Photoshop cs6 drawing lessons. Gradient and Blending Modes

If you don’t have the opportunity to spend at least a few years on thorough and painstaking drawing training, and then a detailed mastery of the editor’s capabilities, and you still want to draw ... Perhaps these tips for beginners will help you at least avoid mind-blowing pictures and save a lot of time in stepping on rake.

These tips arose quite spontaneously and unexpectedly. Lately I more and more often came across people who want to draw, but being still at the very beginning of the path, they sometimes make fatal mistakes that further affect their development. Of course, sooner or later, those who really set themselves the goal of learning how to draw quite tolerantly or even more, understand their mistakes, find the right solutions, read many books and articles. But this process can take much longer than we would like. And that is why I decided to write tips that would help to see or avoid some mistakes now, and not wait for an accident in a month or even a year, when the habit of drawing is already developed in this way and you don’t want to change anything, and the desire to draw would better terrorize the brain with displeasure.

These tips are for those who are just armed with a tablet. But perhaps those who already know how to draw a little will find something useful here. This is the first part of the tips, combining the most basic and the most-most-most.

I will say right away - you still need to learn the basics! But if you don't have the time or opportunity, then you have two options: don't draw at all, or learn as you go. If you chose the latter, feel free to read on.

Remember that everything that will be forbidden to you, of course, can be used, but you need to do this only when you understand what to do with it, otherwise the bumps from the rake will grow, and there will be no result.

TIP 1. Standard brushes in the form of grass, stars and other nonsense are evil for you for the next few months of communicating with a tablet and Photoshop.

This is evil, at least until you realize that you can do just fine without them. In the meantime, we strictly remember that the first months of your close communication with the tablet, your only brush should be ... a standard round hard brush. Okay, it can be square, rectangular, and, in general, no matter what shape. Solid. Not soft.

A soft brush is, of course, also useful, but for a start it is best to forget about it or, if you still encroach on it a little, do it in small doses and leave a hard brush as a priority for now. For a couple of years, I heard so many phrases like “if someone told me this,” that I was definitely convinced that this advice was correct. So - trust me! Or ... kill it. That's your business.

Many artists eventually make (or borrow from others) basic brushes for themselves. They usually have torn edges for better blending. But for you, all this is completely unnecessary now. Forget about all those brushes that are full on the Internet. Learn to master at least a little round rigid, and only then complicate it.

If the desire to use other brushes is too great - go to Photoshop and delete all the brushes except for the hard round one ... okay, and still soft, and forget all the known ways to create brushes. For a while, of course.

Do you urgently need grass, leaves and butterflies? So what's the deal? Draw!

TIP 2. Your first drawing or the next next one, if you have already drawn, should not be your favorite cat, dog, brother, sister, mom, dad, but ... tone stretching.

And .. no, not to train the pressure of the pen and the evenness of the lines, but in order to learn how to make smooth transitions. Most beginner artists suffer from the fact that they simply do not know how to mix colors and smooth planes. And, of course, the easiest and fastest solution is to use a soft brush, and this, in turn, leads to terrible results, which then lead especially faint-hearted artists to psychological trauma. Okay, the last one is a joke, but the fact remains. Therefore, before you start drawing, whether it is desirable or not, you definitely need to learn one simple but insanely useful technique.

So from this:

We'll get this:

So, the best and good way Blending colors and creating a smooth transition is the use of a hard brush, as it allows you to create many transitions and maintain the "clarity" of the drawing, which gives it liveliness. A soft brush allows you to seemingly make smoother transitions:

But such smoothness is rarely beneficial. It is good for creating a general volume of the background, but whatever one may say, if you look closely, you can see that there is a feeling of blurring, and when this method is applied to a drawing, for example, a portrait of your sister, everything looks even worse.

It's up to you, of course, which option you like best and ideally you should be able to use both, but you need to know when you can use a soft brush and when you shouldn't. In the meantime, we still do not know this very well - the best option is to listen to smart aunts and uncles, whom I shake like a ripe tree, and do as they say.

So, let's start our stretching.

In order to make such a simple stretch, you need to arm yourself with a hard round brush. Personally, I prefer for the base brush to turn off the pressure reaction of the pen, which would determine the thickness of the line, but the reaction to transparency is just that. But this is already an amateur. With Photoshop settings, I believe, everyone can make friends if they are not too lazy. And I will talk about something else.

1. So, we take black and paint over half of our drawing with it. Well, or approximately the part that, in your opinion, will be ... a shadow.

2. Now we take and lower the Opacity and Flow parameters of the brush (they are located at the top of the menu) to about 40-50%. How less value Opacity - the more transparent our color will be, and if you draw a line, then the bottom layer of color will also be visible through it. Essentially, Opacity can be compared to paint density. The higher the value, the higher the coverage. The Flow value determines the density of the "flow". Roughly speaking, by combining these two parameters, one can achieve different effects from the brush, without getting into its other settings. But back to our sheep.

So, with the chosen black color, we paint over half White color. Moreover, this must be done in one motion, without tearing off the pen. If you tear it off, then the previous stroke will cover the one already drawn and blending will occur where we do not need it. Now we take the new resulting color with a pipette and paint over half black with it. As a result, we will get something like this:

3. Next, we reduce the diameter of the brush, well, I think you understand why? And we take the resulting color on the left (on white) and paint it half white, and then do the same with black. And we get something like this:

4. I think it's clear what we do next? We begin to go from left to right or from right to left (whichever is more convenient for anyone) and, taking a color, paint over half the neighboring one. Then we take the remaining piece of the unpainted color and paint over the next piece by half, and so on. In general, we actually did something like stretching.

It is crooked in places, but I did it solely as an example of technique.

5. Now we reduce the Opacity to 15-30% - it already depends on personal priorities, for example, I use within 20% usually or more if the pen pressure mode for the brush works, and we continue to do the same. Again and again. In general, this lesson is made solely for training. As a result of it, you yourself will figure out how best to create transitions. What pressure to choose, how to apply colors. And all this will only help to understand. You are unlikely to be perverted just like that, but sometimes this will be needed.

As a result, we will get something like this:

Once you figure out this simple task, I advise you to try to translate Opacity and Flow to pen pressure in the future. And learn to work that way. Firstly, this will at least reduce your time for constant distractions to change parameters, and secondly, you will learn how to manipulate pressure more subtly while drawing, which is already cool in itself!

Now let's discuss color stretch. Here everything is essentially the same. There are only two ways to stretch. More precisely, not so. The method is still the same, but the actions are slightly different and the result is .. different.

Option 1. Transition from one color to another, bypassing intermediate colors. This method is similar to a one-to-one b/w stretch.

However, it is not very good for cases where the colors are far apart on the color wheel. And, as you can see, the color at the mixing point “falls through” into gray, which is sometimes not very good for the picture and can lead to “dirt” in the future, but it can be convenient for the background, where the colors should be less saturated than the front plan.

Option 2. Transition from one color to another through intermediate colors in the color wheel. Here the essence is the same, but we add colors that are between our two main ones. I won't explain what it is color circle and what does the intermediate color mean. Read color theory and you will find a lot of useful information. Over time, you will learn how to add several intermediate colors at once during the blending process. In fact, this is how drawing happens - by adding and mixing different colors. Discovered America, right? But now we will try to do it in a simple way so that you understand how it all works.

So, first we divide our drawing in half into Yellow and Purple. Then open the palette and take a color somewhere in the middle between these colors, and with Opacity 50% paint over half yellow and half purple. Voila and we get two intermediate colors.

And now the most interesting! Open the palette and go over the entire stretch with an eyedropper. First on the first, and then on the second. Really interesting? We are going through the same range, BUT in the second case, the colors are more saturated and brighter. And that's great, right? By adding an intermediate color, we made our stretch more lively and it was not difficult at all.

Keep this in mind and your drawings will immediately become more alive. This, of course, is difficult to implement right away, but over time you get the hang of it and everything will work out. The main thing to remember about this when you draw.

One aspiring artist asked me to make a video of the stretch because simple steps were not enough for him. He held a pen in his hands for the first time and never worked with Photoshop. I recorded short video, which shows how I did these stretches. It's very simple, but this kind of pen training is actually very useful, especially when working with color. It would be great if you set the Opacity and Flow to pen pressure when you run it. By the way, in this case, you do not have to lower these parameters very low. This can be seen on the video. I use 50% Opacity almost all the time.

TIP 3. Tool Finger (Smudge Tool) should be used extremely rarely and in no case for mixing colors!

Quite often, novice artists, not knowing that colors can be mixed thanks to Opacity and Flow, begin to mix, it would seem, with the only accessible way- finger tool. And then it becomes so habitual that even remarks like “don’t use your finger”, “you can see that you used your finger”, “very blurry”, etc. can no longer force them to retrain. And the hedgehog, continuing to cry and prick, climbs again and again on the cactus, until a local crisis sets in and the person simply stops listening to what they say to him.

So, so that this does not happen, I say right away. We exclude the finger as such for the near future in general. It is convenient for them to do little tricks, correcting or distorting the lines. But they don't mix colors at all. Because the effect will be like ... right, like smearing paint with a finger.

As an example, here is a small picture. The circles are very small, but the essence should be clear. Of the people I interviewed, who are not connected with drawing and do not understand what and how they mixed, the majority settled on option 4 in attractiveness. Which, in fact, is true.

Figure 1. This is the color base. We have a circle, a cast shadow and light. In fact, we just have three spots that we need to mix.

Figure 2. As you can see, the result is not bad, but blurry. And when large sizes images we get just one solid "soap". This color mixing occurs when using a soft brush or when using a finger with soft brush settings. In the larger picture, you can see how the colors are mixed with your finger. As you can see, we just have a blurring of the line and there are practically no intermediate colors.

