To make things a little bit easier we’ll be separating the different elements that were scanned in together. The specifics will depend on your scan, but we’re trying to get rid of any unwanted gray areas and turn them to white. Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and bring the white (right) level a little bit to the left, and then move the gray (middle) level a little to the right. I’m also going to adjust the levels to clean up the scan a little bit. Now that we have the JPG scan open in Photoshop, desaturate it to take out the color (Image > Adjustments > Desaturate). Experiment to see how you like working with different markers and pens. I’ve used a black pen, a black marker, and a thicker blue marker to create some variety. Once you have some things drawn, scan the paper and open it in Photoshop. Plus, you can doodle all you want and then only take the ones that you like best and work with them in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Don’t worry about creating a masterpiece, imperfection often makes the hand-drawn style a little more realistic. To get started, take a pen or a marker and draw some doodles, arrows, or whatever you want to create. If you’re only interested in creating the Photoshop brushes or only interested in creating the vectors, that is fine too. We’ll be using both Photoshop and Illustrator in the tutorial to create a small set of Photoshop brushes, and we’ll vectorize the images for added flexibility. While stock resources can be great for saving time in your design process, creating your own resources is a lot of fun, and with hand-drawn design, this is definitely the case. You can also use the same techniques and steps to create other things aside from arrows. We’ll be creating a small set of hand-drawn resources, but using the techniques covered in this post, you’ll be able to create as much or as little as you need.

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In that case, you can create your own, and in this post, we’ll show you how. While there are loads of pre-made graphic design elements available at sites like Envato Elements, there may be times when you need a specific design element you can’t find anywhere.

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