Mastering Illustration: Sketching, Inking & Color Essentials
https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Mastering-Illustration-Sketching-Inking-Color-Essentials/1576657189

Working with your medium of choice, you’ll learn the basics of sketching, inking, and color, building to more adventurous techniques like texture and lighting effects. With an emphasis on practice over polish, Jazza’s step-by-step process empowers you to take risks, explore your style, and trust that you’ll improve every time you put pen to paper, brush to canvas, or stylus to screen.

Think of each hands-on lesson as a mini bootcamp for an essential skill, including:


Brainstorming original concepts even when you feel uninspired

Sketching to quickly find your favorite ideas and the best way to combine them

Inking for depth and dimension while leaving room for happy accidents

Using color to add intensity, evoke emotion, and play with lighting


Plus, see how Jazza tackles and troubleshoots two illustrations in contrasting styles, one stylized and cartoonish, the other realistic and complex.

This entertaining and thorough two-hour class is designed for absolutely everyone, whether (like Jazza) you’re a self-taught doodler who loves drawing made-up worlds, or an experienced artist looking to take your character designs from good to great. By the end, you’ll arrive at an illustration that feels intentional, imaginative, and unique to you—and you’ll have skills to get there again and again!

MasteringIllustration: Sketching, Inking & Color Essentials