Figure 3. Everything is really bad here. I blended in this circle with my finger with a hard brush setting. Unfortunately, a lot of novice artists use this option and it's terrible, believe me. On the larger version, you can see how scary everything looks. Of course, many craftsmen manage to bring the use of the finger to perfection, but almost a few manage to make sure that the work does not give away the “finger effect”.

Figure 4 - well, here we mixed with different meanings Opacity with an ordinary hard brush. As you can see, the option looks more voluminous due to the fact that as a result of mixing we got a lot more shades and transitions. Well, of course, you can see what a strong difference and advantage this method has over others.

Summing up, I repeat - never do not use your finger to mix colors.

TIP 4. As much as you want to not learn color theory - you will have to do it sooner or later, but some rules just need to be learned right away.

So, having mastered the most important thing - mixing colors, we boldly go into battle and draw-draw-draw. Of course, we forget about color theory because there is a lot to read there, and indeed, why do we need it? Yeah ... And then, when, it would seem, we can already draw more or less pretty, we suddenly hear for ourselves “few colors”, “everything is monophonic”, “if the shadows are warm, then the light is cold”, “dirt” and so on Further. And we immediately fall into a stupor / panic / sadness / rejection (underline as necessary). After all, how is it! How so?? Yes, not so. We forgot about color theory. And it’s not for nothing that so much has been written about her.

I will not write here what has already been described hundreds of thousands of times. I advise you to type in the search "Color Theory" or "Fundamentals of Color Science" and read one full article. Of course, you won't remember anything the first time. Only the basis will be deposited in your head in the form of the fact that there is a color tone, lightness (tone), light, shadow, half-light, penumbra, reflexes, highlights, saturation, warm-coldness, well, and a small list.

Well, then you just need to learn completely simple rules, which are worth remembering and keeping in mind every time you draw. And also remember that they are all interconnected! Over time, you will simply begin to apply them without thinking about the wording, but you will simply feel and know that it is necessary. Perhaps you will find your way to comprehend the theory of color. But while this is all ahead - just remember the following and it will be much easier for you.

Color change according to the shape of the object.

1. By lightness:
- Light color, moving away, darkens.

- A dark color, moving away, brightens.

2. By saturation: moving away, the color goes out in saturation, weakens.

3. According to heat and coldness:
- Cold colors, moving away, will warm up.

Warm colors, moving away, will get colder.

4. In the light, the color is lighter, in the shade - weaker and distributed over halftones.

5. By warmness - if you chose a warm light, then the shadows will be cold. If you chose cold light, the shadows will be warm.

6. The color in the shadow "lights up" by saturation. That is, it becomes more saturated.

These rules were very useful to me, since the simple phrase “the farther the subject, the lower the contrast on it” at one time led me into a stupor, but when I figured out the rules, I completely understood the essence of what was said. Needless to say, I didn't make the rules. They are taken from one excellent article about the Fundamentals of Color Science, where at a very primitive level it is revealed this question. I advise everyone to read it, but do not forget, in the future, be sure to familiarize yourself with the classic voluminous theoretical calculations.

Well, to make it clear for those who do not know how lightness and saturation change on the palette in Photoshop, I will give you such a picture that will help you navigate. With warm-cold, you need to act according to the circumstances and remember that blue and green are considered cold, and red and yellow are considered warm.

All? Well, practically yes. The main thing to remember is that color is deceiving. If you've read color theory, you'll understand what I'm talking about. For example, gray surrounded by red will look like blue, and brown surrounded by green colors will look like red, etc. So know the theory, but don't forget see what you are drawing.

TIP 5. Don't use the Burn and Dodge tools to create shadows and highlights.

So why is it bad to use Burn? The fact is that light and shadow, and, in fact, the very color of an object sometimes, under the influence environment, takes on a different shade, different from the base. There are a lot of nuances regarding shadows, but we will talk about this with you later. Now we only need to know that Burn and Dodge are not a lifesaver and all they do is change the color saturation, while we also need changes in color and lightness, which we will not get at all with this option.

Let's look at an example of using Burn to create shadows and compare it with shadows created with a hard brush.

As an example, we use the ball we already know (Fig. 2), which we obtained from Fig. 1 by mixing superimposed basic colors. With the help of Burn, we strengthened the shadow, but the light was added with the help of Dodge (Fig. 3). Well, in the last picture (Fig. 4), we used additional colors for light and shadow, and also used a hard brush.

Now let's open the color palette and use an eyedropper to go through the primary colors of the ball obtained by the Burn and Dodge method.

And what do we see? And we see that the shadow has become more saturated, but that's all. The range of colors used is critically small. Such works are often called "fried" because they really look like drawings slightly fried in the oven. No "mention" of ambient lighting on our ball.

Now again, arm ourselves with an eyedropper and check our colors on the last, correct version.

As you can see, in the light we have seemingly completely invisible green colors, while the shadow has become more red. From the side, the ball looks much more saturated than before, but at the same time there is no feeling of friedness, because we tried to do it right. Not ideal, of course, but the essence should be more than clear.

Well, now let's digress from the balls and consider all the same, but on the example of a sketch that Sandlady kindly provided to us.

Figure 1. This is a basic sketch with color and chiaroscuro scattered around.

Figure 2. Deciding to show what happens when a soft brush is used, Sandlady carefully smoothed out all the transitions. As a result, we got a smooth, blemish-free skin. But if separately it still looks normal, then with a larger size and detail, we will get just soapy soap. All the flatness and texture resulting from the overlay of colors disappeared, and just spots of different colors formed. This is especially noticeable in comparison with Figure 4.

Figure 3. As is usually the case with beginner artists, the colors for light and shadow are most often taken according to the base. To show this, Sandlady deliberately reduced all the colors of the picture to one tone, and then used the Burn tool. As a result, the shadows were saturated, but due to the absence additional colors we got a fried Asian. You can't really call it appetizing. Rather painful.

Figure 4. Here Sandlady used a hard brush. Due to the many small facets that are obtained through a simple color mixing technique, the face looks textured and voluminous. To maintain and up the contrast, a bit of bright scarlet was added, which made it possible to intensify the shadows instead of using the Burn tool, and, I must say, the result greatly outperforms its neighbors.

Well, that's the end of the first five tips.

Summing up, I want to note that the examples given are illustrative, but not completely. On large canvases, all these subtleties become more noticeable. It's like if a small spot of dirt unpleasantly touches the eye, then a large spot simply spoils the whole work. Perhaps now that you know what exactly leads to the formation of “spots” in the drawings, you will make the right decision in choosing the tools for creating shadows and lights in your subsequent masterpieces.

Enjoy learning while drawing and don't forget that theory is still important! Find some time for her.

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Lesson 1

How to Draw a Voodoo Doll in Photoshop

The first lesson will be indicative for beginners, as well as for those who want to learn how to draw on a tablet with a stylus. You will learn about the role basic techniques How chips and filters work when creating a picture in Adobe Photoshop.

In order to get the right impression of the drawing, you need the concept of a base, and for this you will begin training from the perspective of chiaroscuro. When painting a voodoo doll, layer-by-layer tone creation is considered. Also, the author of the video will explain the disadvantages of working on a multilayer drawing throughout the work and how to merge everything into one layer. The versatility of actions and tools is important so as not to waste a lot of time.

In order for the doll to acquire a more realistic appearance, emphasis will be placed on working with volume, the effects of its enhancement and the need to use spots to further detail the doll in an enlarged perspective.

The lesson teaches you how to work with stretch marks and texture, use Photoshop to copy needles, instead of creating a similar detail of the picture every single time.

As a result, you will get a realistic voodoo doll and learn how to create your own collection of universal brushes.

Lesson 2

How to Draw a Stump in Adobe Photoshop

The second lesson is aimed at drawing with a brush and an elastic band to get acquainted with the rules of the theoretical base, teaching the genre of practicing practical skills in a short period of time.

Skills will be useful for promoting the account in Instagram and social networks.

Starting with a sketch of a stump with mushrooms, throughout the lesson you will add objects to make a little interesting composition. To depict a complex illustration with a stump in the center of events, simple drawings and minimal strokes will be created.

You will learn how to move from the general to the particular image of the details, you will learn why the tone more important than color. In practice, the author teaches the use of the Lock transparent pixels button, the HBS slider and the brightness parameters, introduces the main drawing rules.

During the lesson, you will be able to answer the following questions for beginners who want to take Photoshop training courses:

• what tablet format to choose for drawing?
• What utilities and tools do you need to draw in Photoshop?
• mouse or pen? which is more convenient?
• what is the problem clean slate? how to add details that diversify the drawing, while not overloading it?
• what is spatial imagination and how to transfer a drawing from three-dimensional space to flat paper?

Lesson 3

How to Draw a Super Patronus in Adobe Photoshop

The lesson departs from the technical terms and concepts of the lessons on Photoshop drawing. The content of the 3rd video focuses on experimentation in the process of creating a patronus pattern, for the importance of going beyond, finding the right shapes and proportions. You will be introduced to the philosophy of drawing shapes to reproduce the drawing of objects from different angles. The drawing is tied to the concept of spatial imagination, and not a simple copying of an object from a picture.

For the Patronus, you will create a line drawing on a separate layer, after imagining the perspective and shape, chiaroscuro. After creating a line sketch, you will turn the Patronus drawing into a colored sketch, create a colored background, and improve your spatial imagination skills.

Since the Patronus will have a small amount of detail itself, the focus will be on the silhouette. Based on this, the author will teach you to detail the drawing, make bursts of light on the wings of the Patronus, add special effects. As a result, you will turn a single-color Patronus into an illuminated from the inside, working on the light from the center to the periphery.

At the end of the lesson, you will balance the light and special effects of the picture without affecting the volume, and then work on small details and clean up the composition as a whole.

