hey guys welcome to our channel, the No. 1 place for designers, artists and creators.
My name is Laz I'm a graphic designer & illustrator
and in this video I'm going to show you color in your sketches using Adobe
Photoshop in my previous video I've shown you now you can use your hand drawn
sketch as an under drawing and redraw the whole line art using Adobe Illustrator
So if you're after a fully digital illustration tutorial please check out the
previous video
so in this video we will take hand drawn line art, clean it up nicely
and render it using Adobe's Photoshop. first things first
bring your drawing into your computer if you have a scanner by all means scan
your drawing in although a decent enough photo taken with your smartphone should
do you just find in my experience here you can see I have taken a picture of my
sketchbook drawing using my phone upload it to my cloud and then I just dragged
and dropped it into Photoshop now open a new document of your preferred
dimensions I usually work on an A3 sized page for illustrations with at
least 300 point per inch and paste your drawing to this document the first thing
I do here is I go to image adjustments and take the saturation down so it's
only black and white shades I need to worry about then I go back to
adjustments open up the levels panel and play around with these side scrolling bars
here until the background pretty much disappears and the drawing gets as dark
as I would like it to be I also have a white background under your drawing and
use it as a reference point just to see how white my drawing background should
be you in order to be fully transparent
play around with the brightness and contrast as well a little
okay now we
have our base layer. the way we are going to color this in, is to set some
layers to multiply mode when you set a layer to multiply it means that other
layers will only pick up the dark pixels from this layer which means we can
paint over the white parts of the image and the dark under-drawing will show
through so for the base colors I use the magnetic lasso tool and the bucket fill
as well as occasionally filling some gaps with a small hard brush until
everything is a basic tint. I usually fill one object in with one color first
and I go back to change and I just specific parts within the objects
as you can see my composition is made up by all these random bits and bobs lots of
things to colour in but I don't want to end up with every cover under the Sun
here so every now and then I stop and zoom out to check if my colored objects
work together as a set
once everything has got a flat color I start to add in highlights and shadows I do
these on separate layers using low opacity brushes on overlay mode layers
just by setting your brush to black and then white you can create a nice
rendering effect
in terms of practical advice on coloring I would say have some ideas of a
possible color scheme before you start working on your colors and then try
sticking to it. have a rough idea on what you think the prominent shades will be
for example I'm creating a very warm cozy brown scene here so all I'm really
doing is trying to make sure every other color I'm bringing in sits well
together with this main shade
if you need further help on what colors to
start with I often use Adobe's color library which you can use for
inspiration you can do a quick search if you have a vague idea of what you want
and it will give you some pretty good examples you might want to use
you can download these and Photoshop will automatically store them in your
swatches panel
I also had some prominent shadows and highlights with the same
brush but this time on a normal layer so we'll end up with actual black and white
shading on the drawing
now I want to add a very minimal background to my drawing what I do here
is I use the lasso tool to create an organic curvy looking shape and bucket
fill it with one color
and I give it a heavy blur I like to use Gaussian for this
then I also want to add
the sense of texture I imagined wood panels in the
background for this drawing so what I'm going to do is I do a quick google
search for some good texture imagery I want to bring this image onto Adobe
Illustrator the reason for this is I don't want to have this image
photorealistic in the background so what I'm going to do is you this image trace
option image trace is Illustrator's way of turning pixel-based images into vectors
by simplifying the color paths you have a few different presets here which tells
you what kind of vector version will you end up with so feel free to have a
play around with this function the process takes a while but it's still a
very quick and effective way of creating your own textures just make sure the
image you're using is free to use generally speaking I like to jump quite
a lot between Illustrator and Photoshop within my illustration process so if you
are following along these tutorials have them both open at all times okay now I'm
going to put this in the background play with the layers' opacity and mode a
little until it looks something I like and also clean things up a bit
so this new element feels organic to the composition and there you have it
thanks for watching my second illustration tutorial video if you liked it
please give it a thumbs up I hope you can take some of these tips and tricks
on board to use in your own projects and if you have any questions about this
process please just let me know down in the comments and I'll do my best to help you
out alright see you next time bye
you