Illustrating a bunny girl

Traditional ink meets digital color!

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1"Bunny Girl!" ₍⑅ᐢ..ᐢ₎ This was a study from this photo from Pinterest.

2To start out, I sketched a rough using a thick pencil. Basically, the rough was used to give me a general idea of the composition (like a "thumbnail").

3The next step was getting a more concrete idea of how I should line the drawing, so, using a lightbox, I traced thin lines using the original rough.

4The first go with the lines gave me some good general ideas, but I wanted to clean things up even more, so I went over the last page (again using a lightbox) and added some details.

5It's not "perfect," but that's not the point! This is the end result for the lineart that I was finally satisfied enough to move on with.

6To be able to color digitally, I scanned the lineart I had drawn using Google Drive via my phone. Then, to make the "paper" transparent, I edited the scanned image with Photoshop. (I have a tutorial about how to do this here.)

7Finally, here is the finished illustration, complete with color! I experimented using gradient effects and bright pastel tones.

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Replacing whiteness with transparency

“I want to replace the whiteness in pixels with transparency, basically for lighter pixels to be made proportionally as transparent.”

OK, no problem! Open up Photoshop.

Start with your flattened image

1. Place embedded > import image

Add Saturation/Hue or Threshold adjustment layer

2. Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation > turn down Saturation until image has no color

OR

3. Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Threshold > will result in 100% black or 100% white results