Lesson 4

How to Draw a Game Location in Adobe Photoshop

Video lesson on designing an object in Photoshop for game projects, as well as the theoretical part - for those who want to start drawing from scratch. Starting the lesson with a sketch sketch, the most detailed line drawing, which is important for the development of beginner skills, you will also learn to work in color from the very beginning. The author helps to understand the differences in color and tone, the difference between the concepts of tone and spot, as well as what difficulties working on a black and white background may arise.

After a linear sketch creation, the layers will be merged for subsequent work with the silhouette of the object in the drawing. Drawing touches on the concept of the appearance of shadow, half-light and light. The theory of chiaroscuro will be covered on the scheme of incidence and reflection of a beam on a surface. To create pictures for video, the author of the lesson will explain how to add accents to control the viewer's gaze.

In addition, the following practical skills will be developed:

• drawing details, without moving away from the overall goal;
• the use of photorealism techniques;
• color change in the hue saturation tool;
• increase and decrease the brush;

As a result, you will become bolder in creating your drawings, learn how to draw details so that they interact with the environment of the main object in the drawing.

Lesson 5

How to Draw a Robot Cat in Adobe Photoshop

The drawing of the lesson will be a robot cat created using the example of a picture iron man. The first steps will be linear sketching of the silhouette with a pencil, and then the shape will be filled in with a color tone. So you will work out the skills of a phased two-layer painting of the silhouette, a layer with lines and a fill layer. Then everything will need to be merged into a single layer for the finishing touches on the drawing.

The tutorial will use pencil, brush and eraser tools. You will also practice using the Lock Transparent Pixels button to paint over the main volume with large spots with a softer, larger brush. In the final stages, you will learn how to stretch the color with a soft brush to create a smoother mixed color robotic cat and transfer the necessary details from the example image to your drawing.

From the theoretical base, the lesson will be useful by presenting the virtues of drawing in graphics editor, namely the ability to mirror the picture in Photoshop, the complication of the form with the help of graphic primitives. You will learn the importance of using your imagination to create unique things and stylistic features your drawings.

Lesson 6

How to Draw a Simple Character in Adobe Photoshop

In lesson 6, time will be devoted to practicing knowledge from previous lessons in the practice of drawing a simple character in Photoshop.
While sketching, you will learn how to draw on the tablet to control the thickness and length of the line where you need to use the stylus. The basic knowledge of the lesson will help you learn how to draw under any conditions, correctly use the tilt of the pencil, the pen tilt function for digital graphics.

In the course of the lesson, you will learn how to create the right content for the Instagram page so that every picture in your feed is easy to read.

Information about the functionality of Photoshop will be given in portions throughout the course. Lesson 6 will demonstrate how to use illustrator and raster, how to stretch shadows for both. The lesson is perfect for both beginners and experienced artists, for example, in building symmetrical character details for demonstration in the lesson. You will learn how to build a clear shape to see the symmetrical points.

An important skill is knowing when it's time to finish the drawing and at what point to move on to detailing. On the example of a simple character, you can learn how to improve the quality of work by using fewer layers.

Lesson 7

How to Draw a Dragon Eye in Adobe Photoshop

Drawing in Photoshop is a set of objective rules that allow you to transfer the reality of a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional one. To do this, you need to imagine an object and place it on a piece of paper or on a tablet. It is on the study of these basic foundations that the lesson is directed, without being tied to a specific program.

The author moves away from certain options and buttons in Photoshop, and goes deeper into direct drawing, into useful information on drawing and the process of detailing itself, which were omitted in previous lessons. That is why the theme of the lesson was chosen one eye of the dragon, and not the whole dragon.

From the very beginning of the sketch, the fine anatomy of the dragon will be taken into account in order to practice drawing the smallest details. You will learn how to draw with and without reference.

The author explains why you need to score a sheet and how to connect all the spots for the play of chiaroscuro. How to correctly calculate the time to create a drawing using the general to specific method. At the moment of giving the effect of volume to the eye, the rules for transferring from the three-dimensional world to the two-dimensional world will be used, with the explanation of which the lesson will begin with the ball.

Lesson 8

How to Draw a Magic Stone in Adobe Photoshop

The brush and eraser will become the main tools for the lesson in Once again. An amulet was chosen as an image to create an abstract composition and give it meaning in the very last stages of the lesson. For the drawing, 2 layers will be created, which will then be merged into one, as the course continues to work on your practice of using fewer layers.

The author explains how to find blots and inaccuracies in your drawing form, how to do it right from the very beginning, so as not to waste time on this when working out the details. Special attention will be paid to primitives, how to use them for various kinds drawings: organic, portraits, etc. You will learn why you need to change the size of the brushes throughout the creation of the entire drawing and rendering of the texture. Get acquainted with the concept of edges, shape and silhouette, how to properly form your spatial imagination.

When creating crystals for an amulet, an example will show how to get away from the rules for choosing a color, how to confuse the viewer and advantageously detail the drawing. As a result, a drawing will be created in Photoshop using the basic rules of Adobe Photoshop in combination with your own imagination and putting it all into practice.

Lesson 9

How to Draw an Acrobatic Kitten in Adobe Photoshop

How the process of drawing in Photoshop takes place will be presented in lesson 9 using the example of drawing an acrobat kitten.

In this case, the creation of a sketch will be started without a specific goal of drawing a cat, and as you create a character, you will be able to determine its abstract purpose.

In search ideal proportions and the details themselves in the drawing of a cat, you will use many options for redrawing. The same will apply to the color of the animal itself. The lesson will teach you not to focus on one version of the image, but to be bolder in experiments for the best final result, how to correctly compose your drawing, and determine the general proportions.

The training in this video tutorial consists of least quantity theory for the entire course, however, in practice, the acquired skills of all 9 previous lessons on drawing in Photoshop are consolidated.

The most useful use of fantasy, as the author suggests in the lesson, will be for beginners, and for advanced artists, the lesson will give more opportunities.

Lesson 10

How to Draw a Stone Statue in Adobe Photoshop

All you need for the lesson is a brush, an eraser, selection tools and layers. During the lesson, the drawing will be created using spots, which you will need to learn how to control. That is, in this case, the functionality of the Photoshop program will be used minimally and the drawing skills themselves will be maximally used.

Textured portrait stylization will teach you how to work with realistic drawing skills. The training is suitable for beginners who have never even held a brush in their hands. When creating a sketch, the theory of pencil drawing will be disassembled and how to apply it correctly. If you want to learn how to make a drawing voluminous and correctly symmetrical from all sides, then this lesson will be useful not only for beginners, but also for experienced artists who hone their skills.

The author tells how to draw vertical and horizontal lines in order to show in practice the technique of drawing straight lines. How to draw a sphere and distribute light in order to correctly fit the volume using knowledge of human anatomy to create a portrait drawing of a statue.

On top of that, a lot of the information in the lesson includes the need for thoughtful use of experience, as a bonus, basic hotkeys are considered, which greatly facilitate and speed up the drawing process as a whole.

Lesson 11

How to Draw a Ladybug in Adobe Photoshop

In the lesson, training will be conducted on the example of drawing ladybug. The lesson is devoted to the possibilities of digital paitning and the transfer of drawings from ordinary drawing. Styling will traditionally start with sketching and deconstructing the required resolution for various purposes. You will learn the compositional placement of a drawing on a sheet.

In the sketch stage, the shape, masses, and volumes will be created, then it will be possible to proceed to work with the background and color fill. The author will show by example how and why a real artist does not strive to learn every function of the Photoshop program, but to learn how to convey the whole picture with a couple of strokes. The brush setting will be used to change the transparency of the drawing.

You will learn the difference between zooming in, detailing, and resizing, which are used to finalize and complete a drawing. Using additional planes to create a more pronounced volume will add more professionalism and reality to your drawing.

In this lesson, new useful keyboard shortcuts will be added to the list of previous lessons, which will be auxiliary in your work as an artist, both for work in the future, and if you are drawing on a tablet as a hobby.

Lesson 12

How to draw a monster for beginners

The lesson teaches drawing without a reference. The author explains the importance of understanding the form and its transfer to the drawing. You continue to work with volume and the use of volumetric objects for a more realistic perception of the result of your drawing. The drawing will start with a shape and a sketch, then the silhouette will be filled in and the coloring will be completed with the help of spots.

You will go through the topic of mixing colors correctly and using the necessary tools for this in Photoshop. How to properly use color and tone, as well as other characteristics when coloring your sketch.

The author will show by example what are spots, layer, perspective and chiaroscuro. You will find the answer to the question why it is correct to draw with a brush and an elastic band - means to have the right approach to drawing. The new toolbar buttons in the program will be introduced along with the correct use of their functions. What is the size of the image at the initial stage for drawing and further application your drawings as work, or for a portfolio. You will learn exactly what you need to know about the Adobe Photoshop program for further employment in large companies and game studios.

Lesson 13

How to draw Nemo the fish

Training in the video lesson will be devoted to drawing Nemo fish in Photoshop with a reference photo of a live fish. However, in order to start creating a sketch, attention will be paid to the presentation of a directly three-dimensional drawing, the use of spatial imagination, which was discussed in the previous lessons of the video course on drawing in Photoshop.

After building a general design, you will begin to study the theory and simultaneously develop it in practice. You will learn how to apply isometry and change it to perspective for drawing in Photoshop. How to properly mirror a drawing and why draw in color, at what stages it is necessary to enter it, the author of the lesson will continue to explain with examples of the topics of this lesson in order to consolidate the material of the previous lessons of the course.

The teaching of the lesson will be aimed at further teaching how to draw without a reference using specific basic knowledge of drawing. For beginners, it will be useful to learn why it is necessary to move away from photo textures, shapes and photobash, and how they interfere in becoming a universal professional artist. As a result, the lesson will help beginners improve their level and help them realize how important it is to use mental activity in drawing, rather than just building up the skills of the hands.

