Graphics tutorial #02: Graffiti Sketch

1

• Draw a simple pencil or pen sketch.
• Character part: Cat itself, and a bowl [1 minute].
• Lettering [1 minute].
• Line thickenings [1 minute].
• Scan as a black-and-white bitmap. [1 minute].
• Correct drawing a little. [5 minutes].
• Put this layer to the top.
• Set a Blending mode for it to Multiply.
• Now you have a black outline.

2

• Take a shot of some city wall [1 minute].

3

• Transfer it in LAB Color mode and correct levels.
• Put this layer to the bottom.
• Now you have an underlying texture.

4

• For brighter experience you can take a middle tone and overlay your texture with it.
• Eyedropper tool.
• Create a new layer.
• Alt-Backspace (fill it with this color).
• Set its Blending mode to Overlay.

5

• Create a new layer for color painting between the black outline and the underlying texture.
• Draw with a Pencil Tool a rough mask covering outline [1 minute].

6

• Cut the mask to the outline with Polygonal lasso tool (L) or Edit with quick mask mode (Q) using graphic tablet in a Pencil tool (B) mode [2 minutes].
• Lock transparent pixels for this layer (/).
• Now you have an underpainting [preparations took about 10-15 minutes in total].

7

• Start painting on it.

8

• Stop painting on it. [15-20 minutes of painting + 10-15 minutes of preparations = about half an hour total].