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Digital Illustration: Create Manga Characters

The Drawing: Scale, Gray Scale and Color

A course by Catalina Carlesi , Cartoonist and Illustrator

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Audio: Spanish, English

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About the video: The Drawing: Scale, Gray Scale and Color

Overview

“Once you have chosen the idea, it is time to start working on it on a larger scale. Therefore, I will show you how to apply grayscale and then color. ”

In this video lesson Catalina Carlesi addresses the topic: The Drawing: Scale, Gray Scale and Color, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration: Create Manga Characters. Learn how to use digital tools to bring your own detailed and expressive manga heroes to life.

Partial transcription of the video

“The Drawing: Scale, Gray Scale, and Color In this video, I will show you how to scale a drawing and make decisions about a color palette. Having chosen our idea, it's time to start working on it on a larger scale, applying gray scale and then choosing a color palette. Do you remember that in a past lesson I decided to join the two sketches in a third thumbnail idea? It's time to scale this chosen sketch, do a retouch of the lines and a bit of line art. The first thing to do is to adjust the selected sketch to the size we need to work with. In this case, I will use a measurement of 3000 or 4...”

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Course summary for: Digital Illustration: Create Manga Characters

Level: Intermediate
98% positive reviews (403)
26582 students
4 units
15 lessons (2h 52m)
8 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop, Procreate
Areas
Character Design, Comic, Digital Illustration, Manga, Traditional illustration

Catalina Carlesi

A course by Catalina Carlesi

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Cartoonist and Illustrator

Catalina Carlesi, better known as Alpaca, is a Chilean cartoonist and digital illustrator specializing in manga characters. She began her career as a graphic designer, but soon decided to pursue her dream and devote herself full time to illustration.

She's always been a huge fan of manga, anime, and video games, especially JRPGs, as well as Japanese culture in general, which have heavily influenced the style and content of her drawings. She loves creating original characters and weaving their stories into her illustrations through the use of light and shadows, colors, and expressive details.