Drawing a Highly Articulated Hand

Deke hand draws his very own hand.

Deke's Techniques 164: Turning a Pencil Sketch into Digital Ink in Photoshop

Today, I show you how to turn a hand-drawn pencil sketch into the Photoshop equivalent of digital ink. By which I mean d'ink, which of course precisely rhymes with Deke.

Turning a Photo into an Ink Drawing or a Pencil Sketch (in Photoshop)

Deke's Techniques 026: Turning a Photo Into an Ink Drawing

This week, I show you how use an everyday average collection of smart filters to turn a high-contrast photograph into a credible ink drawing.

Scaling and Editing Traced Artwork

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. In this final installment, Deke scales, recolors, and edits a group of paths to create a finished piece of art.

Expanding and Separating Artwork

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Illustrator to expand, separate, and prepare a piece of artwork for output to any medium.

Live Trace and Resolution

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke prepares the base artwork for tracing in Photoshop and auto-traces it in Illustrator.

All Pirate Flag Files and Art

Adding Contrast and Color

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Photoshop to distill the base art into three colors: rich black, blood red, and page white.

Editing Scanned Line Art

In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Photoshop to adjust, distort, and otherwise refine an ink drawing into a work of perfection.