How to Draw With Adobe Photoshop
Adobe corporation's flagship program, Photoshop, is one of the premiere graphics programs on the market. It has myriad uses and abilities, from designing web page layouts and buttons to creating animations and texturing 3D objects. One other thing Photoshop can be used for is drawing. With its brushes, color palettes and undo capability, Photoshop enables you to create amazing drawings, especially when connected to a drawing tablet like Wacom's Bamboo.
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Instructions
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Purchase a drawing tablet and install any software that comes with it to your computer. Then connect the tablet to your system.
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Open Photoshop. Select "File" and click "New." In the opened dialog box make the pixel width and height whatever you want for your project. Make the resolution 300 if you plan to print the drawing on professional art paper. Then click "OK." Go to "View" and select "Fit to Screen" to maximize the area you have to work with.
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Select the "Brush" tool and in the options set the brush width and hardness to what you want the width of the line to be. You can change these setting as you work and need different widths for different areas.
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Select the "Pen" tool from the toolbar. Pick up the pen that came with your drawing tablet and go to an area where you want to draw lines, such as eyelashes. Click with the tool to create a point where the lashes begin. Then click to create another point and a "Path" line appears between the two points. Continue creating points until you have finished the lashes.
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Click on the "Paths" tab above the "Layers" panel and right-click on the path you see. Select "Stroke Path." In the opened dialog box select the "Brush" and click "OK." Photoshop applies the brush line. Continue this process to create all the lines of your drawing.
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