@ anonymous.. Well, maybe you misread some steps because I retry this tutorial with a couple more pictures and it works fine. And remember, you don't have to follow my settings exactly, tweak them depending on your image.
Hellboy is a character of Dark Horse Comics. Dark Horse Comic is an independent publisher created in 1986 by Mike Richardson. Richardson had some comic shops in Portland (Oregon - USA). With the money earned in these shops, he made his dream come true: create a comic publisher company. Other successful comics published by Dark Horse are: 300, The Mask, Sin City, Barb Wire. All these comics were turned into movies, as has happened with Hellboy. In 1994 Mike Mignola creates Hellboy, a character that mixes the Norse and Greek mythologies with a big influence from Lovecraft. Mike Mignola has always been very fond to the comics world. He worked in Marvel and DC Comics, and entered in contact with the most important authors from those publishers. For Mignola, Hellboy was an important personal project. To create his own character was a very important step for him. He always drew the characters of others before that. Mignola also collaborated in some cinema projects like Blade II, and there he met Guillermo Del Toro, that is the director of Hellboy movies. Hellboy has a Gothic terror aura. This is not strange because the last work of Mignola before Hellboy was for a Batman story. The story of Hellboy is the following. During World War II, the Nazis, very interested in everything related to super-natural, make an experiment lead by Rasputin. The experiment was called Ragnarok, the apocalypse in the Norse mythology. During a spell, a demon child appears, and is captured by the USA army. They will call this child "Hellboy". Professor Trevor Bruttenholm will became the adoptive father of Hellboy. When he reached adulthood, he worked for the USA government with other super-natural beings. In each one of his adventures, Hellboy gets to know more about his essence and about his destiny. All this torments very much Hellboy, but against it he has a strong will. Other characters of these comics are:
Hey man, if somebody takes a picture of something and then you get Photoshop to draw the same thing right on top of it, only going outside the designated original art to make it looks somewhat comic book like, what do call that? I call it my latest tutorial!
I have been on a huge comic book kick lately. As such, I have been looking to comic book artists for inspiration. I recently found this artist/ designer and really liked the unique style in her work. Check out her comic art as well as her design work.
I just recently started watching the first season of the TV show, HEROS. Right away I was seriously taken in by the artwork that plays an important role of the movie. It is a nice mic of modern day art and comic book style. Below are a few images taken from the artists website.
In this inspirational installment, we look at some of the wonderful works over the years that have graced the covers of comics � art that has delighted and dazzled fans and non-fans alike from shelves and displays across the globe, the kind of works that tempt those not usually taken by this genre to give it another look or to pick up a book for the first time. We feel these impressive feats that draw this kind of attention and inspire this kind of adoration deserve a showcase, so we proudly present examples of brilliant comic book cover art!
In this tutorial we will be using real life textures to assist in color rendering the Lady Blackhawk drawn by DC Comics artist Ed Benes. As you are digitally painting you may want to add details to give certain parts accentuated realism. I have found this brown leather texture sample that will be applied on to the color. We don't necessarily need a black piece, just as long as we like the texture of the material. We can turn this black by first going to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate. This takes out the color while keeping the light and dark values of the leather.
Start off with the picture you want to apply the effect to. Press Ctrl+Shift+U to desaturate your image. Press Ctrl+L to open level settings and use the following settings. That will result in this. Now right click on your images layer and duplicate it. Then press Ctrl+I which will invert the colours. Now change the layers mode to Overlay. Now select and merge both of your layers together.Now go to Image >> Adjustments >> Shadow/Highlight and use the following settings. That will make the following. Now duplicate your layer and change the mode to Linear Light. Then fill the background with a solid colour. And thats it. Hope it helped!
