Designing a Retro-Style Superhero
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Learn to create a silver-age superhero.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Masking a person from a white background
- Smoothing out the edges of a jagged mask
- Adding power and motion with Liquify
- Puppet warping the legs closer together
- Applying a perspective-style transformation
- Smoothing and removing details with Liquify
- Filling and stroking the silhouette
- Drawing with the Pen and Brush tools
- Hand-painting the face
- Refining brushstrokes with Median and Minimum
- Adding complementary colored clouds
- Drawing a handful of spikes in Illustrator
- Creating a burst pattern with Transform
- Adjusting the spikes for a better effect
- Bringing the burst pattern into Photoshop
- Creating the extreme paths for the grill lines
- Blending the grill lines in Illustrator
- Correcting potential blending problems
- Bringing the blended paths into Photoshop
- Simulating pressure when stroking paths
- Contouring the grill lines onto the face
- Drawing a hand with the Pen tool
- Converting the hand path to a shape layer
- Finishing off the hands and gloves
- Blend, scale, and rotate photographic flames
- Filling in gaps with symmetrical flames
- Shooting flames out of the hero's hands
- Stroking the composite flames
- Drawing cartoon flames as a shape layer
- Enhancing the flames with layer effects
- Adjusting Puppet Warp and Expansion
- Installing a free comic-lettering font
- Formatting the monologue text
- Drawing the talk balloons (a.k.a. speech bubbles)
- Selecting a font-creation software
- Drawing consistently rendered letterforms
- Pasting the letters into Glyphs Mini (Mac only)
- Copying capitals into lowercase positions (Mac only)
- Generating an OpenType font (Mac only)
- Stylizing the custom font in Photoshop
- Time lapse of the retro superhero
- Until next time
Taught by
Deke McClelland
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