Graphic ILLUSTRATION
Janine Millington give us a short demonstration on how to
create a digital illustration. She has illustrated her own book
which is due to be launched before Mother’s Day.
- Start with a basic sketch and upload
to Photoshop by either photographing or
scanning the image. Make sure its as high
quality as possible. You’ll need that detail. - Next we will begin to separate the lines
from the background. To do this select
all the channels in the Channels palette.
Once your image is a selection, go to the
layers palette and unlock the background
layer by double-clicking it. It will become
Layer 0. Toggle the ‘Lock Transparent
Pixels’ on for Layer 0. Now while the
image is selected press delete.
2. Using Image > Adjustments > Levels
(Cmd L on Mac), or Image > Adjustments
Curves, make the image quite dark.
5. Go to Edit > Fill. Choose your line
colour. I’ve chosen black. The colour will
fill into the selection.
3. Now turn saturation right down (Cmd
U on Mac). It’ll take all the colour out
and make the lines black again.
6. It won’t look much different but a lot
has changed. Your line drawing is now on
its own separate layer.
14257 836- Now create a new background layer for
your image. Edit > Fill and choose a colour
for a background colour. - Now that you’ve separated the lines
from the background, your image will be
ready for you to start painting.