*www.elliostration.com * elliostration.blogspot.com Check out my other Photoshop Vids * * * This is a general sketching technique – this is the way many people work when creating anything artistic, not just in Photoshop. / / / / / / / / / Begin by taking a small, hard – edged brush and roughly sketching out your idea, instead of filling in shapes with a larger brush, make a loose blueprint of whatever you want to create. When your sketchmarks start to take shapes of their own, gradually kick up your brush size to fill in lines that should be thicker to indicate a better sense of depth; a default dissolving PS brush is used to put slight underlying dabs of shadow and value * you can make selections of what you’d like to fill and then hit shift + F5 to quickly fill in your desired shape, but for training purposes I kept most hotkey actions out of this one. Apply simple shadow and some thin highlights once you have a fair amount of value built up. / / / / / / / / / 1 small hard-edged ball brush was used and 1 PS dissolving brush was used * mostly to fill in larger shapes of value to help blending. Software used: Adobe ™ Photoshop CS3 / / / / Capture Software: Snapz Pro™ (Downloadable Demo) / / / / Blog: www.elliostration.blogspot.com / / / / Website: www.elliostration.com * Special thanks to the good guys at Ambrosia for downloading a sweet trial version! Check it out at: www.ambrosiasw.com