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Creation of Manga Characters

Passed to ink

A course by Andrea Jen , Comic Artist and Illustrator

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About the video: Passed to ink

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you how I ink the character's drawings with a simple microfiber and a black marker. In turn, I will show you other alternative tools that I use to work on a sleeve such as pens, brushes and others. ”

In this video lesson Andrea Jen addresses the topic: Passed to ink, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creation of Manga Characters. Learn to design and illustrate Japanese comic characters from the idea to its technical sheet.

Partial transcription of the video

“INKING In this last unit, we will finish our drawing and for that we are going to ink the character first. Now I am going to show you the materials that we are going to need. We are going to need pens, or technical pens. What we need is that these pens have different graduations, different thicknesses. This will allow us to work in more detail. Then, if you want, you can also work with nibs and India ink. This last option is for people who have more experience in inking. That is why I think that it's safer to work with technical pens. The good thing about technical pens is that they don't d...”

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Course summary for: Creation of Manga Characters

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1611)
56543 students
4 units
18 lessons (2h 36m)
14 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Comic, Manga, Traditional illustration

Andrea Jen

A course by Andrea Jen

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Comic Artist and Illustrator

Andrea Jen is an Argentinian manga creator and illustrator born in 1987. From a very young age she has been a fan of Japanese drawings, which led her to become a manga author.

In 2015 she published his first work: El Delirio de Ani, a 184-page manga, through the Ivrea Argentina publishing house. In 2016, she won the Silent Manga Audition contest with his Smiling Blossom comic and traveled to Fukushima (Japan) to promote the manga among children in the area.

Her most recent work consists of a series of watercolor illustrations for his illustrated book, from free illustrations to characters from his manga "El caminante de los sueños".