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Creating a cartoon version of my city hall


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privitmj

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Hello, I am new to photoshop (I've read a couple of books) and I'm not too comfortable with everything it has to offer quite yet so I was looking for some help. I have a picture of my city hall that I'd like to create a cartoon version of. Its the City of Buffalo City Hall - lots of windows and a unique shape. I was looking for some tips and suggestions as to how I'd go about creating myself a cartoon version that I can use on a T-Shirt.

Thanks!
 
Post a picture or link when you're able.

Generally speaking, though, either free-hand sketching or tablet-sketching is the way to go for cartoons and caricatures.

You can scan your drawing in, open it in Ps or Ai, and trace over it as needed.

Agent
 
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Thanks Agent. I think that is indeed a good idea. I'm thinking I need to leave out some of the detail and possibly just capture the basic outline. Any tips for that? Above is a picture of city hall. The trees are blocking most of the base, but you can see that there are a ton of windows. Probably too much for the cartoon version...
 
How cartoony would you like it would you prefer crayon \ pencil etc or more paint\ comic book style.
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Hoogle, I was actually looking to create a type of building caricature (with approximately two colors) and then bend the image to fit inside the bottom portion of an "8". (Our Eight year doing an event in Buffalo, NY and trying to get creative with it). But what you did still looks nice :)
 
If you wanna put it on t shirt i think that just outline and few parts will be good.just my opinion.
 
Sean. said:
If you wanna put it on t shirt i think that just outline and few parts will be good.just my opinion.
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I agree Sean. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do that... trace out the outline and add in color? I'm not too artistic, so how would you recommend I show enough detail to differentiate between the different levels on the building?
 
Here's a little try, I'm not very good but I didn't put a watermark on it ;)

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EDIT: wow it looks worse than in the program... I SUCK
 
I can make something tomorrow and post you here.. Just template so you can make it easier?
 
Btw why to put watermark on photo that is not yours and that you just use filter to make it like draw style?
 
Sean. said:
Btw why to put watermark on photo that is not yours and that you just use filter to make it like draw style?
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not only filter ;)

and oh yeah, I forgot that we aren't on the freelance section :/
 
Hoogle i like your photo.. But i said for t shirt for me it i better just outline with some details..
 
honestly though for a tshirt design it needs a lot of work probably a vintage grungey look but I do not understand what the OP wants doing with the number 8
 
I think that was using topaz simplify and yes I use a lot of filters usually mix and match but all depends on the project a lot of it I like to have full manual control ie the last 1 is just variations of blending modes and neon glow filter with textures over layed etc I just like to play.
 
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