Color Creature Art

Color Creature Art in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Take a hand-drawn creature sketch, clean it up, and color it to match the project's art direction.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Clean up the scanned hand-drawn creature sketch and color it to match the project's art direction:…
Clean up the scanned hand-drawn creature sketch and color it to match the project's art direction: scan into Camera Raw, clean paper noise, convert to layered smart object, block base colors, and deliver a layered PSD and flattened PNG by [deadline=Friday].

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before handing to the concept lead, make the colored sketch read as show-ready: remove paper…
Before handing to the concept lead, make the colored sketch read as show-ready: remove paper artifacts in Camera Raw, keep linework on its own smart layer, paint base colors under multiply lines, apply selective color matches to the project's palette, include a PSD with alternate color passes and a small swatch sheet explaining choices.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Special Effects ArtistAdobe PhotoshopClip Studio Paintalso: Clean Hand-Drawn Sketchalso: Match Art Direction

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