Dispersion Effect in Photoshop

Dispersion Effect in Photoshop:

This tutorial will give you knowledge on how to create a Dispersion effect by using Photoshop.

Step 1. Open the image in Photoshop.

Press Ctrl J to duplicate the layer1.

Step 2. Press Up arrow key on your keyboard and move it like this.

Click the new layer and use Paint Bucket tool. Then, click it to the transparent layer.

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Rename the layer 0 (Orig) and the layer 0 copy (Dispersion)

Step 3. Click the Layer Mask and use Brush tool (press B on your keyboard).

Step 4. Right click and choose the brush style to and brush the area of orig and dispersion. It depends on how to make a style like this.

Use the following brush style:
1. Spatter 24 pixels.
2. Spatter 90 pixels.
3. Spatter 59 pixels
But again, it depends on you on how to create it not only my brush style would create a dispersion like that. There’s more brush style there that you can choose.

Step 5. Press Ctrl T on your keyboard and curve it like this.

Press Enter when you are done.

Thanks for reading my tutorial. I hope you learn on how to create a dispersion effect in Adobe Photoshop.

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How to Draw a Caricature in Profile

Here's how to draw a caricature in step-by-step fashion. We'll cover drawing a caricature from a photo in future lesson but for right now we just want to focus on the basic structure that you will need to learn in order to draw caricatures easily.

By learning this basic system you'll have all the tools you need to draw great-looking caricatures. Depending on how much you practice this system will directly determine the quality of drawings that you're able to make.

The different pieces of the face are follows: the nose, mouth and lips, chin, eyes and eyebrows, forehead, hair and ears. Notice the different pieces and the order that they appear. When you learn how to draw a caricature you will draw the parts of the face in this order.

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The reason for drawing them in order is that you will get familiar with drawing the face in the same way each and every time. As with many learned skills repetition is essential and will help you learn more quickly and easily.

For simplicity sake will draw the head from the side for now. The side, more commonly called the profile view, is the easiest kind of caricature that you can draw.

The Nose

The first step when learning how to draw caricature is the nose. There are many different kinds of noses that you can draw and will cover those in another lesson later. For now just copy the nose that you see on the right.

Follow the arrows in the picture when you're doing your own drawing. This is the way your pencil should move over the page. You want to make a profile of the nose (1) then the nostril (2) and then finally the back of the nose (3).

The Mouth

Next we'll draw the lips and mouth. He'll be smiling because the smile will always make the person you're drawing look their best. Follow the 5 steps below to draw the mouth.

1. A Small curve will connect the nose to the top of the mouth.

2. Draw a curve for the top lip. Because we're drawing a man you don't have to worry so much about adding detail to the upper lip, but if you're drawing a woman this upper left definition is essential. Add a straight line to the end of this line to show the natural line that happens when someone smiles.

3. Draw a slightly curved line to show the teeth.

4. Draw another curved line for the bottom lip. Its shape is similar to the top lip. Notice that the bottom lip doesn't directly connect to the top lip. This is a style choice, but I think drawing the bottom lip like this looks better than when they're connected. Feel free to experiment on your own always.

5. To finish off the lower lip draw a "C" shaped curve.

The Eye

The next area to tackle is the eye and eyebrow. Because this is how to draw a caricature lesson is a profile view you won't have to worry about drawing both eyes which makes this kind of drawing much easier.

Start by defining the upper eyelid which should be a little thicker than lower lid because this part of the eye is naturally in shadow.

Next draw a circle for the pupil. One of the tricks to drawing great eyes is to include a highlight. This is nothing more than a simple white circle that looks like light is reflecting off of the eye.

You can then add a simple curved line along the bottom of the eye to indicate the lower eyelid. One of the important things to notice when learning how to draw a caricature is the simplicity of everything. Often less is more here, so resist the urge to over-complicate things.

Look closely at the eyebrows of your subject and draw the eyebrow top of the eye. Usually the eyebrow is slightly curved and follows the shape of the eyelid. When drawing females you should increase the curve of the eyebrow for a more glamorous effect.

Now that the majority of the facial details are completed its time to move on. We'll finish off the ear, forehead, hair and finally the neck to complete this lesson on how to draw a caricature.

