Take a screenshot of your Alias model

Use an even colored shader in Alias.

Photoshop

Open your image

Right click the top of your canvas>Duplicate

Close the original image, as a back-up

Select an area that has a common tonal value. Here I have made several paths using the pen tool.

Next: Go to shelves and picked Paths>Make New Selection.

>Selections>Save Selection

If you are working on the base layer, drag it down to the copy layer icon and create a copy base layer.

Make sure that your base layer is kept locked

Now with the selection on and the working layer active,  hit Ctrl+J, to jump the contents of the selection up to a new transparent layer just above your working layer

If your selection gets turned off,  just go>Ctrl+click your working layer to load selection for that layer.

NB: A layer should only have 1 selection

Double click the working layer to bring up the Layer Style Options Box

Check Gradient overlay and also make the rectangle active, as shown

>> the gradient in the Layer Style box to bring up the Gradient Editor

Start with a black and white Gradient loaded, as shown

Create your colored pencil range

The small icons are colored pencils, so I’ll call them CP.

If you click a CP the colour palette will appear, so select your left hand color, OK it and then select the right hand color

If you want more CP, just click on the grey area to create a new one

Close Grad. Ed. and return to Layer Style.

Choose Overlay as your Blending Mode

The angle here is the default 90´ so change it to the desired angle for your CP strokes

Beautifully Subtle Rendering Gradient

We don’t have any CP strokes visible just yet , but we do have this marvelous smooth Grad. This is something I use a lot

Magic: Making the Colored Pencil Strokes

>>the red Grad. box and bring-up the Grad. Editor

Just above your CP array, change the drop-down from SOLID to NOISE

To the right check Add Transparent and Restrict Colors

Knock-out unwanted colours with the RGB sliders

Set Roughness to desired level

Go Back to Layer styles Box

I have set Blend mode to multiply, but you can try all the options and see the different effects (I use Overlay and Multiply a lot)

Set angle and Scale

When you have some experience you can read up on the Advanced Blending Options

So Here It Is!

Our first Gradient Overlay Colored Pencil Pass

I am using the original color pic. here to show how we can blend the Grad. Overlay into a colored pic.

I have used some transparency to allow  the highlights from the original rendering to show through

Here I have used 2 different selections with different angles and settings

and I think you’ll agree, it does look very nice

I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it useful

cheers

graham bullock

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