Lesson 14

How to Draw a Digital Drawing in Adobe Photoshop - Bridge

Creating a bridge in Photoshop using drawing in the lesson will be accompanied by an analysis and consolidation of the following theoretical foundations of drawing:

• creating structures in perspective;
• creation of blanks and their transfer to another layer with the message of the correct basis;
• useful keyboard shortcuts for drawing in Photoshop;
• life hacks for drawing objects and landscapes;
• creation of a universal collection of brushes;
• scale;

A large theoretical block will be submitted on the subject of creating illustrations. In the process of creating a bridge, you will see in the demonstration how to look for suitable color schemes and solutions. Practical tasks for drawing straight lines using the Shift key will be given. You will learn how to get out of a situation where theoretical knowledge exceeds your practical skills and why theory is finite, and you can allocate an unlimited amount of time for skills.

Step-by-step creation of a bridge illustration, the author will show how not to be afraid to spend time looking for solutions for the most successful and beautiful result. During the course, you will learn about additional programs useful for the professional development of the artist, including for 3d modeling and sculpting.

Lesson 15

How to Draw a Digital Drawing in Adobe Photoshop - Bulldog

The lesson continues the study of drawing techniques for beginners. The author demonstrates by example how to use references correctly and how to extract forms, main lines, catch movements, character from them. Starting from the concept that everything that surrounds us is a form, the skills to work with perspective and chiaroscuro, which were sorted out at the previous stages of learning to draw in Photoshop, are honed. You will continue to learn to think in projections and use this as the basis for drawing the unicorn dog.

You will learn how to convey the character of the character using certain types of lines and certain hand movements. When learning the skill of drawing in Photoshop on a tablet, the theme of basic basic concepts continues. The lesson analyzes in detail what raster and vector graphics are, what are their similarities and differences. The importance of the silhouette is directly proportional to the success of your drawing, how it should be controlled and how to create something that pleases the perception. The lesson is also useful for those who want to connect their professional activities with drawing, but do not know how to properly form a portfolio.

Lesson 16

How to Draw a Frog in Adobe Photoshop

The lesson continues acquaintance with drawing in Photoshop for beginners. The thematic drawing will be the character of a colored frog, on the example of which a sketch will be created, the basic basics of drawing techniques will be studied, as well as the most common mistakes of beginners who decide to learn drawing from scratch.

The work of creating drawings on one layer continues, in order to simplify the entire process as much as possible and to save time. For beginners, a line drawing is shown in detail to give more confidence when creating a sketch without a reference. The author demonstrates the correct combination of colors and shades by creating a tone using Photoshop tools and the correct key combinations.

The lesson demonstrates important aspects right choice general tone to harmonize external perception common picture, also explains why the smudge method is not suitable for beginner use. As a result, you will learn how to simplify your tasks without losing the quality of the drawing.

The training on the course is not designed for the forced acquisition of drawing skills, but for a gradual and meaningful work as an artist. A detailed description of each action in the lesson will help you get as close as possible to understanding each movement with a brush, and not copying after the author of the project.

Lesson 17

How to Draw a Location Digitally in Adobe Photoshop

Drawing a concept game object for further use for the game will be useful not only for novice artists, but for professionals as well. The beginning of the lesson is devoted to approaching the sketch to a three-dimensional plane.

School drawing skills are intertwined in the lesson with basic concepts in drawing, with spatial imagination, as well as in digital graphics. The author of the video teaches how to correctly distribute mental costs so that the drawing obeys the laws of three-dimensional space, frontal and informal projections coincide. All this is disassembled for your further use of the skill of thinking in projections.

Perspective at this stage of the drawing course in Photoshop is analyzed in the most detail, so that you can understand the concept of visual distortion of objects. You will understand how this theory differs from the basic foundations of isometry. Special attention in the lesson is paid to setting up the panel for the convenience of using all the necessary Photoshop tools for learning to draw from scratch.

As a result, if you learn how to draw these objects on your own and comprehend all the material presented in the lesson, after some practice, you will be able to create entire cities on your own, thanks to lesson 17 of the course on learning to draw in Photoshop.

Lesson 18

How to Draw a Panda in Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop lessons in this lesson continue working with characters and learning the basic basics of drawing to further use the acquired skills in professional activity graphic artist. The drawing will be devoted to a stylized unrealistic panda, on the example of which you will analyze the theory and practice knowledge in practice.

The development of a general sketch is accompanied by an interpretation and a detailed demonstration of creating a drawing from scratch to the very end result V detailed drawing pandas. As a result, all the elements of the picture will become not just a set of lines and spots, but will interact with each other. The author emphasizes the importance of observing the purity of drawing and the symmetry of points when creating a form for uniform detailing. Every aspect is explained to the smallest detail, which makes the drawing course in Photoshop unique and useful for beginners.

Special attention in the lesson will be paid to the functionality of Photoshop, the importance of understanding functions to improve working drawings. At the same time, the main tools, as well as on early stages, there will be a brush and an elastic band. When creating a tone, your knowledge will expand with new concepts and technologies, among which will be Matte Painting.

Lesson 19

How to Draw a Kind Mummy in Adobe Photoshop

Drawing a mummy in Photoshop in lesson 19 will affect not only theoretical aspects drawing, but the emphasis will be placed on the possible difficulties of drawing a character.

You will learn how to use simple cylindrical shapes that you need to be able to twist in space. The more difficult you can make it, the more difficult you can make the angle and movement of the character, especially the standing character in a certain pose. All these steps will be explained by example in the video tutorial and will be useful in learning how to draw graphic characters in Adobe Photoshop.

During the demonstration of the practical creation of a drawing in this lesson, proportions and their correct use will be understood, how to learn how to create them, what theories need to be used for this, and how much experience to gain to automate the skill. Of the important aspects, tips for bringing the drawing to the final result will be analyzed: detailing all undeveloped areas.

From the non-theoretical, the author shares his experience and observations in the aspect proper development their strengths and drawing inspiration in order not to get tired of the work of the artist, and not turn your favorite hobby into overwork.

Lesson 20

How to Draw a Spring Landscape in Adobe Photoshop

The spring landscape as a drawing will be created in stages, starting from a sketch and worked out with maximum detail and using the previously learned basic concepts of graphic drawing in Photoshop.

The question of how to deal with the problem will be considered white sheet, which often becomes a stumbling block for the development of the artist, because abstract landscapes are not always easy to implement due to the lack of specific references and maximum involvement of the imagination.

From theory, attention will be paid to the composition and organization of spots on your tablet, how to create a logical composition from a random sketch. The author tells how to use scale to control the picture, what is compositional dissonance and how to use perspective to maintain the proportions of all the details of the picture. Working with volume, you will be shown the drawing of clouds in your landscape in as much detail as possible and will help you avoid basic mistakes. New concepts will be integrated: sketching, detail rendering, composition, aerial perspective etc. You will learn how to give information about space.

From the functional moments of Photoshop, you will learn how to work with a brush, change its shape and function.

Lesson 21

How to Draw an Owl in Adobe Photoshop

Drawing will be from the reference picture of an owl. It is useful for beginners to learn how to work with the reference correctly, analyze the shape of the animal, and understand the volume. You can not copy the picture, but stylize and look for other angles from the original for your character. You will give the animal the desired emotions in order to use the character for cartoons in the future. Using the example of several movements, the author teaches to change and control the main minimal emotions of the object.

The lesson is aimed at developing courage in drawing for an artist, which is very important for developing skills and applying all the basic drawing techniques in Photoshop. You will learn how to pump your skills specifically on simple drawings in order to consciously approach drawing. You will learn how to properly mix colors and continue to work with tone, sort out new effects for the material.

For those wishing to understand drawing in Photoshop from scratch, the lesson will carry a lot of useful information, since in a simple drawing of an owl, all the basic drawing techniques will be understood using the main functions of the program. In addition to theoretical material, the author shares many useful tips for advanced artists using Adobe Photoshop.

Lesson 22

How to Draw a Stone Golem in Adobe Photoshop

The training in the lesson is aimed at using brainstorming to create a thematic drawing. You will learn how to draw without a plan, from an abstract concept in your head. The theory covers the phased creation of a drawing with correct silhouette and in a way that attracts attention.

The mistake of beginners is often the focus on applying a large number of filters. In the video, the author explains how not to turn a drawing into a meaningless set of filters, what is needed for progress, why it is important to practice shape, composition, light and perspective on simple drawings at the initial stages of learning to draw in Photoshop from scratch.

The lesson will continue the study of useful keyboard shortcuts for the program. Using examples, you will learn the bashing technique, find out how many layers you need to draw to surround the character, how it interferes and helps in creating the entire composition.

To reduce the time spent detailing at the finish, you need to figure out how to change the proportions in the early stages and what tools you need to use for this. Discussions touch on dynamic brushes and their use, creating 3d models in Photoshop and other programs, what are the pros and cons of each of the programs.

At the final stages, you will remember why mirror the picture and apply all this knowledge to the golem drawing, raise questions of internship and employment, which is also important aspect in any educational course.

Lesson 23

How to Draw a Fox in Adobe Photoshop

The character of the lesson will be a cartoon fox, which will be created using the reference as an example. The video teaches you to use the referent, but avoid clear copying. In this case, the author proposes to analyze the shape of the character in order to be able to draw an object from different angles using spatial imagination. To do this, you need to learn how to think in forms, be able to break the drawing into planes, which is explained by examples from the very first minutes of the video lesson.

You will learn how to work with the new color fill and selection tools. Understand the advantages of Photoshop over other raster programs.

The study of shadows will be based on the basic principles of using large shadows, without graduated. In addition, during the drawing, the author will once again pay attention to the theoretical material of the past lessons, which will be useful for those who missed the previous lessons, or who have not mastered the material they have studied enough.

For those who want to connect their career with Photoshop drawing in the future, the lesson includes a number of tips for finding a job and establishing the necessary contacts with employers for successful collaboration.

