Hello and welcome to learn to color comic books one on one. I'm your instructor Charlie Kirk off. This video is just a basic introduction of the course as well as an overview of what we're going to go over throughout it. And I'll also mention a little bit what I plan for the future for learning to color. First of all, I suppose I should say a little bit about myself. I went to the Savannah, the Savannah College of Art Design, or scad for short, where I majored in sequential art, and that's where I learned the basics of comic book coloring.

Right before I graduated in 2003, I managed to land my first professional coloring gig with a publisher called humanoids. They're a French publisher. And since then I've been working as a colorist professionally, and I've been working for other publishers such as ITW, 12, gauge, boom Marvel and a few other ones. And so I've been doing This for a little over a decade now and I've developed a pretty decent what I think is a pretty decent process for coloring, then I'm going to now share with you basically mentioned what the mission statement for this courses. Basically I want to do is like I mentioned, I have my process, which I've developed for, you know, to be efficient quick also to make it easy to make adjustments and whatnot and I'm going to want to teach this to you, no matter what level you're at, even if you are a complete novice.

I'm going to simplify it enough so that you can take a piece of comic book art and color it and make it you know, professionally ready to be sent off to a publisher if you want the way that the courses constructed. There'll be a bunch of pre recorded videos, such as this one that goes over certain lessons, and also have certain handouts and things you can plug into Photoshop to make things a little easier. Whatever. Alright, so now just the overview of exactly what we will cover. Now, in the first video after this one, I'll be going over the materials you need. And you know, this will include stuff like basic type of computers or Photoshop, I'm not going to get too complicated into anything technical.

And I figured you know, if you're interested in this course, you probably have a lot of this stuff already. And I won't ask you to break the bank or anything. After that, I'm going to show you how to set up or basically optimize Photoshop for comic book coloring. Then I'll do a lesson that goes over A lot of the keyboard shortcuts that can help you really save time and streamline your workflow in Photoshop, just things to make it easier so you don't not going through the menus constantly. Then I'm going to teach you the basics of Photoshop brushes isn't like how to use them, how to create some basic digital brushes, so that you can try different things that way. Then there'll be another lesson that's similar about Photoshop actions.

So you'll learn what a Photoshop action is, again, how to use them, how to create them, and exactly how they also save you time as you color a page. After that, we'll get into the meat of the course. And first I'm going to teach you how to color an RGB. There's actually two workspaces you could choose from, and some colorist work in RGB. Some colors work in CNY k learned in CNY K, and most the time I've worked and CNY K. But lately, I've been doing a lot of work in RGB as well. And there's a debate amongst colors too, which is better.

Personally, I see a lot of pros and cons for both of them. And I haven't actually decided which one's better. So I'm going to teach you both and you can decide which one you're more comfortable with. But first, I'll start with RGB. No, there's more complicated things and sending it up. So I figured I'd start with that one, and then move to same waIking.

So I'll start with teaching how to set up the line art in RGB. They just had a flat page. If you don't know what flattening is, you'll learn in that in that lesson. Then I'll show you how to render the page using a basic cut and grad technique. A cutting grad technique is like one of the oldest techniques used in digital coloring. It's simple and it's effective.

And that's why it's still used to Today, so that's a good, that's a good technique to start with. After that, I'll show you how to set up special effect layers in RGB, which include color holds. And that's the process of turning a black and white line into a black line into color, and then glows. I think that's self explanatory. And then once that's all done, how to fit, you know, finish it up so that it's ready for print. And then after that, as I mentioned, I'll show you how to do the same thing and CNY game.

I'll start off with how to set up line art and seem like a and you'll notice that I didn't include flattening or rendering in this part because those steps are basically going to be the same so I'm not going to go over twice. But then I did want to show you how to set up special effects layers and CNY k cluding, color holes and glows because the process of doing that Slightly different CNY K, and then once again, how to take a CI k file and make that print ready. And so that's what you will learn over the over this course. As I mentioned, I want to talk about a little bit of what I plan for the future for learning to color. After this, I like to do additional courses, basically teaching other techniques for coloring, similar process. So this course would be the only prerequisite everything else would kind of like being an elective.

So if you want to just add something else to your coloring Arsenal, and something piques your interest that I you know, put up, that would be something that you might be interested in purchasing on. I think that's pretty much it for the overview. So we'll move on from here. Thank you.