Old School Tattoo Style Illustration Effect Photoshop Tutorial

In today's Photoshop tutorial we're going to take a look at some handy illustration techniques that mimic the style of traditional tattoo flash graphics. Solid outlines, bold colours and a stipple shading effect are all key aesthetics of this style. I created the initial sketch of a panther on paper, which you can download to follow along with the rest of this guide in Adobe Photoshop.
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[@emilioberrios5302]

This is by far the best design and illustration tutorial TH-cam channel, thanks for sharing

[@Sabirali00139]

Once Again you done a great job learn many new Technic Thank you Chris such a wonderful tutorial .

[@michkhat]

As always, your tutorials are suburb! Thank you for sharing this, I love everything about it and can't wait to try out these techniques on my next illustration. RAD!

[@SarahZhou]

Omg thank u I have been looking for tutorials on this for ages!!

[@14mwatchingit]

Thank you, i've been looking this for uncertain amount of time.

[@livebig6414]

this is awesome and very unique, thanks for taking your time. 👍🏻

[@tiesfa]

Love it man!!! Keep it up!

[@lycvon4765]

Yet another phenomenal video.
Bravo sir.

[@BlancoSiniestro]

Thank you! Great tutorial!

[@x0scimy0x]

Wow, I never thought I'd see a useful application of the Dissolve layer style! Haha. Awesome design and video man.

[@LaszloHarsanyi_SoundTube]

Now that's cool 👍👍👍
The Bezier tool method seemed a bit of a chore at first, but it's quite fast and fun actually.

[@MACH_SDQ]

Just gooooooood as always

[@bynoor2287]

ive been eagerly wanting to know how to do this effect!!! thanks.

[@junfengzhou8365]

amazing tutorial! Learn a lot~ Thank you~

[@syahranfebrian4570]

great as always

[@0stre]

awesome stuff thanks!

[@PhotoshopTutorialsPS101]

Awesome Tutorial!!

[@j.collinsgonleh7271]

Great illustration

[@jordanrodriguez5522]

Great tutorial

[@nostalgiavault1526]

Really cool tut man

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[@storyfranks9535]

Thanks

[@spoongraphics]

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[@RobertoBraicovick]

Grazie!

[@kikon78]

It's only 3 min in the video and I think I'm in love with you dude, thanks for the awesome tutorials you come up with!

[@saantomero5483]

Cool

[@ashbash986]

nice. wonder if this was inspired by the tattoo of the notorious one.

[@vic3011]

Hey, nice tutorial! Does it possible to do the same art but in Illustrator? Thanks

[@spoongraphics]

I have some Stipple brushes for Illustrator that produce a similar effect: spoon.graphics/2oUQxKN
All those vector details can bog down the CPU, unless you use a raster effect like 'Grain', but then you might as well just use Photoshop!

[@vic3011]

Spoon Graphics Thank you! I'll try to make something similar ;)

[@kol9evseev]

Niiiceeeee 🤗🤗🙌🙌🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏🙆🙆🙆🙋🙋🙋👼👼😃😃😃

[@tepihservisperfekt7415]

What is Command Key, and how can i find it on my keyboard?

[@beefkilla]

ctrl on windows

[@XTheDelimanX]

Why can't the pen tool be uniform in all adobe programs? annoying how the same tool is different in all programs

[@TheYasawy97]

I agree, but its how they make their money.

[@matthiass.19]

Beautiful tutorial :) But for me it looks more like a washed out T-Shirt, then a tattoo 😉

[@jordanrodriguez5522]

What font is that in the thumbnail?????

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It's a font named Fairwater I picked up from a recent bundle. Make sure you're on my mailing list to hear about future deals!

[@jordanrodriguez5522]

Spoon Graphics thank you so much

[@jesusmachado8127]

Here is the drawing:
mega.nz/#!WJEhBSjS!3fTGmO0AcvqQDnymgABkk8D2jaJSvjfZY3uPlI9_4d0

[@danieldiniz9195]

the stroke path don't show for me :c

[@beefkilla]

I suspect because adobe updates down the years since this video was made have tweaked it slightly.

[@Atrac89]

Would be nice if you told us dimensions and PPI....

[@evanw7032]

Panthers aren't black