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Hello

This is my second post and I was thinking about what would be a good post to write and share for visitors of this blog who I assume are illustrators, writers, or people who are interested in making children's book.

I've attended SCBWI several times, went to Critique meet ups and attended picture book class last year. I've noticed that there are a few people who were interested in digital painting and wanted to use Photoshop as digital tool for their art.

So, I thought it will be nice to share what I use to create illustrations on Photoshop.

These tool I am explaining below are what I'm using at work and I have learned from working in animation studios. It is very helpful and you will save lots of time if you know the right tools to use! :)

In this post, I break down into Brush / Layer / Adjustment.

Here are some tips I'd like to share here and I hope everyone finds this information helpful! :)

Firstly, I want to talk about Brush and some brush setting you can play around with.


If you want to give some texture to your work, what you can do is, you can grab texture online and copy and paste on the layer. Here, you might change the normal layer to overlay and bring the opacity down to make it look more natural.


However, it's really up to you as an artist to decide!



Does this happen to you, that you are making over 100 layers and having a hard time finding the layer you want?

Here is a little tip for that one.



Short key for this tool is "V"

Let's say you are on the other layer and want to find the layer you want quickly. While pressing the Control key, click the image on the layer you are working on and it will automatically find your layer. See how comfortable that is! (It was really a struggle for me before I knew about this tool..:/)




Snapping layer tool



How to use it?: Press the ALT key on the layer below you want to snap on.

What it does? : It will only allow you to paint that layer that is snapped on.



Masking tool


How to use it?:Click this box shape thing

What it does? : You can use it to erase only the layer which you have selected.
These tools give you control over the layers you are working on.


Lastly, I want to talk about quick adjustment tools that will help you find value and color, either saturation or desaturated color. Curve, color balance and level adjustment layers are found in small icons on the bottom of layers. Curve is quick way to make adjustment in value and color brightness.


Color balance is a very good tool to make the color harmonized into warm or cool tone. It's great for getting overall mood out from illustration. Level adjustment is similar to Curve but I prefer to use Curve. It's personal choice so you can choose whichever works for you.

I hope this was helpful for some of you who are interested in learning about Photoshop tools.

Here is also my Photoshop Brush tool preset I am using for illustrating my work, please check it out if anyone interested in it!


Thanks and Happy illustrating! :)


Nicholas
Designer | Illustrator
www.nicholas-hong.com
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Nicholas Hong was the recipient of the SCBWI Mentorship Award at the 2015 Summer Conference. Kidlit Artists would like to officially welcome Nicholas to the blog, and ask him a few questions about the Mentorship experience and about what he is up to these days.

Did the feedback you received during the mentorship critiques either change or confirm the 
direction of your illustration?  Are there any specific examples you can share?

Yes, it definitely allowed me to see the areas I am lacking in and gave me a clear direction of where I should go. I was very surprised when all of my mentors told me the same thing, that they all like the same work and they encouraged me to bring that same feeling and energy to the rest of my portfolio pieces. I wanted to test it for myself so I used different styles of my work with 3 different stories. I have some animation background and sometimes I ask myself too many questions to make my work better but I realize that if I rely more on how I feel about something and my intuitive and emotional feelings rather than logical sense, my artwork will show the true "me" better.




What kind of projects are you working on now?

As I am working as a designer full time at an animation company, when I come home, I continue to pursue what I like to do in order to fulfill my creative freedom. I've been working with a writer who I met two years ago at the university, and I've been working on his manuscript. Also, I've never made a book dummy before, so I am challenging myself to make one with a story and style that my mentors encouraged me to go with. With all the helpful advice and feedback that I received from the SCWBI LA conference, I am slowly digesting them and trying to make it into my own. Hopefully, I can come up with something that I would like to bring to the NY conference in 2016.




Is there any type of illustration (or other work) that you’re hoping for in the near future?

Yes I do! Currently I have a very clear vision and idea of an illustration style and book I want to make! I showed it to mentors and they agreed that it has a good concept and one of my mentors  told me how to combine these ideas to create them into a book dummy. I'm very excited! 



Is there one really helpful piece of advice that you’ve gotten since pursuing illustration?  Any one piece of bad advice?

When I was in my second year at university, I've always liked to browse fine artists, painters, illustrators, character designers, and visual development artists. My intuition told me that I would like to be an independent artist. I tried to follow and learn from some independent artists I met in Toronto. However the person who I got the strongest advice from was from Dice Tsutsumi, a former art director at Pixar. His advice was: "Follow your heart and never give up" and now he found his own studio to pursue his dream. 
His honesty and sincere advice is something I always like to remember in order to pursue this fun journey!
It's hard to grasp if there was a bad advice, because I think everyone has a different interpretation of their career path and life event that happens to them; It might work for them. I think the most important thing for an individual is to discover what they are good at and head for that goal. Therefore, I don't see any feedback that was not helpful.




What was one of your favorite quotes or lessons from the SCBWI Summer Conference?  

My favorite quote would be: "If writing is not for you, just put text in the story with illustration!" When I heard this, it really moved me and really encourage me to write with my illustrations.  Before I heard this quote, I was afraid of writing because I am a visual thinker. Images always come to me first and I note it down on my sketchbook so I never thought writing is something for me but after hearing this at the conference, it changed my perspective and inspired me to challenge myself with writing!



What were some of your favorite books when you were a kid?

When I was a kid, I liked poetic feelings and metaphors in the story. Something simple, one of greatest book I liked to read was "The Giving Tree." I thought the story was just so beautiful...it tells you the whole story of the relationship of the tree and the boy, how the tree gives the boy everything… It was a heart- warming with a hint of sadness story that touched my heart emotionally as a child.



Where can we find you online?

My website: www.nicholashongart.com
Blog:  www.nickong1205.blogpost.com 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/nickong1205
Instagram: www.instagram.com/nickong1205
If anyone have any questions, any comments, its best to get in touch with me through email. 
(contact@nicholashongart.com)

Thank you for taking the time to read my interview and all the support I got from SCBWI! It is truly warm and encouraging! :D



Thanks Nicholas!

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