He recently created a video which basically creates a Smart Object of a duplicate layer of the image. Obviously lots of touch up to get the effect, but overall it was a lot of fun to do.Īnother iteration of the same lion, this time using a technique by Jesus Rodriguez. This brush is really fun to use!) A Scatter brush on the lion fur and Kyle’s Inkbox Classic Cartoonist brush (also in the default wet media brushes from PS) for the black outline was used. (Used orange and tan as the colors, created a separate layer, painted in the dots, and set the layer to Hard Light at 73% opacity. The one above used Kyle’s Spatter Blot Tilt brush (in regular PS specialty default brush) with Color Dynamics turned on to get the different colors on the bark of the tree and the ground around the lion. The same basic image was used and up to a point for all four images.

The image above is one I just did with mainly painting. And you can tell there are many different types of cartoon effects that can be achieved. I am not sure I would like the effect on all my images, but they are fun to create. I had found several videos on how to create a comic or cartoon effect over the past few years so I though I would share them. Sometimes it just takes time working with an image to get the effect wanted. It took some time to pull this little blog together.