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Spend your School holidays learning Digital Art and Manga Drawing!

The 2023 – June Holidays are approaching! Ever wanted to try new art skills but never had the time to? Are you wondering how to spend your holidays productively? If any of the before speaks to you, how about embarking on an art journey with us?

Join us for an enriching adventure by picking up a new skill, perhaps one that requires your daily used electronics such as an IPad, Laptop, Drawing tablet. 

Schedule

Time:

Monday ｜ 5pm – 7pm

Thursday｜ 3:30pm – 5:30pm

Friday｜ 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Course Fee: 12 sessions at $1188nett / 24 sessions at $2188nett

This 2 hour per session course is suitable even for beginners.

The course will cover character drawing, which is crucial foundational for manga drawing. Suitable for ages 9 and above.

The course has a validity period of 14 weeks.

What is Digital Painting?

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Digital painting creates artworks through digital devices like tablets, notebooks and painting boards. Painting software like Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint and SAI are commonly used.  

Digital painting utilises a stylus pen to imitate different brushstroke textures available within different digital painting software. 

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Digital painting requires traditional painting skills as digital painting artworks are not premade and they are produced through the paper and pen within the digital painting software. 

With good foundational skills of line , colouration, tonal, perspectives and imagination in traditional drawing, this would help to give digital painting artworks a more realistic form and present stronger 3D perspective effects.

What is Manga?

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Manga – also known as novel comic, narrates stories through different graphics. Manga can be inspired by true stories, fantasies and sometimes presented with some transformation, exaggerations, personification, symbolism or reflection 影射. Manga makes readers feel entertained, enlightening, and uphold their morality. 

One of the drawing subject is manga, the main idea of drawing is presenting a  artwork, but manga artwork narrates stories within painting. 

Character drawing is crucial foundation for manga drawing. From head proportion, facial features, facial and hairstyle, facial emotions, head-body proportion, character body motion etc knowledge, it makes the character. Learn variations of character choices of fashion, clothing’s wrinkle and different fashion style presentations. Learn to present perspectives through different situations and backgrounds. 

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Course Contents:

  1. Learn colour theory, composition and fundamentals of digital painting technical knowledge
  2. Character style, perspective and texture introduction
  3. Create realistic nature designs 
  4. Create cityscapes through animation technology
Student with her completed coloured manga drawing.

Materials required

Basic tools required for this digital painting workshop includes the following:

Either Procreate or Photoshop and relevant digital tools

  1. Laptop + Drawing Tablet (Wacom/Huion ect.) 
  2. Ipad with Apple Pencil/Pencil with pen pressure
  3. Any smart tablet with pencil with pen pressure

Pen pressure is really important in creating good digital art, as it gives you the possibilities of drawing thick and thin, light and heavy strokes as if you are using a real pencil! This adds the feeling of depth to your work, making it more impressive.

Softwares that you can use:

Laptop users

Free softwares like Krita or MediBang Paint works fine. If you have the budget, Photoshop would be the best choice.

Ipad users

Free softwares like Adobe Fresco or Clip Studio works fine. If you have the budget, Procreate will be the best choice.

Art materials and tools will not be provided for this workshop.

What are you waiting for? Join us today on an enriching art journey learning Digital Painting and Manga Art this June Holidays!

For adults who are keen to participate in our Professional Digital Art Painting Course, please click here!

Our Schedule

VISUAL ART CENTRE DHOBY GHAUT STUDIO

CLASS SCHEDULE

TEEN/ADULT CLASS

KIDS CLASS (5-7 YEAR OLD)

CREATIVE JUNIOR CLASS (8-9 YEAR OLD)

Call/WhatsApp: +65-6255-0711 E: [email protected]

MacPherson Art Studio

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140 Paya Lebar Rd, 03-04 AZ @Paya Lebar Building, S(409015)

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Our Location

Dhoby Ghaut Art Studio

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Address:

10 Penang Road, #01-02 Dhoby Ghaut Green,
Singapore 238469

Exit from Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station Exit B and turn left, we are there in 30m!

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MacPherson Art Studio

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Address:

AZ@Paya Lebar, 140 Paya Lebar Road, #03-04,
Singapore 409105

Exit from Macpherson MRT Station Exit A and turn left, we are right across the road, 1 minute walk away!

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