The Ear

I like to draw the ear before getting into the hair to give myself a point of reference when drawing the hair. This is really personal preference and if you like you can draw the ear after the hair.

To draw the ear all you need to do is make a curve similar to a backwards "C" shape and then inside that shape draw something that resembles a "D." There are many different ways to draw the year so feel free to invent your own if this style of ear doesn't look too hot to you.

The Forehead

The forehead is a curve that connects the nose upward to the beginning of the hairline. Before I begin to draw the hair I like to put a single point where the back of the head should be.

This gives me a target to shoot for one drawing the hair that helps keep the shape of the head so that it does not appear to be too small on the back of the head.

When you're just starting out learning how to draw a caricature I strongly suggest using a reference point for the back of the head.

The Hair and Chin

This character has spiky hair so as you're drawing keep that in mind and use light strokes so the lines do not get too thick. I usually draw the outside first and then go into draw the hair line on the inside that frames the face and forms the hairline.

Once the hair is finished draw in the chin. Connect it to the bottom lip and follow the image to the left.

The necks on caricatures are usually quite thin and connect to a smaller funny looking cartoon body.

That's it for this lesson about how to draw a caricature. You've now learned the basic parts of the head and how to draw them. In the other lessons in the caricatures section you'll go into more detail on the various parts and learn how to exaggerate and mix and match the different parts to create all different types of heads.

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Learning About What is a Caricature
And What You Need to Draw

Knowing 'what is a caricature' is the first thing you're going to need to understand in order to create some nice looking drawings.

A caricature is really a marriage between portrait drawing in cartoon drawing. The difference between caricature and portrait drawing is that the proportions of the face are a lot cartoonier and the style is much simpler. The features of the face become exaggerated in order to give a more "funny" appearance. How it's different from cartoon drawing is that the picture should look like a real person even though it is exaggerated.

If you keep developing your skills you may get to the point where you're able to draw caricatures professionally. One of the advantages of a pro caricature artist over a pro portrait artist is that you should be able to do a lot more drawings because of the fact that a caricature does not need to be so complex. More drawings equal more cash in your pocket which is a good thing.

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Now that we've begun to scratch the surface let's dive a little bit deeper into exactly what is a caricature drawing...

Generally speaking a caricature is an image of a person with an extremely large head and a tiny little body. The features of the head are exaggerated, so if the person you're drawing has a slightly large nose the caricature of them will have a really large nose. A good example of features that can be exaggerated can be found when you consider the current late-night talk show hosts J. Leno and David Letterman.

Even in real life both of them have extremely distinct almost cartoon-like features. Maybe their distinctly individual look is one of the main reasons why they were selected as late-night talk show hosts in the first place. Jay Leno of course has a gigantic chin and David Letterman has his trademarked buck-teeth. These are great examples of features that can be exaggerated. Let's dive a little deeper into the heart of caricature drawing.

What is a Caricature Made Up of?

There are seven essential parts of the head that can be exaggerated. These parts are the nose, mouth and lips, chin, eyes and eyebrows, forehead, hair and ears. You may notice that I didn't mention the body of the character and this is because the body is generally not as important as the head. We'll save dissecting the body for another tutorial. There's quite a lot to caricaturing, but I hope you are beginning to understand what is a caricature; at least a little bit.

Do you have what it takes?

Before you go on at like you to take a quick test to see if you really have what it takes to draw caricature. Don't worry, I promise it won't hurt and will only take two minutes.

Here's the test. Grab a piece of paper and pen or pencil. Now, see if you can draw the following 10 shapes. If you can get through this test then you really have everything it takes to start making your own caricatures.

Give it a shot, and in case you can't complete this little test I have some other advice for you at the bottom of the test.

If for some reason you couldn't complete the test shapes drawing here's my advice:

you should really give up all hope of ever drawing, or even writing for that matter. Stick to a computer and printed documents because you have the hand eye ability of a monkey, wait, perhaps less than a monkey! Now, I know you can do better! You're better than a monkey! Show your stuff! :)

Here's a little video showing how all of these parts come together to make a simple caricature that you'll learn to make in another lesson.

