Anime Girl Picture

This new topic we'll learn to picture a girl's head, anime style by imitating somehow the vectoring image.

Open in a new window the scanned draft: File – Open (ctrl+o)



Make the draft look more in contrast, selecting Image – Adjustments – Curves (ctrl+m).



Just to make more convenient the picturing of accurate contours, we have to change the color of the draft, using the next command: Image – Adjustments – Channel Mixer. Select red color, for example.



Create a new layer now: Layer – New – Layer and choose the Pen Tool to represent the eyes' contours, the contours of the eyebrows and the face's ones, applying “Fill Path” option.



Represent after that the hair, selecting “Stroke Path” option, but preliminary choose on the Brush Tool's panel the necessary brush's thickness:



Erase now the layer containing the draft, moving it on the recycle bin's icon in the Layers window:



Create a new layer and place it under the layer with the contours. Select after that the Brush Tool of the necessary size and paint the girl's image with the main colors. We have to place each new color on a new layer, to make the work easier:



Using the Pen Tool, we may represent the iris of the eye with the necessary shape:



Start coloring it. Choose for this the Brush Tool. At the beginning we must separate the lightest zone, then blur out the bounds with the Blur Tool. We have to add also more dark color, minimizing the brush's Hardness on 0%.



Copy the layer's type and change the copy's Blending Mode on Overlay.