From Idea to Vignette Step by Step
Retouching, lettering and color
A course by Alejandra Lunik , Graphic Humorist and Illustrator
About the video: Retouching, lettering and color
Overview
“With our inked vignette we return to the computer to give it the final touch-up in Photoshop. Now I show you how I correct errors, I add color and I include the final text. ”
In this video lesson Alejandra Lunik addresses the topic: Retouching, lettering and color, which is part of the Domestika online course: From Idea to Vignette Step by Step. Learn the process for creating a single-panel comic.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now that we know how to go over the drawing in ink, we’ll talk about the retouching, the lettering, and the color. Once I have the comic in ink, I’ll scan it in color and at 600 DPI. In the Resources section, I'll leave the information for scanning correctly. First, as you can see, I scanned it backwards, so you have to rotate it on the canvas. Remember that I work in scale, so this drawing is going to be larger than the size I need for the comic strip. The first thing we are going to do is make it cyan, magenta, and yellow. Cyan, magenta, and yellow is a color mode that is used for printin...”
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Course summary for: From Idea to Vignette Step by Step
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Category
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Areas
Comic, Traditional illustration

Alejandra Lunik
A course by Alejandra Lunik
Alejandra Lunik is an illustrator, graphic humorist, and amateur painter. She studied fine arts and has since devoted her career to illustration and graphic humor, publishing her work in a range of media outlets over the past two and half decades.
As a comic artist, her illustrations have been featured in a variety of magazines, including Fierro and Sex Humor. She also spent five years working as a graphic humorist at OHLALÁ magazine. Two of her most distinguished projects are Lola, a humorous comic that ended up being published as a book, and Hormona Asesina. She currently publishes daily comics titled Andá a lavar los platos for the newspaper La Nación.
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