Sketched on location with London Urban Sketchers, and coloured at home in photoshop. I'm often drawn to street furniture, and this was a particularly colourful lot.
It's a great drawing - I love the layering of foreground, mid-ground and and background. However, I've asked students not to use Photoshop fill colours in this class because then a drawing looks 'coloured by computer.' The idea of this class is to combine handmade colours and line work. I think you might be surprised how quickly you could achieve a much more enticing illustration using a watercolour wash to get your background colours. In this case, because you have the five shades of grey laid out, you could turn off 'contiguous' when using the magic wand and with 1 click select all the matching grey areas. Then drag the marching ants to a big watercolour wash source, copy some of that wash, return to the drawing an paste. Then with command U get the grey you want. You're little more than 5 clicks away from having all the greys in beautiful warm, human-made textured colour! Please give it a try. If any questions, please let me know.
Thank you Bill - I will! I did ask in the FB group about how to do this but didn't get a response, so your answer is what I wanted! I have about a million layers though. Not sure if I need to combine them first (can't read your comment while I'm writing this).
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