This tutorial will teach you how to create a nice airbrush-effect without the help of a drawing-tablet!
Step 1
For this tutorial you can use a picture of a random person. I've chosen the cute Lacey Chabert!
Step 2
First, create a white new layer ABOVE the picture and lower the opacity a little bit. This helps working with different colors!
Step 3
Select the 1px standard brush and set the color to BLACK. Then select the Pen-Tool and draw around the hair and the face. When you made a line, press ESC to start with new anchor points. Press ESC to delete your entire line-creation. Make sure you draw nicely since these are gonna be the lines! Make sure you make every step ON A NEW LAYER!
Step 4
Do the same with the possible clothing, this time on A NEW LAYER AGAIN!!!
Step 5
BE VERY CAREFULL with the lips, because these need to be soft and not HARD and ROUGH... so SOFT.. think soft
Step 6
Eye lines and the eyebrows come next
Step 7
Then do the nose, but lower the opacity to 50%
Step 8
Create an eyeball and just duplicate it and cut off the pieces that reach the border! The eyeball should look like this below: A color with a black circle in the middle and three or two white shine-circles.
Step 9
Color some WHITE behind the eyeballs
Step 10
Then, create a new layer BELOW all the lines and choose a standard color for the skin
Step 11
Choose a bit darker color for the shadow. Also, don't mind your drawing. Just make sure where you drew is the place you need shadow!
Step 12
Then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and select a nice setting, depending on the image
Step 13
Then select a brighter color for the highlights and do the same on a new layer!
Step 14
Give that layer also a Gaussian Blur!
Step 15
Then select a REALLY dark color for the real shadow.
Step 16
Blur that as well
Step 17
Draw some red/maroon blusher IF NEEDED!
Step 18
Gaussian Blur it again!
Step 19
Choose a red color for the base of the lips.
Step 20
Then add a pink color on top of it and give it a Gaussian Blur. Then add white lines to show the gloss.
Step 21
Brush some white on the place of the teeth, IF NEEDED!
Step 22
Grab a gray brush and draw teeth, maybe also lower the opacity...
Step 23
Brush the clothes in 1 color again!
Step 24 Draw with a darker color some lines where the pleats are
Step 25
DUPLICATE that layer and lower the opacity of the original
Step 26
Give the duplicate a Gaussian Blur
Step 27
Choose a little bit darker color for more and heavier pleats
Step 28
Duplicate the layer and give the original a Gaussian Blur
Step 29
Lower the opacity of the duplicate
Step 30
Give the hair 1 color also
Step 31
Select the 1px standard brush again and start drawing some ROUGH lines through the hair with a different color then the standard color
Step 32
Do the same with a little darker color
Step 33
Do the same with a very bright color
Step 34
And just play around until you got nice hair!
Step 35
And when you're done, you merge all layers and you got your Airbrushed-Human!
