21-Draw-Illustrators-Guidebook-vol-2-ebook-(2021)

LESSON 7: FINISHING UP
In this lesson we review final adjustments
you can make to your illustrations to
make them look more professional.
SAVING
With lighting established, we can save the
illustration to make our final adjustments.
To do this we’ll save it as a JPEG by going
to Actions > Share > JPEG > Save Image.
Once your illustration has been exported,
return to the Gallery view and tap Photo
in the top right corner. Tap on your saved
illustration in your Photos to add it to
Procreate as a new canvas.
FINAL ADJUSTMENTS
Now we are ready to add final adjustments
and effects to our illustration. First, let’s
duplicate the illustration layer so we can
compare it to any changes we make. I
also suggest creating another value check
layer (as we did in Lesson 3) to check your
contrast.
The first adjustment I typically make is to
contrast using Curves which can be found
in the adjustments menu. Adjusting
curves is different from the other menus
we’ve used so far because it uses a graph
to make adjustments. Pull points on the
graph to adjust the contrast. The left side
of the graph represents shadows, the
middle midtones, and the right highlights.
Moving points up or down will increase
or decrease the brightness of each value.
You want to make sure you don’t increase
the contrast so much that it blows out
your whites and causes your illustration
to lose detail. Next I use color balance to
adjust my colors and balance them to the
tones as I see fit.
BEFORE ADJUSTMENTS
COLOR AND CONTRAST
DIGITAL DRAWING
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