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1.)Scan in your image at least 150 DPI. Preferably 300 DPI. DPI is important if you will be printing this out later. Remember that Pixels determine the size of the image. DPI determines how man dots of ink will be sprayed within a square inch. I scanned in my sketch at 150 DPI .Open it up in Photoshop and double click the background layer so it becomes an editable layer. Put a multiply modifier on it.
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2.) Create a new layer above your sketch and call it "Outline". Then actually paint an outline by selecting a hard round brush with no effects, and clicking along the silhouette of the character while holding shift. If you hold shift and click two points on the canvas Photoshop will create a straight line between them. Fill in that layer with the paint bucket tool. I do this so that I can easily select the contour with the marquee tool. With the selection made you can create a mask or use it for other purposes. |
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| 3.) Open your image in painter, create a layer underneath the sketch layer and paint a rough base color that will show through in certain areas. This color serves as a starting point. Try to choose a darker neutral tone so you can build your value based off of it. ( I used oils/round camel hair) |
4.) Select the outline and invert the selection. Create a new layer (call it background) and paint in some rough color. The rough color will help you view your image more clearly. You can toggle this background on and off as you go. |
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| 5.) Create a new layer called "Rough". Rough in some basic tone and value. Light and dark. Your brush oppacity should be 30-70%. |
6.) Once basic tone, value, light & shadow have a primitive foundation you can continue pushing it or begin refining by adding detail. I usually add a new layer called "detail". Your brush oppacity should be 10-30%. Darker colors tend to need less oppacity while lighter colors need more oppacity. |
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| 7.) Continue adding detail. You may want to add detail from top to bottom, or from material type to material type. Or you can be more haphazard like me and paint wherever your heart desires. |
8.) Create a layer called "Refine". Detail out wrinkles and folds and refine your image. Basically this is the point where you clean it up. |
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| 9.) After you add in all the fine detail, cracks, highlights, glows create a layer called "glaze". Glaze (drop your oppacity down to 2%) with a oil glaze brush in various colors to accentuate blood, shadow, and lighitng. |
10.) Sign your name and you are done. ~D
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