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Software: Ulead
PhotoImpact 6 and 7 Skill Level: All Featured Tools: Brushes\Effects - Wacom or other graphire tablet is preferable Description: This is a 3 PART tutorial which will take you through sketching, to applying a watercolor (or pen & ink) or creating an oil painting effect. The important thing is to have fun and experiment to find your OWN style. Some of the pictures have been reduced on the screen; however, they are full size when downloaded. Don't be discouraged and you are welcome to use any of my pictures to work with. No credit or link back is required; however, this tutorial should be considered copyrighted and not claimed to be anyone else's. Thank you.
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This is another sketch done by applying
lighting before sketching.
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1. Open a white canvas, 400x450, resolution 600. It is helpful to use the grid feature initially. Select paintbrush (or airbrush), size=1, color=black, transparency=75. 2. Begin by drawing an + in the center. 3. Approximately 1/3 below your + use the straight line feature to draw a horizon line. FYI, horizon lines should NEVER be exactly in the center of a picture. 4. Still using the straight line feature draw the 3 straight lines off-center as shown. 5. Return to freehand feature and add a curved line. |
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| 6. Using the straight line feature,
start lighthouse and cliff with lines slanting as shown. Don't
rush! If the line isn't right, just press CTL Z to undo.
Keep your vertical lines straight up and down. Lightly sketch in
the cliff lines below the lighthouse.
Erase any unneeded guidelines as you progress. |
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| 7. Begin adding the rock forms
(cubes). If you need to adjust the original curve line (as I did),
just erase and redraw.
All the arrow lines (around the curve) should point to the horizon line. |
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| 8. Begin adding detail to the foreground rocks. Slant tiny boats (two) below the horizon line and the smallest one on the horizon line. | 9. Using guidelines, add the
house lines
then erase your guidelines by just changing paintbrush color to
white. Add a couple of lazy "S" shapes to indicate
curved wave guidelines. Freely add some descriptive lines on the
cliff, rocks and in low curved bushes below the houses. |
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| 10. At this point, begin to add some detail to the lighthouse and, with the painbrush add very slightly slanted lines (from right to left) to the "S" shapes. You can use the straight line feature to add beams coming from the top of the lighthouse. Add 2 catwalks around the lighthouse top. | 11. Add another "S" type
curve at top right on cliff. Follow varied directions of house
lines. Begin defining more detail to the lighthouse as well
as the houses, bushes & walls. At the base of the cliff use loose curved strokes in an upward direction to indicate breaking waves. Add some spray by lightly dotting the area above the curves. Note that there are some waves splashing on the left side of the lighthouse. use a few curved lines to suggest wave crests. Add more detail to the rocks in the foreground You can loosely draw some clouds, then use the Add Water brush feature to diffuse them. Add a few birds (uneven number is better) by drawing a very open "V".
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| These are just samples of lighting after the sketching and experimenting with hue and saturation. | |
That's it. Just sign it and claim it as your own!
Good luck and email me if you have any questions.
Hillary
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