Learn comic book coloring fundamentals with professional tips, tools, and techniques using Photoshop in this beginner-friendly course designed for aspiring colorists.
This beginner course teaches you how to color comic books using Photoshop. You'll learn the essentials like setting up your tools, flatting, and adding special effects—all while having fun and exploring your creativity!
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 partÂ-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, &Â special effects.
What is a colorist? After the penciller completes the lineÂart (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 ÂÂsetting 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 ÂÂexactly 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.
Set up line art for coloring
Pick colors that work well
Flat pages quickly and easily
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Hi! I have been working professionally as a comic book colorist since 2011 and teaching digital coloring online on YouTube since 2013. I learned about coloring the hard way early on, and I do my best to make sure that no one else has to take the same route I did! I'm still always learning new things and try to...
It is good, It has given me the foundational platform I need to improve my digital work in Photoshop. Helping me to improve on the trail and error of just trying to learn using Youtube!
Another awesome video by, Kurt! He really knows what he is doing! Kurt easily explains how to do digital color and I feel like I am really learning! Money well spent!
This course has given me so many "eureka" moments with my art to take it to the next level. mood lighting and how/where/when to use rim lighting and key lighting have been something i desperately needed help in and this course has put me on the right path!
One of the things I liked the most and I think it's important is that Michael emphasizes in many moments that his knowledge was acquired after many years of practice and experience, which helps us to manage our expectations during the course. Thank you very much and congratulations on the excellent course!
I have rewatched a lot of his videos and I get more out of them each time. It is definitely a process but I have stuck with it and I have improved so much. A big fat yes on buying this course!
It's an introductory course, but it really helps you understand the fundamentals of digital colors and how to use them in comics. I really enjoyed it!
Loved it! I don't plan to be a comic book artist/colorist neccessarily, but I got some really good things out of this, that I can add to my own art style! :) Thanks, looking forward to new courses!
Thanks Kirk really enjoyed both courses how to color in Photoshop and learning how to color comics book pages. and the other course as well learning how to be a colorist. I found it very helpful and also very valuable tips for myself things I’ve liked even though I went to art school about eight years ago. So keep making courses and I will buy the next one that you come out with. In the meantime I’m going to take one to tighten put it to practice and see if I can get started in the field of creating comics and colorizing in comics too. Thank you again
Great!! I find a lot of courses and tutorials confusing, but this teacher is great at teaching, I am really understanding and I love this teacher, this course, and the YouTube channel. thank you!!
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