| Okey dokey here we goey,
this tutorial is going to try and help show you how to prepare
a drawn image for colouring without tracing it in pixels.
So what we need first is a drawing. So I drew this up quick
and scanned it in at 200 dpi:
Keep in mind
that the drawing I am working with is 2 times the size of
this cause I have to scale the drawing down for the website. |
| Some kinda monster or
something. Now the drawing is very light wouldn't you say?
It looks just like a pencil drawing on a peice of paper and
there are tons of construction lines that I didn't erase,
like here:
|
How do we get rid of
this and make this drawing darker for a game? Well there's
the easy way and the better way. So let's try the easy way
first. Go into photoshop and create a new curves
adjustment layer and this is what it looks like:
To explain
what you're looking at. The black node at the bottom and the
white node at the top control the amount of black and white
in the drawing. If you move the white node over a little it
will increase the amount of white in the drawing and washout
the lighter pencil drawing. The same with the black, moving
the black over will darken all black in the picture. Because
the pencil lines are so light I needed to set the black node
over really far and the white node over just a little, or
I'd lose the entire drawing.
Here's the
drawing after adjusting the curves layer:
Kinda dark,
not the best, but as I said, this is the easy way. I also
lost some of the detail like the ribs that were under his
arm, they were drawn lightly and now they are washed out.
Also you can see that the bottom of the drawing looks a little
weak, again the easy way isn't the best way unless that is
the style you want [like in my game Los Jovenes De La Guerra] |
The next thing I'd do
is then slap on a threshold adjustment layer and set the node
pretty far to the right, let's see what that looks like:
Doesn't look that much
different, a little darker but if I zoom in you can see what
the threshold layer did:
See how everything
is all pixelated? This makes it MUCH easier to colour trust
me. And so I'll just throw in some colour or something and
this is what I have:
I don't really know what
is going on with the colour, I was just messing around. I
did mess up a bit cause I forgot to reduce his size to normal
game resolution but this is just a tut on scanned drawings
so it doesn't matter that much. Now on to doing it the better
way. |
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