Pepper Tutorial
Here is an easy technique that gets great results, this tutuorial i just made for the b3ta folks, so i want to see somebody try it and post something wacky.
It all starts with the sketch. And, as you see, I am not that great of a cartoonist, but somehow with the addition of all the textures it becomes great. I use a soft prismacolor pencil on tracing paper, then scan in.
Next find your textures, usually i hit Google images or any of the stock photo sites.
The cutting board was so hard to find i had to build my own. Found a close up of a cut up textured board, as shown, then cut it into the dark and light slats by simply changing the color of them, did it squared up to begin with, then bent it to fit the perspective of the sketch.
The knife I did find though, in my own kitchen drawer, took a pic of it, and modified the blade a bit by squashing it down to fit the area, plus give it a fat cartoony look.
The pepper was hard to find in high res, I finally had to go to the grocery and buy one, once i photographed it the reflections were all wrong, so i lifted those from a photo i found in google. I chopped it in pieces, and shot pics of the seeds, but in the end i had to draw the cut pieces separately and put on different layers, and dropped in the seeds. Then added the highlights with a combination of cloning / lifting them from another photo and a little airbrushing.
The smoke was easy, just typed in steam into google images, then airbrushed them a bit.
The stem was from the pepper i shot.
Then making the pepper come alive, all the body parts were my own, it is rare you can find pics that fit your sketch, so i photographed my hands, arms, ears and mouth, but the nose was created, using the sketch as the guide. Cut out the parts and place them in layers, changing the colors, and bending the photos to fit the sketch. Cut the teeth down to size.
That is really the key to the whole technique, bending photo textures to fit your drawing. Or cloning parts of them to texturize an area.
Sometimes i will make the canvas twice as wide as the illustration. Then have the left half with photos that i lift textures from with the cloning tool, because they need to be on the same layer to clone, and it is easier to have them off the actual illustration.
By the way, it is all photoshop. And I have a mac with a wacom tablet and pen. That is all.
It is important to have a strong direction of light, then place your shadows accordingly, gives it a lot of depth.
try it, you'll like it.
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Great stuff..!
printmeister http://tinyurl.com/c8s8fd5 for titanic T's,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 15:55,
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That is bloody brilliantnice work there that man
mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 15:57,
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The is so very woo and yay!consider that clicked!
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theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 15:59,
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^ Needs more text(please}
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Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 15:59,
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good tips, thanks!I sometimes spend hours searching for a picture of something at a certain angle, when I could take it myself in a few minutes!
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Bloop Fri 16 Jul, 22:10,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 15:59,
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blimeyThis is full of good stuff
nice one!
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bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon.,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:00,
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Great stuffIt's nice to see somebody sharing his 'secrets'.
Your images always seem to have an overall "look" to them (like some fancy filter or summit). For example, the knife above doesn't look just like a photo of a knife - it looks almost sketched.
Do you do anything in addition to the above?
(Your images always seem to have an overall "look" to them (like some fancy filter or summit). For example, the knife above doesn't look just like a photo of a knife - it looks almost sketched.
Do you do anything in addition to the above?
Zak McFlimby Twibbling @McFlimby,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:01,
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the knifeyea, the real knife was about twice as long as that, simply fatten stuff up to get it looking to fit in the cartoon world, by editing it down short.
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the knife blade looks like it's been filteredI think zak wants to know what it was.
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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:08,
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knifethe only filter i ever use is blur. But i will blow up an area and use the cloning tool at about 20 per cent to smooth out areas and take away the imperfections that keep it in the photograph feel. Realistic is ok, but the photo feel needs to be refined to give it an illustrated look.
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thanksSorry I didn't reply - I had to go AFK a bit.
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Zak McFlimby Twibbling @McFlimby,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 20:59,
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Not only great but particularly magnanimous. Tons of woo :) Bela Lugosi's Dad,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:02,
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nice to see you've stopped being an arse :)+ good tips
( prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:02,
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I was waiting to see ifPanasonic was here!
P.s Woo the pic!
(P.s Woo the pic!
the idiot Did I say it was funny?,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:04,
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pasanodick is twice the arse prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:05,
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What a lovely thing to do.Thanks.
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Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:04,
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thanksIt is hard to believe that i invented this way to illustrate with photographs, but I have yet to see anyone else use this technique. it is so basic though, so everyone should try it.
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Is texturize a word?Who cares! This would be great work if I knew anything about making images.
Have a woo.
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gareth_alien will be human again at,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:05,
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That's excellent.Are they your own eyes?
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IHaveABadFeelingAboutThis most likely working from home on,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:09,
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Yes, the bloodshot parts arethe pupils found on google, type in pupil / eye.
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Most excellent and nice of you.:)
( elephant rider property shark sighted!,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:11,
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nicelyno doubting your talent, what would be really lovely is if you'd join in the general sillyness of the board, leave your perfectionist hat at the door and just shop some nonsense, as you've already gathered we ain't worth1000 or freakingnews.
in the meantime keep 'em coming :)
(in the meantime keep 'em coming :)
god save the queen making another unremarkable comeback,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:19,
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OH! WOW!!!!!!!YESthis is STUNNING.....and excellent methodology..........(please tell me you didn't photograph your poo in the other pic..heh heh(only jokin'):D
( Elvis impersonator,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:20,
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This is more like it, great work
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 16:34,
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Spiffing pepper slicing.Makes the lighting work nice it does.
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Tart Monkey,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 17:19,
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Excellent work sir!Cheers!
have a click!
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skeltonator Needs some new daps.,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 17:20,
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That is so far beyond me it's scary!Excellent work.
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Barbarossa is not my real name,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 17:40,
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brilliant stuffand the talk through is very interesting - thanks :beer:
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knockear - I socialise with x-ray eyes. Jam on it!,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 19:05,
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Thisis blinking ace!
*tries*
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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on,
Wed 11 Feb 2009, 20:51,
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