Making an Ink Drawing Slash Sketch (kinda)
I skipped the second tutorial I wrote tonight because it was for a friend and basically just repeated what someone else had already done. I just followed their steps. This one is actually an aborted attempt at a pre-written tutorial from here as well, but it turned out... Different.
See, I was trying for one effect, and ended up with something else entirely because I got frustrated because they used PhotoShop and I don't, so I kinda just messed around with it until I got something. Mantra: I use PaintShop Pro 6. Ohm.
Ashton's always been a bit.... SKETCHY! HAH!
Once again, new picture to me. See? Original to follow in bigger size on the Ashton-Kutcher.net website when I'm done playing.
Originally I was going to try the comic book tutorial except... not so much.
I sharpened the picture, I posterized it, I turned it into gray scale then lowered the color settings to like, 16 colors. Then I deleted some stuff that was extraneous splotches, darkened some of the lines like around his face and ear and shirt. And basically, that was it. I tried the rest of the tutorial but hated my results, so I saved the file as it was. A couple days later, I come back and hey, that looks kinda cool, like an ink drawing. On a whim, I cleaned it up a bit more and reduced it to icon size. I wish to hell I'd saved the big version, but I've since deleted it. I double checked.
So I reduced it to the icon standard, but it was a transparent GIF at this point so I added a layer behind him that was just white flood fill. Plain white, yo. Vanilla. Ice.
I actually had just downloaded some big wrinkled paper textures from Touchstone but what I had been looking for was just a nice frame, so I totally missed my wrinkled paper downloads. Pout. Instead I found a crumpled paper frame by
meleada. Who else? No seriously, I use so much of her stuff it's unreal.
But I realized at this point "OH EM GEE! I can make it look like a real sketch!" so I biggie sized her paper by about 125%, ran a Retouch brush over the wrinkles to make them a wee bit darker with the Darken RGB selection, and slapped that puppy on top of Ashypoo. I set it to a blend mode of Multiply at just 28% because I want to be subtle. Sometimes.
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I opted for no border, but earlier I'd done something similar following a sketch tutorial (which I can't find the link for! woe!) for Topher and added his name and the date of the picture. I couldn't find a date on that picture, but I figured it couldn't hurt to label it "Ashton". So.... One handwriting font later, we have his name up there, set the opacity to 30% to make it look more handwritten, duplicated that layer and blurred it out, slid it underneath the first text layer and set THAT opacity to 20% on Multiply mode.
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aaaaaaaaaaaand that's all folks!
The Layer recap, from the top dowwwwwwwn is...
Text 1 - Normal, 30%
Text copy - Multiply, 20%
Paper brush - Multiply, 28%
Ashton Sketch - Normal, 100%
White Base - Normal, 100%
See, I was trying for one effect, and ended up with something else entirely because I got frustrated because they used PhotoShop and I don't, so I kinda just messed around with it until I got something. Mantra: I use PaintShop Pro 6. Ohm.
Ashton's always been a bit.... SKETCHY! HAH!
Once again, new picture to me. See? Original to follow in bigger size on the Ashton-Kutcher.net website when I'm done playing.
Originally I was going to try the comic book tutorial except... not so much.
I sharpened the picture, I posterized it, I turned it into gray scale then lowered the color settings to like, 16 colors. Then I deleted some stuff that was extraneous splotches, darkened some of the lines like around his face and ear and shirt. And basically, that was it. I tried the rest of the tutorial but hated my results, so I saved the file as it was. A couple days later, I come back and hey, that looks kinda cool, like an ink drawing. On a whim, I cleaned it up a bit more and reduced it to icon size. I wish to hell I'd saved the big version, but I've since deleted it. I double checked.
So I reduced it to the icon standard, but it was a transparent GIF at this point so I added a layer behind him that was just white flood fill. Plain white, yo. Vanilla. Ice.
I actually had just downloaded some big wrinkled paper textures from Touchstone but what I had been looking for was just a nice frame, so I totally missed my wrinkled paper downloads. Pout. Instead I found a crumpled paper frame by
meleada. Who else? No seriously, I use so much of her stuff it's unreal. But I realized at this point "OH EM GEE! I can make it look like a real sketch!" so I biggie sized her paper by about 125%, ran a Retouch brush over the wrinkles to make them a wee bit darker with the Darken RGB selection, and slapped that puppy on top of Ashypoo. I set it to a blend mode of Multiply at just 28% because I want to be subtle. Sometimes.
I opted for no border, but earlier I'd done something similar following a sketch tutorial (which I can't find the link for! woe!) for Topher and added his name and the date of the picture. I couldn't find a date on that picture, but I figured it couldn't hurt to label it "Ashton". So.... One handwriting font later, we have his name up there, set the opacity to 30% to make it look more handwritten, duplicated that layer and blurred it out, slid it underneath the first text layer and set THAT opacity to 20% on Multiply mode.
aaaaaaaaaaaand that's all folks!
The Layer recap, from the top dowwwwwwwn is...
Text 1 - Normal, 30%
Text copy - Multiply, 20%
Paper brush - Multiply, 28%
Ashton Sketch - Normal, 100%
White Base - Normal, 100%