Fish Monster Cartoon

Here is another sketch that I have done recently. Once again I have taken the image into multiple design applications after scanning it in and then colouring it in. The first step was to Live Trace the character in Illustrator. I then exported the vector into Flash and coloured the character. I also added some extra detail using the brush tool, such as spots on the character and shading on the background. I also used the line and fill tools to do shading on the edges of the character to add a better atmosphere to the scene. Once I had finished colouring the character I exported the image as a PNG into Photoshop. I then applied a simple overlay texture over the picture to add depth to the image. Here is the final image below. I'm really happy with this one because of its light colours, I think the paper texture really helps bring them out as well. I think some lines on the character need a little bit of smoothing out but otherwise I think the jagged lines help the picture by emphasizing the style of it.