From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

845 Coloring your terrifying Miró/“Us” scene

- [Deke] All right, now it's time to add some color to our terrifying scene from the movie "Us" in which Adelaide Wilson on the left is finding her shadow nemesis Red on the right as it might appear if rendered by Spanish surrealist Joan Miro. And so as before, I working in Adobe Photoshop Sketch running on an iPad. However, if you want to follow along in Photoshop instead, then I'm providing you with an Exercise File called Adelaide & Red.psd. All right, I'll bring back the interface by tapping this icon in the top right corner of the screen. Now, as I've mentioned before, I'm left-handed, which is why I have my layers over here on the left side of the screen and the brushes over on the right side. By default, it's the other way around. Now, I want to paint the faces on an independent layer below all of these white outlines. And so I'll tap this black layer down here near the bottom of the stack, this guy that's just called Sketch Layer right now. And then I'll create a new layer on top of it by tapping the plus sign, and I'll create a new Sketch layer. And now I want to name it by tapping that new thumbnail in order to bring up this panel here. Then I'll tap on the words Sketch Layer, and I'll go ahead and call this layer Faces and tap the Done button. And then I'll tap that thumbnail again in order to dismiss that panel. All right, now over here on the right-hand side of the screen, for you it might be the left, I'm going to select the third brush down. And to see what that looks like, I'll go ahead and tap its icon again in order to bring up its settings, and then I'll tap the settings icon so that you can see that this is a marker brush. All right, I'll go ahead and hide that panel, and I'll bring up my color, which by default is set to wheel, by the way. So you can just drag this guy around in order to define, in my case a dark shade of brown. But I want you to see the exact RGB values, so I'll tap the word Wheel and switch it to RGB like so, at which point you can see that both the green and blue values are very low, and the red value is a little bit higher. So got 72 for red, 24 for green, and 20 for blue. All right, I'll go ahead and dismiss that panel. And then I will zoom in on the face, on Adelaide's face over here on the left-hand side. And you zoom into areas just as you might expect with a two-finger pinch. All right, now I'll just go ahead and paint inside the face like so. And I'm working with a pretty big brush, as you might see. And if you want to change the brush size, you just go ahead and drag on this little size widget right here. All right, so I'll go ahead and paint in more. And I'm painting pretty quickly, which means that I'm painting out of the lines. Not something I want long-term, but it's going to work out nicely for now. And I'll just go ahead and paint in the rest of the face. And if you feel like you don't get everything painted, just go ahead and paint some more quite obviously. But don't paint into the eyes. We want those pupils to remain black. All right, now I want to get rid of the excess stuff. And I'll do that by tapping on that brush icon right there in order to bring back all the brushes, and then I'll tap on this checkerboard guy at the bottom, which represents the eraser. And now I'll just go ahead and erase around the perimeter of the face like so. And I will go ahead and do a two-finger pinch once again in order to both zoom and pan and, if you like, rotate the image on the fly. And of course, you're just rotating your view. You're not rotating the artwork itself. And so I'll just go ahead and continue to erase all the excess stuff, the stuff that's going outside of the lines. And then I'll just go ahead and do a two-finger pinch over to Red on the right hand side of the artwork. Red is so named, by the way, because she wears a Red jumpsuit, not because she has a red face. So I'll just go ahead and select that same brush we were using before, and I will paint in the face like so, taking care not to paint inside the eyes. Again, I'm doing a pretty sloppy job just because I want to be able to work quickly without boring you to absolute tears right here. And so I'll go ahead and just finish painting in that face, and I'll paint around the eye as well. All right, now I'll go ahead and erase the excess stuff by switching to that checkerboard eraser down there at the bottom of the brush stack. And I will paint around the face like so. And I'll go ahead and paint underneath, as you're seeing me do here. This is the mouth, by the way, so I'm going to go ahead and paint it away down there at the bottom of the face. And I'll do a two-finger pinch once again in order to adjust the portion of the image that I'm seeing onscreen, and I'll go ahead and paint around across the top as well. Now, notice right there we have a little bit of scrapey stuff which I'll circle just so you can see what I'm talking about, that white scrapey material. Now, I don't want to keep that circle. So you may notice that there's an undo icon at the top of the screen in the top right region, and so I'll tap on it in order to undo that brushstroke. And then I have to figure out who's responsible for that little white scrapey mark. And so I'll tap on the outlines layer right there over there on the left-hand side of the screen so that you can see it highlight, and I'll double-tap on it to hide it. And you can see that the scrapey stuff goes away. So that's the layer in question. All right, so I'll go ahead and double-tap on it again in order to bring it back. And still armed with my eraser, I'll go ahead and erase that stuff away. All right, that looks pretty good. Now we want to work on this little bunny down here in the bottom left corner of the artwork. And so I want the bunny to be on an independent layer, which means I'll go ahead and tap on that black layer down there in the bottom left corner once again, then tap on the plus sign and create a new Sketch layer. I'll tap on the thumbnail for