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Photoshop: Hand Drawn Design
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the hand drawn style is one of the hottest design trends. There are several ways to create hand drawn images — you can create it from scratch in Photoshop or you can scan an actual hand drawn sketch. Personally, I like to use a scanned drawing because you get a realistic drawing texture. Here is a quick tutorial to show you how to create a hand drawn design in Photoshop using the blending mode and alpha channel.
1 Create From Scratch in Photoshop
If you have a tablet, you can simply draw the sketch by using the brush tool.
Don’t Have a Tablet?
If you don’t have a tablet, you can create the artwork in Adobe Illustrator and then imitate a hand drawing effect in Photoshop.
First draw a vector illustration. Then import it in Photoshop. Use a grungy brush and gently erase select parts of the image. Use the Blur tool to create the smug effect.
2 Scan It
The easiest way — scan the drawing and set the layer blending mode to Multiply.
Invert Color
If you want to have a white color stroke instead of black — go to menu Image > Adjustments > Invert (or press shortcut Cmd+i) and then select Screen blending mode.
Step It Up: Create Color Gradients
What if you want more than just a black or white stroke (ie. colors gradients)? Then you will have to extract the drawing from the white background. A simple way to do this is by using alpha channel.
- Copy (Cmd+C) the drawing.
- In the Channels palette, create a new channel. Then paste the drawing in the new channel.
- Invert (Cmd+i) the channel layer.
Go back to the Layers palette, create a new layer. Go to menu Select > Load Selection. In the Load Selection prompt box, select Channel: "Alpha 1" (which is the name of the alpha channel I created earlier).
Shortcut Tip: the shortcut for loading a channel selection is Cmd + Opt + any number key (ie. 1, 2, 3). Learn more Photoshop shortcuts.
Fill Selection
With the channel selection loaded, you can fill it with any color.
Using It In The Design
For the purpose of this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to incorporate your hand drawing on a female model (the photo was purchased from iStock).
1. First, cut out the model.
2. Fill the background with some sort of light glowing gradients.
3. Paste the drawing on top of the model. Lock the layer transparency. Play around with the color gradients.
4. Duplicate the drawing in the background to add more details to the image.
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217 fiona
June 6th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I think your work is amazing- and it’s class getting an insight into how you do it -i am just starting out -trying out - and am even more inspired now -thanks.
216 Kim
June 6th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Thank you for your time and work in putting your tutorials together. I come here often and have learned quite a bit thanks to you! Cheers!
215 designiac http://twitter.com/b_allenstein
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 pm
I think the background /header of this website looks much more better than your examples in this tutorial.
I would have cut out the model… but nice article.
214 Rami
May 27th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
You are professional . Thank you very much
213 kannan
May 26th, 2009 at 9:05 am
great tutorial,..plz sent for my adc ompany’s caption
212 dens
May 21st, 2009 at 11:08 pm
good job keep it up…..keep goin…!!
211 Jonathan http://www.pallieter-diving.be/
May 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Hi,
Our new website design is based on this tutorial. We’ve handdrawn some fish and edited them in Photoshop…
So thanks for sharing!
210 shadowbreaker
May 12th, 2009 at 2:05 am
its so amazing to have this website for all the designers who used photoshops & illustrator… “very very very nice tricks” i love it.
209 uxitza http://ourtutorials.blog.com/
May 11th, 2009 at 1:46 am
This is avery nice tutorial …i like your website design also? Did you do it?…all those hand drawn details are very interesting
i’ve added your tutorial here for others to find it easier
http://freeitsolutions.com/photoshop/?order=dt&desc=true
208 jane http://huey_ming_chin@dell.com
April 28th, 2009 at 12:02 am
amazing…. ^_^…..!!!!!