PS, AI skillfully turns photos into illustrations. Written in front: This tutorial requires a foundation in AI and PS. 1. Analyze the characteristics of illustrations. Flat illustrations are a very popular illustration style at present. To make flat illustrations, you must first Understand and analyze its characteristics. In terms of styling: simplicity, simplifying complex shapes. In terms of light and shadow: remove light and shadow gradients and texture effects, and use more solid colors. 2. Illustration drawing tools Shape is what AI is good at, so we use ai to draw the shape of objects, and AI for color. These two softwares cooperate with each other and can meet almost all our needs. 3. The composition is based on a photo. The objects in the photo can be deleted and modified appropriately. For example, if the shape and position of the bamboo raft are not ideal, we can use the bamboo raft in the picture on the right to replace it. We can divide the picture into three levels. The close shot is the bamboo raft, the middle shot is the mountain, and the distant view is the sky. A V-shaped composition with high sides and low middle. 4. Drawing steps Step 1: Use the spot brush in ai to draw the close shot, middle shot, and distant shot layer by layer. You only need to draw a rough outline. You can lock the photo and copy it directly on the photo. You only need to draw the outline. , and then delete the path inside to get a face. Step 2: Use the plug-in to convert the drawn ai into layered psd, and draw colors in the psd. The shape of each layer is mainly monochrome. The choice of color can refer to the color of the photo, for example, in the early morning, afternoon, or evening, just absorb the color. Step 3: Add water reflection and detailed texture. Use Boolean operations to add ripples and details to the reflection. It does not need to be complicated, it can be abstract. AI tutorial: Illustrator video tutorial, AI software from getting started to mastering PS tutorial: A complete set of PS tutorials, a PS tutorial that can be learned even with zero foundation. How to draw photos into illustrations? This time the drawing is of my relative, she is a super beautiful girl , is also a photography guru, and the final picture is as follows: Let’s share a tutorial on drawing relatives and friends! First of all, the portrait you want to draw must have her own characteristics. The eyes of relatives and friends are round and big, and they have very cute girlish faces. Of course, generally speaking, you can also draw cartoonish faces, and use clothing and hairstyles to reflect the characteristics of relatives and friends. The easiest way is to ask relatives and friends to send you a good-looking photo! The photo is in the ginkgo forest in the park. Relatives and friends are holding a leaf and smiling. It feels very warm and refreshing. A digital tablet (wacomctl671) + Photoshop software draft is to quickly summarize what you want to express. This draft outlines a short-haired girl wearing a beret and a black sweater and white pants holding a ginkgo leaf in her hand. At this time, you should also have a good idea of ??the style of the entire picture and express a warm feeling. The brush comes with a hard-edged circle pressure size for PS. Reduce the brush size, create a new layer on top of the draft layer, and outline the line drawing. The draft is to quickly record the overall feeling, while the line draft must take some details into consideration. Lay out large blocks of color to set the color tone of the painting. In order to highlight the warm feeling, I imagined a warm-toned illustration with a yellowish brown color. I really like to use this kind of adjacent colors with unified tones. The picture is harmonious and not easy to make mistakes. It is also very suitable for novices. It is necessary to consider the impact of the environment on the inherent color. In this warm-toned painting, the black sweater and black hair are actually expressed in brown, while the white pants are expressed in light. I carefully drew the details of the character. At this point in the painting, I felt that the face was not cute enough and the color was too heavy and the face was too sharp, so I made modifications and refined the clothes. For someone like me who is good at being lazy, I must be good at copy-pasting. Draw two ginkgo trees, the rest is copy and paste + free transform (Ctrl + T), and a large ginkgo tree is ready. Previous articles have introduced it in detail, so I won’t go into details here. Use the soft-angle brush that comes with PS to draw the light and shadow of the tree, and randomly draw the blurred shadow of the ginkgo tree in the background. Draw a dark gradient below the canvas. Make some random highlights on the characters, also using soft-angled brushes. Use a soft-angled brush to draw a few beams of light. Create a new layer on top of all layers, fill it with brown, set the mode to "Overlay", and adjust the opacity as you feel. This step is to further unify the tone. Finally, add text and signature, and the painting is complete.

Relatives and friends are very happy to receive it~ Here is a process animation to summarize: Please click on all my painting tutorial articles: Painting tutorial catalog PS photos to hand-drawn illustrations (with characters) For those of us who have been obsessed with countless animations, we can transform ourselves It’s so satisfying to turn photos of travel and parties into illustration/comic style, as if we can create our own comic world. Let me share my creative process here, first showing the before and after comparison pictures: There are many photo-to-illustration tutorials on the Internet, but only pure landscape photos will look good when they are converted. Photos with people always have a "you can tell at a glance" Photos" rush. So I added some hand-painting based on the online tutorial to make the final effect more like hand-painting. First of all, you need to convert the photo into an illustration style. There are many such tutorials, and a good one is: PS Save Hand Cancer Party learns the hand-drawn illustration style in three minutes. You can refer to it and I won’t go into details here. The effect is as follows: If there is a deviation in the effect you made, it may be that I adjusted the color tone when making it (it took me too long to remember clearly). In fact, after the first step, it already feels very good, but I like more anime style, and the characters above still feel more like oil paintings. So, make a new line drawing based on the characters in the photo, color it, and it’s done: I’m joking, but the line drawing does need to be drawn first. You can use your imagination and don’t have to stick to the original picture. As long as it matches the perspective and perspective of the scene. Just handle the interaction well. In order to see it clearly, I lowered the background transparency: Please forgive me for my 50-cent hand-painting technique (face covering). In fact, against the beautiful scene, no matter how you draw it, it will not be too bright after coloring. Bad. Here you can refer to some hand-painted coloring techniques. I am also a novice, so I won’t show off. However, we can provide a simple method. Choose some bright and bright colors, and it will also look good to cover the characters with solid colors. The simpler it is, the more it will feel like a hand-drawn illustration. Or refer to the colors in Miyazaki Hayao and Xinghaicheng's works, they are all very bright. Coloring effect: Finally, combine the characters and the scene. Pay attention to the occlusion relationship (in fact, the girl behind the pillar in the above picture has already dealt with the occlusion relationship). If you are thoughtful, you can add some shadows to enhance the sense of reality. The original characters in the soap film can only be painted out bit by bit using PS. Another very important element is the sky, which can strongly enhance the atmosphere. In terms of color tone, my scene is a bit more yellow and green, so I also chose a sky of this tone. There shouldn't be too many clouds in the sky, otherwise they will overwhelm the scene and draw the audience's attention to the sky. The sky I picked comes from Makoto Shinkai, and the final draft is as follows: This article only talks about the basics. Children who are interested can learn hand-drawing in depth and draw more awesome works. But compared to technology, painting on photos is more important than creativity, such as the work of Swedish illustrator Johan Th?rnqvist: Use your imagination, I believe everyone can create interesting illustrations using your photos.