I got asked to do some sketches for a musician's CD Covers (i get a cut of every cd sold! *dance*) but I need some help with the sketches.
All I want to do is, basically, colour them. What I'm having trouble with is darkening the line-work to a definite black, and then shading and such.
I know you can fiddle with the.. saturation I think, but you end up with an awfully pixelated picture that looks like it was done on MS Paint. Wondering if there's a way to get around that.
The picture I want to colour is this one.
Any tips or tricks would be very much welcomed.
Oh, and if you're now wondering how I did my sig and avatar, they're water colours...
EDIT: Also, I would VERY MUCH appreciate help colouring pencil drawings. If that's possible. I mean.. I wouldn't know where to start with it so.. yeah.
Thanks in advance!
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Posted by Scatterlung Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:29 am
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Posted by TheMuffin Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:42 am
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Hold out for an hour or so. I'm going back to bed. When I get up again I'll help you out.
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Posted by Whisper Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:59 am
Are you using Photoshop?
If so, do this:
Open image in new window.
1. go to Image > Adjustments > Auto Levels.
2. go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast..., then do Brightness +10 / Contrast + 20
That should do it.
If you don't have Photoshop, I've done one for you already...
If so, do this:
Open image in new window.
1. go to Image > Adjustments > Auto Levels.
2. go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast..., then do Brightness +10 / Contrast + 20
That should do it.
If you don't have Photoshop, I've done one for you already...
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Posted by Scatterlung Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:24 am
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Whisper wrote:Are you using Photoshop?
If so, do this:
Open image in new window.
1. go to Image > Adjustments > Auto Levels.
2. go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast..., then do Brightness +10 / Contrast + 20
That should do it.
If you don't have Photoshop, I've done one for you already...
I don't have photoshop, alas, but I know a lot of the techniques are similar. I'm on Paint Shop Pro *6*... 6!
sigh.. you've done one for me?
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Posted by Scatterlung Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:22 am
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Okay so, I did the brightness/contrast thing, got the lines, coloured and shaded somewhat, its far from perfect, just a rough mess around, can anyone give me some tips on how to improve?
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Posted by Whisper Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:34 pm
Meverix wrote:sigh.. you've done one for me?
Just the outline.
As for colouring tips... I'm not that great on such things...
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Posted by awkwaRd Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:58 pm
i have a tutorial that i went by when i first started coloring, also i think the inking section of it makes it look better, but it is for photoshop... but i'll post it anyway and maybe paint shop has similar things...
http://www.fur.com/~almackey/tutorial/nstep1.html
http://www.fur.com/~almackey/tutorial/nstep1.html
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Posted by TheMuffin Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:33 pm
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Wow that was a long nap. And now that I realize you use Paint Shop Pro I'm not sure how helpful I can be. But in photoshop I normally create an actual line art to place over the top of the layers I'm coloring on.
I use this tutorial.
I'm gonna mess around with this and see how this method works out.
I use this tutorial.
I'm gonna mess around with this and see how this method works out.
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Posted by TheMuffin Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:04 pm
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I finished up one leg just to show how it looks when the line art can't be affected by the colors. Also added a color overlay to the lines to make them a bit thicker and beefier looking.
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Posted by Scatterlung Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:17 pm
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Hm.. okay, this all looks pretty damn awesome, I'm playing around and getting quite used to it all... Thanks a bunch guys!
Now my only problem is colouring a sketched drawing, ideally this one. Would make these CD's covers a lot more interesting, the lined-work looks a little cartoony, though I had an idea what I can do with it...
Thanks a heap guys!
Now my only problem is colouring a sketched drawing, ideally this one. Would make these CD's covers a lot more interesting, the lined-work looks a little cartoony, though I had an idea what I can do with it...
Thanks a heap guys!
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Posted by TheMuffin Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:06 am
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Sketches tend to be much harder to color as line art of them tend to be almost impossible to make. And raising the levels on them to get a decent black level tends to degrade the original look of it. It's sort of a lose lose situation.
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Posted by Scatterlung Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:17 am
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Darn.. Ah well. Thanks for the help guys!Zuko wrote:Sketches tend to be much harder to color as line art of them tend to be almost impossible to make. And raising the levels on them to get a decent black level tends to degrade the original look of it. It's sort of a lose lose situation.
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