TUTORIAL: How to make a Cool Doodle Portrait for your Facebook DP

So, on my first tutorial, I’m going to teach you guys a relatively easy way to create awesome doodle art portraits that you can: hang on your creative inspiration wall, offer as an artsy-fartsy gift for a loved one, or use as a cool Display Photo on social media sites to wow your friends!  LEARN: Basic Photoshop & Doodle Techniques

DIFFICULTY: MODERATE (Searching for a good photo is probably the hardest part)
YOU’LL NEED:

• Adobe Photoshop
• Some paper
• a printer (or just visit your local internet shop)
• a pen
• courage to try something new

STEP 1: CHOOSE A GOOD PHOTO

This is the most crucial part of this activity (which probably makes it the hardest part, too). You’ll have to choose a photo that is well lit, has a good angle, has good contrast, and has distinguishable foreground & background. You’ll learn why later.

STEP 2: MASK OUT THE BACKGROUND (Learn Photoshop yeah!)

Open the image you chose in Photoshop and select your foreground (the person, unless you’re making a portrait of a potato) using your favourite SELECTING tool. In this example I used the POLYGONAL LASSO TOOL to manually create the handsome outline of my dad.

Next, we duplicate this layer using LAYER > DUPLICATE LAYER… and hitting OK. Then we turn off the visibility of the original background layer. If you did that correctly, you should have something like this:

Next, mask out the background by clicking the ADD LAYER MASK BUTTON. What this does is that it creates a layer mask (the black and white thing) for the selected layer using the outline we created earlier.

STEP 3: MAKE A THRESHOLD PATTERN (More Photoshop yeah!)

Click on your BACKGROUND COPY layer (to select it instead of the layer mask) then got to IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > THRESHOLD… This opens a small window where you can adjust the threshold settings. You’ll have to experiment on this one to get just the right amount of blacks and whites to make a good pattern for doodling later. Increasing threshold adds more shadows (which means more doodle areas), and vice versa.

In this step you’ll realize whether you made a good or a bad choice in STEP 1. PRO TIP: You can still make a good pattern from a bad image if you are skilled in using IMAGE ADJUSTMENT TOOLS in Photoshop. Simply adjust lighting using CURVES, LEVELS or whatnot on bad images before applying a threshold.

STEP 4: PRINT YOUR PATTERN!

Once you’re happy with the threshold settings, CROP your image to your desired height and set OPACITY to 50%. Add a WHITE LAYER below the threshold-ed image layer to see how it will appear on paper.

Once that’s done, have your pattern printed! Make sure to have surplus copies in case you mess up on your first try ;)

STEP 5: GO CRAZY WITH YOUR PEN!

Now the fun part: DOODLE TIME!

I like to start with the outlines first, making sure that every shadow is contained inside a solid shape. Some parts will be too detailed to trace (just like my dad’s moustache and right eyebrow in the example), so what I do is that I simplify them into a larger shape.
After the outlines, go crazy with your pen and doodle away on the shadows! You can draw whatever you like, and it doesn’t have to always be tribal patterns: you can fill the shadows with words, faces, monsters, cute stuff, even just spirals (or better yet, a mix of all those!)

Pour out your creative juices on this final and most awesome step of the project and you’ll never know what masterpieces you can create! — You don’t have to follow every instruction I placed above to the detail, in fact, I encourage all of you to experiment in most parts and go with your creative gut feeling & create new and exciting stuff! :) Have fun!
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