Making a marker-style rendering

…So let's talk about how to do a marker style rendering like this one by…Carlos Espinosa.…I usually start this in Illustrator.…So let's move to Illustrator.…And I went ahead and pasted the illustration, and…now I'm going to turn it into a template.…So I can double click on the layer check the template box and click OK.…I made a new layer, and then went ahead and…traced that with the Pen tool in Illustrator.…And one of the benefits of doing this is that you can get a really beautiful…line quality by using the Stroke panel here, and using these profiles.…

I can add profiles to finesse the shape of the line from thick to thin.…I can also use this great Width tool, to control thick and thin places as well.…If I need a little bit more control or…flexibility over those lines, and it's a very handy tool.…Once I've got my illustration complete, let's zoom out I can go ahead and…select it, copy it, and move into Photoshop.…

And let's go to this file here, make a new layer, and paste it in Photoshop.…I always like to paste as a smart object.…