Digital Color for Manga Illustrations
Final effects
A course by Carolina Cardona , Illustrator and Graphic Designer
About the video: Final effects
Overview
“Your lines, color and background are ready, the final touches are missing! In this lesson, I'll show you how to fine-tune them to make your illustration look amazing. ”
In this video lesson Carolina Cardona addresses the topic: Final effects, 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
“Final effects In this lesson we will put the finishing touches. Go. We are now ready to add the finishing touches. We are going to put together our color folder and we are going to duplicate it. We turn off the one below and we will give it Control + E so that it becomes a single layer. We are going to duplicate it again. I want to blur around the entire illustration. I duplicate it, I go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian blur and here I put the percentage of radius. I give OK. I add a mask and over it with the Gradient tool I will erase the center blur of the illustration, that only the edges rema...”
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Course summary for: Digital Color for Manga Illustrations
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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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