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Fundamentals of Digital Coloring!

Price range: $20.00 through $40.00

Learn color theory and tricks of the trade for handling color in comics in this two hour workshop.

About the workshop:

Experienced comic artists and beginners are all welcome to learn the fundamentals of digital coloring! In this class, it’s ROYGBIV all the way with some tips to get you started making bolder and exciting color choices!
In this 2 hour workshop, colorist Xenia “Xenon” Honchar will go over both color theory and tricks of the trade for handling color in comics. Everything from limited pallets, printing preferences, flatting, shading, lighting, portfolio tips and all the cool fun stuff that makes the page pop!
Participants are encouraged to bring uncolored comic pages they have drawn or find work of an artist they would like to study to work on during the last hour of class to apply what they have learned.
Details: 

This two-hour workshop will be Thursday May 28th at 4-6pm PST / 7-9pm EST. The workshop will be recorded and shared with everyone who registers.

About the teacher: 

Xenia Honchar is a comic colorist, editor, and illustrator. They have worked on properties such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sleepy Hollow, Event Horizons, 30 Days of Night and more! She is currently a resident for Pennsylvania College of Art and design encouraging current students and alumni to build and make comics about community. They are proudly from New Jersey and will one day give up art all together to morph into the onion pieces on an egg everything bagel. Until then she will excitedly be working with amazing creatives to make comics, cooking for her friends and living with their girlfriend and 2 cats in Lancaster, PA.

Questions about this workshop?

Email Crucial Comix publisher Shay at smirk@crucialcomix.com

To make them affordable, all of our classes and workshops are offered at a sliding scale cost.

Supporter - This payment level pitches in a little extra toward the teacher’s income and helps pay artists to create new comics at Crucial. Thanks for your support!
Standard - This is the basic rate for the class, which covers our costs.
Discount - We want people of all income levels in our classes, so choose this rate if you paying the standard rate is a stretch for you.

We set aside three spots in each class to be offered for free to people who would find it a hardship to pay the discount rate for any reason. These free spots are first-come, first-serve. If you would like to take a class for free, please send us a short email about yourself, what class you would like to take, and why. If a free spot is still available, we’ll send you a discount code to register for free! Email: editors@crucialcomix.com

See the full Crucial class calendar here.

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