Help sprucing up sketches...

[Az201]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to make my sketches look a bit more professional in the way they're presented. I've come across some examples (which I've attached) and I'd like to do something similar to these.

Does anybody know how to achieve the same effects as the examples I've used?? In particular how to get the background canvas to look similar like it has a muted red, texture-type effect on it?

I've already prepared my line art so that its on a seperate layer by itself without the background.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Ralazir]

Honestly it looks like it's just the particular sketching style of the artist. The tint could have been added later. I know I used to do that to my sketches so they weren't just black and white.

[WickedEdges]

But how is the tint added?

[peterhurman]

looks like he has scanned a canvas or something, applied it as a multiply layer in photoshop, go to hue/ saturation click colourise, and adjust brightness and saturation until it looks ok.

[Matsign]

Ctrl+B for Color Balance. Move slider toward desired color on your line art layer.

You can do other things with fill color layer and messing with multiply or overlay, but it's going to make your line art that color also.

[Az201]

Thanks all,
I'll have a go.

[James.C]

Try working on toned paper too.

[OmenSpirits]

^his avatar rocks!

:D