In this tutorial, I will teach you how to trace
your drawings in photoshop and then give them a nice color!
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Note:DO NOT USE,
REPRODUCE OR PUBLISH THIS IMAGE FOR COMMERCIAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE!
THIS IMAGE IS A DRAWING BY ME AND IS VERY WELL-KNOWN BY A LOT OF PEOPLE.
IT'S ALSO SHOWED ON MICKM.COM-MERCHANDISE. IF YOU WILL RIP THIS IMAGE,
YOU WILL HAVE A LAWSUIT UP YOUR ASS ;)
Step 1 Open your
drawingin photoshop;
Note:TRACE AND COLOR
YOUR DRAWING ON THE SAME SIZE YOU OPENED IT IN PHOTOSHOP. LARGE IMAGES
WITH THICK LINES WILL LOOK VERY NICE ONCE DOWNSCALED!
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Step 2 Then, select
the Brush-Tool and set the size of the brush
to a size that would be suitable for your lineart.
Then select the Pen-Tool and make sure you got the following
settings:
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Step 3 When you trace
the lines, you don't want to witness that all of a sudden, you can't
continue because you only have 1 line at your disposal.
What then to
do is simple. Just draw a random line and when you're done, press ESC on
your keyboard. That way, you deselect it, allowing you to make a new
path.
This is shown in the images below!
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Step 4 Then select the
Pen-Tool and make sure you got the following
settings:
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Step 5 When you got a
nice path, or multiple paths, Right-click and a menu will pop up.
Use
that menu to give the path some lines!
Press escape once more to
remove the lines!
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Step 6 Use the Brush-Tool at a desired size to color the different
layers ON A NEW LAYER EACH!
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Step 7 Then add shadow
by making selections with either the Pen-Tool
or the Polygonal Lasso-Tool, and fill them
with black.
Then group them with the origianl layer and lower the
opacity!
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Step 8 Use a normal
brush and brush little hairs (if needed);
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Step 9 THINK when you
shade, because the sun can only come from 1 direction!
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Step 10 Finish the
shading;
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Step 11 And now you
see the transition of lineart into grayscale coloring (often used by
Animators/Designer) and finally the finished product!
