Colorizing a drawing by Ava
My step-daughter Ava has some pretty good drawing skills, and when she showed me this drawing she'd done, I offered to colorize it in Photoshop for her. She helped out with what colors she wanted, and this is what we came up with.
Here's her original drawing that I scanned into Photoshop
Started off by using the Threshold command to make it absolute black-and-white
Selected all the black, and converted it to a shape, so it would be vectorized line art
Started the coloring process by creating colored shapes underneath the line-art
Next I painted in some shading in key areas to give it some depth
And then also added some highlights
Finally added some extra shadows, a colorful background, and an adjustment layer to increase the saturation and contrast.
