How to turn photos into illustrations-How to draw photos into illustrations?

PS, AI skillfully turned photos into illustrations. Written in front: this course needs AI and PS foundation.

Firstly, the characteristics of illustrations are analyzed.

Graphic illustration is a very popular illustration style at present. To make a graphic illustration, we must first understand and analyze its characteristics.

In modeling: concise, simplify complex modeling.

In light and shadow: remove the gradient and texture effect of light and shadow, and use solid color more.

Second, the illustration drawing tools

Modeling is what ai is good at, so we use AI to draw the modeling of objects and use AI to make colors. These two softwares cooperate with each other and can meet almost all our needs.

Third, composition

Taking a photo as the main body, you can delete and modify the objects in the photo appropriately. For example, the shape and position of the bamboo raft are not so ideal. We can use the bamboo raft in the picture on the right instead.

We can divide the picture into three levels: the close shot is a bamboo raft, the middle shot is a mountain, and the distant shot is the sky.

V-shaped composition with high side and low middle.

Fourthly, drawing steps.

Step 1:

Use the stippling brush in ai to draw the close shot, middle shot and distant shot layer by layer. You just need to draw a rough outline. You can copy photos directly after locking. You just need to draw the outline and then delete the path inside to get a face.

Step two:

Use plug-ins to convert the drawn ai into layered psd, and draw colors in psd. The shape of each layer is mainly monochrome. The choice of color can refer to the color of the photo, such as early morning, afternoon, or night, just absorb the color.

Step 3:

Adding water surface reflection and detail texture, using Boolean operation, adding ripples and details to the reflection, does not need to be complicated, but it can be very abstract.

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How to draw photos into illustrations? This picture is about my relatives and friends. She is a super beautiful girl and a great photographer. The final picture is as follows:

Let's share a tutorial on painting relatives and friends!

First of all, to draw an image, a character must have her own characteristics. The eyes of relatives and friends are round and big, and they are all lovely girls' faces. Of course, generally speaking, you can also draw cartoon faces, and use clothes and hairstyles to reflect the characteristics of relatives and friends. The easiest way is to ask friends and relatives to send you a nice photo!

The photo is in the ginkgo forest in the park, and friends and relatives are smiling at a leaf, which is very warm and fresh.

Graphic tablet (wacomctl67 1)+Photoshop software

A draft is a quick summary of what you want to express. This manuscript summarizes a girl with short hair wearing a beret, a black sweater and white trousers, and a ginkgo leaf in her hand. At this time, we should also know the style of the whole picture and express a warm feeling. Brush is ps's own hard edge ring pressure.

Reduce the brush size, create a new layer on the draft layer, and check the draft. The draft is a quick record of the overall feeling, and the line draft should consider some details.

Spread out a large color block and set the color tone of the painting. In order to highlight the warm feeling, I imagined a warm yellow-brown illustration. I like to use this uniform adjacent color very much. The harmonious picture is not easy to make mistakes, and it is also very suitable for novices. Considering the influence of the environment on the inherent color, in this warm color painting, the black sweater and black hair are actually expressed in brown, while the white pants are expressed in light yellow.

Carefully depict the details of the characters. I thought the face was not cute enough, the color was too heavy and the face was too sharp, so I made a modification and refined the clothes.

A lazy person like me must be good at using the copy-and-paste solution. Draw two ginkgo biloba, and the rest is copy and paste+free transformation (Ctrl+T), and a large piece of ginkgo biloba is drawn. There is a detailed introduction in the previous article, so I won't repeat it here.

Draw the light and shadow of the tree with the soft-angle brush that comes with ps, and draw the fuzzy ginkgo tree shadow on the background casually. Drop a dark gradient on the canvas. Feel free to do some highlights for the characters, which is also a soft corner brush.

Draw a few beams of light with a soft angle brush. Create a new layer on top of all layers, fill it with brown, set the mode to "Overlay", and adjust the opacity according to your feeling. This step is to further unify the tone. Finally, add words and signatures, and the painting is finished. Friends and relatives are very happy to receive it ~

Put a process animation to summarize:

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PS photos to hand-drawn illustrations (with characters) For us who have been obsessed with countless comics, how happy it is to be able to turn photos of our travels and parties into illustrations/comics, as if we could create our own comic world. Let me share my creative process here. Let's put a comparison chart before and after:

There are many photo-to-illustration tutorials on the Internet, but only photos with pure scenery can look good, and people's photos always have the feeling of "knowing at a glance that they are photos". So I added some hand-drawing on the basis of the online tutorial to make the final effect more like hand-drawing.

First of all, we should turn the photos into illustrations. There are many such tutorials, and the better one is: PS saves the hand cancer party for three minutes to learn the hand-drawn illustration style. You can refer to it, so I won't repeat it here. The effect is as follows:

If there is any deviation in the effect made by everyone, it may be that I adjusted the color when I made it (I can't remember it for too long).

In fact, after the first step, it has been very feel, but I prefer the animation style, and the characters above are still partial to oil painting. So, according to the characters in the photo, make a new line draft and color it, and it's done:

Poof, I'm kidding, but the script really needs to be typed first, so you can use your imagination. You don't have to stick to the original picture, just handle the perspective and interaction of the scene. In order to see clearly, I reduced the transparency of the background:

Please forgive my 50-point hand-drawing skill (covering my face). In fact, no matter how you paint it, it won't be too bad after coloring the beautiful scenery.

Here you can refer to some hand-painted coloring techniques. I'm Xiao Bai, so I won't embarrass myself. However, it can provide a simple way to pick some bright and bright colors and draw solid colors for people. The simpler it is, the more hand-drawn illustration it feels. Or refer to the color matching in the works of Miyazaki Hayao and Xinghai City, all of which are very bright. Coloring effect:

Finally, combining characters and scenes, pay attention to the occlusion relationship (in fact, the girl behind the pillar in the above picture has already handled the occlusion relationship), and you can add some shadows to enhance the sense of reality. Ps can only erase a little of the original words in the soap chip. Another very important element is the sky, which can set off the atmosphere very strongly In terms of hue, my scene is a little yellow-green, so I also chose the sky with this hue. There can't be too many clouds in the sky, otherwise it will steal the host's attention and the audience will be attracted to the sky involuntarily. I chose Makoto Shinkai's Sky, and the final draft is as follows:

This article only talks about the basics. Interested children's shoes can be hand-painted after in-depth study, and you can draw more awesome works. But painting in photos is more important than technology, such as the works of Swedish illustrator JohanTh_rnqvist:

Expand your imagination, I believe everyone can create interesting illustrations with your photos.