Man in Hat

I used Painstorm to add color to this sketch of mine, then I used Metabrush to add texture. I used iColorama to enhance color, tone, and texture.

I started with this 90-second sketch of mine, done with a Tombo pen on paper. I photographed the page and and cleaned it up and brightened it in iColorama using Adjust/Levels and Style/Flow at low opacity. I used one of the Style/Flat presets to thicken the strokes.

I opened the image in Paintstorm Studio, and on a new layer I painted color over the man with the Roller Mouse brush. I will keep the sketch layer as the top layer, and I changed its blend mode to Multiply, so that the other layers can be seen through it, but none of the other layers will obscure the sketch. On another new layer I used a roller brush to create a ground for the figure. I moved this layer under the color layer.

I added another new layer, and I used the paint bucket tool to fill the layer with a yellow-orange color. I dragged this layer to the bottom of the stack so that it would not obscure any of the other image elements on the other layers. I created a layer mask for this layer, and I painted around the edges of the layer mask using the Roller Brush 1. This has the effect of erasing the contents of the layer wherever I painted on the layer mask.

On another new layer which I placed on top of the color layer but underneath the sketch layer, I painted some highlights and with the Round Camel Hair brush. I used Image/Color Balance & Brightness to increase the brightness of this layer. Then I created a new layer just beneath the sketch layer and above the highlights layer, and I painted some shadow areas of color using the Watercolor brush. I saved to my camera roll.

These are my layers in Paintstorm.

I opened the image in iColorama and used Tone/B&W to make a black and white version. I saved it to my camera roll for later use.

I opened the color image in Metabrush. On a new layer, I painted with the Pen 1/19 brush in Brushes/Texture mode. I added a black layer as the bottom layer and turned off visibility of the imported Paintstorm layer. This means that black will show through wherever I didn't have paint on the Texture layer.

I added another layer under the black layer and used the paint bucket tool to fill it with a sage green color. Then, still using the Pen 1/19 brush, I erased around the edges of the black layer, to let some of the sage layer show through.

These are my layers so far. You can see the texture layer (the one I painted in Brush/Texture) on top, the Paintstorm image on the next layer down with its visibility turned off, then the black layer with white painted around its edges, then the sage layer.

Now I added another layer on top of all the other layers, and still using the Pen 1/19 brush, I painted some white around the yellow area.

Here are my final layers. I saved to my camera roll.

I opened the image in iColorama. I blended my previously saved black and white image onto the image using Effect/Blend. I tried several blending modes and slider settings, including the sliders under Set. Here I used the Difference blending mode.

I used Adjust/Tonelab preset 4, and Adjust/EQ2 for tonal separation. I used Effect/Raise to bring out the brush strokes.

I used a preset under Texture/Leak in Overlay mode at medium opacity to add a lighting effect.

I used Tone/B&W at medium opacity to desaturate the image a bit.