Digital Color for Manga Illustrations
Digital sketch
A course by Carolina Cardona , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Digital sketch
Overview
“You have already chosen one of the sketches that you made, now in this lesson I will show you how you can digitize that sketch in the best way, so you can get the most out of it. ”
In this video lesson Carolina Cardona addresses the topic: Digital 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
“Digital sketch We have already chosen our sketch. In this lesson we will digitize it and add important details. Let's get started. Since we have our sketch digitized, either through a photo or scan with a scanner or a cellular device, let's open a new file. New, we put a title. In my case The Little Prince poster Domestika. We will put the size. In our case it will be 50 centimeters by 70 centimeters at 300 pixels per inch, in ONE RGB color profile. We click on the Create button. We have our canvas ready. And now we go for our sketch. Let's go to this image. With Square Selection tool we ar...”
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Course summary for: Digital Color for Manga Illustrations
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Color Theory, Comic, Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Carolina Cardona
A course by Carolina Cardona
Carolina Cardona, better known as Caroca, is a digital illustrator from Colombia who relishes the creative process and constantly experiments with colors, shapes, and textures.
Throughout her career, she's had the opportunity to work as a video game artist, an illustrator for advertising agencies, and as a freelance artist for a variety of magazines. Her work has also been featured at the Salón Visual Bacánika in Bogotá and she has taught workshops at SOFA.
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