Now, that I've completed that alteration,
I'm going to go in, and
I think that his hand is a little small now that I've shrunk that portion.
So, I'm just going to go in there and enlarge it.
I'm just making my little changes here.
So, few quick fixes, cleanups here.
I'm going to move this over a bit more.
These are sort of things that you could never
do if you didn't have Photoshop and get away with it.
But don't get too used to making mistakes that you can just easily fix.
You should try to make it perfect the first time.
All right, so manipulating your images in Photoshop is really important,
and it's really fun and creative.
So, make sure that you try that when you use your different layers in Photoshop.
For example, I have many images that I use for Tampopo,
so I have images of dandelions,
and then I manipulate them so I block them out.
Basically, I have these flat graphic design images
of dandelions that I use throughout the series.
Because Tampopo actually means dandelion,
and it's this metaphor that continues throughout the series,
so I have that.
I also have a lot of dot patterns which I'll use in the illustration.
So, those are things I can't give you.
Those are the things you're going to find out for yourself or
take pictures of dandelions,
or buy images online.
Don't pirate anything, make sure that you pay for your images
because there are people have taken their time to take the photographs,
and to give you those images.
So, accumulate various different photographs.
I have a lot of blood splatters,
a lot of paint spotters, dot patterns,
dandelions, and crows as well,
which are all going to add to the different textures and layers of this image.
When you're coloring your image,
I think it's very important to establish what kind of mood you want.
So, for example, if you want to do something that's really intense and dramatic,
you want to use really vibrant and sort of aggressive colors like reds, and purples.
If you want to do an illustration that is more softer sort of colors,
you want to use more blues, and yellows.
So for this image,
I wanted to be really intense and really like,
you're scared for Tampopo.
So, I'm going to use a lot of purples and reds for this particular illustration.
So, make sure that when you're doing,
whatever illustration your coloring,
that you use your colors to really affect
the mood that you want other people to perceive.