Journey to the Pokemon Tower

After the Illustrator lecture, I have decided to vectorize a Pokeball and make an image of a person (in first person view) heading to a tower hoding the Pokeball. This is my procedure:

1. I Google'd a Pokeball sketch:



2. I removed the shading and details of the Pokeball for Illustrator purposes (I plan to live trace it):



3. Using Illustrator, I live traced the image:






4. In PhotoShop, I used selective coloring to color the now enlarged Pokeball (loaded an Illustrator file in PS). (Illustrator creates vector images, so images can safely be enlarged without being distorted or look more pixelated.):






5. I then google'd a hand because I wanted the Pokeball to be held:



6. I removed the white background of the hand so I can place it on top of another image:



7. Part of his hand was cut off! But no worries, the hand originally looked too bright that part of it looked white also, so I restored part of his hand from the layer mask I created for the transparent background:



8. I now placed the Pokeball in the person's hand:



9. I then Google'd a skyscraper:



10. Like the hand, I removed the skyscraper's background:



11. I then Google'd a road:



12. I removed the moon background because I thought it would not make sense to have a Pokemon journey with the background. This is because Pokemon takes place in the Earth, and the Earth has no such atmosphere:



13. I decided to have a twilight background (And yes, the Earth has twilight.), so I Google'd that up as well:



14. I placed the road and skyscraper on top of the twilight background:




15. I moved the skyscraper behind the hills because it looks like it is levitating:



16. Finally, I placed the hand with the Pokeball onto the image:



17. i made adjustments (vibration, hue, saturation, and brightness) of some layers so the image looks more realistic:





Now, a Pokemon Trainer is heading to the Pokemon Tower to challenge some of the best Trainers. Wish him luck!

Adding Color to a Cartoon

Let's take a look at a girl kissing a cartoon.



Her supposed "date" appears black and white, so let's make it more formal by adding color to it.



I have covered the guy's face with just color using another layer. This is because I do not want to remove his face by paining all over it in the same layer. The next thing I did was play around with layer modes (overlay, soft light, etc.) until I feel the result looks sufficient.
Also, I avoided coloring the girl because she is already in color! Oh, the significance of photos!



I chose Multiply for the layer mode because it gives the guy his skin color without overwriting the black lines; darken works too.



I repeated this process for the other parts (including the hair). The entire image now looks more detailed than before because of the color.