Painting Nemo In Adobe Photoshop
Painting Nemo In Adobe Photoshop
This tutorial will guide in a step-by-step procedure on how to paint the character Nemo from Pixar’s animated movie Finding Nemo. We will use a simple outlined blue print and the above picture as a reference. This tutorial does not require a massive amount of skill, but requires you to take great attention to the little details. Our other tutorial on Basic Painting in Photoshop should be a good exercise for you to start with if you have never tried painting in Photoshop.
Start a new Photoshop canvas, set the width to 800px, the height to 600px,
the resolution to 300px/inch and you can leave the background colour as white, we will change that one later.
Now that you have the canvas ready, use the Paint Bucket Tool (Hit ‘G’ on your keyboard) to colour the background, I have used the colour # 304987 to colour it in dark blue. You will then have to create a new layer and name it Blue Print, we will use this layer as a guide for our painting. Copy and paste the image below into your canvas.
Create a new layer and name it “Face”, this layer and will hold the eyes and the mouth of Nemo. Use the “Magnetic Lasso Tool” (Hit “L” on your keyboard) to select the eyes and mouth. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is easy to use, simply move the move the mouse pointer over the outlines of the eye and the mouth, your selection lines should automatically snap to the outlines. Start first with one of the eyes, once the whole shape is selected, hold shift when making your first click on the other shape to start another selection object. Once you have the two eyes and the mouth selected, use the Paint Bucket Tool to colour them in white.
We will now create another layer that we will use to colour the body of Nemo, name this layer Body. Use the Magnetic Lasso Tool to select the body outline this time, colour the selected object using this shade of orange FF642A. You should notice that this covered up the face features that we made a while ago, to make these appear above the face, you will have to drag the Body layer below the Face layer in the Layers panel. Just simply pull the Body layer down one level. You should get something similar to the picture below.
