Sometimes an illustrator needs to change an aspect of a photograph for humerous reasons. I was asked to draw a spray can in the hand of Mary MacKillop.
Spray cans had not been invented in the days of Mary MacKillop. Parents wanted a photo of her spraying grafitti to comermorate events that had happened throughout 2007. This was to celebrate the year seven passage of rites. The drawing will go on the cover of their magazine.
Here is how I placed a spray can in her hand. Image of a hand holding a spray can.
- I scanned the photo
- Cropped the hand
- Cut and pasted it into MSPaint
For this exerices the Eye Dropper tool becamse crucial in both the MSPaint spray can drawing and the finishing in Photoshop. When ever an artist has to blend two pictures the matching colours need to be fairly technically achieved.
You will also need to use the Magnfying Glass extensively.
- So I literally drew the can into the hand using the Line Tool to make sure the sides were straight and the Curvy Line Tool to make sure the elipses wre gentle and looked realistic.
- Once I had drawn the can into place I used the Brush Tool with the colour selected through the Eye Dropper so that I erased any messyness outside the lines of the can with the right colour.
- I rescued the outlines with the Pencil Tool.
Once the drawing was into the hand and the appearance was neatened I transferred the picture back into Photoshop and placed it on a layer above the original. I then set about blending the two pictures with the Eraser Tool set on Soft Edge. I used the Free Transform Tool to make sure all was in place and then saved the picture in PSD format so that I could work on it further to create the cover
