We have come across various advancements in the field of art and painting, and have seen different styles of painting and drawing, evolving out of necessity from the age of old primitive forms and techniques. With the development of computers and the latest software, it has been possible for us to take the art of painting and drawing to a completely new level and dimension. Various types of software like Photo shop, Illustrator and others have come up to make it easier for us to refine our talent in painting as well as drawing.
The general question that comes to ones mind is “how to take your drawing into Photo shop/Illustrator”, and keep working on it further. In truth it is quite simple and could be done by following certain steps as follows:
1. Primarily, it is required to scan the painting or drawing that we have already developed by our own hands; if the painting or drawing are too large, simply take a photograph and get it scanned instead. This would enable us to work on the picture in every way, we please. Do make sure the painting/drawing is scanned in a higher resolution i.e. 300 dot per inch so you don’t loose on the quality of your file once you start working on it.
2. Once the scanning is done, the file can be imported into a certain program we would like to use i.e. Illustrator, and we can continue working on it as an Illustrator file. From here on we would work on each color layer keeping the original picture intact, so that we may refer to it, whenever we are at a dilemma.
3. We can determine the pencil smoothness, along with the type of layers we want to add on from the various tools that are provided in the Illustrator. We must make sure that the black layer always remains on top and the remaining layers below it; this would keep up the prominence.
4. One needs to work on each layer individually, by hiding the other layers, to gain more depth and precision over the painting or drawing. Once all the layers have been worked upon, they can be viewed together to see the effect brought out by them.
People, who are excellent in sketching and drawing, often find it difficult to fill in colors to their drawings and thus, software like Photo shop or Illustrator helps them out to finish off the coloring in style. This does take a bit of our time, but can be done with absolute precision, because if one coloring stroke goes wrong, it can be simply undone by the Control+Z command on the keyboard and of course if you don’t like one of the applied effects you used you could also delete the layer where you worked. That is why it is also important to work in multiple layers, even applying every single effect, shade, color in a different layer so you could always change it, remove it or just move it to a different position.
As far as the conflict of ideas why to use Photo shop or Illustrator, there are differences between these two, but you should look at it this way, Illustrator is an advanced version of Photo shop since it works with vector graphics and is really good for creating larger press files which are in higher resolution. With the help of Illustrator a person could modify or improve paintings to such level, that would not be possible with Photo shop. Maybe after reading this, one can understand how to take a drawing to Photo shop/Illustrator and work on it by learning the basic features provided in them. To master this type of software the person needs to experiment with the combination of tools available, after gaining the basic knowledge on them.
