Hi, this is your Captain speaking.
While I do a lot of speed paints on this channel, I've been really wanting to do an actual tutorial on how I draw digitally and use photoshop!
I use Photoshopcs5—I have been for about 6 years?
So, I'm very familiar with it, but I'm gonna try to explain all the hoops I jump through on an almost daily basis to make digital art.
The picture I'm working on is of two OriginalCharacters of mine;
It's kind of a companion drawing to one I did before hand of the same characters outside their superhero forms.
So, I'm gonna be jumping back and forth between that drawing and this one a bit to make sure the techniques match.
The sketch is all done before hand.
I usually have a background color in mind before starting and
set that as the BACKGROUND layer as oppose to the default white.
I then make another layer and sketch above the background.
Sketching process is usually the longest, and sometimes I leave myself notes of what I want to include later, or where Ill be putting words at the end.
OKAY!
Now, I'm going to get to work on lineart on a new layer.
I usually use a brush about the size of 13pixels/13px.
I'm going to reference the companion drawing a bit more before going in.
Then I'm going to speed through this so we can get to the shading process!!
Thank you for being patient. Let's get to work!
Right here, I'm eyedropping the colors from the companion drawing and using a paint bucket to fill the new drawing.
The girl is named Rosemary, and the boy is Brad,
and they each get their own layer for their base colors—keeping them separated.
Okay!
Now that Rose and Brad each have their own layers, it's time to get into some shading.
Before I get into "hard shading" I like to add gradients to the base colors.
And in photoshop, you can add a Gradient overlay in the BLENDING OPTIONS.
I'm going to take the background color, and overlay the base layer with a purple to transparent gradient overlay.
I'm going to do that to both Rose and Brad's layers.
The default BLENDING MODE for the gradient overlay right now is MULTIPLY.
I won't get into the different blending options and settings in this video, but
in this recording I'm going to switch the Gradient Overlay blending mode A LOT
until I decide on one that conveys the mood I'm going for in this picture.
Right here, I'm making duplicates of the base colors layers and of the line art layer,
and then merging them together.
After that I put the merged layer just above the background and add a STROKE outline to it from the blending options.
This gives the characters an outline of my color of choice outside their lineart,
and it'll be used as a selection later in the tutorial.
Now it's time for the HARD SHADING.
I'm going to use the color I used for the STROKE outline to shade both characters.
I take a hard brush and shade anything on the characters that casts a shadow
—or where I think a shadow should be? I kind of just wing that part.
I just shade where I think shade should be.
Similar to the GRADIENT OVERLAY blending mode,
I kind of play around with the HARD SHADING blending mode too.
It's all about trial and error for me when it comes to blending modes.
One I like to use a lot, however, is the DIFFERENCE option.
In a nutshell, it overlays whatever you shade with the kinda complementary color of your choice.
So opposite this pink I'm using to shade is a bright lime green in photoshop.
I'm sure that's not the technical explanation, but that's how I'd describe it honestly.
and it hasn't failed me yet.
Here I go back in and finally decide on the GRADIENT OVERLAY for Rose.
I set it back to its default MULTIPLY blending mode while leaving Brad's gradient set to DIFFERENCE.
It gives them the contrast I want in this picture.
I've also changed the shading blending mode to SUBTRACT which is almost the same as DIFFERENCE, but it's easier to blend with darker colors.
When I do a hard shade, I use a CLIPPING MASK to stay inside the lines essentially.
I make a new layer on top of the base color layer, right click the new layer, and select the "create clipping mask" option.
Now whatever I draw on that layer will be attached to the layer below it—
making any stray marks invisible as long as the layers are clipped.
Brad's shading layer gets set to the same BLENDING MODE as Rose's—
which is SUBTRACT.
And again…winging it with where I put shading and where I don't.
I don't think I'll ever do a tutorial on HOW I shade.
Cause I don't know what I'm doing.
Okay, now I want to give the lineart a bit of a tint to it.
So I'm going to make a new layer over the lineart one and clip them together.
I'm gonna use the base colors to cover certain parts of the lineart.
Again, not much rhyme or reason, just covering what I think will look good.
Usually tinting any lines that don't have much space in between them.
Okay, now that everything I want covered IS covered, I'm going to go into the blending options of the mask layer
and set the opacity to 32%
You can set it to whatever you want, but I usually go low—
and a low number I always pick in Photoshop is my favorite number: 32.
NOW it's time to use the merged layer from earlier.
We're going to select it, then go to the selection tool. Then we right click the document, and choose the "LOAD SELECTION" option.
Make sure your settings look like this before you press OK,
and you get a selection around your line art and base colors;
AKA those moving lines.
You can achieve the same outcome with the MAGICAL WAND SELECTION TOOL and a little patience,
but I do this ahead of time to make things easier for myself later.
Once everything is selected it's time for my favorite part of coloring digitally and thats the after lighting and effects.
But before that I'm going to add one more layer of shading across both base layers, using that same pink from before.
I'm just going to go over any parts I want more dark than everything else?
So like under their necks or anything that is towards the background more.
Okay, NOW it's time for some after fx.
I'm going to create a NEW layer above EVERY layer I have so far—so at the very top.
And using the Loaded Selection, I'm going to fill it with the background purple.
Then I'm going to start playing with the BLENDING MODES again until I find one I like.
Then, using the GRADIENT TOOL—not the Gradient Overlay—
I wanna add another purple to transparent gradient from the top of the picture.
Because I still have the characters selected with the loaded one from earlier, the gradient won't spill out to the background.
Then in the BLENDING OPTIONS I'll set THAT gradient to the SATURATION option with an opacity of 45%
After a quick save of the file, I'm going to get started on the highlights.
I usually have a shading and lighting color for each picture—
for this one the shading color is the purple, while the lighting is the pink.
I'm going to take the pink from the outline and highlight both characters where I see fit on a separate layer—
putting this one above the gradient one.
The blending options for this layer varies too, but in this piece I set it to DIVIDE
which is kind of the same as SUBTRACT and DIFFERENCE except instead of making things darker it makes things lighter
Once I'm done with that, I'm going to save again, and dive into some effects and background elements—
or ACCENTS as I sometimes call it.
I'm going to look at the companion piece once more so they have similar blending modes between accents.
This part varies depending on the piece so I'm going to fast forward to the end!
AND WE ARE DONE!
I like to add one last overlay layer that covers EVERYTHING at the top of the list with a single color for an overall tone.
I chose a darker kind of purple for this piece.
And…yeah, that's it.
This drawing and the companion one are two pieces I'm pretty happy with.
This techniques is one of my more simple ones
just because I didn't have like 35 million layers and like 40 folders.
I hope it was helpful.
Even if you don't have Photoshop, you can use a lot of the same techniques in Fire Alpaca and probably PaintToolSAI.
As for the blending options, both of the other applications have similar blending modes you can try.
I might make a separate tutorial going through all those blending modes if any of you would be interested in that.
Glad I could put this tutorial together, because I love photoshop,
and it's super easy to use once you're pointed in the right direction and not afraid to experiment with different settings and modes.
Just go to town.
Thank you for watching!
I'll see you in the next video.
Byeeeee~
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