Lesson 24

How to Draw a Flower in Adobe Photoshop

Many people are afraid to use Adobe Photoshop for drawing, because they are intimidated by the number of interface buttons that the program's functionality offers. The author of the lesson dispels the fears of beginners and teaches how to draw in Photoshop using a brush and an elastic band.

This lesson develops the ability to combine references and your own imagination in order to use only the features and characteristics of the subject to be drawn. The topic for drawing will be a flower, on which you will learn to analyze form, perspective and chiaroscuro. You will learn how to create a composition and work with the angle of the subject in your drawing, get acquainted with the concept of illustration and its characteristics.

You will learn how to get rid of the blank slate problem that so often bothers not only beginners, but also already advanced artists working in raster programs. Also, the author will draw parallels between drawing in the program and on a regular sheet of paper, how to use the basic laws of drawing, aspects of human perception of the world around us and the laws of composition for work and self-development, how digital artist. All new theoretical concepts Lessons are reinforced with practical examples.

Lesson 25

How to Draw a Funny Dog in Adobe Photoshop

To get acquainted with the theory of drawing, you can read Wikipedia. however, in practice, skills can only be acquired and developed through visual understanding of the basic rules and techniques of drawing in Photoshop from scratch. The topic of the lesson is drawing a dog character, the creation of which will be reproduced from the reference using a brush and an elastic band.

While working on a line drawing, you will go through the topic of layered drawing and the technique of painting with spots. The author will introduce you to the concept of styling and its functions. During the demonstration, different angles of the character will be used, based on the theory of perspective and work with volumes and shapes. After completing the lesson, you will be able to draw any objects using the set simple shapes and spin them around in space, which in the future will be a useful skill for creating characters for games.

The video course also continues the topic of choosing the right tablet and creating own collection brushes in Photoshop presented in and . As a result, you will remember the material covered in the previous topics of the course, and expand your knowledge of drawing in Photoshop.

Lesson 26

How to draw a paper plane in Adobe Photoshop;

Focusing not only on novice artists, but also on experienced lovers of drawing in Photoshop, the author suggests using a fighter drawing for the learning process. You will learn how to make a workpiece in perspective, using spatial imagination.

In the course of training, you, starting from linear perspective start working with volume. Working with symmetry and asymmetry will teach you how to fit any object into the desired shape and adjust all the details of the object to the volume. The author will introduce you to the new functions and keys of Adobe Photoshop, which will be useful for drawing. New hotkeys will help you learn how to make your drawing smooth and clean, because this is exactly what problems arise when drawing on a tablet.

You will learn how to use different background colors so that the chiaroscuro theory works for you and your drawing. You will also look at drawing perspectives in other raster programs, such as the SAI program, and compare them with Photoshop. All the skills acquired in the lesson will help you put the theory of drawing into practice with the correct use of various subtleties from experienced artists.

How to Draw a Dragon in Adobe Photoshop

Video lesson 27 teaches how to draw a dragon, which will become educational for those who have been drawing for a long time and understandable even for absolute beginners. You will learn to analyze the drawing and each stage of its creation.

In drawing, it is very important to look at the plane of the sheet correctly in order to think in terms of shapes, create a silhouette and correctly distributed light. In addition to basic techniques, the author will share his secrets of drawing and the alleged mistakes of beginners, which are made by the majority of novice artists who work in raster programs. The lesson is taught in Adobe Photoshop, but it will also be useful for those who prefer other programs, since the main tools will be a brush and an elastic band, as in the previous stages of training in this video course on drawing in Photoshop from scratch.

The lesson teaches you to work with the rules of drawing and apply them in practice consciously, and not pointlessly flip through books with the theory of drawing. Starting from the use of a brush and an eraser as the main tools, the author will introduce you to new tricks Adobe software Photoshop for artists, as well as teach you how to create your own library of images, introduce you to the Art station platform.

Lesson 28

The video lesson continues the theme of drawing landscapes, which was started in. You will find out in which Internet areas you can be involved as an artist. Who is a concept artist and what are his skills in drawing and working with forms?

The author will start the lesson with a draft of a sketch using the example of creating a location for a playground. He explains in detail how to develop color fill skills and how much experience it takes, introducing you to techniques that will save time, while simplifying and breaking up the shapes present in the drawing. You will be faced with the work on the edges into which you will turn the lines.

The laws of three-dimensional location and how to correctly paint over all the dimensions of the picture will be presented. And only after all these stages, you will begin to improve and detail the entire composition of the picture.

In general, the lesson is divided into 2 parts: using the skills of three-dimensional space and your imagination, as well as the concept of drawing, as a set of visual perception of theory and perspective. All this will teach you not only to draw on a tablet, but also to predict visual perception a spectator of your picture in the game.

Lesson 29

How to draw an atmospheric airship

The methods of work of artists differ from each other and each works out his own way of development. This tutorial on drawing in Adobe Photoshop will be useful for those who want to become an artist from scratch, as well as for experienced artists who want to expand their knowledge.

The thematic drawing of the lesson will be an atmospheric airship. In the process of working on it, we will understand the rules for selecting colors from a finished palette, how to select complementary colors. You will learn how color works on colored objects, how to combine warm and cold shades.

As you sketch, you will learn to work with both spots and lines, link composition to perspective, and develop spatial imagination skills. You will learn why you can't convey shape and volume in color, and how to do black and white. The ability to experiment with accents will expand the boundaries and correct visualization your details without overloading the drawing.

A separate theory block in the lesson will be dedicated to the functional perspective of drawing in Photoshop, hot keys for changing the color palette and layer colors.

Lesson 30

How to Draw Waterfalls in Adobe Photoshop

The basic drawing course in Adobe Photoshop in most of the lessons was aimed at drawing characters. This video the lesson will continue the theme of landscapes or landscape compositions.

Linear perspective will once again become the starting technique with which the author will begin to work out theoretical material. The main task The lesson will be the construction of a harmonious composition, which will include a set of correctly matched spots.

The practice of working on creating a palette and correctly chosen colors will continue from lesson 29, along with the basic basics learned in the previous lessons on drawing landscapes in Photoshop. Building the composition correctly in terms of color and tone will help you to correctly allocate the viewer's attention to the perception of your drawing if it is used in the future in the game, for example.

Thus, in order to bring you closer to a good level of the artist, the following theoretical concepts will be repeated in the lesson: perspective, chiaroscuro, composition, color, materials, rendering, etc. Since pure practice without theory will not be enough to learn how to draw in Adobe Photoshop from scratch.

Lesson 31

How to Draw a Teddy Bear in Photoshop

The course is devoted to drawing a bear character in Photoshop. The information will be useful for those who are just starting and mastering the basics of drawing. There will be no super complex shapes in the drawing, but attention is paid to a large number of details on the bear's head.

The tutorial is focused on how to set the light, material and build the painting logic in Photoshop. The author shows how to draw in detail and distribute chiaroscuro to create the shape of the details of the bear and their volume. You will learn what features you need to consider when working with layers.

The introduction focuses on the theory of human perception and how a person sees distortions and shadows, reflected light, etc. All this will help you create more drawings pleasing to the eye. Also, these skills will help you get rid of the need to use the filters of raster programs, while in practice applying the basics of drawing, which are universal for both a tablet and a simple sheet.

A separate theoretical block is allocated for the revision of the material by the number of layers and their subsequent merging into one. As a result, in the lesson of drawing a simple character, there will be a repetition of the basic drawing techniques from the previous material of the entire course. free lessons for Photoshop.

Lesson 32

How to Draw a Phoenix in Adobe Photoshop

Drawing a phoenix during the video tutorial will focus your attention around building the right shapes. This means that the main thing in drawing is to learn how to find shapes in each object, and this is what the lesson teaches: find the shape, volume, and then, using references, create a drawing with details. And between these two stages, you will work on the technique of breaking complex shapes into simple ones, and continue to develop spatial imagination skills.

During the creation of a line drawing, the author tells how to prepare for work, why you can’t just start drawing from scratch. You will learn to treat a picture as a project. A large number of stereotypes will be dispelled about creating something new in the picture, about why and how to get acquainted with references. After the lesson, you will be able to analyze and synthesize those images that you have already met. Because the more images you keep in your memory, the newer the compositions in your drawings will be perceived.

From the functional features of Adobe Photoshop, during the lesson you will get acquainted with new hotkey combinations, block a layer by pixels and get acquainted with an alternative to the Dodge and burn function.

Lesson 33

How to draw a dragon in Photoshop

Lesson 34 is devoted to character drawing using the example of the phased creation of a dragon character.

You will learn how to work with proportions, look for a scale indicator in your drawing.

As in previous lessons, the main tools of the lesson will be a pen, a brush and an eraser. The importance of learning drawing theory is not just to read the information on Wikipedia, but to put this knowledge into practice, which is the value of this drawing course in Adobe Photoshop. Each lesson complements the previous one not only with new knowledge, but also with the consolidation of the previous one.

A separate informative block will be about perspective and sources of information that can be used to develop spatial imagination. During the creation of the dragon character, the author will tell you how to imagine what you draw in your head and how to fit it into the spatial imagination.

Returning to the topic of spots, while painting your character, you will repeat the laws of chiaroscuro and continue to learn how to create volume. In general, the training in this video is devoted more to honing drawing skills from scratch than to studying theory.

Lesson 34

How to draw an image in Photoshop

At this stage of the course, the training will be based on drawing a finished sketch, which will be divided into layers from the very start. Your task is to correctly use the ready-made palette of shades in the drawing, and transform all inaccuracies to make the drawing more picturesque.

For the main purposes of the lesson, it will be necessary to put into practice knowledge of color theory, to understand what a color wheel is - drawing up a palette, selecting shades. Continue studying volume and chiaroscuro. During drawing, the thematic block will include information about the difference between digital painting, raster graphics and vector graphics and how they are applied in what areas of drawing.

