Watercolor Techniques for Comic Book Covers

Overview

“It's time to create some thumbnails focusing on dynamic poses and layouts of the characters. There are no bad ideas; every idea and sketch gets you closer to the final perfect version of your cover! If you’re running low on ideas, search the internet for some of your favorite artist's covers. In this lesson, you'll learn how to work on your thumbnails. ”

In this video lesson Tony Moy addresses the topic: Creating Thumbnails, which is part of the Domestika online course: Watercolor Techniques for Comic Book Covers. Paint dynamic and engaging comic book covers using watercolors and bring them to life through digital post-production.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Creating Thumbnails Before we get started, I wanted to talk a little bit about watercolor itself. Watercolor is one of the most challenging mediums to work with, specifically because of its transparency. We can't really erase it. We can't really go over it. We can't really cover up any of the mistakes or happy accidents that we'll make along the way. In order to reduce the potential for errors as we get further on in this process, a lot of these early steps, for instance, like the thumbnails we will create in a moment, are there to increase our confidence in the final product. Normally, I...”

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Course summary for: Watercolor Techniques for Comic Book Covers

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (33)
• 1252 students
• 4 units
• 20 lessons (4h 56m)
• 4 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Comic, Drawing, Watercolor Painting