deke.com posts about line art

Coloring outside Your Line Art in Photoshop

Deke adds yet another watercolor was to his Photoshop line art self portrait, this time adding it to the only part that's not his face.

Combining Multiple Works of Line Art

Deke adds some fanciful flowers to his self portrait in Photoshop.

Tracing 500-Year-Old Artwork in Illustrator

Deke traces Albrech Dürer's famous rhinoceros in Adobe Illustrator and arrives at a scalable piece of vector art.

Deke's Techniques 175: Creating a Hand Turkey in Photoshop

Here in America, we have a long-standing tradition of giving thanks every November by tracing around our hands and decorating them like turkeys. This movie explains how.

Deke's Techniques 151: Creating a Screen Print Effect in Photoshop

Learn how to create a screen printing effect, complete with meticulously misregistered colors. The black lines go one way, the colors go the other, the blue sky stays fast.

Deke's Techniques 149: Hand-Coloring Line Art in Photoshop

In this week's happy, idyllic technique, I show you a range of tips and tricks for coloring a line drawing in Photoshop. Using layers. It's a thing of beauty, it really is..

Deke's Techniques 095: Turning a Photo Into Line Art

This week, Deke shows how to turn an ordinary portrait into a line drawing. If nature didn't endow you with the ability to draw, Photoshop is the way to go.