Colouring in a Line Drawing on Photoshop

This task was pretty simple. We had to spend 20 minutes or so just drawing a simple line drawing of an object or multiple objects. I chose to draw a stack of books. We then had to scan in this image we had drew so we could edit it on photoshop and make it a colour image.

This was my line drawing. It was scanned in upside down so my first task was to rotate my image 180 degrees.

This is the result however, as it was evident in the previous image, the pencil had smudged and had cause it to look very unclean and I also had writing on the image. I used the rubber tool and magic wand to clean up my image but keep the stencil of my books. Once i had done this, I used the curves tool to make the lines darker and the white, whiter.

To add colour, I used the magic wand to remain within the lines in certain areas. Then, it was the simple task of using the paintbrush tool and colour to, like in an actual drawing, layer the colours to create a sense of light and shading.

I also used the blur tool, dodge tool and burn tool to help define or blend some areas.

Final Piece