator
About the video: Using Screentones 2
Overview
“Let's add the final touches to complete your manga!”
In this video lesson Natalia Batista addresses the topic: Using Screentones 2, 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
“Now I'm going to continue adding screen tones to this page. Aska's shirt and Hilda's dress is the same percentage, 30%. but her cape is 60% so now I need to add a new layer in my screentone folder and make it into 60% and do the same thing again. And then I add it up here. As you can see, this is in grayscale. If I needed a screen tone, I just go to the layer property, and I change it to screen tone. Same settings. So as you can see, each darkness has its own layer. It's almost like you're using different screen tones. You can do the same thing with gradients as well. I'm going to show you ...”
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Course summary for: Manga Comics for Beginners: From Concept to Creation
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Clip Studio Paint -
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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