
Draft a full composition blending steampunk and traditional Japanese styles for Momotaro, sketching the whole piece to balance elements and explore overall picture dynamics.
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.
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.
Draft Momotaro's companions and the background, and finish up the draft, focusing on character details and scene setting for manga illustration.
Edit the entire drawing before inking, retouch as needed to ensure smooth inking and complete the draft.
Practice line drawing to tighten lines and complete the inking, using pen pressure to keep lines fresh. Rotate and flip the face to find angles easy to draw from.
Master line drawing for hair to give characters life, emphasizing a meticulous approach to hair details.
Learn line drawing techniques for manga faces, using digital tools while drawing lines manually to add texture.
Master line drawing techniques by rendering a stiff collar, a soft cravat, and a hard, round jewel while emphasizing depth and textures in manga illustration.
Inking the coat with long lines, I avoid heavy outlines and keep the line thickness consistent, unlike others who use thick lines.
Master line drawing for big cape parts by resisting over-inking creases and using bold, controlled strokes. Learn to balance simplicity and detail in manga fashion illustration.
Refine the main character through line drawing by erasing and redrawing. Momotaro's lines look cleaner.
Ink Momotaro's companions in line drawing, emphasizing simple lines for metal features. Apply clean, minimal strokes to convey form and texture.
Refine line drawing by brushing up rough outlines and adjusting line thickness to make the manga illustration look more complete.
Plan the colors for your manga illustration, creating a color draft, then roughly fill all areas with the colors of your choice.
Plan your manga coloring to complete your color draft. Work part by part, or color by color to stay organized.
Decide on a light source to guide shading and highlights for skin colors. Apply shadows and textures to build depth, thinking of shading and highlights as a cohesive set.
Color eyes to bring a character to life and convey the most important expression through eye details.
Color hair with minimal painting relative to the face and eyes, yet ensure it stands out; when drawing long hair, manage the large coverage carefully.
Edit the hair with deliberate coloring, spending substantial time to satisfy results. Treat coloring as drawing with color, not simple filling, and refine until I am satisfied.
Add shadows and highlights at the same time to deepen the coloring, and include reflections to make the image look flashier. Position shadows and light according to the light source.
Apply coloring techniques to finalize highlights in manga style, and lighten the shadows to balance many dark colors.
For coloring the jacket, apply deeper shadows to areas with fewer folds to avoid a flat look, and emphasize shadows from sources other than creases.
Color the vest and cloak by aligning shading with the jacket shadows, and use big bold lines for the cape's large surface area.
Color the jewel by adding contrasting shadows to its surface and its back to create a translucent look. Line up the shadows on the smaller parts to maintain consistency.
Add gold coloring and metal elements to a steampunk Momotaro. Use shadows followed by highlights to create metallic depth.
Coloring 11 gold on Momotaro 2 teaches precise shading, with attention to how the shadows align across many fiddly details.
Master coloring the gold monkey by emphasizing the metallic look and roundness. Capture the shape with shading, refine the metal elements, and breathe life into the eyes.
Work with similar colors to build a cohesive gold bird, starting with the eyes. Use shadows to shape the form and apply highlights to emphasize its metallic finish.
Color the gold dog by breathing life into its eyes and wet nose, using shading, highlighting to mimic metal, and reflecting colors from Momotaro's jacket to blend.
Apply finishing touches by brushing up your drawing, change the color of all lines, and neaten details to keep main lines sharp and bring the image closer to your vision.
Apply finishing touches with purpose by adding subtle effects, avoid overdoing, and remember why each effect is chosen.
Apply finishing touches to a manga drawing by adjusting faint shading on white areas, continue editing, add a background, and complete the final step.
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.