Drawing a Different Shaped Character - Drawing Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood June 15, 2004   1 Start with three circles.   2 Add in the lines below.   3 Add the circles.   4 Go ahead and draw in the arms and legs.   5 It's time to fill in the rest of the character. Draw the finished piece as seen below.   6 Scan the figure into Photoshop. Use the Eraser tool and Pencil tool to clean up areas that need it and to fix and connect lines.   7 Select the artwork in the layer by pressing Control and click. Use Feather set at 2. Select Expand and expand by 2. Fill with black.   8 Create a new layer below the sketch. Fill in the skin areas. Select the areas in the sketch layer and reselect the color layer. Invert. Contract by 1 and hit Delete.   9 Continue to follow this method but create new layers for each color but instead of hitting Invert, use Expand and expand by 1 then fill.   10 I've completed the color here.   11 Lock all the color layers. Now using the Pen tool select areas and then fill with lighter or darker color on it's similar colored layer.   12 Here is the completed piece with all the shadows and highlights added.     Copyright 1998-2004, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved