Create a pencil drawing in photoshop

Manual drawing picture in pencil style

Even there are many kinds of plug ins and built-in effects for Photoshop, however a pencil drawing is beautiful or not, is depended

a lot on the artist. In this tutorial, I will help you draw a real pencil picture not use much effect like before.You art work will be more realistic than ever.

I would like to use this picture from this http://a17-lovely.hostico.net/f9.jpg . Pretty cool, huh ?

Step 1: Open the file

Then you go to [layer]>[new fill layer]>[solid color...] . In the opened dialogue box , you name the layer: ” nen giay” > [ok]
Another dialogue will appear, you use the same numbers below.

Press [ok].
Next, [Layer]>[new fill layer]>[pattern]. Name this layer is “nep giay” .
A window of patterns will be displayed. You click on that pattern, then click on the left arrow on the table below.

You choose ’artist surfaces’ —> [ok] . And seletc ’Burlap’ ( the third from left, firsts row). Set Scale is 30 %.
Set Blend Option is Ddarken, fill: 25%
Duplicate the background layer.

Name this layer is ’vien’.
Drag this layer on the op
Then go to [filter]>[Stylize]>[glowing edges]. Use the following numbers:

Press [OK]
Then you press Ctrl + shift + u in order to transform the picture to the black & white color.
Press Ctrl + I ( Inverse color),
Now the picture has the edge. Notice that there will be some big black lines, you should use the white brush to override them.

Set Blend Option is Multiply, Fill: 50%
Duplicate another layer from the background layer, name this ’ ve’. Again, throw it on the top.
Press Ctrl + shift + u in order to make it black & white color.
Then go to [images]>[adjustments]>[brightness/contrast]
Use the following numbers (you could change for your own pictures)

Then, go to [filter]>[noise]>[add noise]

Set Blend option is multiply.
Go to [layer]>[layer mask]>[hide all]
At this step. the layer ’ve’ has the mask, which hidden all of other layers.
Step 2:
Select Brush tool , use Dry media brushes :

Select the first on in this table

Press F5 in order to call the Brush Options panel, then make the following settings
- Brush Tip shape : + Roundness 20%
- Angles -120
- Shape Dynamics: + Control : Fade : 255
- Minimum Diameter : 16 %

Then, we are going to draw
- Firstly, we need to make a sketch. By changing Angles & Minimum Diamenter, we could adjust the brush suitably.
- Press [ & ] to increase and decrease the size of brush
- Press Shift + [ & ] to change the softness.

We need to apply some art technique when drawing, and should notice the setting of brushes.

After finishing, press Ctrl + Alt + E (combine all of layers).
Use the Burn tool ( O ) with the setting [ power : 10 -> 15 %]
Here is the final result:

Fire With Dragon

Well the process of designing Fire Dragon wallpaper is not full of interesting tips and tricks. It was actually 24 hours of drawing with brushes of different sizes and colors.



As always, to start, we need background. Set foreground to dark red, background to black. Select Gradient tool, choose Radial type, fill the document dragging the mouse from bottom to top of image.

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The mountains in the background are very easy to do - they are simply black shapes made with Pen tool. So, take a Pen tool and make a shape :-)

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Create new layer, take soft brush tool, set color to lighter red, and make strokes as shown here, touching the edge of mountain.

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Create clipping mask (from Layers menu). The mountain is ready.

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The same way, create as many mountains as you'd like.

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The dragon itself consists of 2 parts: soft brushes and hard brushes (outlines). Without many comments, let me show you soft brushes, layer by layer. Start with dark red very large soft brush (you can apply Gaussian Blur as well), and with each new layer, make brush smaller, make color lighter and move it from red to yellow.

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Next layer...

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Finally, here goes real Photoshop trick! The soft brushes are good for background colors, and hard brushes are good for outlines, but neither are good enough to draw fire. I tried using my tablet pressing hard brush gently, but I ended up with dragon made of fur, not fire :-) So I started playing with changing settings of default Photoshop brushes. Finally, I achieved something that satisfied me (I realize it is not perfect but drawing fire takes a lot of skills, I am only starting my way to it). You can download tool preset and try this brush yourself. DOWNLOAD TOOL PRESET.

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Using this brush, make some strokes around the edges of dragon... (on this image, I show only this layer on black background, so you can better see how this brush looks)

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And then set layer mode to Overlay, and duplicate layer. This is the result, shown with all layers visible.

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Next trick is usually used in tutorials like Make your own Aqua OSX wallpaper! But I found I wanted this effect here too. Set color to grey (HEX 808080). With pen tool, create a shape of dragon.

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Set layer mode to Overlay. Because layer is grey, it will become invisible - do not worry! :-) Create new layer, and with black and white large soft brushes, put some dots here and there.

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Then, Create clipping mask (from layer menu). Magically, the brush is masked by vector layer, and inherited overlay!

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You can repeat the same steps to create additional curve inside wings.

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And, use the same technique to make dragon head (or, unlike me, you could do it on previous step! That would be wiser :-)

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This is how the head looks when I set shape layer mode to Overlay, then add black and white brush dots, and create clipping mask.

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Use Pen tool to add white eye, then set its layer mode to Overlay too.

To be continued