Photoshop

Photoshop Developments

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In my storyline I have a wooden table included in which the whole family of bees will sit round. Not being particularly amazing at drawing I searched Google on a tutorial on drawing a table, as I wanted to give it a go myself and not just use one I found online.

I found this webpage on HubPages website; http://hubpages.com/art/How-to-draw-a-table

I provides a step by step  instruction on how to draw a table, in which I followed.

My finished drawing looked like this once scanned onto my laptop:

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I then began editing it in Photoshop. Removing the background and adding colour using the paint brush tool and multiple layers.

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Page One Development

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I have been using what I was taught in my design workshop on line painting to colour in my objects for my first page.

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I am really pleased so far how well my images are turning out, despite taking a long time with all the layering of paint and small brush strokes I am doing. I am hoping my main characters which I will be designing next will go just as well.

I need to start thinking also about the type of font I want for my pages. At the moment I am torn between keeping the book looking quite traditional and using a serif font with straight lines such as Times New Roman, or a more handwritten font (perhaps designing one myself) to keep the book looking child-like and also matching my messy/painted look images.

First stage of editing

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I have begun editing my scanned in drawings – removing any white from the background and experimenting with different brush tools to add colour to my images.

I have added in the text of the story, however I want to look into more details about which type of font and size I want to use so for now I am just using what it is set as.

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I like how the images are starting to look, and the fact you can see the brush strokes makes the image look more ‘authentic’ and ‘cute’ looking – similar to the Winnie the Pooh books!

I want to keep experimenting with different brush types and also maybe add in a faded background, maybe with a 30% opacity?