Cartooning: Digital Painting Introduction

Course details

• Understand the basics of lighting and shading
• Apply different techniques for painting digitally
• Paint in Grey Scale and apply colours after all shading is done

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!

The course begins easily and then builds up faster to keep the entertainment level high whilst also educated at the same time.

What’s included? Video demonstration being explained whilst painting, speed painting session to show the full process without skipping any parts, and photoshop files which allows you to practice all of the steps in the lectures

This course will continue to grow as more content is added as the weeks progress. Interaction is encouraged and any feedback can be added to the course.

• Say hi to your fellow students!
• Share your new course with your friends!
• Photoshop Basics
• Flipping Horizontally & Using the Navigator

• Painting the ball
• Painting a cartoon face
• Cleaning up the painting

• 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

• 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

• Silhouette, sketching the head
• Using silhouettes to create characters
• Turning silhouettes into characters
• Exploring the other characters
• Exploring the character even further