Line Art Tutorial Recommended for Intermediate Level Photoshop Users
First up I’d like to ease your mind and let you know that you don’t need to know how to draw to complete this tutorial. It’s basically tracing, except that tracing is alot easier in Adobe Photoshop. Creating line art with this technique will take several hours to do a good job…if you want a tutorial that just applies a couple of filters, then this tutorial is not for you!
You will need to know how to use the PEN TOOL for this tutorial. (If you don’t know how to use the pen tool complete the fast tutorial found HERE first).
I suggest you read through the entire tutorial first, before you begin.
3. Creating the Paths
The best place to start is the center of focus, which is normally the face. Since I’m using an image of Scarlett Johansson I’ll start on her lips.Remember the point where you start the path is going to be the thickest.
Make sure the pen tool is set to Create New Work Path. See below.
Create a path paying attention to the angle of the curves.
Note: Keep the distance of each line rather short. Don’t try to create one line to go right around the lips.
Once you are happy with the path, right click and select Stroke Path… See below.
Turn ON the visibility of the white “background” layer. Delete the path (right click and select Delete Path).
Now you can clearly see the line you have created.
If you are happy turn OFF the white “background” layer and create the next line.
If not use your History Palette. See image below. By clicking here you can adjust the curve or paint brush settings.
If the line is only slightly off you can use the Eraser Tool. Rather than using the eraser tool in a up/down motion, move it on a diagonal to the line art. That way the line will have a tapered effect at the end. See image below.
To create a line that is tapered at both ends like the one shown below. In the brush Shape Dynamics Window change the Control from Fade to Pen Pressure, and the Minimum Diameter to 1%. See second image below.
When you select Stroke Path this time check the Simulate Pressure box. See image below.
Once you have finished creating an item, like the lips, it’s important to check them against the original. Turn the visibility ON for the white “background” layer. Turn ON and OFF the visibility of the “top” layer. If it looks like the lips are “jumping” then you will need to adjust the line art.
To create very thick line areas, such as the eyebrows shown below, we create a closed path and choose Fill Path instead of Stroke Path. (A closed path means that there should be no ends to the path, like a circle.)
The image below shows the upper eyelash path I created. I also used Fill Path here.
To create shapes that are round, square, oval, etc remember to use the Shape Tools. (Found next to the pen tool). The image below shows how I created the iris outline using the Ellipse Tool to save time.
I guarantee that you will get faster and faster at this technique of creating line art in Photoshop, so stick with it.
COMBINING WITH LINE ART TUTORIAL
I’ve had a lot of people ask me how I create half tone shading on my line art pictures. CLICK HERE to see my finished Scarlett Johansson pop art piece.I’ve written two tutorials on creating the line art.
-Turn Photos of People into Line Art
-Create Basic Line Art form Your Photos
The picture of my layer palette below pretty much explains it all.
Obviously the line art is the top layer.
Duplicate the half tone layer and place it over each colour layer with a clipping path.
Set the mode of the half tone layer to Soft Light (or something similar).
Adjust the opacity of the half tone layer until it looks good.
If you are interested in creating the pattern I used for the background of my final Scarlett picture, the pattern is made with a custom shape.
If you are using Photoshop 7, CS or later then you will have it already in your custom shapes (the arrow, marked 2, is pointing to it in the above image). You will need to select Show All to see it (see the image above, click on the area, marked with the 1 arrow to reveal custom shape options -Show All). If you are using an earlier version of Photoshop then you need to make it. Check out my Digital Candy Tutorial (just do the first part).
That’s it!
I hope you found this Photoshop tutorial helpful. Feel free to contact me via my contact page if you have any questions.
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