webwize
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Hi All
I thought I would start a thread that follows my attempt to draw an image, put it into Photoshop and color it. My hope is that along the way I can get some hints, tips, pointers to useful tutorials and constructive criticism... Then at the end of it all a picture I am proud of
(Perhaps even give some help/ideas to others who are interested in similar things)
From the start I would like to say I am no artist so this is pretty out of my comfort zone, the idea came from one of the challenges on this forum (#20 I think). I'm following a tutorial of sorts from a book called "The Monster Book of Manga - Fairies and Magical Creatures)" so the character is not my own but along the way I hope to develop it into something a little more personal to me.
I don't know how long this will take as I don't get much spare time but each time I make some significant changes to the picture I will post the results in this thread.
Image #1 is the untouched scan of the drawing I have done, originally I wanted to do the whole thing in Photoshop including the sketch but I just didn't have the skills
It's fairly obvious when you see this that I haven't managed to get started on the hands or feet yet, I'm hoping to sort those out a little later (with a little help from youtube). To help with the digital inking process I have already "pre-inked" the image and got rid of most of my pencil lines.
Here goes - feel free to comment as you wish

webwize
I thought I would start a thread that follows my attempt to draw an image, put it into Photoshop and color it. My hope is that along the way I can get some hints, tips, pointers to useful tutorials and constructive criticism... Then at the end of it all a picture I am proud of

From the start I would like to say I am no artist so this is pretty out of my comfort zone, the idea came from one of the challenges on this forum (#20 I think). I'm following a tutorial of sorts from a book called "The Monster Book of Manga - Fairies and Magical Creatures)" so the character is not my own but along the way I hope to develop it into something a little more personal to me.
I don't know how long this will take as I don't get much spare time but each time I make some significant changes to the picture I will post the results in this thread.
Image #1 is the untouched scan of the drawing I have done, originally I wanted to do the whole thing in Photoshop including the sketch but I just didn't have the skills

It's fairly obvious when you see this that I haven't managed to get started on the hands or feet yet, I'm hoping to sort those out a little later (with a little help from youtube). To help with the digital inking process I have already "pre-inked" the image and got rid of most of my pencil lines.
Here goes - feel free to comment as you wish

webwize