Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
Digitizing and inking
A course by Carlos Sallas , Graphic Artist
About the video: Digitizing and inking
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how to digitize and ink your drawings. We will begin the process of scanning your works on paper, making sure to capture all the details. Next, we'll move on to digital inking, where you'll use tools like Procreate to refine and clean up your lines. This technique will allow you to give a professional finish to your illustrations and prepare them for presentation or publication.”
In this video lesson Carlos Sallas addresses the topic: Digitizing and inking, which is part of the Domestika online course: Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice. Create original drawings in your sketchbook and personalize you favorite fictional character with different exercises..
Partial transcription of the video
“In the previous lesson, we made several versions of our character. Now we will select one to continue working digitally. We are going to use an iPad, the Apple Pencil and Procreate to continue working. To begin this process, Let's take a photograph of our illustration. You can do it with any camera you have on hand, It doesn't have to be a professional environment, They don't have to scan it either, We simply need to transfer the image to our iPad and make the lines clear enough so that we can work on it. Try to have the iPad completely horizontal and also your notebook completely horizonta...”
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Course summary for: Character Sketchbook: Find Your Voice
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Category
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Software
Procreate -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration

Carlos Sallas
A course by Carlos Sallas
Carlos Sallas is a distinguished graphic artist and designer hailing from a small town in southern Morelos, Mexico. His deep passion for drawing has led him to work in a variety of fields, including editorial illustration, animation, advertising, and tattooing.
He has collaborated with well-known brands like Moleskine, Wacom, and Kraken, and has contributed to projects with studios such as Ánima, Fotosíntesis, and 4M2Q Studios. Carlos has also taught workshops and given lectures at institutions like Escena, Coco School, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, and the Pixelatl Festival.
Among his most notable projects are the comic "La Canción del Lago," which won first place at the 2019 Pixelatl Festival, and "San Misterio," an animated series and comic that has received accolades at various international festivals.
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