How to Easily Prepare your Traditional Sketches for Digital Color

1. Introduction: What You Will Learn: Hey, I'm a graphic designer and artist from Norway. And today I am here to teach you a little bit about how you can digitally colas your traditional sketches and your traditional artwork using apps like co-create for the iPad or Photoshop on your computer or any other drawing program you might prefer. So without me talking much longer, let's have a look at that. Yeah. 2. Prepping: Scanning/Photographing Traditional Sketches/Lineart: First we need to sketch. If you are an artist that prefer to do your sketches or align large, traditionally, you may find that you sometimes want to transfer your traditionally drawn lines to your computer or tablet to call them. I will teach this class using Photoshop, but you can use any digital drawing program you prefer, as long as the program has options for changing layer modes. You don't necessarily need to have any expensive equipment. Can there, depending on what you want to use your finished artwork for? In many cases, way, LET photo can do just fine. Now that we're finished with earsketch, let's take a look at a few easy ways to scan or ascend or verb to our computer or tablet. If you are scanning your work with the scanner, I recommend the scan at least 300 DPI or higher. This depends on the size and quality you need. But if you do it that way, you always have a file that's big enough to create art prints from later. Remember to change your scanner settings. If you see that the automatic settings overexposed the whites of your paper in comparison to the darker lines of your sketch. You can also use as camera app, like the scanf function on the notes app. If you have an iPhone, or the scanf function on the Google Drive app, if you have an Android. Here I am showing you how to use the scanf function in loads for OS. These apps often create their good scanner like result for you to work from. You can also take a picture with your phone or camera. I recommend to take pictures of older art in daylight or with a bright light source, preferably with a daylight light bulb. But for this purpose, there are no virus. If you only have normally a lieutenant lightbulbs or lamps, we will edit everything later on. Make sure that the camera is focused at your artwork and tried to eliminate any falling shadows as best you can. To preserve as much detail and contrast as possible. Put your reform or camera on a tripod if you have one or appropriate or security against a few books to keep the camera from shaking. 3. Lighting Tips! Photographing Art: I wanted to give you some extra lighting tips. These tips are applicable to both sketches and finished artwork, illustrations, paintings, and sculptures in general, taking a good picture of your art is a bit like taking product photos. When filming discourse. It was an overcast day outside. But they lead still bouncing nicely off the space where I wanted to take my photo. An overcast day might be preferable to direct sunlight, cast shadows from direct sunlight can be hard to deal with later on. You don't really need any equipment at all, besides from the light, some paper and pencil and New York camera. But if you want to take your art photography approach, it doesn't have to be that the expensive either. For example, Hara have tiny smartphone tripod and economical work Clem from Ikea, a suchlike diffuser, and the Philip smart bulb, which I can address to daylight settings with 5 thousand kelvin using my smartphone. I have been using these Ikea lamps for a good stretch of time. They are 1299 US dollars and spread lights beautifully. This comes in around at 70 US dollars where I live. You can also make a light diffuser for your lamps with tape and a few layers cut out from a white baking sheet. I also use a similar setup when I am drawing or painting traditionally so that I can see and mix my paintings and pigments properly. I find that in many instances, I don't really need larger photograph the light boxes or LED panels. 4. Editing Your Sketch and Layer Settings in Photoshop: Now it's time to start editing your sketch in Photoshop or procreate or any other drawing program you're using. Any program works as long as it has adjustment Slater's like brightness and contrast and different layer modes. Here I have already opened the scale in Photoshop or Sketch I've worked on earlier. The first slider I will go to is brightness and contrast. Here you can see that I upped the brightness a bit too much, starting out and had to tone it down a bit. The clue here is just to make our paper Abbott, whiter and remove shadowy parts without blowing or lines away. If you are using Photoshop 32 sketch, I would recommend that you use their levels slider as well. Here I am darkening the midterms and the darkest partial of the image by picking up the area under the graph by brightening up the brighter parts. You can also change your output levels if you like, but most probably you don't have to do much with it. Curves is an optional slender, but I really recommend it if you want that extra punished EarSketch. I decided to leave things as they were at this time because they wanted to preserve the pencil quality of miscarriage. There are many more settings you can adjust. But I would say that these three are the most important ones to arrive at a nice result. Now it's time to clean our sketch. Here I am going over the image with the spot healing brush tool. This tool copies the surrounding image around itself to cover up the area you are working on. You can also just use a lighter brush to clean and cover up the areas you'd like. We want to be erasing the background in your sketch for this purpose. But when you are happy with your cleaning job, you can reposition your image however you'd like. If you want to reposition your image, you most probably are going to have to recolor the areas where your image has been shifted. To avoid losing any details using the bucket tool, you may need to add a new layer of Dwight and merge utero integrated with it like I'm doing here. Hooray. Now it's time to start coding your artwork. The new layer underneath EarSketch, This will be our backend layer. Fill it with white or any other column you'd like. Make a new layer between your sketch and background layer. This will be our coloring layer. When you add new coloring layers, they also cool between your sketch and background layer. Now set your sketch layer to multiply. Now you can start coloring EarSketch. But if you also want to call the lines of the sketch, you can add a new layer on top of the sketch layer, may get a clipping mask and set it is green. See, now you can call the length of the sketch. There you go. You have finished discourse. 5. Reminder and Final Words: You're all done! : Now we now are quick and easy way to color your traditional sketches digitally. Keep in mind that your colors might shift a bit depending on drawing program and layer modes because we don't truly erase the background. This is a bit more complicated, but I may cover it in a short YouTube video or another course if you'd like to learn more about how to do that. Thank you so much for enrolling in this course. I hope you learned something that you can use to your advantage when you are creating are beautiful artworks. I wish you the best of luck in your creative and diverse. Thank you.