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Digital Illustration

Level up your traditional drawings into digital art! Join our short course to learn core drawing & painting skills that will allow you to create your own characters and add life to your digital illustrations.
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Next Starting Date
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Duration
AED 4000 excluding VAT
23 February 2026
Mon & Wed
6PM - 9PM
5 Weeks
AED 4000 excluding VAT
30 March 2026
Mon & Wed
6PM - 9PM
5 Weeks

OVERVIEW

This course is designed to give you a complete foundational understanding of digital illustration techniques. Learn core drawing and painting skills that will allow you to create your own characters and breathe life into believable illustrations. You will tackle fundamental painting exercises like still life and portrait painting and take it a step further with the basics of perspective and color theory. Furthermore, the course covers a variety of styles from animation and American comics to anime.
  • 16 years and above
  • Anyone with an interest in drawing or painting digitally
  • Complete beginners wanting to learn the art of drawing from traditional to digital
  • Photoshop/ Wacom Tablet
  • Session 1: Photoshop UI and customization
    • Intro to digital workflow in Photoshop
    • IU Customization
    Session 2:Drawing in Photoshop 1
    • Fundamentals of Drawing
    Session 3:  Drawing in Photoshop 2 (Observational)
    • Measuring and angles
    • Drawing a still life
    Session 4: Perspective
    • I point perspective
    Session 5: Perspective 2
    • 2-point & 3-point perspective
    Session 6:Inking Techniques
    • Exploration of techniques
    Session 7: Introduction to Painting
    •  Hues, values and tones
    • Mixing paint
    Session 8: Coloring in Photoshop
    • Flat tones and soft shadows
    Session 9: Coloring in Photoshop 2
    • Hard Shadows
    • Soft Lights
    • Hard Light
    Session 10: Coloring in Photoshop 3
    • Effects and Post-Processing
    • Color balancing

    Program Outcome:

    At the end of this program, you will be able to:

    • Draw and paint digital characters from start to finish
    • Create believable environments
    • Master the Photoshop User Interface for Illustration
    • Create illustrations in a number of different styles
  • Available On-Campus
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