Photoshop Class: Scanned line drawing to finished colored illustration. [15 Oct 2010 | By Dot | 7 Comment(s) | 9,180 views ] I bet you guys thought I’d forgotten how to draw, huh? I must admit, art has been on the back burner these days… but I volunteered to do a little illustration for a neighbor’s baby shower. And, since you like our last ‘Photoshop Class’, I thought you guys might like a little peek into how I colored it. This is a quick method I use for coloring more ‘cartoonish’ drawings… I sketched the drawing in pencil, then went over the line work in ink.
Step 1: Scan Clean up the worst of the stray pencil marks, and scan in your drawing. Step 2: Levels Create a new Levels adjustment layer. Move the white arrow to the left and move the black arrow to the right (see the Step2 image) until you have a white background and black lines. Step 3: Clean up the Lines For this illustration, I wanted smoother lines. Click on the image, and choose Live Trace. Copy, and paste back into your Photoshop image. Step 4: Create a Line Art Layer 1. Now I set up my layers.