Skills You’ll Learn
Paint Tool SAI
How to Draw with Paint Tool SAI
Color Combinations
Find your own color combinations
Shadows and Lights
Dimension with shadows and lights
Render Your Art
Learn how to render different parts
Illustrate From Scratch
Create final illustrations from scratch
When it comes to illustrating, there is no must path to follow, and using a detailed line-art isn't always necessary! Learn how to render from a rough sketch and shape your characters further with just color, shades, and texture.
I will help you adapt the oil painting technique to digital drawing to develop a unique coloring technique. You will soon understand your ideas from a volumetric perspective and give them life even without the detailed lines.
Join me step by step to learn about my illustration process, including selecting colors, finding the spectrums of shades, and rendering it to look professional.
This course is perfect for digital artists interested in learning about creating a color palette and integrating a blending coloring technique! We will explore color theory, harmony, and combinations that will help you keep your color range on a manageable scale.
This course is ideal for both beginners and intermediate artists. I will also guide those who need coloring techniques to improve their drawing skills without needing to do linework.
By the end of this course, painting won't be a recurrent issue in your art process! You will know how to pick colors, improve their contrast, choose complementary colors, and shade and contour to the shapes to stand out.
By following each step throughout the course, you will be able to integrate this coloring process into your artwork and create fully rendered pieces!
Curriculum
WELCOME
WELCOME
1. Meet Your Instructor: Pandrea!
02:37
2. Introduction to the course: From rough sketches to final rendered artwork
02:34
3. Introduction to Paint Tool Sai
02:57
1
Tips and Tricks for Paint Tool SAI
1. Exploring Paint Tool SAI’s basic tools
32:49
2. Useful shortcuts to work faster
06:23
3. Learning quick sketching and cleaning techniques
27:28
4. Improving your sketches by adding effects
15:55
2
Creating the Color Palette
1. Understanding Basic Color Theory
17:22
2. Experimenting with color harmony: Monochrome, analogous and complementary colors
25:44
3. Choosing your color palette according to the mood of your illustration
19:54
4. Applying color to your sketch!
26:44
3
Learning About Light, Shadow, and Shading
1. Exploring the types of lighting you can use
1:26:07
2. Understanding the color and spectrum of the shadow
32:47
3. Shading your figure to look voluminous and stand out
1:14:50
4
Rendering Skin With Anatomy & Proportion
1. Understanding the body proportions using figure structures
57:19
2. Learning the basic structure of muscle positioning
33:10
3. Developing from muscles to skin
1:54:07
4. Mastering the basic structure of the face
56:54
5. Rendering the face (Part 1)
45:27
6. Rendering the face (Part 2)
1:22:51
5
Rendering Hair
1. Sketching the basic shape of the hair
38:50
2. Shading according to the hair color and lighting
1:02:40
3. Fixing up long hair: straight, wavy, braided
1:49:50
4. Fixing up short hair: straight, fluffy, spiky
1:40:49
6
Furnishing Clothing
1. Sketching the shape and wrinkles with reference
1:07:59
2. Understanding how shading works on the clothes
53:40
3. Rendering the fabric
1:35:55
4. Experimenting with textures: latex and fur
1:22:17
7
Creating a Final Illustration from Scratch
1. Deciding on the basic form and looking for references
15:59
2. Applying sketching and cleaning techniques
1:14:10
3. Choosing your base colors
1:01:37
4. Adding details and effects to your illustration (Part 1)
1:20:54
5. Adding details and effects to your illustration (Part 2)
1:21:46
6. Adding details and effects to your illustration (Part 3)
1:26:44
OUTRO
OUTRO
1. Congratulations on Completing the Course!
02:30
Creator
Andrea Soto
Nice to meet you, I'm Andrea!
I'm a freelance illustrator, author of the webcomic "Of Cupid's and The Likes" on Tapas, and a graphic design student based in Costa Rica. I've been active on social media platforms for about 8 years. However, my passion has always been in art and illustration for my entire life.
My artistic journey started as a self-taught exploration from a very young age. I was particularly fascinated by how color can not only express emotions, but also convey feelings, and improve storytelling, so that has always been my focus. Working as a freelancer has given me the confidence to grow as an artist and help others progress in more practical and efficient ways.
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