The following tutorial will walk you step-by-step through digitally coloring in Adobe Photoshop. In this easy-to-follow tutorial, I’ll show you how to paint a cute cartoon character portrait sketch. The great thing is that you can easily apply these techniques to your other projects. Though I’ll be coloring with a character sketch, you can apply skills from this tutorial to any digital coloring projects that you want .
Tools used
• Photoshop CS3
• Wacom Graphire4 4×5 USB (Blue)
Note: I’m using Adobe Photoshop. But if you wish…you can use the other tools like..Corel Draw etc.
Preview of Final Results
Step 1: First of all Let‘s open a new document (approximately 700wide and 810 high, around 72 dpi) and make a preliminary sketch. (Ctrl+N or File > New). For now it is in 72dpi, but after changing the resolution to 300dpi (without re-sampling image) you can able to print it on A3 format in pretty good quality
* Width: 700px
* Height: 810px
* Resolution: 72.
The very first step of this tutorial is to draw the base sketches for the main idea. Here I got a sketch I was happy with, before I started coloring…. now, here is the main sketch work which I draw. If you want, you can use my sketch . After finishing the the sketch, I set the sketch layer to “multiply”. Draw your sketch. it doesn’t have to be perfect, you will go over it later. And I lock my sketch layer also. And however, my tutorial won’t show you how to draw the sketch..but will teach you how to paint the sketch of a cool cartoon character! I often draw or paint a lot of sketches to represent a concept but then I realized that I was just using one sketch (Anyway you always have to draw a few sketches to decide which one is the best)
Step 2: My color palette. These are my colors selection. but I can change them later… don’t decide yet colors…The very first step is to choose right colors for our portrait painting. it depends on a lot of things like mood, the story you want to tell.
Step 3: Then I click on the Brush Tool (B) and choose a very thin, hard brush. As you know, soft brushes are the blurry ones and hard brushes are more solid.
Step 4: Note that you can have any color selected as your brush color because we’ll go over it with a layer style shortly. Pick the base of your skin color and paint with a new layer under the sketch layer. Decide where the shadows/whater will be… Now we’re ready to paint.. Make sure the color layer selected not the sketch. Use the large brush to do some general shading for the overall shape of the head and the neck.
Step 5: And here let me show you my layer order. When beginning the painting process, there are two very important pieces of information I would like to inform you. There are the light source and location, if your character or object is inside, the lights tends to be warmer but if it is outside then it is tends to be cooler unless at sunrise or sunset.
Step 6: Now is the time to determine the look of the background that you are going for. Grab the Gradient Tool (G) and fill the background with it.Here I am going to explain how I make the background using Gradient Tool (G). Here are my colors for the background. One is: # cfd7c2 and the other one is: # eaede7.
Step 7: Now it is tme to clean it up! Taking ereaser tool erase all the acces skin that will be touching to the background. Taking a small soft brush and setting is about 40% -30%. I go around with my brush tool that are going to be highly shaded. Start to add a new layers to add shades and shadows. And shadows doesn’t have to be always be darker versions of the color used for the base color. it can be other colors too. Here I am trying some different colors for my character.
Step 8: Now that the general details are almost fixed. I’ll began a very detailed painting process and I’ll use a standard brush but I’ll change some settings when I was using the brush. And at this step I would like to change the size of my file because I’ll begin to add more details so I’ll need a bigger file size. I do wish my file is to be more bigger size because at this stage I do think I can’t make so much detailed painting. So I open Image/Image Size. And make the settings as you see 1500×1736. Using a smaller brush, I begin adding smaller paint strokes to add detail and to blend the colors together…then I took a smaller brush and a darker opacity. I traced around the edges but also defined some of the pencil shading around the character. Now this looks pretty good but it needs more work.
Step 9: Now at this step I would like to detail the eyes.. Firstly color the entire eyeballs white, or select my color with Eyedropper tool (I) Use a base color for the iris. it could be green, blue or brown. Use a darker hue for the pupile. And use the same color but 50% for a shadow . Try not to lift your pen too much. Too many stroke will destroy the smooth gradinet effect we are tryin to archieve. if you wanted to start a using a different color you can attach another layer and do more shading.
Step 10: And now use the burn tool a few times to darken the top of the eyes. Brush settings must be but 50%, soft round brush. And use the dodge tool to add shine along the bottom of the eyes. Finish adding light green as desires and create a new layer for shadow.
Step 11: Now shades for his face. Use at least two darker tones to his face. Firstly light one. It’s only details now. We are going to add details to character’s hair. Remember, start a new layer for details. Always pay attention to lighting. Keep in mind the direction of the hair is falling. When I do want to add some more light on the painting I am going to chose color dodge from here. After running through a few possibilities, I decided on the one shown. A little more work was done on the cloth, overlaying a texture to make its appearance a bit more interesting.
Step 12: Now, after some final touch-ups had been done to his face and his clothing , I created a new layer, I’ll draw some shapes on this layer….with a suitable color for the atmosphere…….
Step 13: There are lots of nice standard shapes on this box. You can use a different shape if you want. I like this one. Use whatever you please.
Step 14: Now at this step will show you how to use the function “Groups” in the layers palette. As you can see I got all these different layers shown in the screenshot below:
Step 15: Make a group by clicking on the map icon in the layers window, shown below in the red circle. Double-click this group to rename it, and give it a name so you know what the content is. My group name is “background_shapes”
Step 16: Here as you see I have changed the opacity settings of the new group layer.
Step 17: If you need to select lots of layers at a time to drag into the group, and if they are all in 1 row, you could easily select the top layer and hold shift, then click the bottom layer which you want to select.If the layers are all over the place you have select them with holding CTRL, but you have to avoid this by making groups first and then make the layers in the groups.
Step 18: Here now I am going to show you how I have to arranged the text effect shown in the screenshot below: First, we need some text. And choose your text color. The color is important because we’re going to set it to Multiply . The font I’ve used is Chiller, it’s kind of cartoon text without being too over the top. Use whatever you please.
Step 19: Drop Shadow —This is where the light (which in this example we’re going to have coming from the top left) hits the edge.
Inner Shadow — I’ve used the inner shadow to make it seem like the text is stamped on to the background.
Gradient Overlay — This is used just to give a bit of variation in the color of the item it’s applied to.
Step 20: Here take a look at these settings. Make the setting as I did.
Step 21: This is the Gradient Overlay settings. Now it is looking pretty good.
Step 22: This is Inner Shadow settings. It’s looking pretty cool already!
Conclusion
And here…this is the result. He is looking pretty cool…Well…yes.. 
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