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

855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers

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

855 Painting the turkey’s tail feathers

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take our thoroughly modern hand turkey so far, and we're going to color in its body and tail feathers in order to create something very closely resembling this final effect here. Now I'm providing both of these documents as layered PSD files, in the event that you want to follow along with Photoshop and a pressure sensitive walk on tablet, for example. However, I'm going to be working inside Adobe Photoshop Sketch running on an iPad Pro. All right, so first thing I want to do is add a new layer, so that I don't harm the original, by tapping on the plus icon at the top of the layers column, which for me appears to the left-hand side. For you, it might be on the right. And I'll tap sketch layer, so that I can create a new layer upon which to draw. And then I'll tap on my graphite pencil, which is the topmost of the brushes, at least by default. It may appear on the left-hand side of your screen, by the way, and I'll tap it a second time to bring up its settings. And notice, this is indeed the graphite pencil, which you can see at the top of this panel. All right, so I'm going to change the size here, which is the top circle, to 14. I'll set the flow to its default, which is 66. And I'll tap on the color and make it a very bright orange, which may not be in keeping with actual real turkeys, but it's going to look great. And I may make it just a little bit redder, like so. And then I'll tap off in order to hide that panel, and I'll go ahead and do a two finger pinch in order to adjust the zoom and the pan, and rotate my view as well. And then I'll tap this double arrow icon in the top right corner of the screen in order to hide the interface, so that I can focus on my artwork. And now I'm going to paint in these orange feathers off the tips of the fingers, like so. And I'm giving 'em little sort of wavy tops, and you may do the same, if you like, of course. You don't need my permission to paint any old way you like here inside Adobe Sketch, for example. And I'll go ahead and paint between the fingers as well. And now I want to add a few division lines between the various feathers here. And I'm just going to add three lines apiece in order to match the comical nature of my artwork so far. And I'll go ahead and paint down like so between the fingers as well. All right, now I'm going to paint these wavy lines here, that are actually connecting all the fingers together, both above the knuckles and below those knuckles, like so. And then I'll paint some lines coming down from them. And you can either choose to overlap your existing black lines or not, totally up to you. And then I decided I wanted to paint some lines kind of waving above and below each one of the knuckles. And after I finish doing that, in just a moment here, I'll go ahead and paint even wavier lines between the knuckles, like so. And then I decided to paint some wavy lines along the top knuckles, but not between them. So this is just for the sake of variety here, to keep things nice and interesting. All right, now the next thing I want to do is paint in some yellow. So I'm going to bring back the interface by tapping that double arrow icon in the top right corner of the screen. I'll create a new layer by tapping on the plus icon at the top of the layers column. And I'll select sketch layer. And then I'll tap on the color this time around, and I'll change it to a very bright yellow, as we're seeing here. All right, I'll tap off the panel to hide it, and I'm going to go ahead and paint in the crevices of the fingers, in between them, that is. I don't like that brushstroke very much, so I'm going to undo it by tapping the undo icon in the top right region of the screen. And I'll increase the size to, let's say 20. And normally, by the way, I'm drawing with an Apple pencil. But where the size value is concerned, and this goes for flow and so forth, it's usually easier to use your finger. All right, now I'll go ahead and paint in this region like so, and I'm going to paint it in pretty solidly, with a little bit of sketching going on. Now, I don't like the way that I'm just covering up those orange lines in the background, so I'll tap on the layers thumbnail, in my case, over here on the left-hand side of the screen. Just tap once, that'll bring up this panel here. And then I'll tap on the word normal to change the blend mode to multiply, this guy right there. And that will multiply in those colors so that we can see the interaction between yellow and orange. All right, now I'm going to zoom in, if I might, and paint in this fingernail right here. And I'm going to paint in all of the fingernails, incidentally, but I'm not going to paint in the thumbnail. Because as you may recall, the thumbnail is currently devoted to the turkey's eye. So because the thumb is its face, the thumbnail is the eye. And thanks to the fact that this layer's set to the multiply blend mode, I am creating an interaction between the black lines, and the yellow lines, and the orange lines, and so forth. All right, so I'll go ahead and finish painting the pinkie nail right there. And then I'll do a small double finger pinch in order to center my zoom. All right, now I want to increase the size even further, so I'll take this value up to 40 this time around, and I'll lightly paint in the top region of the feathers, like so. And so I just want to add a little bit of color to this area. You don't have to take it all the way to the tops of the feathers. I just want to paint in between the fingers. All right, now I want to add some more purple to the artwork, so I'll tap on that color circle, and I'll move this circle down to the purple region down here. And I might reduce its saturation by moving that purple circle toward the center of the wheel. And then I'll tap off to hide that panel. And then I'm going to paint over these fist knuckles. At least, these are the knuckles you would get if you balled up your hand into a fist. And so I'll go ahead and paint on the base of each one of the fingers, in other words, in order to add some purple. And I'll lighten the pressure in order to fade things out just a little bit here. But you'll see, we're going to end up blending this with brown later on, so you have a lot of latitude. You don't have to make it look all that pretty. So I'll just continue to paint with the purple. And now I'm going to paint with the purple around the top of the fingertips, like so. And you can paint around the base of the fingernails as well, if you like. And I'll go ahead and do that on each one of the fingers, as you see me doing now. So I just want to make sure we have some variation going on. And I'll go ahead and switch over to the ring finger, in this case right here, and paint along the bottom of its fingernail and along the top of the fingertip. And then I'll go ahead and do the same thing for the