Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 16 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Kurt Michael Russell
Rating
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Course Overview
Learn coloring from a professional colorist!
Are you looking to learn the art of comic book coloring and learn the secrets, tips, and tricks that can make coloring comics a fun hobby, a part-time job, or maybe even a career? This beginner course is great place to start!
This course will teach you the basics of comic book coloring with Photoshop - setting up your tools, flatting, rendering, & special effects.
What is a colorist? After the penciller completes the lineart (and many times an inker finishes the pencils with ink), the art is passed to the colorist (or "color artist" as it's sometimes called). Colorists, like all comic book creators, can work from anywhere in the world. I've worked with artists and writers the world over right from my home office. The Internet makes it easy to connect with collaborators worldwide.
Colorists are the cinematographers of the comic book world. The pencillers are the directors setting up shots, creating the camera angles, shooting the action. Colorists are lighting the scenes, setting the final look of the page, and helping to move the story along with color.
Course materials will include:
Black and white line art from professional comic book penciller Max Dunbar to color along with the lecture videos.
Downloadable Photoshop presets (version CS6 or CC only)
Color profiles to ensure proper color reproduction for web and print use.
Photoshop Actions to automate certain aspects of the coloring process.
Color swatches: A palette of preset colors exactly as the instructor uses them for his published work.
3.5 hours of instructional videos featuring real-time coloring by professional comic book colorist K Michael Russell
By the end of this course, you’ll have learned the skills required to use Photoshop as a tool to create stunning colored comic book pages, manga, web-comics, or comic strips.
The instructor, K. Michael Russell, is a colorist currently working for Image Comics & Top Cow.
Note that this course was recorded in 2014 and could be considered "version 1.0" of my coloring courses. My course "A Pro's Guide to Digital Comic Book Coloring" is version 2.0.
Course Content
- 4 section(s)
- 16 lecture(s)
- Section 1 The Basics
- Section 2 Coloring Like A Pro!
- Section 3 Advanced Coloring Techniques
- Section 4 Putting Your Colors To Work!
What You’ll Learn
- Set up line art for coloring, Pick colors that work well, Flat pages quickly and easily, Render light and shadow with several different techniques., Change the color of line art, Add special effects and textures, Build a solid portfolio
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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BBochiBochi 4649
I liked the free course so much that I decided to take this one. I think it's great for beginners who just want to start painting right away, rather than focusing on theory or concepts.
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PPaweł Radziszewski
Kurt Michael Russell effectively shares his knowledge, techniques, and various coloring practices, with a strong emphasis on comic book-style methods. I especially appreciated the generous amount of practice materials provided throughout the course. However, I believe the course could benefit significantly from improved structure and organization.
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RRichard Uribe
This is exactly what do you need to start painting. Practical and precise, this course gives you the knowledge and the tools to start discovering your own style, giving you solid foundations on the use of Photoshop and basic rendering for comic books or anything (and I'm sure they are not 'basic', but they are so well explained that it feels like they were). A great content, it helped me a lot transitioning from Clip Studio to Photoshop.
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IIoan Cornea
It's a very wonderful course , teaching you amazing skills and tricks and short cuts very detailed, very well done . I was wondering if you could reply please , is this how Marvel colors their comics, this process ? I hope to hear from you. Thank you so much.
