It's pretty tough when first
learning how to do fanart in Photoshop, or on the computer for any matter. There's quite a few techniques one can employ to make sure you get a well-organised, decent piece of art. These techniques work for Photoshop CS2, and best if you have a tablet plus a decent scan to start with.First of, a decent scan. Make
sure whatever lines you want are pretty visible. Sketch lines often tend to obscure what you want to trace over later, plus you would have to clean up those sketch lines if they're too obvious. So do yourself a favour and clean up those ugly sketch lines now! (before you scan it in!)
Scan in your image at 300dpi, preferably. That gets in the most detail without crashing your computer when Photoshop tries to load it (just kidding, the threshold of your computer is waaay higher). Scan it in as a colour image. Scanners differ quite a bit, so i'm not explaining any further about what settings to set here. Experiment by scanning again and again.
Okay, you're got the scan! Don't mess with the autolevels setting. Don't even touch it. Since you have a pretty good scan, PLUS you're going to ink it over later, don't bother tweaking those settings. They can make your art look really artificially bold and slightly pixelated. To go for the pencilley look, just turn up the Contrast.
Following that, go to Adjustments and give your image a faded hue. Faded blue works best - it goes with black and looks kinda greyish, yet isn't greyish so you know you haven't inked that yet.So now you have really nice scan lines that are sharp, differentiated YET complementing your black digital lines (which you'd be adding soon).
Next, you ink it in! Set up a new empty layer above your scan (please do unlock and rename the default layer PS gave you) and start inking! Remember, your inks are supposed to complement, not replace your scans! Your hard pencil artwork shouldn't go to waste! But ... don't ink too lightly either. It would look too faded. This is where a tablet comes in handy. Feel free
to add in additional hatching details that you didn't dare put in using a pencil. The perfect brush in this case would be a fixed opacity brush with pressure-controlled size jitter. I set my tablet sensitivity (at the driver utility in control panel) to highest. Don't wanna to wear out my pen nib by pressing too hard just to get the right brush size.
Hotkeys are your friends.Z for Zoom tool. Press LH mouse to zoom in. Press CTRL to zoom out.
H for Hand tool, when you don't want to use the Navigator panel to move.
B for Brush tool. Press SHIFT B to change to a subset brush. Eg Pencil.
CTRL ALT Z to undo. CTRL SHIFT Z to redo.
I for ink dropper.
R for blur tool.
G for paint bucket.
CTRL D for deselect.
M for marquee.
Remember to layer your work. That has got to be one of the most important things. You might think you don't need layers, but chances are, you'd be wishing you had made more layers. By having layers, you can go back to modify a portion of your image without disturbing the rest of it at all!
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