Digital Chalk Doodle

I got inspired by my daughter’s recent chalk drawings that she did yesterday.  I thought, it would be cool if you could erase chalk or even get more detailed for a cool picture…hey, why not go digital?

So here is what I did on my Wacom Cintiq.  I first opened up a cool piece of software that was designed around the idea of wacom tablet users called Art Rage 2.

I then surfed around and found a decent concrete texture and loaded it in as my paper texture.  By doing this, it gave the actual look and feel of concrete when using the chalk tool in Art Rage 2.

Next, I created a new layer and imported the same concrete texture in as an actual image.  To my surprise, the image lined up with the texture perfectly.  Each dimple and dent in the concrete texture showed with each stroke of chalk…pretty cool.  Now, it really felt like I was drawing with chalk on the sidewalk.

I quickly doodled my Brow tha Mouse character from my old comics and did some rough shading.  There’s a blend tool that could be used which would simulate a finger smudge on the chalk, but I didn’t want to get all into it.

So here it is, my digital chalk doodle.  When we are outside drawing with chalk, my daughter always notices the little baby ants running around. So to top it off, I put a little ant in there for some more realism and gave it a light shadow effect using Photoshop.

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