Create an Adorable Childrens Illustration
What child wouldn’t love a real-life teddy bear to have as a friend? In this tutorial, we will show you how to create an adorable children’s illustration using digital painting techniques in Photoshop. Let’s get started!
Tutorial Assets
The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial.
Step 1
Create a New File by going to File > New (Command/Ctrl + N). In Preset select International Paper and in Size, A4.
With Paint Bucket (G) and a light, desaturated blue, fill the Background Layer and add a new layer (Shift + Command/Ctrl + N). Use a darker tone and a brush with which you feel comfortable. In this case I used a regular round brush with Pen Pressure and Transfer Mode activated. I have drawn on different layers, several creatures quickly, no more than 3-5 minutes each. In the end I ruled out the ones I did not liked and I left three that seemed to work fine.
Step 2
Choose the sketch with which will work. Discard the other layers and using Command/Ctrl + T increased the size of the chosen layer. In a new layer above, with the Brush Tool (B) with Pen Pressure activated mode, Transfer mode (optional), start to clean and define the drawing.