To stand out as an artist, integrate environments into your work to enhance storytelling and visual identity. Mastering perspective makes drawing environments enjoyable and adds depth to your comics.

A complementary palette uses opposite colors on the color wheel, like yellow and purple, for dynamic paintings.This demo will show you how to do a complementary palette color study from start to finish. Starting with a sketch, picking your complementary colors, and building your painting by exploring different saturation and value levels.

Alitha E. Martinez demonstrates her penciling and inking process for Namor, focusing on refining the pose of the sketch and capturing the character's essence.

Alitha E. Martinez shows how to capture authentic expressions using Storm, Moon Girl, and Miles Morales as examples.

Now that we understand color temperature, light, and shadow, let's apply this to painting using different palettes. We'll start with a simple sphere, using a monochromatic palette to explore warm and cool variations within a single hue.

Alitha E. Martinez explains how to draw expressive comic characters through research, math and facial structure​​.

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2019) #44 - complete comic book from Marvel.

Explore Alitha E. Martinez's transformative journey as a Marvel comic book artist, emphasizing perseverance, inclusivity, and authentic storytelling.

It’s time to critique your Materials assignment! Jeremy Vickery looks through your submissions and gives some advice on what is working and what could be improved.

On an overcast day, the sky acts as a giant diffuser, scattering light from all directions, resulting in a cooler, desaturated light. This diffuse light softens shadows and flips the color temperature seen in sunlight, making lit areas cooler and shadows warmer. By sampling colors from photos, Marco Bucci shows how ambient light affects local colors, pulling them towards cooler hues.