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Drawing Caricatures from Photos Video

Here's the photo of our handsome subject matter. I selected him specifically because of his distinct nose. It was almost too easy to pick out that feature as the one to exaggerate, but that's a good thing because hopefully you also chose the nose to exaggerate. Most people you eventually draw won't be quite as easy as this but it's always good to start with an easy example to build up some confidence before getting into some more difficult examples.

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So again, following the formula for drawing a face and knowing that the nose is the feature to concentrate on I'm going to go in and draw this character's face. Please watch the video below for a more detailed and clear example of drawing caricatures from photos.

Here are some drawing tips that you can use for your own caricatures from photos:

If you are not yet familiar with drawing the regular human head, do that first before you start to exaggerate things. Knowing the basic structure will give you a solid foundation that you can always fall back on when in doubt. This will also make sure that your drawings look much more believable even though they are cartoons.

Practice drawing the individual features of the face on their own and try to find as many different examples as you can. Once you are familiar with the different shapes and sized that the face's features can come in you will have a good library of parts in your head that you can later recall and use to assemble your caricatures much the same as you would create a Mr. Potato Head toy when you were a kid.

Don't get discouraged by being too much of a perfectionist right at the start. Always draw lightly in the beginning and only once you are happy with your initial line work should you start to darken the lines. You will get better the more you practice!

Get a good art pen (for suggestions please check out the art supplies section) that you can use to trace over your initial line work. As long as you drew lightly with your pencil you should be able to trace it with your pen, and easily erase your pencil lines, leaving you with a nice clean drawing.

Go through old books and magazines to find loads of face examples. Try to expose yourself to as many different faces as possible. One idea for you here is to cut the faces out of the old magazines and paste them in your sketch book and then put your caricature drawing beside it. It's a great way to keep a visual record of your progress as you improve your drawing caricatures from photo abilities.

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How to Draw Caricatures from Photos

To draw caricatures from photos, first you should get a good photo to work from. If you are just starting out then photos are the best places to start since you won't have to worry about your model moving on you. This will give you the extra time that you are going to need in the beginning to create a formula that you can use and apply to drawing all different kinds of faces.

Once you have your photo you'll want to take a few minutes studying the photo and see what features of the face should be exaggerated. Perhaps your subject has a large nose, an obvious under bite or squinty, rat-like eyes. If this is the case then it's easy to know which part will need to be exaggerated.

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For faces without such obvious features take some additional time and see if you can't find something in the face to exaggerate. Don't worry if this is your first time and you feel a little clueless with this process. This is a skill that you can continue to develop over time. The more time you spend looking at and studying the faces of the everyday people around you the more comfortable you will become at spotting and identifying which features you can exaggerate.

Here's an example face that we can look at. Notice the features of the face: the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, chin and jaw line. Can you see some possibilities here? This character was purposely selected because of its naturally exaggerated nature.

Now before we get into the drawing, I'd like suggest that you take a moment to review and remember the formula that we learned in the first how to draw a caricature lesson. Try to keep this formula in mind when drawing this new character. By approaching your drawing in the same way every time your speed will greatly improve over time as both your muscles and your mind become more and more familiar with this way of drawing.

For quick reference we'll draw the parts of the face in the following order: nose, mouth, eyes & brow, chin, forehead, ears, hair and finally neck. If this doesn't sound familiar to you please read through the easy to follow profile video tutorial here.

Ok, so you should now have an idea of what part of the character you think should be exaggerated. Try to stick to just one huge exaggeration for now - if you exaggerate too much the caricature may not turn out as well.

In the next part of this lesson I'll walk you through though the whole process from start to finish of drawing caricatures from photos.

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Everything You Need to Know About
How to Draw Caricatures

If learning how to draw caricatures is what you're after, then you've come to exactly the right place. Caricatures aren't necessarily hard, but if it's your first time trying one it might seem a little bit daunting.

I've been there - trust me, but don't worry because fortunately there are systems that you can follow to help you easily get awesome results without having to spend years and years practicing.

By the time you finish the tutorials on this site you should be able to easily draw caricatures from photographs, still life and also from memory.

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Nothing is quite as impressive to other people when you can come up with a great looking drawing straight out of your head. But before we get ahead of ourselves let me tell you a little about how I got started...

