How To Setup Photoshop For Drawing

Interview Time!
Why do y'all desire to learn digital drawing?
Person A: My easily will not become muddy.
Person B: I can modify and share my works conveniently.
Person C: Erm, because everyone is cartoon digitally.
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No matter what is your reason, digital drawing is everywhere in the creative industry, and you lot can't miss it. Simply information technology doesn't hateful paper and pencil are outdated. Digital drawing is just one method. All the core skills, like perspective and rendering, are from traditional art, and there'southward no way to skip them. Notwithstanding, digital drawing is an overwhelming trend.

So today, we are going to introduce y'all to an easy-to-follow tutorial about how to describe our mascot Fenix in Photoshop with an XP-Pen Deco 02 graphic tablet.

Pace 1: Fix up the sail
Set upward a new image with 16 x 11 inches and the resolution at 600 pixels/inch. The only downside of this setting is the file is a niggling big, but you tin print your work at whatever size with 300 dpi. Then click "Create".

Footstep 2: Brand your own brush.
There are plenty of free brushes everywhere, but I like to make my ain ones. The pen brush I fabricated for sketching is called Fantastic 19. I used it heavily at every stage of drawing, not just limited to sketching.
First, cull the default hard circular brush and select the size to 19 px.

And then click the brush setting.

When you drag the brush tip, the marks will vary in diameter. And so, for the shape dynamics, change the minimum bore to 20%. The minimum diameter parameter controls the thickness of the two ends of the brush; 100 % ways the stroke'due south width is all the same from top to finish, and 0% ways the stop and caput are quite thin, pretty close to 0.

So bank check transfer. Choose pen pressure both under Opacity Jitter and Flow Jitter.
The build-up tab simply triggers the build-upwards effect.

And so click the create new brush push button.

Recall to bank check the "Capture Brush Size in Preset," or your brush size will modify to the size of the last brush you lot used.

OK, now the brush is all gear up. Since Deco 02 has 8192 pen pressure sensitivity, it can capture every stroke rapidly and precisely.

Step iii: Get layers on their marks!
Now let'due south set up the layers. The layers palette is on the right lesser corner and the create new layer icon is at the bottom of the layer palette. I am going to prepare 3 types of layers: sketch, refined sketch, and colour.

Pace 4: Draw, Ctrl+Z, redraw
Just similar many beginners, when I started to learn to describe, the lines I drew were not directly, and the curves were not smooth. The solution to this problem is to draw fast and practice more than. I know there are many softwares that have the stabilizers, like SAI, only stabilizers can't do everything.
The cartoon on the sketch layer is quite rough and has crosshairs. When drawing faces, crosshairs help you line things up, like eyes and mouth.

Step v: Define the sketch.
First, lower the opacity of the sketch layer, and then correct your drawing and remove unnecessary stuff from the refined sketch layer. Information technology'due south just similar cartoon on the tracing paper. When you need to get rid of something, you tin just press the second primal on Deco 02 to change the brush to eraser or use the eraser at the finish of the stylus. The cartoon feel is pretty close to real pencil drawing.

Step 6: Coloring
Now, it'southward time to color the fiddling Fenix. Remember to put the color layers under the sketch layers, so the color will not go over the lines.

You lot can color the parts with the brushes or making option then utilize the bucket tool to fill it. It'southward upwards to you.

When it comes to calculation more details, I similar to employ clip masks (Ctrl+Alt+G (Windows) / Control+Option+G (Mac)). It won't change other colored parts, and it tin can be added as much as possible.

Pace 7: Washed.
Tada! Our cute Fenix is finished. Hope you guys enjoy today's tutorial and keep cartoon!