For those who missed the previous lessons, the topic of brushes and creating your own collection for painting in Photoshop will rise, about finding universal brushes to save your own time on drawing. You will also learn what it takes to turn a hobby into a profession and how to create a good portfolio. The author talks about popular platforms for digital artists where you can exhibit your work, declaring yourself as a professional artist.

Lesson 35

How to Draw a Sword Adobe Photoshop

The usual horizontal format for drawing in this lesson will replace the vertical one and on it you will draw a sword. Working with the illustration from start to finish is accompanied by comments and tips from the author of the lesson, which will help you both learn the theory and correct the practical mistakes that all beginners make who want to start drawing in Photoshop from scratch.

The creation of a linear illustration will take place without a reference, only with the use of spatial imagination. To create a symmetrical object, you will learn to draw one half of the sword and mirror it without making the drawing dry, and then play with proportions and learn to correct the inaccuracies of the line drawing, to be aware of the differences between the line drawing and the drawing technique from the spot.

The benefit of the whole course is that from lesson to lesson you do not just get new knowledge, you constantly repeat the material covered and the theoretical base of drawing, which is necessary for beginners in the field of drawing. At the same time, by practicing on the topics of each lesson, you will already practice knowledge in practice many times in each drawing.

Lesson 36

How to Draw a Fairy House in Adobe Photoshop

The demonstration of the basics of drawing in lesson 36 will take place on the example of drawing fairy house. You will analyze in what resolution and canvas size you need to work, what sizes are suitable if you later want to print your drawings. What monitor and printer are needed so that the colors do not distort when printed.

In the sketch stage, will be demonstrated different variants sketches of sketches, how and why they use a blank in 3D, if you are working with a reference. The theme of creating forms and developing a sense of spatial imagination, the theory of chiaroscuro, continues.

For those who are interested in drawing from a professional point of view, and not just as a hobby, during the video lesson the author will talk about the areas of work of digital artists, illustrators. And also when and after how much you can expect results if you start drawing from scratch.

Thus, on the video drawing course in Adobe Photoshop, you get extensive information on the theory, practice of drawing, as well as additional information about the possibilities of applying these skills as a professional.

Lesson 37

How to Draw a Knight Dog in Adobe Photoshop

The course on the basics of drawing in Photoshop in the lesson on creating a character of a dog-knight will be built on the correct work with a reference.

You will begin your work with an analysis of the features of the reference, with a breakdown of the image of a dog into forms. After that, you will move on to creating perspective and continue to work with filling color and working out details.

Lesson subtopics include:

• Most frequent appointments in digital painting, how to achieve the purity of the picture and correctly distribute the light;
• application of rules for working with stains;
• the need to use the functions of Photoshop for drawing;
• vector graphics for drawing on a tablet, etc.

The author gives a lot of advice on creating sketches and what skills are needed in order not just to draw pictures, but to generate new shapes from the head in order to be able to change the angles of objects in the drawings, while maintaining their appearance. To do this, you will also work with the axis of symmetry and the correct distortion of objects in perspective.

A large number of theoretical material at each lesson of the course is always supported by examples and makes it possible to visualize the material presented.

Lesson 38

How to draw magical portals in Adobe Photoshop

The drawing begins with the main objects that will attract attention, and then you will compositionally complete the entire picture with magical portals, which will become one theme of the drawing.

Throughout the creation of the drawing, a lot of work will be given to search and impromptu, while not relying on reference. What is a sense of scale and how does it affect the perception of a drawing.

Working with landscape and creating compositions for games, if you plan to not only learn how to draw with Photoshop, but also apply your skills to professional activities after completing the course.

You will get acquainted with the concept of concept art and apply its techniques for a thematic picture with magical portals. Technique methods and drawing difficulties for beginners, as well as for those who cannot progress for a long time. Why can't you use theoretical knowledge in practice, what techniques to use for this.

The main attention is paid to the correct construction of the composition and the selection of central objects in their more detailed detail, which will catch the eye, as well as create realistic effects for the viewer to focus.

Lesson 39

How to Draw a Fairy Tree in Adobe Photoshop

The lesson will begin by looking for an idea and returning to solving the blank slate problem, which has already been studied in the lessons and.

Overcoming the fear of the sheet, you will move on to creating a drawing fairy tree, for which you will practice the acquired theoretical knowledge of the basics of drawing in Photoshop for those who study this topic from scratch and for those who wish to expand their horizons as an artist.

When styling, you will experiment a lot, modifying the tree, playing with colors and shadow, choosing the path of inventing the whole pattern as you go, using brain storming. At the same time, the author teaches you to set clear goals for yourself and correctly look for forms when creating sketch sketches for the most successful result in the end. And also, how to learn to control the lines and distinguish them for the foreground and background.

The training in this lesson will touch upon many points, both theoretical and practical, that have already been studied during the course. Thus, you will consolidate the material covered and improve your drawing skills in Photoshop in practice.

Lesson 40

Analysis of remote sensing in perspective Adobe Photoshop

The lesson will be significantly different from all the others, since it is not devoted to the study of theory and practical drawing. In this lesson, you will not practice your skills. The author analyzes the homework assignments of the course students and comments on the most common and conspicuous mistakes.

The topics of the tasks are devoted to the study of perspective and its depiction on various examples of the work of people who study drawing in Photoshop from scratch. At the same time, the author not only points out errors, but also demonstrates how to correct them and what will change for the better.

No wonder they say that it is necessary to learn from the mistakes of others, and this is precisely the benefit of this lesson. This is because it will help you reduce your learning time and avoid the most common beginner mistakes. Also in the lesson, you can draw a large number of images for yourself in order to use them in the future to generate ideas and shapes for your own drawings.

The minimum amount of theory will allow you to relax, but at the same time get really useful information for yourself.

Lesson 41

How to Draw a Cat in Adobe Photoshop

At this stage of learning to draw in Photoshop, the lesson will give less information about the line drawing, but more attention will be paid to lighting.

After you create a line drawing and find the necessary silhouette for your cat, the author will raise the topic phased work over the drawing and how to properly allocate time. New photoshop tools and hotkeys will be introduced, like smart razor etc.

From general information about drawing, parallels will be drawn between regular graphics, vector and painting. What aspects from which area will be useful for you to draw in Adobe Photoshop, what exactly you will need to study in graphics and how painting teaches you to work with color and its tones.

When working with light, you will learn how to choose the right tone and why you can’t paint only in color so as not to lose the necessary volumes. An informative block on contrast will be useful not only for beginners, but also for those who have been fond of digital drawing for a long time, since working with brightness and correct color construction is the scourge of many artists, which makes it impossible to move on to the next stage of professional development.

Lesson 42

How to Draw an Adventurer Mouse in Photoshop

If you want to devote yourself to digital drawing and are just starting to find yourself as an artist, then this lesson will teach you how to work with the functionality of Adobe Photoshop: learn keyboard shortcuts, tools and other useful features. This lesson really gives a lot of information about working in the program interface, as well as its useful features specifically for artists.

While reviewing the adventurer mouse sketch, you will get to know the line alignment plugin, as well as others that really affect the usability of the program. Creating a sketch in the lesson is given minimal attention, and after pouring, you will begin to render the drawing and become more familiar with this stage of drawing. You will learn what environment art is, how landscapes and game locations are created.

The author of the video will talk about the need to use variability in the drawing, how to arrange objects in the composition so that the visual perception of the whole picture is correct and the objects are not littered; go through the revision of the material about brushes and the creation of your collection, what is the advantage of universal brushes.

Lesson 43

How to Draw a Character in Photoshop

All time passing YouTube learning to draw in Photoshop from scratch, a lot of attention was paid to drawing characters. This lesson will sum up all the results and consolidate the material on this topic.

After you have accumulated a base of theoretical knowledge, the author will teach you how to master the drawing and explain how a large number of layers affect it, how not to block your linear drawing in the future and not lose it at the detailing stage. The tool that releases from the layer will be studied, how to separate layers from one another, how to work with scans from paper and turn them into a line drawing.

Other thematic blocks of the lesson include rendering, perspective, chiaroscuro and work in contrast. All this reinforces the knowledge of drawing in Photoshop, and also complements new features and tools that you have not yet used in the previous stages of the Photoshop course for beginners.

Upon completion of the course, you will have all the necessary skills that can not only be used to draw from the point of view of a zombie, but also to fully function as an artist in different areas digital drawing.

Lesson 44

How to Draw a Landscape in Adobe Photoshop

Drawing a landscape has its own differences from drawing characters. This topic was not chosen by chance for the lesson, since it directly affects the technique of creating a line drawing, its rules and capabilities in Photoshop.

To expand theoretical knowledge, you will get acquainted with the concept perspective grid and learn how to work in this technique, as well as use all its possibilities for drawing. Using the shift key, the author will teach you how to create smooth vertical and horizontal lines, use your imagination and knowledge of geometry in the construction of the central buildings of the illustration.

In creating a landscape, it is very difficult to work with composition and not lose integrity at the stage of detailing the drawing. To ensure that each drawing is of high quality, you will practice drawing from the general to the specific, blocking pixels and adjusting the necessary points in layers.

The theme of focusing the viewer on certain subjects and objects in the drawing continues, while creating a lathering effect on other parts.

Lesson 45

How to Draw a Landscape in Adobe Photoshop

Continuing the theme of landscapes, the lesson will be the final lesson in the basics of drawing in Adobe Photoshop.

During the creation of the composition, there will be a repetition of the entire theoretical base on drawing on a tablet, completed at all previous stages of training.

The topic of creating a pattern with spots will be touched upon, the use of perspective, chiaroscuro, composition construction will come to a logical conclusion in practice.

The author will provide a lot of information on how to improve your skills and bring practical skills to the level of theoretical knowledge. Information will be provided on the importance of the time frame for achieving the first successful results and after what period of time it will be possible to wait for the first job offers for those who want to use drawing skills to build a career as a digital artist. This is because the artist is surrounded by rules and limits, but he wants to create. How to properly break down the whole theory into pieces and translate into the application of these basic skills on the machine.

