Digital Illustration is a bang in the world of art. It’s like immersing yourself in a journey from paper drawings to digital pixel art. Perhaps, creating illustrations digitally makes the people’s artistic journey more engaging and interesting. So, if you also want to start creating digital illustrations, then no worries, below are the easiest steps that you can follow to make digital illustrations.
1. Select a Digital Illustration Software
The first step to start with your digital art is to find a decent illustration software and you can start with any paid, free, or traditional software. What’s important here is it should work well. However, you can try GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Photo, Procreate, or any other software of your choice.
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2. Draw a Sketch
Now, whatever idea you have in your mind, it’s good to sketch it on a piece of paper with your hand to avoid major modifications. It can be an animation, logo, graphic, or something else. Then, you can simply scan the sketch from paper with any suitable application, so that you can have your penciled sketch in your smartphone digitally.
3. Create Several Layers
Working on multiple layers on your preferred illustrator is highly recommended to save yourself from damaging the original and well-sketched files. In short, it’s good to make each layer separately to avoid the risk of ruining the entire piece of art. For example, if you create separate layers for background, sketch, line work, coloring, and other add-on details, you can simply modify any layer when you need, otherwise, every time you have to create a new file from scratch to make even small changes.
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4. Now, Color Your Illustration
Once you get used to pen tools and sketching, it’s time to move on to the coloring parts. Coloring becomes easier when you work in multiple layers as it allows you to color every minor line with great detailing and to do this you can create a new layer under the linework layers. Further, here you can use a traditional paintbrush system, pens, pencils, painting cans, or custom brushes to color your digital sketch.
5. Delete the Layers of Sketch
Moving on, if you think you are done with the sketching and coloring, you can delete the previously drawn sketch layers to give your art a more snap-bang look. Removing the sketch layers can make your work more authentic. However, after removing sketch layers if you think something went missing, just tap on the “undo” option, which is available in almost every good illustrator to get your previous design back.
6. Give Final Finishing
Before moving on to this step, your masterpiece is already completed, so now you can add final detailing to your art to make it more realistic such as shadows, gradients, and top lineworks. This is the final step of entirely fishing your digital art, so ensure that it meets your or your client’s standards and requirements.
7. Finally, Save Your Digital Art
The most important and last step is to save your work in your device’s memory, so won’t get lost. Further, illustrators allow you to save up your work in your desired format, which can be .jpg/.jpeg, .png, and .gif files. So, you can say that digital art software definitely holds an advantage over paper drawings.
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