Read through and study these pages carefully. Once again, I'm going back to the basic lessons taught by the great illustrators of the 1950s in the Famous Artists School.
When you're ready to begin, open a new file to the specs we used in Lesson 1.
Choose a brush from the second or third row down in the Brushes palette window as a starting point.
Try making a Pencil brush in Photoshop using the Brush tool with the following Brush Tip Shape menu items checked:
Shape Dynamics
Scattering
Texture
Noise
Smoothing
Or you can try building a custom pencil brush by following the instructions in this tutorial:
(you can skip the first minute and 45 seconds)
Once you've read through Pages 1 - 4 of the download try scribbling and sketching with your new digital pencil brush in the 8.5 by 11, 300 dpi file you created. Try playing around with your settings until you are satisfied that you have a decent looking 'pencil' to work with.
Drag page 5 of the download into your 8.5 x 11 window, change the new layer into a multiply layer, reduce the opacity to approx. 20% and scale it up (Edit>Transform>Scale or Command T) to fit the space neatly.
On the background layer, try to recreate the look of the finished pencil drawing of the tree on the left by drawing and shading with your digital pencil brush, as described on page 5 of the download.
Follow the same procedure for page 6 of the download.
* Remember, always save your layered files for yourself. Send me flattened, medium quality jpegs at 150 dpi to pengprofessor[at][geemale][dot]com
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