Half B&W Image.

[Ostil]

Hello everyone.

I'm fairly new to Illustrator and want to know if there's an efficient technique in what I'm trying to do. For this picture, I'm want to have half of it black and white, and the other half coloured. The problem is that I'm going to make it look like it's being painted it so it's not simply just dividing the image in half and colour them accordingly.

I think I would use some sort of masking technique and draw the 'painted section' as a mask and have everything below it as B&W. I'm not sure though.


Any ideas? :)

Thanks.

-Ostil-

[micke]

Might be easier to reply if we had a better idea of what your image looks like. And how do you plan to paint it? This may be best done in Photoshop.

micke

[veganboyjosh]

having the artwork would help, but i think i have an idea that might work.

i'm guessing it's a b&w image, and you want to "colorize" several of the elements in the picture?

[kazbear]

I would do something like this:

1. Line art on Layer one.
2. Colored art on Layer two
3. Select the Colored art (Grouped?) and go to the Transparency panel and4 Make Opacity Mask
4. Switch to Opacity Mask Mode and start painting where you want your brush strokes.

I used the Artistic Water Color brushes in this example. Its real easy to experiment after you draw your brush strokes. Just selct all and choose another brush.

*When your in the Opacity Mask Mode, you should be painting with No fill and White Stroke. But you are not limited to this of course. Experiment with Gradients and blends and whatever...

[Ostil]

Sorry, I should have posted an example.


@Kazbear:

That's pretty much the technique I'm looking for! Thanks for the tutorial on how to do it. It doesn't seem too hard haha. :)


-Ostil-