Creating Character Design Lineart in Photoshop and Illustrator

My company, Educo webdesign (www.educowebdesign.com) was commissioned to make a superhero character for our clients Mz. Tisa, a Las Vegas musician. I wanted to take this opportunity to slow things down a little bit and try to put together a few of my techniques for creating lineart in real time (mostly, it’s sped up in a few places) I was rapidly approaching and overstepping my deadline, so I had to stop recording on the coloring section because it slows down my computer, but I did manage to grab some video of me laying down flat colors and painting an eye, so I’ll be putting together a short video with that stuff. The brush sets I use in this video are Photoshop Brush Set: www.adonihs.deviantart.com Illustrator Brush Set www.jimro.deviantart.com http www.chrismickens.com (currently updating) Thanks to all my new subscribers!! I love you guys and I know things have been slow, but I’m carving out some time to do some Disney tween caricatures (Jo Bros, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, etc…) because they have hilarious faces and would be great to teach caricature styles. I’m also putting together a Ron and Hermoine fanart to show how to blend photorealistic faces with cartoon style, and I’m going to record the animation process for my website avatar for a flash how-to video. Up next will be a quick Photoshop basics video to show you how I set up my workspace and to go over some essential shortcuts. Listen to Mz. Tisa at http Song: “Ice and Chilli” by _ghost // 2009 – Licensed
Video Rating: 5 / 5

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  1. mymermaidstory 07. Sep, 2010 at 5:47 pm #

    wuts with the beige background?

  2. lenny121 07. Sep, 2010 at 5:48 pm #

    @chrisknowsthis i think the problem might be i’m using cs3 which is a pretty outdated version of Photoshop, it works fine as described in your video when i use cs5

  3. lenny121 07. Sep, 2010 at 5:49 pm #

    @chrisknowsthis …yup

  4. chrisknowsthis 07. Sep, 2010 at 6:16 pm #

    @lenny121 how are you moving it from illustrator to photoshop? Copy and paste?

  5. chrisknowsthis 07. Sep, 2010 at 7:06 pm #

    @lenny121 I like to use smart object in projects where I might need to resize or update the linework and I know I won’t be coloring or blending it. When I’m recording a video and working on a huge file, I rarely use them because the screen capture software murders my CPU and jumping from Photoshop to Illustrator gets a little hairy.

  6. lenny121 07. Sep, 2010 at 8:06 pm #

    i have this problem that i get a some white pixels around my line art when i move it from illustrator to Photoshop..any reason why i might get this ?

  7. lenny121 07. Sep, 2010 at 8:09 pm #

    cool why do you prefer pixel over smart object ?

  8. chrisknowsthis 07. Sep, 2010 at 8:54 pm #

    @Hecket All right!

  9. chrisknowsthis 07. Sep, 2010 at 9:35 pm #

    @Scurl123 Thank you! I’m sure there are some that are more efficient, but it gets the job done for me and is easy to learn and improve upon.

  10. Hecket 07. Sep, 2010 at 10:11 pm #

    Giggidy!

  11. Scurl123 07. Sep, 2010 at 10:44 pm #

    You are Amazing… This has to be the best method I’ve seen so far!

  12. chrisknowsthis 07. Sep, 2010 at 11:17 pm #

    @JewelBthe1 I think she’s beautiful, but we’re all entitled to our opinions

  13. chrisknowsthis 08. Sep, 2010 at 12:08 am #

    @NYCBiGDEAZ718 Thanks!

  14. chrisknowsthis 08. Sep, 2010 at 1:03 am #

    @japockx II use a wacom bamboo tablet (pen) I don’t know if I could do this with a mouse anymore.

  15. japockx 08. Sep, 2010 at 1:14 am #

    this one u r using only a mouse,or u hav pen mouse drowing on your pad?

  16. JewelBthe1 08. Sep, 2010 at 1:36 am #

    That girl is ugly

  17. albanezi1984 08. Sep, 2010 at 2:15 am #

    omg very very nice sp sweet :)

  18. nessc17 08. Sep, 2010 at 2:28 am #

    wow this is soooo crazy.. soo talented

  19. NYCBiGDEAZ718 08. Sep, 2010 at 2:51 am #

    damnn nice work

  20. chrisknowsthis 08. Sep, 2010 at 2:52 am #

    Thank you very much!

  21. Jayceion 08. Sep, 2010 at 3:43 am #

    had to give 10 stars, best photoshop video i have seen. great work.

  22. twilightrealist1 08. Sep, 2010 at 4:26 am #

    Thank you so much! I had been debating about this for so long. Photoshop is driving me insane. Can’t stand it. Don’t know how to line art at all. I have CS3.

  23. chrisknowsthis 08. Sep, 2010 at 4:58 am #

    I learned from books (library) and online tutorials – all free. I find that structured classes usually move at a weird pace. Maybe online classes would be good, though. You can learn it completely for free – I did.

  24. chrisknowsthis 08. Sep, 2010 at 5:52 am #

    You’re very welcome ^_^

  25. twilightrealist1 08. Sep, 2010 at 6:35 am #

    This is really important for me. How did you learn to use Photoshop, because it’s really difficult for me to figure out. I need to know if I should get classes to learn the software.

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