Combining traditional drawing with Fresco
For Marcie here I drew my sketch and took photos of some coloured pencil lines I had drawn, and a rug I had made - I liked the woolly texture. Once Marcie's sketch was imported into Fresco I drew over her. I could have brightened up the sketch in Ps and used that but that would have taken me longer!
Using a new layer and a vector brush I drew and filled shapes where I wanted the patterns to be, imported the photos and used a clipping mask to the shapes.
![Colour version of girl with her hands in the air](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/5a56e8d3-1ce9-45d6-8456-6d45f44bb0cd/baa8bc42-ee91-4d4f-9bfa-f3c884be1228_rw_1920.jpg?h=7b4929d256a02891c476fcd00abf79e1)
Colour version of girl with her hands in the air
![Original sketch of girl with hands in the air](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/5a56e8d3-1ce9-45d6-8456-6d45f44bb0cd/673a06ce-d9ba-4564-b5a5-6aa8d6ce98e7_rw_1920.jpg?h=928b1a98bf054b285964aaba847b5d6e)
Original sketch of girl with hands in the air
For my old man I lightened my sketch picture slightly using only the edit setting on my iPad, then imported into Fresco. I didn't want to re-draw him as I had with Marcie because I like the smudgy texture on his jacket. I used a mask to cover the edges of my imported picture. On a new layer I made shapes, as I had for Marcie, in order to create a clipping mask. On the layer above I drew the stripes of his jacket and clipped it with a multiply blend mode. The sketch layer is on top also set to multiply.
![Colour version of man with walking sticks and sleeping cat on his head](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/5a56e8d3-1ce9-45d6-8456-6d45f44bb0cd/d9c1db70-f7b0-4c1e-988c-0624f4a82dff_rw_1920.jpg?h=c6aceda8c9b65374a4dbfd2b7ac3d53b)
Colour version of man with walking sticks and sleeping cat on his head
![Original sketch of man](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/5a56e8d3-1ce9-45d6-8456-6d45f44bb0cd/f3f2151d-8221-4eb1-8b87-048e697f10e1_rw_1920.jpg?h=b9988dea113c21f39dff7a970df660bc)