From Sketch to Beautiful Illustrations - The Easiest Method

Inkscape is the tool we'll be using to draw the game art and in this unit, you'll get familiar with the essentials of this amazing free, open source vector illustration software.

In this lesson you'll get familiar with the user interface of the program as well as learning how to handle yourself in the document.

Objects are one of the most important parts of vectorial illustration, in this lesson you're gonna learn what are they and how to use them.

Paths are the other half of vector illustration, in this lesson youre gonna learn how to use them to create your own custom shapes.

Before letting you go to the rest of the course, i want to share with you a few essential tips that i've gathered thru the years of working with Inkscape.

In this lesson you'll be able to download the resources and exercice files belonging to the Inkscape mini-course.

What this unit it's all about.

The very first step to render your sketch, is to bring in your sketch into Inkscape and prepare it so you can work comfortably.

Learn the most common boolean operations uses and techniques for illustration.

Learn how to use two of the most important features for Illustration in general, Groups and Clips.

There two different ways you can approach an illustration in Inkscape, here you'll learn about that.

In this lesson you'll learn the basics tools and techniques for handling paths to make the line art of your illustation.

Learn how to use the bucket tool to add color when working with a line art only tracing.

In this lesson we'll cover some of the most basic techniques that relates to the line art of your illustration.

This lesson is a gentle introduction to the basic conceps behind rendering, light and shadow.

This lesson is a quick introduction to making more complext rendering using only the tools inside Inkscape.

In this unit we'll get working on some projects, where we'll apply everything we've seen in the last unit.

In this first project we are gonna tackle a simple map illustration that will show you how to apprach a shape based method tracing.

The uncommented real time version of the projects, so you can better follow along.

In this project we'll get working on a sketch by using the line art method to create a beautiful cel shaded cartoony chest.

We continue with the chest, this time we'll add the colors.

Time to finish the chest by adding the light and shadow and some extra details.

Here's the uncommented, REAL TIME version of the project of the chest for those who want to follow along, or just see what i was doing better.

Now that you're more familiar with basics of rendering, it's time for something more complex. We'll transform the cartoon chest you made in the last lesson into a realistic one.

We continue with the realistic rendering, this time adding the last finishing touches.

The complete realistic chest project process in real time. Uncommented.

In this lesson we'll go over what should be your next steps.

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