Chin-li, Street Fighter
This is an old picture of Chun Li that I’d markered in 2001. I was going to post it here in it’s original form but that didn’t happen because I’m obsessive. I didn’t like the look of the picture after I scanned the color photocopy. So, I took the picture into Photoshop 7. There I re-inked the lines, fixed the marker bleeding, randomly colored bits, changed up the background, and contrasted the hell out of it. Whheeee.
Things I learn: I made a brush that looks like a pencil when used lightly but if you use more pressure it makes a nice dark line that has very little texture. So, it can look like a pencil or like inks. Also if you remove “shape dynamics” it colors like a marker… Which considering that the base texture is a piece of marker coloring that make sense. The brush is quite cool as it’s hard to get marker effects in Photoshop.
Using a dodge setting or a multiply setting with this brush is also really awesome… as long as the opacity is turned way down.
I also found that the gradient tool on the “Pastel” settings look really pretty.
I did not select anything on this picture. No Lasso tool and no Paths. It’s a little like actually drawing which for Photoshop is a novel experence.
I’m beginning to see how one could get controllable Painter type brushes with PhotoShop 7’s brush settings… although the trick is to mess with the duel brush setting so that you can get an actual texture to show up… did any of the last few paragraphs make any since to anyone else?
PhotoShop is crack.
So let’s see:
Colored originally with Markers… a lot of the original coloring is still there.
Re-inked in Photoshop 7
Background remade in Photoshop 7
Coloring contrasted and adjusted in PS 7
sexy