Hand Drawing with Photoshop

The hand draw style is one of the pure design trends. There are several ways to create hand drawn. You can create it from scratch in Photoshop or you can scan an actual hand drawn sketch. Here is a quick tutorial to show you how to create a hand drawn design in Photoshop using the blending mode and alpha channel.

1 Create brush in Photoshop.
If you have a tablet, you can simply draw the sketch by using the brush tool.



Don’t Have a Tablet?
If you don’t have a tablet, you can create the artwork in Adobe Illustrator and then give a hand drawing effect in Photoshop.
First draw a vector illustration. Then import it in Photoshop. Use the Blur tool to create the smug effect.



2. Invert Color.
If you want to have a white color stroke instead of black — go to menu Image > Adjustments > Invert (or press shortcut Cmd+i) and then select Screen blending mode.



3. Create Color Gradients
What if you want more than just a black or white stroke (ie. colors gradients)? Then you will have to extract the drawing from the white background. A simple way to do this is by using alpha channel.
• Copy (Cmd+C) the drawing.
• In the Channels, create a new channel. Then paste the drawing in the new channel.
• Invert (Cmd+i) the channel layer.



Go back to the Layers, create a new layer. Go to menu Select > Load Selection. In the Load Selection prompt box, select Channel: "Alpha 1" (which is the name of the alpha channel I created earlier).

4. Fill Selection.
With the channel selection loaded, you can fill it with any color.



Using It In The Design
For the purpose of this tutorial, I’m going to show you how your hand drawing on a female model (Model : Melissa).

1. First, cut out the model.



2. Fill the background with some sort of light glowing gradients.



3. Paste the drawing on top of the model.
Lock the layer transparency. Play around with the color gradients.



4. Duplicate the drawing in the background to add more details to the image.