Hello, guys! Welcome to another video on Valerie's channel.
My name is José Eduardo, and I brought to you a very different kind of content.
Usually what we have here are Casual World of Warcraft PvP and RP videos...
always with a soundtrack of music I like most.
But this time I decided to make a video more like a Photoshop Tutorial,
teaching how to create the coloring of a Black and White drawing.
I built this art of my character, Valerie Bricks,
following an art style that I like a lot called "Cartoon Pin-ups".
What is it? Artist get the traditional Pin-Up style...
a photographic, vintage style...
and draw it in a more modern approach, with a sharp stroke,
very similar to animation, cartoons or even comics.
So, I build this art in a software called Inkscape,
which is a vector drawing software, similar to CorelDRAW or Illustrator.
The great advantage is that Inkscape is free, and for this kind of art,
to make a black sharp stroke like this, it's very easy to use...
once you learn to use some shortcut keys the software has.
So, I spent some weeks learning how to use it, making this drawing,
and I liked it a lot, a free software, for those who like it and want to check it out. Link in the description.
So, what's this video all about?
We'll get an image of the character,
I already have my character posing in the WoW viewing software...
it's called WoW Model Viewer. Someday I'll make a video teaching how to use it for screenshots and such.
We'll use this image as a base for the colors that are part of this transmog...
which is a transmog all about a spying, infiltration suit, this kind of thing.
I'm making a story about it, but this is for another video.
And we'll get the color from here, create a palette inside Photoshop,
and then color all the drawing parts with a method I usually prefer.
There are several methods for coloring in Photoshop, but I like a specific one, and I'll show to you.
With this image we have a notion of the colors we'll need for our drawing.
We have this blue that is the predominant color of the transmog,
we have about 3 shades of gray, this one from the shoulder is darker,
we have this other gray, almost black, at the borders of this leather parts...
and it'll be probably used for this straps on the legs, if I don't end up using black.
And this lighter gray, from the pants. We can see it here.
We also have the colors from the daggers, but we'll do them at the end. First we'll focus on the suit.
And, besides that, we have the more metallic parts on the legs and the bracers...
that matches those parts on the chest, almost the same color...
Because after all it's all from the same set. It's mostly the Fearless Gladiator,
which is the first PvP set from the first season on the Legion expansion.
This is the image we'll use to get the colors.
First thing I'll do is press ALT + PrintScreen, to take a screenshot only of the active window.
And then I'll go to Photoshop, and I'll paste the image over here.
I alredy left the layers organized for what I want, I have a white background...
then I have the image of the body, and over here, one more layer,
those shields here on her thighs, that I can disable...
Because first I'll do the painting without the shields...
so I left it on a separate layer, even in Inkscape, when I was vectorizing the drawing.
So I'll press CTRL+V and drag my window up here...
I'll take the opportunity to give you some Photoshop shortcut tips...
If you want to zoom some part of the screen you can hold CTRL + SPACEBAR,
and it will switch temporarily to the zoom tool, and you draw a window around what you want.
That's what I did here: CTRL + SPACEBAR.
Let's remove what we don't want, first. I got the selection tool, to get only the character...
I draw a box around my character and go to the "Select" menu and tell it to invert the selection...
You can also use CTRL + SHIFT + I and it'll invert the selection, getting everything but the little square.
Then I press DELETE. The image is huge, it has a 2000 DPI resolution.
Now I'll place the image up here and I'll press CTRL + T, so I can resize it to make it bigger.
I'll click in the corner, hold SHIFT so it keeps the aspect ratio, so we can get the colors we want.
So, what colors we have here... We have this light blue, very predominant in the goggles and also the daggers.
Since we're coloring a cartoon, we should not use all the array of colors from the reference...
otherwise the image will be to busy. So, for some parts of the drawing we'll use the same color...
for example, I'll use the same color from the goggles lens on the daggers, for sure.
To pick that color, I'll get the brush tool, and then I'll right click on the canvas to pick a good brush size.
I'll make some circles about that size, to make it easy to get the colors once we start painting.
To pick the color, all I have to do is hold the ALT key pressed...
when I do that, it momentarily activates the eyedropper tool, to pick the color.
Here, on the left toolbar, you can see the two default colors, black and white, for foreground and background.
When I ALT + Click the goggles, the color on the left side is updated.
It ended up too bright, so I'll pick a slightly darker blue...
and I'll just make a small blue circle, for the goggles lens.
Now I'll get this predominant dark blue from the suit.
All that colors, later, may have to be slightly adjusted to the drawing theme.
Same thing here. I hold the ALT, click to pick the blue, and make another circle.
We also have the grays, I'll pick from the darker to brighter. I'll get this darker one right here...
I'll put the grays separate from the rest of the colors.
Now let's get the slightly lighter one... the medium gray.
You can see the difference is minimum, that's why we may have to make a fine tune on the colors afterwards.
So for the grays, that's it. We'll work with the dark, medium and light ones.
Let's see what else... Another color is one that is even a bit greenish...
the one in this details of the chest and the bracers. I'll pick from the bracers, you can see it's pretty greenish.
To alter the zoom, I can hold ALT, then use the Mouse Wheel to increase or decrease it.
There are a lot of modifier keys in Photoshop, so you don't have to swap tools while working with a specific one.
If I press the Spacebar, for example, the cursor turns into a little hand...
and I can drag the page around, without having to use the scrollbars at all.
Let's put this greenish color in the palette, so we have 3 shades for the armor...
and let's see if we need another color... In the feet, we have this green color...
but I really wish it was a blue, so I'll ignore it, even because the boots I put on the drawing are different,
because to make a more Pin-up style, we put high heels to make a more elegant posture.
I'll show to you... Here, you can see the boot is a lot different from the reference image, with the high heels.
Another color we can get is the skin color. I'll zoom in on the face...
Pick this color right here... a bit lighter...
The hair color... pick this brown right here...
We'll have to make a lot of shading yet, highlights, shadows, but this is at the end of the series.
And the lips color... we may even use a different one, more red, to match the pin-up style, we'll see...
Alright, now we have our palette done...
And we can start working on the coloring of the drawing.
So what this drawing is? It is a black stroke without any white in the same layer.
The white is in this layer. If I disable it, you see the drawing becomes completely transparent...
There's nothing inside it.
We have this in this separated layer...
and now we'll fill the spaces with the colors from the palette we picked from the transmog.
But we'll do this in the second part of this tutorial. So I see you guys soon.
