

Lock the illustration layer by clicking on the lock icon in the layers panel.The spike lines are quite short, to save time you can try and manually create them the using mouse freehand.Ĭompared to the whole line art, this segment will be much easier and shorter. I used the circle tool to create the eyes, and the Bezier curve again to create the spikes. Having lines of uniform width all over will make the illustration look flat. I reduced the brush size here from 12px to 8px, this helps create more variation.Once you have completed the base outline, you can move in on completing the spikes on the back and the eyes.

No other actions are necessary right now, just follow along the process until you complete the illustration. Note : There may areas where you can allow the lines to overlap, you can delete unwanted portions later.

Note : This will create a stroke using settings defined for brush tool previously(12px, black). With the tool selected draw a simple line and hit ‘Enter’.Select the ‘ Bezier‘ Curve tool form the toolbar.Select the ‘ Brush‘ tool (choose the inking brushes).Therefore, when using a mouse we will have to manually create this effect of a tapering stroke.We will learn this first before working on our scanned drawing. Line weight is key to creating illustrations having a depth to them. Note : You can use your own scanned drawing or follow along the with sketch I have already created. To overcome this problem, we will now learn how to ink and color our sketches using just the mouse. Illustrations in Kri ta using the mouse is pretty much every beginners dilemma, as most don’t have access to pen tablets. Illustration without using a pen tablet ?
