How to draw and paint an animal with Illustrator!

1/27/2022

How to draw and paint an animal with Illustrator!

Today, I will try to draw a simple animal animations with Illustrator. The animals to be drawn are 12 symbolic creatures from the Zodiac. Related information has been posted on the blog. (Go to related blog)

Most of all, I will explain the mouse face, which is the easiest to draw.

First, draw a circle as shown below. After that, make the ears with small circles.

You need to erase the ear line on the inside of the face. In general, if you just erase using the eraser tool, it will not work. The Illustrator erases by plane unit. So, when erasing a line like this, you must first designate this line as a path and erase it.

In a nutshell, you have to go Object ---> Path---> Outline Stroke, and then erase it.

Next, complete the eyes, nose and mouth with the Blob Brush tool.

For painting the shape, you have to go Live paint pallet by click on the left sidebar.

If you feel some difficulty to find it, you can go Object---> Live Paint---> Make.

Specify a color to fill, and when the cursor changes to a paint bucket, click the corresponding face. If you want to use a pattern fill, you can also choose it like below!

Sometimes, if the live paint function doesn't work like the ear wheel, create an area with the pen tool as shown below. At this time, create a new layer and draw on it.

After drawing everything as shown below, change the order of the layers

Complete the details as shown the final image.

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Create a coloring book with own pictures

5/23/2021

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How to make coloring pages in Photoshop.

Recently, my daughter asks me to make more coloring pages every day. Because I should draw and do housework, I have not enough time to draw on my tablet. How can I make a coloring page using a picture I drew or a photo I took before?
So today, I'll show you the process how you can make own painting into a coloring book using Photoshop. If you don’t have a picture, you can use a photo. Are you ready ?
I am using photoshop cc 2020 version. So I will explain based on this version. First, open Photoshop and load the image you want to make into a coloring page. The shortcut key is ctrl+O. I brought up the image I drew in 2011 called "Hope". It's a picture that was sold in the first exhibition, but someone bought it to give her a daughter. Like the words in this picture, I hope that the girl is running strong with a beautiful dream.

And place the mouse cursor over the picture on the layer, right click . You should create duplicate layer like this.

And then you can see the below message. please just click OK !!

And then you can see the below layers window with creating the duplicated layer.

Then move the mouse over the copied layer and go to the upper menu bar like this orders:
Image - Adjustments - Desaturate

If you have succeeded so far, you should see the image turned to black and white.

Then put the mouse over the copied layer that has turned black and white and right-click to duplicate the layer again.

And then go to upper menu like this: Image - Adjustments - Invert

You should see an inverted image like the below.

Cheer up! You are almost there ! You can click the red rectangle area(as the below screen) for selecting the option of the layer.

Next, select the option, Color Dodge like the below.

OOOOPS ! But Don't panic. Depending on the picture, you may see blanks or blurry images. It is normal.

For the next step, you flow the process like this : Filter - Other - Minimum

And then you can see the below screen.

You let the Radius 1 pixels or may put 2 or 3 if you want. Anyway I'll select Radius 1.

If Radius 1

If Radius 3

Now it's time to create an image for printing.
Please go to the upper menu like this : layer - flatten Image

You can see that the 3 layers have been changed to a single file and the name has been changed to Background.

Now is a final step. Click the upper menu, File and go to Export like the below.

I first saved it as a jpg file for printing. And I'll have to do some coloring with my child for a while.Have a good time.

Before

After

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Free princess coloring page

5/16/2021

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Free download 6 princess coloring pages

Here is the free princess coloring page. Nowadays, when I ask my daughter what she wants to be when she grows up, she always answers me. "I want to be a princess, and then I am going to live in a castle." We often painted all kinds of princesses for her demands, but I feel a lack of items. So today, I am starting to draw the princess I image and remember them from my childhood. It's free and printable. The process is very simple, you can click it and download it. I hope that you enjoy a wonderful moment with your lovely daughter like me.

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