4. Next is teh creative part. This section depends on your story. For me, i just put random images in from UC Davis VSA organization since I design this comic book image as a splash for their new webpage. To insert it, I simply did it the long way, but very easy. first resize your image to the right size you want it, then just drag it ontop of the boxes you made. Use the Free Transform tool (located on the top Edit toolbar)to resize it more into detail so it fits right inside the strokes you made, so the strokes are showing. An easier way, is just to skip the box step, and simply just add your images in and resize them accordingly and then just go to Blending options by right clicking on the Layer image, and give it the same 4px black stroke you gave the boxes in the previous steps. The reason i didnt do this was simply, i thought of it afterwards, and was to lazy to go back and edit. I also added some minor color details, what I have done if you have any specific questions, email me, otherwise they are pretty basic modifications:
In this video I demonstrate how i use the Wacom tablet with adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to complete one of my Chad the Fat Kid comic strips. I also discuss how the wacom helps me over come my disability which has crippled my hands. I tried to make this as educational as possible with real tips and skills. I also tried to make it entertaining. enjoy!
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Ok I saved the image and used it as a background in Cinema 4D (or any 3d renderer) I opened a model of a gun I made and scaled and aligned it as best I could with the background image and tried to match the perspective etc. OK in render settings I set the render to the size of the image (so it matched later) I set where it gonna render to and what name, tick ALPHA CHANNEL (will only render the gun now) is the background with the comic image and as you can see is the aligned gun with a few lights around.....also the render is set on BEST ANTIALIASING ;) but before you do it read the next step!!!
Open the photo in Photoshop, try to choose a good suitable colored photo. Select the Background Layer in the Layers window and press (Ctrl+J) to duplicate the Background layer.
Hey man, if somebody takes a picture of something and then you get Photoshop to draw the same thing right on top of it, only going outside the designated original art to make it looks somewhat comic book like, what do call that? I call it my latest tutorial!
I have been on a huge comic book kick lately. As such, I have been looking to comic book artists for inspiration. I recently found this artist/ designer and really liked the unique style in her work. Check out her comic art as well as her design work.
I just recently started watching the first season of the TV show, HEROS. Right away I was seriously taken in by the artwork that plays an important role of the movie. It is a nice mic of modern day art and comic book style. Below are a few images taken from the artists website.
In this tutorial we will be using real life textures to assist in color rendering the Lady Blackhawk drawn by DC Comics artist Ed Benes. As you are digitally painting you may want to add details to give certain parts accentuated realism. I have found this brown leather texture sample that will be applied on to the color. We don't necessarily need a black piece, just as long as we like the texture of the material. We can turn this black by first going to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate. This takes out the color while keeping the light and dark values of the leather.
Start off with the picture you want to apply the effect to. Press Ctrl+Shift+U to desaturate your image. Press Ctrl+L to open level settings and use the following settings. That will result in this. Now right click on your images layer and duplicate it. Then press Ctrl+I which will invert the colours. Now change the layers mode to Overlay. Now select and merge both of your layers together.Now go to Image >> Adjustments >> Shadow/Highlight and use the following settings. That will make the following. Now duplicate your layer and change the mode to Linear Light. Then fill the background with a solid colour. And thats it. Hope it helped!
This tutorial will show you how to give a comic book look to your photos using a couple of filters and some additional decorations.
[15] See below for final photoshop output image. I hope this is a good tutorial and you can use these photoshop tips in your graphics design project.
To Yikes: To each his own. Everybody has there own art style. So since you want to be a pro make your own tutorial, otherwise shut your yap.
STEP 1: Open any photo that you would like to give a comic style. This works great on individual people. We will use this one:
In this video I demonstrate how i use the Wacom tablet with adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to complete one of my Chad the Fat Kid comic strips. I also discuss how the wacom helps me over come my disability which has crippled my hands. I tried to make this as educational as possible with real tips and skills. I also tried to make it entertaining. enjoy!
I can't find the animation feature in Photoshop CS...and I don't have Imageready. Is there any way I could still animate with photoshop?
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Coloring a Comic - Hugo Froes Simoes How to add contrasty colors and dramatic light and shadows in the comic art style.
Step 3 When you are done tracing the area, go to Window > Paths. Then hold the CTRL key and click on the Path Pallette as below.