Dani Jones has arrived at Folio Academy! A new video course “Five Quick Photoshop Tips for Illustrators,” by Dani Jones is now available for streaming on folioacademy.com! Designed to be especially useful for working illustrators and digital painters, this video will teach you the process of illustrating with Photoshop – from a Photoshop expert!

Dani Jones is a Children’s Illustrator, artist, writer, and comic creator living in New Hampshire, she went to school and received her BFA at Brigham Young University Idaho. Along with creating her own comics and stories, Dani has done illustrations for many clients, such as Scholastic, Highlights Magazine, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Price Stern Sloan. With a constantly updated blog, Dani loves sharing her processes, and learning from other artists. Additional tutorial videos and tips can be found on her blog, and her ongoing web comic “My Sister the Freak” can be found at mysisterthefreak.com .

This new video from Folio Academy will teach you the strategies you need to be a proficient illustrator using Photoshop. Photoshop Illustrator Dani Jones will teach you the tips and tricks she uses in her own Illustration career. She will take you through the process of creating her own work, while showing you five basic techniques that will help you get the most out of digital illustration. The course will teach you things like: how to use layer masks to make spot illustrations, how to use smart objects to compose art and layouts, several ways to prepare a scanned sketch, and some quick ways to experiment with color and texture. Learn how to paint and illustrate digitally in Photoshop with Dani Jones, in “Five Quick Photoshop Tips for Illustrators.”
Approximate Run Time: 78 min. Ages 16 and up