pinkie. So obviously, you can go your own way. These are just the brushstrokes that I came up with. All right, now I want to add some color to the middle of the hand. And I'm actually tilting my pencil way to the side, so that it's almost parallel to the screen. And that way I get this big diffused brush stroke. So I'll go ahead and paint down here. And now I want to create some kind of striations going across the hand, as you see me doing right here. And across the wrist a little bit as well. And now I'll take on those knuckles right there, those fist knuckles, as I've been calling them. And we end up with this effect. I would like to add a little more purple, I think, to these upper knuckles. And so I'll just go ahead and paint along them. And if you paint outside the lines, then just go ahead and switch from the graphite pencil to the eraser, which is this checkerboard pattern down here at the bottom of the tools. And then go ahead and paint like so, and that will allow you to erase with a sharp edge, at least by default, which works out just fine for me. Now, I am going to paint along the left-hand side of the hand, like so, in order to clean things up, and up along the index finger as well. All right, now I want to add some brown as an independent layer. And so I'll tap on the plus icon up here at the top of the layer column, and I'll select sketch layer. And then I'm going to tap on my graphite pencil icon a couple of times, in order to bring up its settings. And I'll change it this time to a dark shade of brown. So I want to reduce the saturation. I'm looking for a shade of orange, by the way, because that's brown for you. And if you want to make it a little redder, you can. Totally up to you. I'm also going to increase the size to its absolute maximum, which for this tool is 80. And then I'm going to take the flow down to, let's say right around 40, should do. And now I'm going to paint in this region of knuckles right here, so the middle knuckles, if you will. And then I'm going to paint in the feathers. Now in this case, I don't mind if the paint goes outside of the feathers. I think that looks pretty cool, actually. And so I'm going to let that happen. And now I'll paint in these guys like so. I want more interaction, so I'll tap on the layers thumbnail in order to bring up this panel. Tap on the word normal, and change it to multiply in order to get a dark interaction, like so. And then you can go ahead and sort of shade the knuckles and the fingers if you want to, as I'm doing right here. So I'm just painting along the right sides to create a kind of shading effect. And I'll leave the tops of the fingers a little bit white, so I want to have some highlights going on there. However, down in this region, I really want to fill the body of the hand here, the body of the turkey, I guess, with brown. And so I'm going to paint in this region along the edge, down in to the wrist perhaps, and then up into the knuckles, and down into the kind of ball of the hand down here, the front of the turkey's chest, if you will. And then I'll paint some darker colors. And I'm making sure that my pencil is almost parallel to the screen, in order to create some big, broad brushstrokes. All right, so I'll paint in a little bit more shadings, some shading along the side of the hand, as well as the side of the wrist. And now I want to clean things up a little bit, by switching from the graphite pencil to the eraser, that checkerboard pattern there. And now I'll just go ahead and erase everything that's outside the wrist and the hands. And I'll go ahead and use a two finger pinch in order to pan around, so I can better see the area that I'm working on. That looks pretty good to me. And then I'll just go ahead and two finger pinch over to this region. Now what you want to make sure is that you don't all of a sudden create a divot like that. Notice that I'm erasing into the hand? That's no good. So I'll just go ahead and tap the undo icon in the top right region of the screen. And up into the index finger, that's fine. And then I'll just go ahead and pinch out once again. Now let's say the final thing I want to do is sign my artwork, after maybe selecting my graphic pencil and adding a little bit more shading down at the base of the thumb and along the left side of the wrist, which is where I'm working at right now. And you can even add some lines of brown going down into the wrist, if you like. Actually, you know what? You can do anything you want to do. But eventually you'll want to sign your artwork, so I'll go ahead and tap on the top layer in the layer column, and I'll tap the plus icon and select sketch layer, in order to create a new layer for my signature. I'll tap on the graphite pencil icon up there at the top of the brush column. I'll tap the color, and I'm going to change it to black. So I'm reducing the brightness all the way. And then I'll go ahead and set the flow back to something in the high 60s. And I'll go ahead and take my size value down to something like 14. And that way I'm matching my original lines. And now I'll just go ahead and zoom in on this region here, and I will sign my signature like so. And if you don't like what you come up with, then you can always undo and try again. But in my mind, that looks pretty good. Now let's say you don't want it to be that huge, although I might want to darken it up just a little bit, like so. But if I start doing something like that, it looks ridiculous. So you know what? I'm going to tap and hold on the undo icon, and tap that little clock icon and go back in time until my signature disappears. And this time, I'll try to draw it a little harder. Or maybe I'll increase my flow value to 80, let's say, and I'll try again. And this time, I think I like what I see, so I'll go ahead and finish off the effect. Now let's say you don't want it to be this stupid huge, in which case you can scale that signature, make it a little smaller. I might recommend that you do so to a copy of the layer. So I'm going to tap on that layer in order to bring up its panel, and I'll select the duplicate option, that third item down. And then I'll tap on the original layer and double tap its thumbnail in order to hide it. Then I'll switch back to the duplicate, and I'll tap on it and select transform this time around. And that'll give me these transformation handles here. And I might actually lean it backward, like so, as well as make it smaller, which you could do, if you like, by two finger pinching inside that transformation boundary, after which point I'll tap the done button in the top right corner, in order to accept that change. And now I'll do a quick two finger pinch in order to center my artwork. And I'll tap the double arrow icon in the top right corner in order to hide the interface. And that is how you create a state of the art hand turkey, in my case, using Adobe Photoshop Sketch, running on an iPad Pro, along with an Apple pencil. But I stress, you can use any app that you like, including Photoshop along with a walk on tablet.

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