Hallo. We have a very cool illustration to do today. I' feel that I'm experiencing the loss of color.

Every person, an artist has so called favorite colors. I live burned yellow and orange, but if you are an artist that is very bad. You should know ho to handle with all the colors. It is very important. The key is freedom. You should know how to create whatever you want or desire, but this is a matter of time I think.

So for this tutorial I will basically use my PS 2 with little Wacom support......and let's get going.

There will be also a lot of experimentations today too.

I've first created a widescreen proportions document. This is already the second step. I'm using this very gradient on a new layer.



As my settings are – Mode: Soft Lights and Opacity is set to 65% I will overlay my area in different directions several times, let's say about 4 or 5 times.



Here you can see the result. Now I would like to color balance it a little bit.



Shadows:



This Brought up the contrast of the image, but we still have the same colors.

Go to channel mixer.



Here are my channel mixer settings (RGB).











... And I've made a copy of my layer; Oh ea – here is the result.



Acid like))



I will do some filter manipulations now.

I will try to use this filter first. It is my favorite one. Got to let go this too! As an artist, especially when you are starting out, you don't have to have any high preferences, because you will stick to them all the time and there will be now something new.

The Fresco Filter looks quite well but we'll change that.



I will choose Ink outlines filter in combination with Glass (Tiny Lens).