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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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233 Tanzanian designer http://www.selengiadesigns.com
January 27th, 2010 at 4:04 am
Great and simple tutorial. I love incorporating hand drawn with digital design.
232 kuwan http://-
January 21st, 2010 at 6:27 am
wow nice disign
231 vincentdresses http://www.hibridal.com
January 5th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
The designs showed here show what simple and tasteful design is all about. Another one to consider
230 lauren fleming
November 11th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
im looking to design a new tattoo
229 Mike http://www.comastore.com
October 31st, 2009 at 4:55 am
This is a very good article..thanks! Great site
228 Balram
October 7th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Great tutorial. Thank you so much!
227 purplerain http://www.greentimes.com.au
October 6th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
WOW nice tutorial
226 Cyrus
September 21st, 2009 at 9:40 am
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225 Priti jain http://www.hennaexpressions.com
September 17th, 2009 at 11:47 am
I would like to know if I have a tablet with a pen tool can you please let me know step by step how to draw this?
Thanks
Priti Jain
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224 bagsin http://handbagsurf.com
September 10th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I think the background /header of this website looks much more better than your examples in this tutorial.