The picture was drawn by my fiance. Ive always been interested in enhancing her drawings with Photoshop but she has never let me. Now that she's letting me fool with them, I'm going to town on them. This is the first out of many most likely. Comments and critique to help me improve would be awesome. Her uploaded picture was a bit blurry and hard to work with so I had to do a little bit of the face myself. As far as shading goes, she didn't really have any on her drawing so I only added a little which you can barely see anyway.

Enjoy!

Fixed the eyes and changed the ugly background color!

This is something I’ve been wanting to do (however I don’t have the necessary tools to go about it). What you’ve done so far is good, but why not use more effects and whatnot on the picture? I guess that *might* take the purpose out of it a bit, but you could always mess with adding a bunch of effects and things to make the image more...grabbing, instead of leaving it the same (almost) as the original. I guess I figure that if you’d use Photoshop to enhance something, why not add more to it? It’d still be the same piece of art, you’d just be...adding to it.

If that makes sense, haha. I guess I’d say treat it like a sig, or something like that (though not with all things that make a signature a signature). For instance in this picture, I don’t mean go layering the woman with gradients and completely morph her, I guess it’d more or less be just spicing up the background with a bunch of things...

I dunno. Anyway, that’s all more or less personal preference. Maybe not something you had in mind, but just an idea. Otherwise the enhanced version does look good (so does the other, but this topic is for the other versions >.o) =).

Sorry if this post was unhelpful. You make brilliant sigs, so I think it’d work really well to transfer some of that over to these pictures when you enhance them. I dunno. I’m sure someone else will have better advice than me, haha...>.o.


Edit: Your updated version looks much better =). Though I still stick with what I said before. Then again, I don't know if you meant these to look as if they're the pictures themselves yet just enhanced (sharpened, etc.), or if you meant to really..."go all out". But whatever. Good work with these two =).

Yeah i also have wondered how to do this iv looked at a couple of tut's and it doesnt look to hard its just the shading that is diffucult

If the shading was already put on the original image, I would have done it. Of course, I could have done all of the shading myself but I'm too lazy. Hopefully I will have some more artwork to present sometime this weekend if my fiance will let me get a hold of her art book.

If she will let you have it? be a man and bash her for it ahaha jks for all the females on here yea man i would like to see more

I think these "enhanced" pieces don't look really enhanced to me. To me it looks like they were simply scanned onto you harddrive and coloured in with the bucket tool.
It is very monotonous, it is 1 colour of hair, 1 colour of background and 1 colour of wings. Try using different shades to bring it to life.
Do you know the old books/cartoon Miffy the Bunny? It is exactly how this looks like.

Pesmerga is absolutely right. It's something that's VERY hard to do, but shading something can make it 100000x better. I did it with two of my own drawings:






Granted, these are EXTREMELY basic, it just shows how some color shading can make them more 3D. There are plenty of tutorials for this, and I think tutorials for "Cell Shading" are the best to find.

Looking at colored anime/manga helps too. Shading takes a REAL art trained eye to visualize, so as a beginner (like myself), it's extremely hard to envision how all the shadows will be. But by looking at several pictures, you can see what something might look like.

For instance, on that first pic I have of the man in the cape, I had no idea where the shadows would hit on a billowing cape, so I looked up SUperhero pictures and looked for ones with similar poses, and then designed my own shadows from there. STuff like that is really helpful.