Children's book illustrator Will Terry will show you various methods of digital drawing, painting, and ink and how to combine those digital skills with the organic and random textures made with actual watercolors. in this course you will see Will complete/demo 5 different digital paintings to help you understand how versatile this method is.
You can create your own textures or save time, effort and money by using one of the 20 watercolor textures that come as downloads with this course. Each of these textures was painted by Will and is royalty free for you. Use them in your amateur or professional work - they're yours. If you've wanted to learn how to work digitally but keep that traditional paper and medium look - this class might be what you're looking for.
How to manually merge two scanned texture files in Photoshop and how to use "Photomerge" in Photoshop to automatically sew your scanner passes together.
How to create and use a digital pencil in Photoshop.
How to separate your hand drawn traditional or digital pencil from a white background or paper.
How to manipulate the scanned watercolor textures in multiple ways to make them appropriate for your painting or drawing.
How to add watercolor textures to 5 different types of digital paintings.
It does NOT teach how to make traditional physical watercolor textures but there are 20 textures provided for you to use.
This course is taught using Photoshop CC. Many other versions of Photoshop will still work however some of the lower versions do not include "Photomerge" so Will goes over the manual workaround. There are other programs that you could use to take this class as long as you are well versed in them and can figure out where similar tools are to complete the techniques taught in Photoshop.
Graphics tablet or graphics monitor (Like Wacom Cintiq or intuos - or products made by Yiynova, Monoprice, Huion, etc.)
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Ideal for children's book illustrators, artists, greeting card designers, comic artists, graphic novel artists, cover artists, etc.
Students should be familiar with the fundamentals of color and value but these skills can be learned after taking this course.
We suggest taking the following classes first:
This class was designed to give you the major principles that you would learn in a color theory class. Learning to communicate with color is necessary and fundamental to becoming an effective visual storyteller.
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Introduction
Scan mix Photomerge
Traditional Digital
Separate Pencil
Manipulate Watercolor
Little Surfer
Tugboat
Dragon Line Art
Bear Fire
Textures
Images
Materials List
This is a great course. I learned so much. I now have to go and practive what I learned. Great downloads of textures and images. Loved it.
This is a great course. I learned so much. I now have to go and practive what I learned. Great downloads of textures and images. Loved it.
Read LessThis course really helped my to finally get that natural touch to my digital drawings.
This course really helped my to finally get that natural touch to my digital drawings.
Read LessI've worked with watercolor and digital combinations for a while, but I learned some new techniques to try out. Thanks Will Terry!
I've worked with watercolor and digital combinations for a while, but I learned some new techniques to try out. Thanks Will Terry!
Read LessThis course gave a very concise and to-the-point yet extremely useful insight into combining watercolor with digital illustration.
This course gave a very concise and to-the-point yet extremely useful insight into combining watercolor with digital illustration.
Read LessI do traditional painting and drawing and i am learning to paint digitally and i love that this combines both and it has shortcuts to easy solutions. I will ...
Read MoreI do traditional painting and drawing and i am learning to paint digitally and i love that this combines both and it has shortcuts to easy solutions. I will try and do some experiments and use all the textures provided and make my own.
Read LessThis is a great course. I learned so much. I now have to go and practive what I learned. Great downloads of textures and images. Loved it.
This is a great course. I learned so much. I now have to go and practive what I learned. Great downloads of textures and images. Loved it.
Read LessThis course really helped my to finally get that natural touch to my digital drawings.
This course really helped my to finally get that natural touch to my digital drawings.
Read LessI've worked with watercolor and digital combinations for a while, but I learned some new techniques to try out. Thanks Will Terry!
I've worked with watercolor and digital combinations for a while, but I learned some new techniques to try out. Thanks Will Terry!
Read LessThis course gave a very concise and to-the-point yet extremely useful insight into combining watercolor with digital illustration.
This course gave a very concise and to-the-point yet extremely useful insight into combining watercolor with digital illustration.
Read LessI do traditional painting and drawing and i am learning to paint digitally and i love that this combines both and it has shortcuts to easy solutions. I will ...
Read MoreI do traditional painting and drawing and i am learning to paint digitally and i love that this combines both and it has shortcuts to easy solutions. I will try and do some experiments and use all the textures provided and make my own.
Read Less