Overview: Students edit a photograph of an environment using the Thresholds function in Adobe Photoshop. They then draw characters over their background in positions and poses believable to the space around them.

Students learned about: experimenting with photo editing, coloring with mid-tones, and drawing figures in perspective which evoke a story or mood.

Vocabulary: Perspective, Threshold Adjustment, Visual Hierarchy

Artist Inspiration: Inio Asano

Discussion: Editing Photos for Manga Backgrounds, Scenic and Narrative Characters, Inking