Pencil sketches in Photoshop – Dabbled https://dabbled.org Experiments in Art, Craft, and Food - an archive Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:52:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 145231836 Tips: Pencil sketches in Photoshop https://dabbled.org/jessica-rae-asked-i-draw-bit-and-i-love/ https://dabbled.org/jessica-rae-asked-i-draw-bit-and-i-love/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:11:00 +0000 http://dabbledexp.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/tips-pencil-sketches-in-photoshop/ Jessica Rae asked: “I draw a bit, and I love Photoshop but I’ve never been sure of the process for meshing them. When you scan in an image and use it, how do you then bring your graphic to life with the darker outlines? (Multiplying the layer?) Sorry if this is a stupid question, or a far too complex one. If you have anywhere you could point me I’d be so grateful.”… [ KEEP READING ]

]]> Jessica Rae asked: “I draw a bit, and I love Photoshop but I’ve never been sure of the process for meshing them. When you scan in an image and use it, how do you then bring your graphic to life with the darker outlines? (Multiplying the layer?) Sorry if this is a stupid question, or a far too complex one. If you have anywhere you could point me I’d be so grateful.”

Honestly, I’ve never had an official class in photoshop or anything, so what I do has been discovered by trial and error. One obvious answer is to ink the sketch, then scan it, but I’m too lazy to do that. So I created : The Lazy Girl’s Guide to coloring a pencil sketch without inking it.

Lazy Girl's Guide to transforming a pencil sketch (1 of 3)

Lazy Girl's Guide to transforming a pencil sketch (2 of 3)

Lazy Girl's Guide to transforming a pencil sketch (3 of 3)

Check it out, and let me know if you have other cool techniques you’d like to pass along!

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