Advice on getting a certain look.

#1

Hello all,

I’m still pretty new to using digital painting in general. I was wondering if anyone could give me suggestions on tools I would use in PS to achieve this look and maybe if possible a theory on the process involved in recreating this look.

It looks like water color to me but when I use digital watercolors I just cannot get it to look like this. Also, one of my friends suggested I use a paper grain… perhaps a watercolor paper one. What do you guys think? It has that really soft watercolor feel which i like.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

#2

Umm yeah - draw your initial outlines. Then use the color you want for that image and then use Dodge and burn to produce highlights - but here’s the trick, use an overlay layer for the shadows and highlights so that the original color remains intact…

At least that is how I would do it - otherwise consult these tutorials:

http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php
http://www.tutorialhero.com/click-18202-digital_comic_coloring.php
http://www.truveo.com/Drawing-and-Painting-woman-or-female-step-by-step/id/1031201907
http://danidraws.com/2007/08/07/the-complete-digital-comic-part-1-sketching-and-pencilling-in-photoshop/
http://www.tutcity.com/tutorial/coloring.18260.html

Hope that helps…

#3

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