Tracing Cartoons

Learn how to trace a bad screen capture of Anime-series...

Step 1

Open a new document with a screen capture of a cartoon-serie that was on TV;

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Step 2

For this, you're gonna need the Pen-Tool for this tutorial, so know how to use that first! First select a standard black 3px brush, and draw with the Pen-Tool the OUTER lines only

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Step 3

Then select a 2px black brush and do the rest of the lines

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Step 4

Then, get a brush and draw the eyes

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Step 5

Create a new background, or just remake the background like I did...

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Step 6

Start coloring under the lines

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Step 7

Make sure everything has the basic color that you got with the Eyedropper

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Step 8

And place every color on a NEW layer

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Step 9

Use the Pen-Tool to select all the areas that are dark, and fill that with a darker color ON A NEW LAYER!

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Step 10

Do the same with the extreme shadows

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Step 11

You can also add lightning by selecting a lighter color then the base-color and draw shine-lines on the places that are exposed to sunlight

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Step 12

Finish everything qua shading, and you're done!

Tracing Cartoons Tutorial: Final Result (Click to enlarge)
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