Taio step by step colouring
(quick overview, coloured in photoshop with wacom tablet)
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Line art- pen inked scaned cleaned up, pencil tool |
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Selection flats- paint bucket and pencil different colours to seperate each area so can re-selct with magic wand magic eraser white background |
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Duplicate layer- re-colour duplicated layer so have a selection layer and a colour layer |
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Draw in tree- inking brush to draw lines paint bucket area |
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Background flat- yellow to green gradient |
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Background texture- soft air brush 20% opacity |
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Sun beams- polygonal lasso tool to select area to colour
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sun beams- gradient, with transparency eraser tool filter, gussian blur |
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Sun beams- repeat |
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Sun beams- Opacity change |
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Tree- first layer- hard core/ soft edged paint brush 20% opacity |
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Tree- colour- hard core/ soft edged paint brush 20% opacity texture- soft air brush 30% |
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Tree- final finish, lines taken out plant sketched in- colour- hard core/ soft edged paint brush 50% |
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Plant - sketched in- colour- hard core/ soft edged paint brush 30% |
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Moth and algae- moth, sketched in- colour- hard core/ soft edged paint brush 30% algae- soft air brush 30% |
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Body selection- magic wand select on selection layer change to upper colouring layer |
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Body colour- first section of body coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Body colour- other body part selections coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Body colour- final body part selections coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Hair colour- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Body colour- ear/ jewellery etc selections coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Feather colour- first layer coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Feather colour- final shade and highlight coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Feather colour- inner feathers coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Feather colour- all feathers coloured- soft airbrush 100% opacity |
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Line colour- magic wand line art on selection layer |
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Line colour- pencil/ brush/ paintbucket colour lineart |
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Line colour- line art coloured |
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Smudge- smudge tool 100% |
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SFX- final lighting effect- lock layer transparency soft airbrush 20% light yellow |
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Finish- flatten image canvas size resize/ dpi 72 marquee band, paintbucket light yellow, opacity 15%, text save as jpg |
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