Digital Anime Coloring for Beginners

Name: Digital Anime Coloring for Beginners
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For absolute beginners, learn how to start doing digital art from scratch!

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Created byPluvias .

Last updated 3/2021

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English [Auto],

What you'll learn

Steps of creating a fully-colored digital anime artwork
Understanding canvas size & resolution
Understanding digital coloring tools & layers

Course content

2 sections • 19 lectures • 1h 53m total length

Introduction3:09
Learn digital anime coloring for beginners from a self-taught artist, covering basic digital art concepts, software features, and creating a character from start to finish using accessible tools.
Canvas Size & Resolution4:16
Learn how to choose canvas size and resolution for digital art, using real-life units, 300 DPI print quality, and scaling rules to maintain consistent pixels and quality across screens.
Layers1:51
Learn to organize digital anime artwork with layered workflows, using separate layers for line art, hair, eyes, skin, and shading, and manage layer order for a clean final image.
Raster & Vector Layers3:21
Understand the difference between raster and vector layers, how resizing affects raster quality, and how linework tools enable precise lines and curves with proper canvas size.
Layer Clipping & Transparency Lock2:43
Learn how to color without crossing borders using layer clipping and transparency lock, including clipping masks and preserve opacity to shade within the base colors and blend smoothly.
Opacity & Layer Modes3:08
Master opacity and layer blending modes to control transparency and how layers interact, using normal, brightness, overlay, multiply, and shade to enhance highlights and shading.
Layer Management1:36
Master layer management for digital anime coloring by naming and grouping layers to streamline your workflow, organizing groups for line art, colors, and backgrounds, with clipping and transparency control.
PaintTool Sai User Interface4:04
Explore the PaintTool Sai user interface, including the menu bar, quick bar, navigator, color panel, and view selector, and learn to adjust foreground and background color and brush settings.
Keyboard Shortcuts2:05
Learn to speed up digital anime coloring with keyboard shortcuts by mapping tools like pens, brushes, erasers, paint, bucket, and transparency, using keys or express keys.
Steps of Drawing Process1:24
Learn the common steps of digital anime coloring: base and gesture outlines, sketching, neat line art, color layers, shading, and final touchups.

Sketching9:42
Sketch the digital artwork using a textured airbrush, set up shortcuts and selection tools, and layer two characters with a reference model before building the base.
Lineart12:12
Master line art for digital anime by choosing the brush tool, adjusting minimum size and density with pressure, organizing layers, and applying stabilizer settings for smoother, confident lines.
Base Colors10:41
Apply flatting by adding flat base colors on separate layers, organize groups for girl and guy, start with skin and hair using a magic wand and bucket.
Bonus: Making of Color Wheel3:00
Construct a hollow circle, divide it into twelve sections, and color the segments to form a color wheel. Apply it to your digital anime coloring workflow and begin shading.
Skin Coloring9:50
Shade anime skin using layered clipping, airbrush, and eraser tools. Use multiply blends, adjust saturation, and align with a right-side light source to create natural highlights.
Eye Coloring8:32
Learn practical eye coloring techniques for anime, using pupils, highlights, and light reflections; color blending, shading, and detail layering to create vivid, expressive eyes.
Hair Coloring12:06
Color the hair with brush and water tools, build shading on multiple clipped layers, blend edges, and add highlights with violet tones to create dimensional hair.
Clothes Coloring12:13
Color the clothes with brush and water tools, layering colors to shade shirts, skirts, and accessories. Emphasize light direction and wrinkles to craft hard and soft edges and highlights.
Finalizing Your Artwork7:50
Finalize your digital anime artwork by saving a transparent png, setting the canvas background to transparent, adjusting colors with layer modes, and exporting as psd or other formats.

Requirements

A drawing software (Preferably PaintTool Sai)
Drawing tablet

Description

Have you ever wondered how those gorgeous digital anime artworks are drawn? You might have not just wondered, but wanted to create similar ones yourself! But when you grabbed your tablet to do digital art, you might have found it too hard, frustrating, or too confusing to understand.

But that is not the reality! Digital Art is very simple and fun to practice once you understand its basics.

So worry not! Whether you are just starting out, or have prior experience, this course will help you learn how to do colorful digital anime illustrations from the very basics to the final result.

And even if you are not a beginner, if you are looking into getting the knowhow of creating soft-colored anime illustrations then you have found the right place for you!

This course teaches digital art from its very basic concepts and explains the step-by-step process of creating full-colored characters with soft shading style. It covers the following topics:

Learning how to choose the right canvas size
Understanding how layers work
Understanding the user interface
Creating your own tools and brushes
Techniques to escalate your digital drawing process
Techniques for comfortably sketching digitally
Techniques for doing appealing linearts
Understanding how to color skin, hair, eyes and clothes in soft-shading style
Understanding how to finalize your artwork with color adjustments and effects
Learning how to switch working from one software to another

Note: Paint Tool Sai software is used in this course for explanatory purposes, because it is a very friendly and simple to use software especially for beginner artists. But you can take those techniques and apply them into any other software of your liking!

Who this course is for:

Those interested in learning how to color Anime artworks digitally (soft shading)
Not for those interested in painting style

Digital Anime Coloring for Beginners

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Course content

Introduction and Basic Concepts10 lectures • 28min

Artwork Creation9 lectures • 1hr 26min

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