Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch
From thumbnail to sketch
A course by Akimaro , Graphic Designer and Illustrator
About the video: From thumbnail to sketch
Overview
“It's time to start bringing your ideas to life. For that reason, in this lesson you will learn how to make the first thumbnails. Also, I will show you my process to choose which thumbnail best defines the idea I want to show. Once the thumbnail has been chosen, you will see how to clean it up to have a final sketch.”
In this video lesson Akimaro addresses the topic: From thumbnail to sketch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch. Come up with a story based on your own personal experience and create a comic ready to share on social media using storytelling techniques and vignettes.
Partial transcription of the video
“From thumbnail to sketch We have infinite ideas every day, but as it happens to me, We all have a slight problem, memory. Sometimes we have many good ideas for drawings, but, since it would take us a little longer to get them on paper, we end up discarding or forgetting them. That's why I make thumbnails all the time. I'm going to show you how to make them. A thumbnail, also called thumbnails, they are small drawings that we can do in a very short time and that they usually go from the general to the particular. Do not pressure yourself and think first in basic shapes, as in the squares. Si...”
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Course summary for: Manga-Style Comic Creation from Scratch
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Category
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Areas
Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling
Akimaro
A course by Akimaro
Adriana De la Torre, also known as Akimaro, is a designer by profession and an illustrator by trade. Combining these two arts, she has devoted herself to helping clients find their voice and telling stories through images. Since she was 16, Adriana has been publishing comics independently and is the co-author of the webcomic Parellet, published since 2012 and with two volumes in print.
Recently, she has worked with publishers like Penguin Random House to create illustrations for a teenage demographic. She loves to experiment and combines her experience in graphic design with her interest in modern Japanese culture.
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