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Painter and Photoshop, a Quick Trip
By  Liz Chesterman
I often use Painter when I work digitally and supplement it with a bit of Photoshop to touch it up. Here's a quick image colored in Painter with Photoshop effects.
The anime carcature is of KC, an ever-patient (poor, suffering) friend.
| Here's a pencil sketch. I added the circle and text on the computer. |
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On a new layer, made a new clean line version with a Dry Ink Brush in a light sepia tone.
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Using the simple watercolor brush on wet rake and smooth paper, I added in skin tones.
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To give darker values I decided to use blue insted of greyish pink or orange.
Then I smoothed them out a bit with the Pure Water Brush. You could also try using Liquid's Add Water.
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Then I started on the shirt.
Layed in a few different values of green...
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then a few values of blue to make the shirt more snazzy.
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Then I took the Pure Water Brush again and smoothed it all out a bit.
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Added a few darker areas with the Simple Watercolor Brush on a darker blue and smoothed out just a tidge with the Pure Water Brush.
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Then I started laying in values for his jeans. They're blue! Go fig.
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Added some darker values, smoothed/ blended a bit.
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Did the zippers on his legs, started on his wings.
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Darker values on his wings here, but I kept the harder edged feel to the colors instead of blending.
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Finished his wings, started on shoes with brown and blue.
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Finished the shoes with the pure water brush and a touch of lighter watercolor.
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Here I've begun to layer in values in this hair. I started very light.
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Some darker values in there. Made sure to leave some areas white so they'd be extra shiney.
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Pure water brush on the hair to blend it a bit.
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They eyes! The eyes! Pretty self explanatory.
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A few highlights on his glasses to make them stand out more.
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Now back to that circle thing, but in Photoshop.
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Using the various rotation and palette arc tools I created text that fitted to the oval.
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I then cut out the middle of the oval so it's now a ring.
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And filled the inside with a circular gradient.
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Then I used a fun filter, Distort - Wave.
And erased a bit of the middle behind his head.
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Using the Blending Options, I added an outer glow to the text and oval to make it stand out a bit more.
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Then I added some highlighting effects to his hair and glasses using an Airbrush on Screen.
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Added my signature and he's done. farpboard title='Painter and Photoshop, a Quick Trip' by=berkeley id=berkeleypaps url='berkeleypaps/berkeleypaps.html'>
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