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Lucky Character Sketchby ~mleiv

Traditional Art / Drawings / People

I'm still working on the next comic page, but I thought I could post this character sketch of Lucky for your enjoyment. I know I suck enough that he isn't coming through in the comic pages as well as I'd like. But this is the character sketch I am operating off of, and I think it expresses exactly who he is perfectly.

~RockyRoark Feb 2, 2009

lol I can't do coloring like that I can't really find any tutorials anywhere, how did u learn to do it and do you have any tutorials on it or know of any?

~mleiv Feb 2, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Well, I imagine that, like all kinds of painting, it just takes a few years of work before you'll feel comfortable with it. You can learn a lot reading the help files that come with Photoshop, and there are a bunch of tutorials on dA by artists much better than I am which describe their various techniques. But given that every artist seems to do it their own way, I've concluded you may as well just experiment until you find something that works for you.

To specifically state how this one was done: there is a base b&w scan of the drawing, followed by an "overlay" layer to color the lines (you can be sloppy - it is invisible over the white parts), then a "multiply" layer to add the main colors (takes the longest - blocked in with a big brush, then shaded/blended with a small brush at 20-30% transparency), and finally another "multiply" layer at 20% transparency filled with a texture photo I liked (there are lots of free texture photos out there you can use - they keep the digital from looking too "airbrushed").

~RockyRoark Feb 2, 2009

thanks, ya that's one thing I hate when my stuff looks airbrushed.lol but ya I'll be on the look out thanks alot

~Anto90 Sep 18, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

here are some tutorials I've found..
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~RockyRoark Feb 2, 2009

so what did u use to color this? but very very nice

~mleiv Feb 2, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I colored it using a Photoshop multiply layer (b&w = pencil). So technically it is half digital... in the quirky no-man's land deviantArt has no place for.

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