This tutorial is for creating traditional looking India Ink drawings and lineart.

Example:

Process:

1. The Sketch

2. Lineart

3. Main Shading

4. Painting Effects

The Layers:

Materials Used

Line Art Brushes:

The brushes I use for shading and some of the effects are a set I created myself:

The brushes are set for mixing with the color already on the canvas. When shading with black, I use on a white layer set on Multiply. I also use shades of grey on a layer set to Overlay that is a 50% grey background in order to look transparent.

 

Sometimes using a darker color on black black to background set to either Glow or Add to add slightly lighter effects, sometimes looking a bit like salt on watercolor.

 

At these settings the background colors will look transparent.

Texture Effect Brushes:

The Paper Texture I used is from Daub's Set of material, so it's offsite:

This set has a great selection of Paper Textures as well.

I created a quick action set that makes a fill layer and sets it to the correct blending mode.

Using Ink Wash Brush Set

On Using Wet Texture Brushes:

 

Texture Brush 1- Use on a layer without a background

1. Using black as selected color Lightly Paint with black on a Multiply Layer.

2. Switch selected color to transparent and remove black to make more texture.

3. Switch selected color to white and use airbrush to lighten texture to desired shade.

Texture Brush 2 - Use on a layer without a background

1. Using white as selected color Paint to desired level of texture on a Multiply Layer.

2. Switch selected color to transparent and remove white to make more texture.

3. Switch selected color to white and use airbrush to lighten texture to desired shade.

On Using Ink Wash Paint Brushes:

These two strokes show the difference with using the Paint brushes on either using a fill layer with a new raster layer without any paint already on it vs using on a fill layer with a white background on multiply.

Going back and forth between the selected color of black and white, the colors make for a softer looking paint wash.

 

This shows how the ink was looks a bit like wet on wet or watery looking shading.

Finishing Effects

I use other effect brushes on multiply layers to add drips, water spots and splatters.

Watercolor Process

Using a similar process in color with the same brushes makes a piece look a bit like a watercolor painting. The drawings I do in this style, I make a sketch and skip the line art step and go straight too coloring on multiply layers in order to blend colors.

 

Afternotes

I hope that this has helped others and I hope you guys enjoy the material sets. Thank you guys!