All rights and these next few lectures we're going to talk about some different techniques you can do
when you're digitally sketching.
That can kind of help spice up your sketcher make it come a little bit more live maybe make it a little
bit more of a finished piece if you want.
So these are not necessary for a sketch.
There are some cool things that when you're working digitally you have the opportunity to do that you
want otherwise if you're working traditionally.
So if you're a traditionalist and you're watching this sorry this is one section where you're going
to be a little bit of luck.
But feel free to join us anyways.
Let's jump in.
So this one we're going to be talking about how to add some fall colors to your drawing so I'm going
to make a new layer that's below everything else but to have it set to normal.
And before we get to adding any colors I'm actually going to let's change the background to something
other than gray.
So let's say let's go for like this orange color.
That's what I want to do for the background.
And I think that looks good right there.
So we have a background now that we're working with and sort of just starting with this normal gray
color so that we can start adding some colors on top of it.
So looks like I actually made a mark felt it was clear that.
OK.
So I'm on my layer that's underneath all my sketches.
OK.
And I'm going to start out by outlining the entire shape of my my lizard creature guy.
OK.
So I'm using the Selection tool and I was going through here I'm going to outline his entire shape of
all of his armor his body his head all that stuff.
OK.
And I can include the background and there's just him.
OK.
So you go through here and I'll go ahead we'll speed this up so you don't have to watch all this boring
part.
All right so we have this whole guy outline now which means we can start by throwing in a full color.
So I'm going to start with.
I want him to be a green color.
That seems way too cool.
So we're going to warm it up a bunch.
Try again.
That's a little better.
We're going to make a darker though.
All right cool.
That's what I like.
So now can turn that off.
And I have this shape and this color on a separate layer.
OK.
And he's filled in this whole thing right now.
You can go as detailed as you want with your colors.
OK.
We're going to do a couple of layers worth and fill in some different things but we're not going to
go extreme because we're not really going to be painting this as you just kind of there to accept it
if you want you can leave it at this and call it good.
Or you could go a little bit further.
We're going to go a little bit further and do the background so let's do the same thing with the background
and we'll speed this up as well so you don't have to be bored out of your mind
.
All right so we have the ship selected and we're going to fill this in with another color as well.
I'm going to try try a read and see how that looks.
It's not too bad.
See what happens if we make a little lighter.
That might be better.
Now the cool thing about this is once you've filled the stuff in you can do it you can go to your adjustments
menu and your hue saturation and brightness slider and you can move things around to find the color
that you want right.
So if you feel like on the first go it didn't quite hit what you're going for.
Not a problem you can just come in here and switch things up until you get exactly the color that you
want.
OK.
So I'm actually going to keep it on that read because I thought that was a pretty good color.
We might darken things up just a little bit lower the saturation and then propel a little warmer.
Our colleague for that now.
Right now it's still pretty basic right.
Once again you can leave it here you can add more.
We're going to go a little bit further so I can see some other techniques you can do.
So now that we have this outline of the lizard guy above a layer of our background.
If I click on this lizard shape and I click select I can make it so I'm only selecting the shape of
his body and everything like that right.
Which means if I go to a new layer on top of that while that's still selected I can paint onto this
new layer without going outside of that outline.
So for example let's say I wanted to pay all of his armor its own separate color.
Right.
So I can have that selected come over here to my painting brush use around brush and I can pay all this
in gray without going outside the lines of his body that I've already outlined in the previous layer.
I think there is a lot easier I can go a lot quicker.
I don't have to worry about going all along the edges and everything lines up perfectly in my layers.
Now if I need to go back in here in some areas and clean up the edges a little bit I can do that with
my research tool.
OK.
So you do that.
I'm going to add another layer and this time I'm going to select the Armento there so I don't paint
outside of that and I'm going to get a darker color and paint in some of these armor spots just to break
it up give it a little bit of different color in some areas.
And once again because they have that armor they're selected I'm not going outside the complete outline
of it going to clean this up just a little bit.
All right.
So that's how you can have those basic colors.
We're going to go.
Let's just have a little bit more let's add some more to his face be like a little bit of eye color
and something for like kitchen and neck that could be a different color.
So select that has the green body part.
Well I'm going to color pick this green so I can use that as a reference and a jumping off point for
another color.
And we're going to go with this color and use this to go even warmer with it.
There we go.
We're going to use that to paint in his lower drawer and his neck.
Now I'm not doing any like really gradients are like hard shading because once again we want to keep
this in the realm of a sketch right.
These are just some things we can do to kind of spice up the sketch and make it look a little more presentable
and fancy but I'm not really going hard on painting anything right.
I'm not adding any sort of highlights or anything like that you can do that if you want to but that's
not what we're doing here.
This is just adding some flat color overlays to kind of help sell the image a little bit more.
And then we'll do another one for his eye and let's do this go really green with his eye green yellow
or yellow and bring it down here for the pupil
to dark there a little too saturated.
That's better.
OK.
And then let's do one last piece for the spin thing on the back of his head.
And we'll make this kind of like a red and then we can go through and clean it up with a razor and say
the parts that went over a little bit.
There you go.
So now we've just thrown in some flat colors just to kind of spice things up.
Like I said totally optional.
This was just something fun.
Sometimes they do it on a sketch if I need it to look a little bit more ready to show.
But then we can turn any of these off and break it back down to its basic colors.
Right.
Maybe we just want to only like that or even less just that we're maybe even less so we don't even want
the background.
Right.
So it's up to you what point you want to take it to.
But it looks pretty cool.
So that's it for the lecture.
I'll see you guys in the next one.