Digital Color for Manga Illustrations

Overview

“Now yes, bring your drawing materials, you will start sketching. I recommend not using a pencil and eraser, it is preferable not to have the possibility to erase, so you will learn faster from your mistakes.”

In this video lesson Carolina Cardona addresses the topic: The sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Color for Manga Illustrations . Communicate emotions through color, textures and body expression in your characters influenced by manga artwork .

Partial transcription of the video

“The sketch Now that we have the mood board ready, it's time to sketch. In our "sketchbook" we will have six pictures of the same size, divided into six equal parts. Those six parts are to guide us with the law of thirds. Then we start to list them. And now we can start sketching. They don't have to be very sharp shapes, we just need to know where our characters are going to go. I recommend using different colors for the characters and for background elements. Let's try to locate the characters in the hot spots of the law of thirds. I mean, these points. Thus the eye will give more importanc...”

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Course summary for: Digital Color for Manga Illustrations

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (35)
• 1348 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 23m)
• 19 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Color Theory, Comic, Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration