Skills You’ll Learn
Utilizing CSP
Learn how to Utilize CSP to achieve what you want.
Human Anatomy
Learn how to implement anatomy in the simplest manner.
Captivating Lineart
Learn how to create interesting and captivating lineart.
Coloring
Learn how to use colors and rendering to your advantage.
Creating Webcomic
Learn how to use your illustration skills to create a webcomic.
WHAT IS THIS CLASS ABOUT?
Deep inside all of us lives beautiful characters, worlds, and stories. But pulling them out and presenting them to the world can be challenging without a little help. Through studying anatomy, composition, color, and storytelling, I will show you how to create not only breathtaking standalone illustrations, but also how to create webcomics to engage your audience!
WHO IS THIS CLASS FOR?
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to create highly engaging and aesthetically appealing illustrations of their characters and how to start and succeed in making eye-catching webcomics featuring them and their stories.
WHAT WILL THE STUDENTS ACHIEVE?
By the end of this class, you will be able to practically apply your newfound understanding of anatomy, color choices, composition, and visual storytelling skills to standalone illustrations of your characters and you will be able to create and execute a webcomic series with those characters.
Curriculum
Creator
Plastic Bottru
Hello!
My name is Martha Opiyo, or better known as Plastic Bottru (Plastic B) on social media! I am an illustrator that does both standalone illustrations of my characters as well as webcomics that tell the stories of said characters in great detail.
I’ve been drawing for about 10 years, most of which I spent teaching myself. I graduated from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore with a Bachelors in Applied Illustration (basically it means I actually practice art) with a concentration in Sequential Arts (which means I focus on comics, storyboards and all that good stuff.)
My story with art started as many often do; with Manga and Anime! Ever since I got my little hands on a copy of Dragon Ball Z and watched Naruto and Bleach when I was around 11, my mind immediately decided that this was going to be my life. I was going to be a mangaka or an animator. Well, I grew up a bit and realized that those jobs are not as easy as one two three done, so I adjusted it to a broader term; an illustrator. Reading these mangas and watching these animes created a very strong and deep desire to create and develop characters and their stories. But it also created a deep desire to do so with the utmost level of technical art skills. And so I spent ten years experimenting, learning, and practicing to be able to show the world not only my characters live in, but also beautiful art that creates a visual connection with whoever chooses to look at my art.
My primary method of illustrating is digital art because of its versatility and the way it can accommodate my often fickle choices, but the beauty of illustration is that it can be done in all mediums. Digital art is also perfect (of course) for creating webcomics! I only learned that webcomics could be created by just about anyone around three years ago, and since then, making and consuming them has taught me a great many things about efficiency, audience engagement, and fully telling my character’s stories on my own terms.
I really hope that I can impart the knowledge I have gathered over these last ten years to you, and we can create unique stories that can make the world just a little happier together. Thank you!
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