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Photoshop masks for illustration- Part one: Quickmask

If you’ve done much colouring in Photoshop, the chances are you will have come across selections and masking at some point—using the lassos and magic wand tools to cut out areas to work on to save you having to worry about colouring outside the lines and so on. In this set of tutorials I’m going [...]

Creating Speedlines on Photoshop part 2: Using the brushes

Now that you’ve created some brushes, it’s time to put them to use. Depending on what kind of image you want, there are two methods we can use. We’re going to start with the linear kind, where the speedlines all run parallel to each other.
Linear Speedlines
1) The first thing we need is an image. Something [...]

Creating Speedlines on Photoshop part 1: Brushes

If you’re not familiar with the term, ’speedlines’ are lines added over a comic panel or illustration to give a sense of movement. They emphasise things by directing the readers eye towards them and can also give a sense of the motion blur of a camera movement; standing in for the zooms and pans you [...]