that new layer in order to bring up this panel. I'll tap on the words Sketch layer, and I'll rename this guy bunny and tap the Done button and go ahead and dismiss that panel. And now I'm going to switch to the second brush over here on the right hand side, which if I tap on it again to bring up its settings and tap on the settings icon, you can see it is the ink pen. And just so you can see what the color looks like, I'll bring it up. Notice that it's a kind of lilac with a maxed out blue of 255, a very high red value of 247, and a more modest green value of 178 if you care to paint with the same color. All right, so I'll go ahead and dismiss that panel, and I'll paint vigorously inside the bunny. Now, of course I could be much more careful if I wanted to, but I'd rather just get all the paint down there in the first place and then just erase away the stuff I don't want. All right, so tap on the brush icon once again to bring back the brushes. Tap on the little checkerboard pattern to select the eraser. And then I will erase along the edges like so. And you may find it to be useful to erase kind of into the color. Not like that, I don't think. That looks terrible. So I'll undo that modification. Actually, that was a couple of modifications, so I tap that undo icon twice. And now I'll brush up into the ear and down into the top of the head like so. And then over to the left ear, I suppose. However, this is a non-representational piece of artwork, so this isn't necessarily a bunny's head or even a bunny's body. It's just some kind of thing that's part of this artwork. All right, so I'll go ahead and this time two-finger pinch over to the red jumpsuit itself. At least it should be red. And so I'm going to select the fourth brush down, this guy right here. Tap on it again. Tap on its settings so that we can see that it is a thick acrylic brush. I'll go ahead and bring up the color so that you can see that we have a very dark shade of red. So both the green and blue values are zero, whereas the red value is right there in the middle at 133. Go ahead and hide that guy now. And I will paint inside the jumpsuit. Now, this brush is difficult to control, at least if you want to stay inside the lines, and so I'm not going to make any effort to stay inside the lines. I'm just going to paint all over the place. You may want to paint in a kind of consistent direction, however, because notice as you're using this brush, the paint remains wet. So notice how I can smush it around here into a kind of circle pattern if I want to, or I can brush those strokes up and down and make them more or less vertical so that they're maintaining a consistent direction, which is something you can do. It's not necessarily something that you have to do. Something you have to do, however, is not paint on the same layer as the bunny. That was a mistake. So I'm going to have to undo a whole bunch of junk here by tapping and holding on that undo icon so that I'm seeing this little vertical strip, and then I'll tap on the clock in order to see this history bar. And now notice you can drag the bar in order to go back several steps, as I'm doing here. Now that I've gotten rid of all that paint, I'll tap on the plus sign at the top of the layer stack. Go ahead and select Sketch Layer. Then I'll tap on that layer thumbnail once again, the new one, and I'll tap on the word Sketch Layer to rename this guy Jumpsuit. And then I'll tap Done and I'll dismiss the panel. Right now I can go ahead and paint inside this region. And I'm doubly impatient this time around because I'd like to work more quickly so I don't bore you, and of course also I've already done this step, but I'll just go ahead and do it again. Actually, what am I talking about? This is so fun. Painting is always a good time. All right, so I'll just go ahead and paint some more. And bear in mind that as long as you don't switch from one tool to a different tool or paint on a different layer or something like that, then this paint will remain wet and malleable. All right, that looks pretty good. Maybe paint a little more on the right leg. And now I'll switch back to the eraser right here so that I can erase all the stuff that's outside of the jumpsuit because, after all, that is what Joan Miro would've done. All right, so go ahead and paint away this. I painted a little too far that time. And because I painted one brushstroke, if I tap the undo icon, I undo all that junk. And so mark my words. Try to be more patient than I'm being and go ahead and paint small brushstrokes at a time so that if you need to undo them, then you're not undoing everything that you've done for the last five minutes. All right, now I'll just go ahead and paint up here like so under the legs, if you will, into this region. And then I'll go ahead and paint up the left-hand leg, I suppose it is. And I'll paint away this stuff on the inside. And you can, if you like, leave it a little bit rough around the edges. We do want some texture. And you want it to look like hand-drawn artwork because, after all, it is. Even though you're painting with the assistance of a machine, you are doing all the work. All right, so I'll go ahead and paint up this side. And then we want to go up into the sort of arm, if you will, shoulder region. All right, so I'll go ahead and paint up the neck now. All kinds of body parts that we're just moseying along here that don't look anything like body parts at all. All right, now I'll paint up into this region, and that looks pretty good. Got a little extra under that one arm, so I'll go ahead and paint that away. Maybe up here in the mouth needs to be cleaned up a little. And then once you're done, just go ahead and do a fast two-finger pinch in order to center your artwork, assuming that you're working inside Adobe Sketch. And then I'll tap that top right icon in order to hide the interface. And that, my friends, is how you add some color to your artwork as well as how you experiment with different brushes here inside Adobe Photoshop Sketch.

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