2014
Lynda.com
Deke McClelland
4h 57m
English

Learn what it takes to design and create your own custom silver-age superhero. Join Deke as he starts by tracing a photo to create the hero's body and then jumps into Illustrator for the creation of the final effects. Finally, Deke takes us through the steps to lay out our own custom type to complete the comic.

Want more of Designs dekeConstructed, the series that breaks down popular graphic designs so you can re-create them on your own? Check out Deke's page(http://www.lynda.com/Deke-McClelland/98-1.html).
Topics include:

Turning a person into a silhouette
Adding power and motion with Liquify
Drawing with the Pen and Brush tools
Creating a dramatic background
Adding grill lines and flames
Inserting talk balloons
Creating a custom comic font

Introduction 41s
Welcome 41s
1. Turning a Person into a Silhouette 13m 6s
Masking a person from a white background 8m 20s
Smoothing out the edges of a jagged mask 4m 46s
2. Making the Silhouette Fly 28m 52s
Adding power and motion with Liquify 8m 21s
Puppet warping the legs closer together 6m 36s
Applying a perspective-style transformation 5m 34s
Smoothing and removing details with Liquify 8m 21s
3. Painting the Body and the Face 28m 34s
Filling and stroking the silhouette 3m 47s
Drawing with the Pen and Brush tools 7m 56s
Hand-painting the face 8m 56s
Refining brushstrokes with Median and Minimum 7m 55s
4. Creating a Dramatic Background 39m 2s
Adding complementary colored clouds 5m 28s
Drawing a handful of spikes in Illustrator 8m 34s
Creating a burst pattern with Transform 9m 36s
Adjusting the spikes for a better effect 7m 20s
Bringing the burst pattern into Photoshop 8m 4s
5. Adding the Grill Lines 51m 4s
Creating the extreme paths for the grill lines 7m 31s
Blending the grill lines in Illustrator 9m 42s
Correcting potential blending problems 9m 58s
Bringing the blended paths into Photoshop 8m 27s
Simulating pressure when stroking paths 5m 35s
Contouring the grill lines onto the face 9m 51s
6. Drawing Hands 23m 47s
Drawing a hand with the Pen tool 9m 29s
Converting the hand path to a shape layer 6m 2s
Finishing off the hands and gloves 8m 16s
7. Adding the Flames 28m 49s
Blend, scale, and rotate photographic flames 6m 17s
Filling in gaps with symmetrical flames 7m 15s
Shooting flames out of the hero's hands 7m 34s
Stroking the composite flames 7m 43s
8. Every Composition Needs Refinement 19m 13s
Drawing cartoon flames as a shape layer 5m 56s
Enhancing the flames with layer effects 5m 32s
Adjusting Puppet Warp and Expansion 7m 45s
9. The Monologue and Talk Balloons 16m 56s
Installing a free comic-lettering font 3m 59s
Formatting the monologue text 5m 43s
Drawing the talk balloons (a.k.a. speech bubbles) 7m 14s
10. Creating a Custom Font 43m 10s
Selecting a font-creation software 5m 17s
Drawing consistently rendered letterforms 9m 10s
Pasting the letters into Glyphs Mini (Mac only) 8m 11s
Copying capitals into lowercase positions (Mac only) 6m 45s
Generating an OpenType font (Mac only) 7m 56s
Stylizing the custom font in Photoshop 5m 51s Conclusion 4m 24s
Time lapse of the retro superhero 3m 4s Until next time 1m 20s

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