...I was recently hired as a caricature artist at a new club for a special party they were having. Basically I walk around as people are dancing and having fun and ask them if they would like to have their portrait drawn free of charge. The first night doing this I will honestly admit that I was not on my "A" game and naturally I felt bad that I had given some pretty awful looking caricatures.

It was not a very fun night but when I came home I really set out to learn how to draw caricatures properly. In only a few hours I was able to begin to understand some of the little tricks that professional caricature artists use. After a few more days of practice I was able to draw these cartoon faces without any problems at all.

Needless to say the next time I was hired the results were spectacular. The people I drew felt really good because the improved caricatures really brought out their personality, and I was happy because they were happy.

So what I offer to you here is my complete knowledge drawing caricatures. From start to finish I know that you will be amazed at the kind of drawings you're able to do once you've finished reading the tutorials.

Even if you think you can't draw anything at all right now, or in your own words you," Suck," I guarantee that you will learn the secrets of how to draw caricatures that will let you draw like a pro no matter what your current skill level is.

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How to Draw 3D Letters in One Point Perspective

How to Draw 3D Letters in One Point Perspective

The One Point perspective is probably the most realistic and best looking way how to draw 3D letters.
This perspective takes into account that three-dimensional objects become smaller and smaller, the farer away they are from the observer.

Arrange your 2D letters in a way that fits your purpose. I placed them in a circle to demonstrate the 3D effect, which occurs later, from all possible angles.
Choose a point on your paper and make a little cross there. This cross is your vanishing point, towards which the letters will become smaller and smaller.

Take a ruler and connect all edges of your letters through a line with the vanishing point (these lines are called perspective lines).
But don't draw any lines that would cut through a letter.
In some cases, like at the bottom of the left 'E', you can draw the lines for a short distance, until they touch a letter (a 'T' in this example). This gives the impression that the three dimensional shape of the 'E' continues behind the 'T'.
But all lines, no matter how short you draw them, have to point directly towards the vanishing point.

In the case of rounded letters, like the 'S' or the 'D', you don't have any edges from which to start your perspective lines.
Draw tangents to the sides of the letters in this case.
(A tangent is a straight line, which touches a curve in one point, without crossing it.)

And with that your 3D effect is already achieved.
Now you know how to draw 3D letters that beam into infinity.
But if your letters are supposed to end somewhere, you have to cut them off at one point.
Below I use a 'T' to demonstrate how to do this.

 

Place a little mark on one of the perspective lines, where you want your letter to end. The closer you place this mark to the vanishing point, the thicker the letter will appear to be.
Use this mark as the starting point to draw a line that runs parallel to the front side of the letter. In our example this line is the top of the T's back side.
From where this line touches the next perspective line, you continue to draw the back side of the 'T' parallel to the front side.
In this case, it is the right edge of the 'T', which runs straight downwards.

Now you have completed the upper part of the 'T'. But where you have to cut off the trunk is not immediately visible.
To solve this problem, you can draw in the whole backside of the 'T' with dotted lines:

 

First you can draw in the whole rectangle of the T's upper part.Since you know, that the trunk of the 'T' lies exactly in the middle of this rectangle, you can use this knowledge to draw in the whole trunk with dotted lines also.
And on the right side, where the trunk is not covered by the top of the 'T', runs the line we were looking for.

Erase your dotted lines afterwards, and you have successfully constructed the back side of your 3D letter!

Now use the same method for all of your letters. For some this will be easier than for others. Especially rounded letters are difficult, because you don't just have to draw parallel straight lines, but parallel curves.

In the picture above you can still see the dotted line, which I used to construct the back side of the 'D'.
Note that I placed the ends of the '3' and the 'D' very close to the vanishing point, so that these shapes look thicker than the others.

Finally you can erase all perspective lines and the vanishing point, as well as any other dotted lines you may have drawn for additional orientation.
And there you have your 3D letters, floating in the depth of space!

Side Note
This method is a generally good way how to draw in perspective. You can use it to draw any sort of objects in 3D, not just as a way how to draw 3D letters. First you draw your object in 2D. Then you connect its edges with your chosen vanishing point. Afterwards you draw in the backside and erase the superfluous lines. That's it.

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