At the same time, once again, in practice, the author will demonstrate how to create a composition and draw a landscape so that it looks high-quality and professional, using spatial imagination, correct reproduction of shapes from the head and using the techniques learned from the theory of chiaroscuro.

They provide very great opportunities for both professional artists and amateur artists. One of these programs is included in the Adobe package and is called "Photoshop". It is intended primarily for processing and retouching photographs, but it contains a rich set of tools and has an intuitive interface, and it will not be difficult to master it if you wish.

The question of how to draw in Photoshop involves at least two clarifying questions. What device are you planning to use? Mouse or graphics tablet? What type of files are you planning to create? Vector or raster?

question about drawing with mouse

In general, you can learn how to draw in Photoshop with a mouse in the full sense of the word only in one case. The mouse is suitable only for vector drawings. For raster painting, it can only really be used for the purpose of creating works in the spirit of abstractionism or cubism. Few people manage to draw clear, precise, complex and beautiful lines with a mouse.

In the event that you want to create, you need to use the Pen tool.

Use variations of this tool to create points and lines, and then manipulate them so that they curve into the right direction, creating a geometric correct forms. Then these figures are filled desired color. The advantages of this method of drawing are that the drawing can be easily changed, corrected at any time (which is why vector graphics are so popular with animators), and also that it has almost nothing to do with the ability to draw "by hand".

It is using vector graphics tools that you can draw in Photoshop from scratch with the mouse in the full sense.

Using a graphics tablet

However, the possibilities of the program are far from exhausted, it offers many possibilities on how to draw. Photoshop has a whole range of tools for painting. Graphics tablet allows you to use them in their entirety. Many beginners and professional artists buy this device instead of looking for some tricky ways of how to draw in Photoshop with a mouse.

The tablet will allow you to draw clear lines, simulating drawing different tools. Mastering the drawing technique will take some time, but it will pay off. You can adjust the degree of pressure of a pencil or felt-tip pen, as well as a variety of other instruments simulated by the program.

Brush

The basic tool for drawing in Photoshop are numerous brushes with a huge number of fine adjustments. In addition to the built-in brushes, you can create them yourself. In addition, you can find huge databases of brushes for every taste on the net.

Beginning of work

Before drawing lines in Photoshop, you need to create a new document and - preferably - a new layer. This always gives special advantages. Work with different layers allows you to edit fragments of your drawing independently of each other, change the composition, remove failed lines without affecting the successful ones, and without distorting the background.

So, in the "File" menu, click on the "New" line, in the window that opens, set the document parameters (size, color environment, etc.). The canvas has been created. Save the document.

In the "Layers" menu, click on the line "New" - "Layer". Set its parameters. By default, you will create a transparent layer on top of the background. You can delete, rotate, move or edit it at any time without affecting other layers.

Now select the brush tool. In the drop-down list, select its shape, adjust the size, stiffness. Set the color of future lines.

Now you can draw lines or spots. As you work, remember to save your document regularly.

If you are satisfied with the drawn fragment of the image and you would not like it to be spoiled during further manipulations, create a new layer and work in it. You can then merge both layers for further processing.

Fine brush settings

Before drawing in Photoshop, it is appropriate to study the brush settings, because the capabilities of the tool are in many ways a defining moment for the artist.

The "Brushes" palette will allow you to control the line, make it more alive.

You might like the following customization options.

"Dynamics of form". It allows you to make the line thicker or thinner depending on, for example, rotation or pressure.

"Texture". This setting is intended to simulate drawing on a canvas of a certain structure, and it can also be configured.

"Color Dynamics". You can adjust the brush so that the hue of the line changes and the drawing looks more natural.

"Wet edges". This option allows you to simulate painting with wet paint. True, it does not have additional settings, but works on the principle of "on / off." (you can only remove or tick the option).

There are other settings that will bring drawing in the program closer to natural.

Image editing

One of the reasons to wonder how to learn how to draw in Photoshop is the ability to quickly edit and “finish” the work, quickly transforming a draft into a clean one.

The advantages of drawing on a computer are well felt if you need to edit something in an already finished work that rarely lends itself to editing on paper or canvas.

1. Relatively easy editing of small and main lines of the image. Let's say it's quite easy to fix an already finished portrait without compromising the quality of the drawing.
2. Creation of multiple copies of the work, the ability to return to a certain stage of work.
3. Correction and radical change of composition. Often a compositional solution is found only after the work is ready. In this case, you need to either put up with the mistakes made, or redo the work again and again. In Photoshop, when working in layers, you can always not only change the composition, but also boldly experiment without spending your energy and precious time on it.
4. Correction and replacement of the background and texture.
5. Color correction.

The possibilities of the program are so great that, as a rule, everyone finds their own way of how to draw in Photoshop. Most often, an artist or designer uses a limited number of functions that are sufficient to achieve the main goals of the work.

This article is completely dedicated to the drawing lesson in Photoshop for beginners.
If you don’t have the opportunity to spend at least a few years on thorough and painstaking drawing training, and then a detailed mastery of the editor’s capabilities, and you still want to draw ... Perhaps these tips for beginners will help you at least avoid mind-blowing pictures and save a lot of time in stepping on a rake.

These tips arose quite spontaneously and unexpectedly. Recently, more and more often I have come across people who want to draw, but being at the very beginning of their journey, they sometimes make fatal mistakes that further affect their development. Of course, sooner or later, those who really set themselves the goal of learning how to draw quite tolerantly or even more, understand their mistakes, find the right solutions, read many books and articles. But this process can take much longer than we would like. And that is why I decided to write tips that would help to see or avoid some mistakes now, and not wait for an accident in a month or even a year, when the habit of drawing is already developed in this way and you don’t want to change anything, and the desire to draw would better terrorize the brain with displeasure.

These tips are for those who are just armed with a tablet. But perhaps those who already know how to draw a little will find something useful here. This is the first part of the tips, combining the most basic and the most-most-most.

I'll tell you right away still need to learn the basics! But if you don't have the time or opportunity, then you have two options: don't draw at all, or learn as you go. If you chose the latter, feel free to read on.

Remember that everything that will be forbidden to you, of course, can be used, but you need to do this only when you understand what to do with it, otherwise the bumps from the rake will grow, and there will be no result.

TIP 1. Standard brushes in the form of grass, stars and other nonsense are evil for you for the next few months of communication with a tablet and Photoshop.

This is evil, at least until you realize that you can do just fine without them. In the meantime, we strictly remember that the first months of your close communication with the tablet, your only brush should be ... a standard round hard brush. Okay, it can be square, rectangular, and, in general, no matter what shape. Solid. Not soft.

A soft brush is, of course, also useful, but for a start it is best to forget about it or, if you still encroach on it a little, do it in small doses and leave a hard brush as a priority for now. For a couple of years, I heard so many phrases like "if someone told me this," that I was unambiguously convinced that this advice was correct. So - trust me! Or ... kill it. That's your business.

Many artists eventually make (or borrow from others) basic brushes for themselves. They usually have torn edges for better blending. But for you, all this is completely unnecessary now. Forget about all those brushes that are full on the Internet. Learn to master at least a little round rigid, and only then complicate it.

If the desire to use other brushes is too great - go to Photoshop and delete all the brushes except for the hard round one ... okay, and still soft, and forget all the known ways to create brushes. For a while, of course.

Do you urgently need grass, leaves and butterflies? So what's the deal? Draw!

TIP 2. Your first drawing or the next next one, if you have already drawn, should not be your favorite cat, dog, brother, sister, mom, dad, but ... tone stretching.

And .. no, not to train the pressure of the pen and the evenness of the lines, but in order to learn how to make smooth transitions. Most beginner artists suffer from the fact that they simply do not know how to mix colors and smooth planes. And, of course, the easiest and fastest solution is to use a soft brush, and this, in turn, leads to terrible results, which then lead especially faint-hearted artists to psychological trauma. Okay, the last one is a joke, but the fact remains. Therefore, before you start drawing, whether it is desirable or not, you definitely need to learn one simple but insanely useful technique.

So from this:

We'll get this:

So, the most optimal and successful way to mix colors and create a smooth transition is to use a hard brush, as it allows you to create many transitions and maintain the "clarity" of the picture, which gives it liveliness. A soft brush allows you to seemingly make smoother transitions:

But such smoothness is rarely beneficial. It is good for creating a general volume of the background, but whatever one may say, if you look closely, you can see that there is a feeling of blurring, and when this method is applied to a drawing, for example, a portrait of your sister, everything looks even worse.

It's up to you, of course, which option you like best and ideally you should be able to use both, but you need to know when you can use a soft brush and when you shouldn't. In the meantime, we still do not know this well - the best option is to listen to smart aunts and uncles, whom I shake like a ripe tree, and do as they say.

So, let's start our stretching.

In order to make such a simple stretch, you need to arm yourself with a hard round brush. Personally, I prefer to turn off the reaction of the pen to pressure, which would determine the thickness of the line, for the base brush, but the reaction to transparency is just that. But this is already an amateur. With Photoshop settings, I believe, everyone can make friends if they are not too lazy. And I will talk about something else.

1. So, we take black and paint over half of our drawing with it. Well, or approximately the part that, in your opinion, will be ... a shadow.

2. Now we take and lower the Opacity and Flow parameters of the brush (they are located at the top of the menu) to about 40-50%. The lower the Opacity value, the more transparent our color will be, and if you draw a line, then the bottom layer of color will also be visible through it. Essentially, Opacity can be compared to paint density. The higher the value, the higher the stamina. The Flow value determines the density of the "flow". Roughly speaking, by combining these two parameters, you can achieve different effects from the brush without getting into its other settings. But back to our sheep.

