Final Project
For this final project, I decided to draw a character from an anime I just recently started watching called Sword Art Online. The character I choose to redraw was the main character, Kirito. Both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator were used for this project but majority of the coloring and shading was done in Adobe Photoshop.
The first step in the process to get to the final product was I needed to choose an image of the character that I was going to redraw. Then I traced over the image to get my initial drawing and then I edited the drawing in Photoshop to make sure that the black lines were black and the background was white. Then I separated the black lines from the image and put them on to their own layer. Then I began the coloring process. For the coloring process I started off with a base color of the skin color on its own layer and categorized everything that needed to be colored and shaded into their own layers. After I had finished all the coloring and shading of the drawing, I then started working on the background. For the background, I also had to have a reference image but instead of tracing the image , I hand-drew the background(but in my opinion it doesn't look that good). After I had finished everything in Photoshop, I then took the Photoshop file and started working with it in Illustrator to add the character's name, a quote said by them, some facts about them, and what their personality is like.