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!