So, with the chosen black color, we paint over half the white color. Moreover, this must be done in one motion, without tearing off the pen. If you tear it off, then the previous stroke will cover the one already drawn and blending will occur where we do not need it. Now we take the new resulting color with a pipette and paint over half black with it. As a result, we will get something like this:

3. Next, we reduce the diameter of the brush, well, I think you understand why? And we take the resulting color on the left (on white) and paint it half white, and then do the same with black. And we get something like this:

4. I think it's clear, what do we do next? We begin to go from left to right or from right to left (whichever is more convenient for anyone) and, taking a color, paint over half of the neighboring one. Then we take the remaining piece of unpainted color and paint over the next piece by half, and so on. In general, we actually did something like stretching.

It is crooked in places, but I did it solely as an example of technique.

5. Now we reduce the Opacity to 15-30% - it already depends on personal priorities, for example, I use within 20% usually or more if the pen pressure mode for the brush works, and we continue to do the same. Again and again. In general, this lesson is made solely for training. As a result of it, you yourself will figure out how best to create transitions. What pressure to choose, how to apply colors. And all this will only help to understand. You are unlikely to be perverted just like that, but sometimes this will be needed.

As a result, we will get something like this:

Once you figure out this simple task, I advise you to try to translate Opacity and Flow to pen pressure in the future. And learn to work that way. Firstly, this will at least reduce your time for constant distractions to change parameters, and secondly, you will learn how to manipulate pressure more subtly while drawing, which is already cool in itself!

Now let's discuss color stretching. Here everything is essentially the same. There are only two ways to stretch. More precisely, not so. The method is still the same, but the actions are slightly different and the result is .. different.

Option 1. The transition from one color to another, bypassing intermediate colors. This method is similar to a one-to-one b/w stretch.

However, it is not very good for cases where the colors are far apart on the color wheel. And, as you can see, the color at the mixing point "fails" into gray, which is sometimes not very good for the picture and can lead to "dirt" in the future, but it can be convenient for the background, where the colors should be less saturated than the front plan.

Option 2. The transition from one color to another through intermediate colors in the color wheel. Here the essence is the same, but we add colors that are between our two main ones. I will not explain what a color wheel is and what an intermediate color means. Read color theory and you will find a lot of useful information. Over time, you will learn how to add several intermediate colors at once during the blending process. In fact, this is how drawing happens - by adding and mixing different colors. Discovered America, right? But now we will try to do it in a simple way so that you understand how it all works.

So, first we divide our drawing in half into Yellow and Purple. Then open the palette and take a color somewhere in the middle between these colors, and with Opacity 50% paint over half yellow and half purple. Voila and we get two intermediate colors.

And now the most interesting! Open the palette and go over the entire stretch with an eyedropper. First on the first, and then on the second. Really interesting? We are going through the same range, BUT in the second case, the colors are more saturated and brighter. And that's great, right? By adding an intermediate color, we made our stretch more lively and it was not difficult at all.

Keep this in mind and your drawings will immediately become more alive. This, of course, is difficult to implement right away, but over time you get the hang of it and everything will work out. The main thing to remember about this when you draw.

One aspiring artist asked me to make a video of the stretch because simple steps were not enough for him. He held a pen in his hands for the first time and never worked with Photoshop. I recorded a short video that shows how I did these stretches. It's very simple, but this kind of pen training is actually very useful, especially when working with color. It would be great if you set the Opacity and Flow to pen pressure when you run it. By the way, in this case, you do not have to lower these parameters very low. This can be seen on the video. I use 50% Opacity almost all the time.

TIP 3. Tool Finger (Smudge Tool) should be used extremely rarely and in no case for mixing colors!

Quite often, novice artists, not knowing that colors can be mixed thanks to Opacity and Flow, begin to mix, it would seem, the only available way - with the finger tool. And then it becomes so habitual that even remarks like "don't use your finger", "you can see that you used your finger", "very blurry", etc. can no longer force them to retrain. And the hedgehog, continuing to cry and prick, climbs again and again on the cactus, until a local crisis sets in and the person simply stops listening to what they say to him.

So, so that this does not happen - I say right away. We exclude the finger as such for the near future in general. It is convenient for them to do little tricks, correcting or distorting the lines. But they don't mix colors at all. Because the effect will be like ... right, like smearing paint with a finger.

As an example, here is a small picture. The circles are very small, but the essence should be clear. Of the people I interviewed, who are not connected with drawing and do not understand what and how they mixed, the majority settled on option 4 in attractiveness. Which, in fact, is true.

Picture 1. This is the color base. We have a circle, a cast shadow and light. In fact, we just have three spots that we need to mix.

Figure 2. As you can see, the result is not bad, but blurry. And with large image sizes, we get just one solid "soap". This color mixing occurs when using a soft brush or when using a finger with soft brush settings. In the larger picture, you can see how the colors are mixed with your finger. As you can see, we just have a blurring of the line and there are practically no intermediate colors.

Figure 3 Everything is really bad here. I blended in this circle with my finger with a hard brush setting. Unfortunately, a lot of novice artists use this option and it's terrible, believe me. On the larger version, you can see how scary everything looks. Of course, many craftsmen manage to bring the use of the finger to perfection, but almost a few manage to make sure that the work does not give away the "finger effect".

Figure 4- well, here we mixed at different values ​​of Opacity with an ordinary hard brush. As you can see, the option looks more voluminous due to the fact that as a result of mixing we got a lot more shades and transitions. Well, of course, you can see what a strong difference and advantage this method has over others.

Summing up, I repeat - never use your finger to mix colors .

TIP 4. As much as you want to not learn color theory - you will have to do it sooner or later, but some rules just need to be learned right away.

So, having mastered the most important thing - mixing colors, we boldly go into battle and draw-draw-draw. Of course, we forget about color theory because there is a lot to read there, and indeed, why do we need it? Yeah... And then, when, it would seem, we can already draw more or less pretty, we suddenly hear for ourselves "few colors", "everything is monophonic", "if the shadows are warm, then the light is cold", "dirt" and so on. And we immediately fall into a stupor / panic / sadness / rejection (underline as necessary). After all, how is it! How so?? Yes, not so. We forgot about color theory. And it’s not for nothing that so much has been written about her.

I will not write here what has already been described hundreds of thousands of times. I advise you to type in the search "Color Theory" or "Fundamentals of Color Science" and read one full article. Of course, you won't remember anything the first time. Only the basis will be deposited in your head in the form of the fact that there is a color tone, lightness (tone), light, shadow, half-light, penumbra, reflexes, highlights, saturation, warm-coldness, well, and a small list.

Well, then you just need to learn very simple rules that you should remember and keep in mind every time you draw. And also remember that they are all interconnected! Over time, you will simply begin to apply them without thinking about the wording, but you will simply feel and know that it is necessary. Perhaps you will find your way to comprehend the theory of color. But while this is all ahead - just remember the following and it will be much easier for you.

Color change according to the shape of the object.

1. By lightness:
- Light color, moving away, darkens.

The dark color, moving away, brightens.

2. By saturation: moving away, the color goes out in saturation, weakens.

3. By coldness:
- Cold colors, moving away, will warm up.

Warm colors, moving away, will get colder.

4. In the light, the color is lighter, in the shade it is weaker and is distributed over halftones.

5. By warmness - if you chose warm light, then the shadows will be cold. If you chose cold light, the shadows will be warm.

6. The color in the shadows "lights up" by saturation. That is, it becomes more saturated.

These rules were very useful to me, since the simple phrase "the farther the subject - the lower the contrast on it" at one time led me into a stupor, but when I figured out the rules, I fully understood the essence of what was said. Needless to say, I didn't make the rules. They are taken from one excellent article about the Fundamentals of Color Science, where this issue is discussed at a very primitive level. I advise everyone to read it, but do not forget, in the future, be sure to familiarize yourself with the classic voluminous theoretical calculations.

Well, to make it clear for those who do not know how lightness and saturation change on the palette in Photoshop, I will give you such a picture that will help you navigate. With warm-cold, you need to act according to the circumstances and remember that blue and green are considered cold, and red and yellow are considered warm.

All? Well, practically yes. The main thing to remember is that color is deceiving. If you've read color theory, you'll understand what I'm talking about. For example, gray surrounded by red will look like blue, and brown surrounded by green colors will look like red, etc. Therefore, know the theory, but do not forget to see what you are drawing.

TIP 5. Don't use the Burn and Dodge tools to create shadows and highlights.

So why is it bad to use Burn? The fact is that light and shadow, and, in fact, the very color of an object sometimes, under the influence of the environment, acquires a different shade, different from the base one. There are a lot of nuances regarding shadows, but we will talk about this with you later. Now we only need to know that Burn and Dodge are not a lifesaver and all they do is change the color saturation, while we also need changes in color and lightness, which we will not get at all with this option.

Let's look at an example of using Burn to create shadows and compare it with shadows created with a hard brush.

As an example, we use the already familiar ball (Fig. 2), which we obtained from Fig. 1 by mixing superimposed base colors. With the help of Burn, we strengthened the shadow, but the light was added with the help of Dodge (Fig. 3). Well, in the last picture (Fig. 4), we used additional colors for light and shadow, and also used a hard brush.

Now let's open the color palette and use an eyedropper to go through the primary colors of the ball obtained by the Burn and Dodge method.

And what do we see? And we see that the shadow has become more saturated, but that's all. The range of colors used is critically small. Such works are often referred to as "fried" because they really look like drawings slightly fried in the oven. No "mention" of ambient lighting on our balloon.

Now again, arm ourselves with an eyedropper and check our colors on the last, correct version.

As you can see, in the light we have seemingly completely invisible green colors, while the shadow has become more red. From the side, the ball looks much more saturated than before, but at the same time there is no feeling of friedness, because we tried to do it right. Not ideal, of course, but the essence should be more than clear.

Well, now let's digress from the balls and consider all the same, but on the example of a sketch that Sandlady kindly provided to us.

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