Make a unique portrait photo hand-painted character guide

Often see some hand-painted characters, they are painted vividly, now we also try to see if the computer can make satisfactory results.

　　to expand the profile of a character

First of all, we will draw the outline of the characters, this step is carried out in the painter. Out of satisfactory effect.

Open Painter 7.0 and click File/open to open the photo you selected. Then dot fiel/clone Copy the original photo, now we hold ctrl+t, and then press CTRL + A to select all. Finally press backspace key to see what results appear  Note: Do not turn off the original artwork . Now we see the picture looks like a layer of gauze  like 1, I believe that we all understand, we now have to do is to map the characters on the picture, just as we did when the painting.

Note: In the field of image art, painter occupies its unique position. Its toolbar contains tools such as oil painting, watercolor, chalk and mosaic, and the real sense of the images created with these tools is that ordinary image-editing software is far from comparable. Painter 7.0 is the Corel Company in the purchase of painter title after the launch of the first flagship products.

Select the Pencil tool in the Brush toolbar and stroke the 2B Pencil (Figure 2). Hand-painted software of course is a hand-painted pen, ready to pen we can start painting. Do not draw on the original artwork, press Ctrl+4 to pull up the layer board, a new floor  as shown in Figure 3 .

In the process of painting if the feeling is not easy to draw the line, you can click on the Drop-down menu to adjust the picture to the best position you think 4. Well, press Ctrl+t to see our outline of the characters  figure 5, modify the sketch. Select the Strokes and use the eraser tool to erase the extra lines. Because we're going to paint it in Photoshop, we choose to save it as a file in PSD format.

　　Coloring for Baimiao draft

Here we will paint the Baimiao draft. Open the saved psd file in Photoshop.

After the eye background, and then realize the light and shadow effect of the eye, we must pay attention to the use of layers. The best way to build a layer group is to add the "eye" layer that you just built to the new layer group. We're going to have another color, a new layer in the Eye Layer group (above the eye background), light brown with the brush tool. Use the Dodge tool in the toolbar and the burn tool to blend the brown and lower layers of black to achieve a good gradient effect, and the scale will be grasped as needed. After the completion, and then a new layer, can be white, is the bright spot in the eye, in order to be not rigid can use filter/fuzzy/Gaussian blur, fuzzy radius of 10. Use the eraser tool (opacity set to 40%) to properly erase unsuitable corners. Now you can put the color of the eye, generally white, because the background of the picture is white, so to change the background color, preferably dark, but do not use black, for example, I used a green background color. Figure 7 is a complete diagram of the modification.

The next step, the lip, is to create a new layer group that is renamed to the mouth, and the method of coloring is roughly the same as the color of the eye. If the corners of the mouth with a line too rigid, you can use fuzzy tools, let it appear more natural. Note the distribution of the layer, complete with figure 8.

below to color the face of the character, absorbing skin color, with a brush in the new name of the face of the layer group painted colors, preferably with the neck separately color. It starts with a sketch that you have previously painted, you can remove the sketch when you finish coloring the face, and use an eraser to wipe out the outline of your face (Figure 9).

You can also remove the sketch when you complete the entire drawing. After the completion, to the face of the shadow, in order to facilitate the color, first the color of the hair painted. Create a new Hair layer group, select the face layer, and hold down CTRL to select the face layer to float the face selection. Keep selection in the hair layer group, create a new layer, the foreground color is black, press Ctrl+shift+i to select the selection, press Alt+backspace to fill the selection with black, and modify it with an eraser. Create a new layer on the face layer in the face layer group and paint the neck part so that the basic painting is finished (Figure 10).

The next step is to draw the shadow of the face, which is the same as the method above, but more patience is needed. The contour of the nose that is not shown in the sketch is shown in shadow. Finally press Ctrl+u, adjust the saturation, the result is as shown in Figure 11.

The key here is to color the hair, which also requires patience. We create a new layer on the background of the hair, click the Brush tool, select the stroke  Figure 12. When selected, click the Pen tool, select the pen attribute as shown in Figure 13, and start outlining your hair. Hold down the CTRL key to move the nodes and adjust their curvature. Then press the right mouse button, select the Stroke path, pop-up tool selection, select the Brush tool fill path (Figure 14), get this effect  Figure 15). Of course, when we are drawing our hair filaments, we can make the brush strokes smaller. Because the hair is divided into the left and right parts, at least the two parts should be separated into two layers to color. In general color finish, use the Dodge deepening tool and Blur tool to draw a level, good, the hair part is finished (Figure 16).

Because we are going to draw a different place than the picture, such as the color and hair position. After our hand-drawn and the original image comparison as shown in Figure 17, how, is it unique?