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Manga Drawing / Digital Illustration | beautiful Momotaro
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Manga Drawing / Digital Illustration | beautiful Momotaro

Learn the Professional Techniques by Watching the Whole Process from Drafting to Finishing Touches
Created byMANABI JOURNEY
Last updated 7/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • You can learn this illustrator's focus points and ingenious ways by watching his real process (drafting, line drawing, coloring and finishing touches).
  • You can feel lots of redrawing and correcting works to improve his illustration, not just complete it.
  • You can refer to how to use the software concretely like pen tools, layers, functions, and so on.

Course content

4 sections37 lectures9h 5m total length
  • Point of Drafting4:16
  • Drafting 01 | Overall picture19:07

    Draft a full composition blending steampunk and traditional Japanese styles for Momotaro, sketching the whole piece to balance elements and explore overall picture dynamics.

  • Drafting 02 | Face22:35

    Start drafting after the rough sketch, draw in layers until the image looks solid and ready for inking, and invest time in your draft to avoid trouble later.

  • Drafting 03 | Hand and Fingertip8:04

    Focus on hands and fingertips to reveal a character's personality in manga drawing. Show how these features convey character traits beyond the face through precise drafting.

  • Drafting 04 | Companions and Background7:47

    Draft Momotaro's companions and the background, and finish up the draft, focusing on character details and scene setting for manga illustration.

  • Drafting 05 | Correction and Completion9:18

    Edit the entire drawing before inking, retouch as needed to ensure smooth inking and complete the draft.

Requirements

  • Painting software (Raster graphic editor) * In this course, the teacher use SAI. It is no problem to use the similar painting software.
  • Experience of digital illustraion * You need your experiences to draw your illustration by using raster graphic editor because there is no explanation about how to use software.

Description

This course is the captured video that a professional illustrator, nico-sensei drew it by SAI. 

It is also included the whole process that the illustrator draws, redraws, thinks, and so on. 


You can check not only the whole process (from drafting to finishing touches) of a professional illustration, but also the details of quality improvement like work method, how to use tools and functions, etc. that you would have hardly watched. 

When there are important points, the captions are explained appropriately. 

Let's check the professional techniques again and again to improve your techniques! 


<POINT>

  • You can learn this illustrator's focus points and ingenious ways by watching his real process (drafting, line drawing, coloring and finishing touches).

  • You can feel lots of redrawing and correcting works to improve his illustration, not just complete it.

  • You can refer to how to use the software concretely like pen tools, layers, functions, and so on.


<THEME>

The theme of illustration is "Momotaro" of Japanese old tale.

Every Japanese have known this story that Momotaro born from a big peach, go with a dog, a monkey and a pheasant, and beat the devils in Onigashima island.


If you draw, what kind of "Momotaro"'s illustration do you do?

What kind of Momotaro do you want to watch? read?


Nico-sensei drew her original "Momotaro" by adding her touch like location, personality, etc.

Please feel her "Momotaro" world.


* about this video course
This course is not included technical explanations about how to use software.
And there is no audio description because you can concentrate on the professional techniques in the screen.
But there is appropriately the explanation by caption when it comes important points.

Who this course is for:

  • Persons who would like to improve their illustration skills more
  • Persons who would like to watch the professional works of illustration (working hours, tools, etc.)
  • Persons who don't need the explanation of how to use software or want to submit the correction assignments
  • Persons who have used Raster graphics editor like Adobe Photoshop * There is no explanation about how to use software.