By Ofcourse
Online
Can be taken anytime
Professional Training Course
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English
Course Overview
This course covers the basics of digital painting and cartooning, beginning with learning how to navigate the interface of Adobe Photoshop, and moving along to more complex techniques.
It’s essential that to get the most out of the course that you have a copy of Photoshop and a tablet for your Mac or PC. If you don’t have one, you can find affordable ones online with a quick search and if you want to take your art seriously then it’s advised you get one!
Who should take this course
Complete Beginners to digital painting
Students
Hobbyists
Illustrators wishing to learn how to paint digitally
Course content
Part 1 – Photoshop Basics
Photoshop Basics
Flipping Horizontally & Using the Navigator
Part 2 – Basics of Shading
Painting the ball
Painting a cartoon face
Cleaning up the painting
Part 3 – Grey scale shading and colour
Painting the ball in black and white
Painting a cartoon girl in grey scale
Cleaning up and adjusting the grey scale painting
Adding colour to the grey scale image
Painting over the colours and making adjustments
Adding some filters and enhancements to the painting
Part 4 – Painting from photos
Introduction
Sketching out our image
Cleaning up the drawing
Applying our tones in grey scale
Rendering and adding definition to the image
Applying colour
Cleaning up our colours
Adding some tweaks and final touches
Part 5 – Sketching
Silhouette, sketching the head
Using silhouettes to create characters
Turning silhouettes into characters
Exploring the other characters
Exploring the character even further
About Course Provider
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