Manga Character Illustration Specialization

Overview

“You're going to prepare your mood board. You decide how to do it. It can be with clippings on a piece of paper, or on a blank canvas in Photoshop. I'll show you how to gather references for the characters you want to draw, text fragments, photos with colors you like, photos of expressions... whatever truly inspires you. This will be your basis for starting to draw. The more you draw on images, the more ideas will come. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Mood board, which is part of the Domestika online course: Manga Character Illustration Specialization. Design manga characters by integrating anatomy, proportions, and expressions to create unique and distinctive personalities.

Partial transcription of the video

“Mood board It is time to create our mood board. You decide whether to do it with paper cutouts or on a Photoshop canvas. Let's see. I use pages like Behance, ArtStation, Pinterest and Instagram to search for images and put together my mood board. What I do is go to the top of the page to see what is out there. There are very cool projects to be inspired by. I will open this one that catches my attention. From this we can be inspired by the texture used to paint it, the color palette maybe, the decorative elements or the pose of the characters. Here we can see some expressions or poses that ...”

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Course summary for: Manga Character Illustration Specialization

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (3)
• 366 students
• 6 units
• 74 lessons (12h 37m)
• 68 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Software

  Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Character Design, Color Theory, Comic, Digital Illustration, Manga, Narrative, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting