My brush settings were straight and simple. You can set a brush preference any way you wish. Some settings are meant for lines and some for texture and patterns; again, that all relies on the direction you choose.

For sketching, the basic brush was all I needed. You can adjust the opacity and flow of your brush on your Brush Presets palette above. Remember, you’re only sketching your piece, so don’t get discouraged if your lines don’t look like your favorite illustrator’s lines. You can always use the Layers palette and opacities to refine and clean up your lines.

Your Layers palette also has presets you can use in tandem with just about any other feature Photoshop has to offer. Playing with the layer mode (Normal) was particularly fun when I was learning the Photoshop program back in the 4.0 days.

This sketch was basically it. It was, more or less, based off the Wally Wood type of art. Wally Wood, who is of great inspiration to me as of late, is AWESOME!

It kinda grew from there, stemming from homage to a possible mini-tale of “Space Adventure.” This is the first poster/splash page created for it.

The final image size wasn’t a factor, but it’s always good to have a higher resolution setting when dealing with raster-based programs. I went with 300 D.P.I., but that setting can vary depending on what you intend to do with your art. You can adjust this setting by holding Alt+Ctrl+I in Photoshop.

F.Y.I., if you plan on sharing a tutorial, be sure to document screen shots as you go along. I didn’t intend on posting a tutorial of this particular piece, so you’ll be reading more descriptive explanations for some parts.