Easy Beginner Method for Amazing Cartoon Backgrounds

In this unit you'll learn the basics of Inkscape, as well as the most common tools and techniques for rendering your sketches.

Learn the user interface and the basics of how to handle yourself in Inkscape.

Objects are the way Inkscape handles the shapes you use to illustrate anything, in this lesson you'll learn the basics about them.

Path are the other half that makes up the drawing process inside Inkscape. In this lesson you'll learn what they are and how to use them.

Here are a list of tips that i heavily encourage you to keep in mind at the moment of working with Inkscape.

Learn the most common boolean operations uses and techniques for illustration.

Learn how to use two of the most important features for Illustration in general, Groups and Clips.

This lesson is a gentle introduction to the basic conceps behind rendering, light and shadow.

In this lesson you'll be able to download the resources and exercice files belonging to the Inkscape mini-course.

In this lesson we will go back to take a look at the asset pack i briefly show you in the Methodology introduction. Now i will go more in depth about how to actually use some of the assets.

In this and the next lesson i will show you how to make your own assets. In this lesson in particular i will deal with the more general details you have to keep in mind.

Now that you know the general ideas behind making an asset pack i want to go over how build the actual assets.

This next unit will not only show you how to build the example background but also show you the necesary fundamentals of composition that you need to make the best possible illustration.

Sketches or thumbnails are extremelly important for making better background, in this lesson i will talk about that and start the project by making a quick sketch inside Inkscape itself.

Now it's time to actually start to kit-bash the illustration by using the sketch made in the previous lesson as a guide.

Let's continue with the illustration by add more assets and detail and talk about some design principles that will help you make better backgrounds in general.

Color is one of the most important parts of any illustration, in this lesson i will talk about how to pick great colors easily by using a simplified version of the theory of color.

We are almost done with the illustration, but we still need to give it some final touches.

In this lesson we will finally finish the illustration by adding light and shadow, but not before talking a bit about the theory.

Real time version of the Sketching lesson for those who want to follow along.

Real time version of the refining lesson.

Real time version of the Set Dressing lesson.

Real time version of the coloring lesson.

Real time version of the final touches lesson.

Real time version of the light and shadow lesson.

Congratulations!. You finished the course. In this lesson i will go over the next steps that you should take if you want to keep learning.

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