Today I have been fiddling around in photoshop. First I scanned in a charcoal drawing of this dude smoking a cigarette. I used charcoal opposed to pencil because charcoal can be scanned as black and white, yet unlike ink you still get that pencil "feel." Then I found some colored paper and scanned that in too. In shop, I cut out the shapes from the scanned paper, and layered them below the charcoal drawing. It's a pretty cool technique because you get some great textures from the scanned paper. Next time I should try fabrics.
The benefit of this technique is it's a nice break from using the default colors in photoshop, which are boring.
I was going for sixties cool, but the colors I chose ended up looking pretty 80s. I'll have to experiment more.
Below is a test I did earlier to see how well charcoal scans.
