Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last lesson, we covered some particle effects
that we can add to our finished illustration.
In this lesson, I will show you you some really quick
and easy effects that we can apply to our finished art,
to give it more of that polished, professional look.
First, the one I use the most, chromatic aberration.
I like to duplicate my illustration first
and apply to that new layer.
We can really simply just go to the adjustments,
and find the chromatic aberration here, and you can
see the kind of effect it gives it.
It will come out from that black circle over there.
So usually I'll position that black circle around
the face so that the face stays clear.
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And for this first pass, I don't have it too obvious.
I set it quite low just to give it a
little bit of that multidimensional look, because after that we
can go in with the pencil select tool on the
chromatic aberration and I will selectively add the effect.
I avoid putting it on the hard lines, and
instead I'll choose the areas within singular elements to
make my shading look more three dimensional.
So I'm going to add it to the middle of the hair,
And onto the shading of the clothes.
And I always like to add it to the eyes.
Finally, because we duplicated this layer, I'm gonna go
in with the erase tool and I'll erase the part
where I think the effect is a bit too obvious.
And I'm pretty happy with this.
Now let's move on to the next trick.
I think this works particularly well
for closed up portraits like this.
So what we will do is we will go
into Gaussian blur, use the pencil select, and with
an airbrush, I'm going to select the areas around her face.
And I'll adjust the blur.
This is really good for illustrations with a very,
very strong emphasis and focus on our character, and
this trick really draws our attention to her face.
Next, we will get into adding texture.
There are two ways of doing it.
The first is manually adding texture and
the second is using the noise setting.
Let's try manually adding the texture.
First, I will use a heavily textured
brush, and Procreate has quite a few
under the "Painting" brushes and "Material" brushes.
They will all work fine.
You can just experiment and choose your favorite,
but for this, I'll use "Glover" in the
"Materials" brushes. Using a muted brown,
I'm just going to paint over the
illustration lightly on a new layer.
We don't want to cover our painting
up, especially around the face area.
We're just trying to subtly add texture.
Then, we will set this layer to overlay mode,
and we can adjust the brightness or opacity.
This really adds that traditional paint texture,
and it's great for finishing works, especially
those with a painterly art style.
And for the second method of
adding texture, is adding noise.
So, we're going to go to
adjustments, and click the noise setting.
These little settings are really up to your own personal preference,
but I like to keep the main slider quite low and
I usually change it to "multi" under this tab.
We are really aiming for a really subtle texture, that adds some extra
dimension and grain, without it being too noticeable. So I keep
everything quite low.
And those are some ways to finish up our paintings.
For the mission,
try out some of these finishing tricks on your character art.
Like the particle effects, you don't have to use
all of them that we cover in the lesson, especially
the blur effect, which I think works best only for portraits.
And that's chapter seven finished!
Congratulations on finishing chapter one to seven!
In this lesson, we learnt about some finishing tricks
to apply to our finished works.
In the next bonus chapters, I will share a little
bit about my experience freelancing, and give you some tips
if you are looking to find some work for yourself.
See you there!