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134. || digital art

{ 134. CHAPTER CONTENTS : tutorial }

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Adobe Illustrator

(I don't know if this app is on Android. I do know that the app itself is free, but I'm pretty sure you have to have a photoshop account to use it. My mom has an account, so that's what I am on. I'm not sure or not; but that's what I'm thinking.)

i. Open the app and select the layer button at the top (it's in the direct middle; looks like two squares on top of one another) and then select the photo layer. Upload the photo that you want to trace and press ok.

ii. Go to the first brush at the top of the side panel and then you get opacity, color, and size options. To adjust these, just hold on the button and slide your finger/pen up and down to adjust it. To use the eye dropper for the color, just hold your finger down on the color button and then drag it over the color you want to use.

iii. Choose what you want to do first (I usually do clothing first). Use the eyedropper to get the color you want, and then outline the area that you want to fill. Make sure all of the lines are connected and then when you are done tracing it, hold your finger in the middle of the tracing and it should fill the entire area you outlined.

iv. Select the layer option again. Press the plus sign to add a new layer and select it to start drawing again. Keep repeating the tracing and filling step (and keep making new layers for each thing) until you are done. You might have to move around the layers to get things overlapped right (to move them, just hold your finger on the layer you want to move and then drag it where you want it to go)

v. When you are done, you can either save it or screenshot it and then open it in Superimpose or Pics Art. Move the image(s) where you want on a white/colored background and merge it as desired. If wanted, add the add on image as the foreground and put it on soft light under the transform tab. You might need to turn the opacity down, but when you are done, save.

vi. To get the title behind them, just open the saved image in Phonto and add the title to where it's overlapping your people. Save this and then open it in Superimpose as the foreground and the image you saved before you added your title as the background. Then, you just use the brush to erase the areas that overlap the people and then save and you're done!

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Other Examples

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Comments

HOLY COW I AM SO PROUD OF THAT EXAMPLE I MADE! I LEGIT SPEND 2 HOURS ON CANDICE AND GRANT WOW.

Anyways this was requested by stylessea , and just so you guys know, this isn't something that's limited to just people. You can do objects and free style designs too of course. Mess with it and practice, because holy crap, this isn't something you will be good at overnight (unless you're Jesus)

I know that the app I used is hard to get, but you can also (I guess) do this on Line Brush, but it would be hella hard. There's no layers on there...but I guess you can also do this on Pics Art, but it would also be hard. It's hard because you don't have the fill option on these apps, so if you were to do it on there, it would take you legit 20 years to make it look decent.

I also use a drawing brush when doing edits like this. You don't have to; I just prefer to. It's just one of those pens you can get for your phone that has the squishy end on it. I find it easier to keep my lines straight and such when using it, but again, it's not required.

Again, I'm sorry that this is kind of different than what I normally do. I did have fun making it though and I thought that it might peak an interest in some of you to start digital editing (I've always wanted to learn more about it tbh) so that's the main reason why I did this.

Hope you guys like it xx