"The road is long and far away, I will search up and down." This is Qu Yuan's famous saying! During the Dragon Boat Festival, people make rice dumplings to commemorate Qu Yuan. Here, let's learn to use Photoshop to draw Qu Yuan's traditional Chinese painting effect portrait. There are many shortcomings in it, and I hope you can give me some advice.
Let’s take a look at the final renderings first:
final renderings
1. Open the Photoshop CS4 software, execute the menu: "File"/"New" (shortcut key Ctrl+N), a new file window will pop up, name the file: Qu Yuan, the file size and resolution settings are shown in Figure 1 .
Figure 1
2. Click the Create New Layer button below the layer panel or press the key combination Ctrl+Shift+N to create a new layer and name the layer: Sketch, select the brush tool in the toolbox, right-click on the drawing area to pop up the brush In the preset picker, select a 1-pixel brush with a sharp corner, set the foreground color to black, and set the opacity to: 100%, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2
3. Use a brush to outline the outline of the picture in the drawing, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3
4. Press the key combination Ctrl+Shift+N to create a new layer and name it: outline. Describe the outline of the picture in detail, and then click the show or hide layer button in front of the "Sketch" layer. The effect is as shown below 4 shown.
Figure 4
5. After selecting the brush tool in the toolbox, press the F5 key on the keyboard to pop up the brush preset panel. In the "Brush Tip Shape" selection, select a soft-angled 35-pixel tip, and then check the "Shape Dynamic" option, as shown in the figure 5 shown.
Figure 5
6. Set the opacity of the brush to about 50%, adjust the size of the pen tip appropriately using the left and right bracket keys, and paint the character's hair, beard, etc., as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6
7. Adjust the RGB value of the foreground color, set the brush opacity to 7%~9%, use the brush to paint the color of the character's face, repeatedly paint the dark parts, and adjust the forehead hair, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7
8. Then set the foreground color to black, set the opacity of the brush to about 7% to 9%, and paint the color of the shadow part of the clothes, as shown in Figure 8.
Figure 8
9. Set the opacity of the brush to 100%, select the brush tip style as "Dune Grass", and use the brush to draw weeds on the rocks, as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9
10. Set the brush to a soft-angle brush, adjust the size of the pen tip using the left and right bracket keys, and further draw the weeds, as shown in Figure 10.
Figure 10