Illustration

Huahua

How to Tell a Visual Story in Your Heart

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Skills You’ll Learn

Drawing Vivid Sketches

Storytelling Using Light and Color

Forging Original Ideas

Basic Anatomy Knowledge

Starting From Nothing

Finalizing Your Illustration


Class Summary

Do you have those moments in life when you are touched by stories? If you want to create compelling visual storytelling by yourself, here are what you need: a note of your life, techniques (color theory, anatomy, perspective, materials, etc.), reference and resources... but most importantly: a unique creating method of your own. In this class I’m gonna introduce various illustration techniques and tips, through which I will help you cultivate your method of creating. A series of unique narrative illustrations of your own is expected by the end of the class.



This Class Is For

This class is for those who already have some visual storytelling background, as well as those who are just about to start their illustration journey. As long as you love stories and wish to tell an appealing story, you are welcomed to join.



Class Takeaways

You will gain your own method of creating narrative illustrations after getting familiar with several necessary techniques (color theory, anatomy, perspective, both digital and manual art, etc.). Assignments include light and color thumbnails, character sketches, storytelling sketches and a complete narrative illustration/illustrations.




Curriculum

WELCOME

Welcome

1. Meet Your Instructor

02:10

2. Introduction to the Course

03:14

3. Introduction to the Program

05:24

1

The General Method of Illustration

1. The general method of creating

10:53

2. The “software”

11:12

3. The mechanism of creating

10:01

4. Finding Your Own Concept

10:10

2

How to Sketch

1. The Function of Sketching

15:04

2. The Method of Live Sketch: Observe, Analyze and Draw

10:45

3. The Basics of Human Anatomy

10:15

4. Sketch as Your Source of Reference

19:37

3

Research

1. Introduction of Research

06:43

2. How to Research

08:22

4

Light and Color

1. Understand Color: Part 1

10:33

2. Understand Color: Part 2

06:37

3. Light and Color in Storytelling

10:35

5

Illustrating in Photoshop

1. Illustrate in Photoshop Part 1: The Basic Tools

10:32

2. Illustrate in Photoshop Part 2: Draw Your Story Out

22:56

3. Illustrate in Photoshop Part 3: Finishing the Illustration

30:42

4. Choose your own Media

10:15

OUTRO

Outro

1. Congratulations on Completing the Course

01:09

Creator

Huahua

Huahua

Huahua Zhu is an illustrator and comic artist based in New York.

She graduated as an honored student from Rhode Island School of Design (illustration major) in 2021. She was a finalist of Zankel Scholarship in 2020, and won the golden award in CACC (China Animation & Comic Competition Golden Dragon Award) in 2020.

Her clients include Peow, Goinvo, Supercell, NetEase Games, Lilith Games, Beijing Arts and Photography Publishing House.

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