: How to get a hand colored effect in Illustrator or Photoshop? How do you create a hand colored effect, like in the image above, using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop? I'd like to know

@Vandalay110

It does look like scanned and manipulated art. The folders are obviously a dupe, but possibly was conceived as a stand-alone icon and then duplicated. A lot of the brush work looks responsive, which makes me wonder a little about whether it was automatically generated or not.

However, in Photoshop, you can simulate colored pencil using brush dynamics (window>brushes).

Your taste will differ from mine, but I made a preset by selecting one of the "smear" or "splotch" default brushes, and enabling "Scattering" with "Scatter" at 233% on "Both Axes" and a "count" of 7. I then set the brush "flow" to 10%.

I made a layer with a regular brush to draw the outline of a box, and then a layer below that using my brush preset for the shading effects. I painted it using black, and turned on the "color overlay" layer effect.



Note that I drew this with my mouse, so artistic critiques will be met with extreme lugubriosity.

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@RJPawlick971

I think it looks like it was done by hand & scanned.

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@Sue6373160

You can always look for Photoshop/illustrator brushes but its probably just handmade. If you are going for a hand colored effect, why not hand color it (and then scan it)?

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