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blackmustang13 — Shading Tutorial pt 1

Published: 2012-04-29 02:33:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 829; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 8
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a few of you have asked that I make a shading tutorial, so here you go!! I hope its helpful and makes sense! :')

also I should add that if youre shading a character that has light colors AND dark colors for its base, or very contrasting colors on its base, to be careful of shading it all at once! sometimes the shading will look too dark on the light but too light on the dark and it just gets complicated. so i would suggest if youre having that issue either to take your eraser tool, turn the strength down on it and erase where the shading is too dark (on the light parts) OR, do a complete different layer if there is a lot of area to cover on the light/dark or contrasty base.

and again, all these colors sometimes depend on what color your base is, if you want a suggestion on which shading/highlighting colors to use, feel free to ask me!

examples of where i've used this shading technique:


**if you use this i'd love to see! and i would appreciate it if you credited **
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Comments: 14

Love2bd1 [2012-05-25 23:28:24 +0000 UTC]

KEl now that i have photoshop i am going to try this
it may not be the same as cs what ever u have but i bet my collab will look good

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blackmustang13 In reply to Love2bd1 [2012-05-26 00:53:16 +0000 UTC]

yaaaay!!! do it!! cant wait to see

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Love2bd1 In reply to blackmustang13 [2012-05-26 00:54:45 +0000 UTC]

im kinda failing on the lighting because well the shading was hard since the character was purple but i made it through quite nicely

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blackmustang13 In reply to Love2bd1 [2012-05-26 01:02:40 +0000 UTC]

i'm sure it looks great

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Cevoi [2012-05-04 18:06:24 +0000 UTC]

I love your shading :3 have to try it

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blackmustang13 In reply to Cevoi [2012-05-04 20:33:21 +0000 UTC]

aw thanks

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Cevoi In reply to blackmustang13 [2012-05-04 21:39:05 +0000 UTC]

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TheDraconicBard [2012-04-30 17:53:00 +0000 UTC]

Ahh thank you so much! I needed one of these x3

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blackmustang13 In reply to TheDraconicBard [2012-04-30 18:59:58 +0000 UTC]

yay hope it helps !

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The-Robot-Cat [2012-04-29 15:22:22 +0000 UTC]

[link] I tried it out! Very helpful tutorial.

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blackmustang13 In reply to The-Robot-Cat [2012-04-29 17:19:48 +0000 UTC]

wow awesome!!! glad it helped :'D

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The-Robot-Cat In reply to blackmustang13 [2012-04-29 17:23:18 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! yes, definitely helped a lot.

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lonepaws [2012-04-29 09:41:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so very much for putting this uuupppp :'DDDD I love it <3 NomNomNom Its amazing <3

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blackmustang13 In reply to lonepaws [2012-04-29 17:19:58 +0000 UTC]

YAAAY!!! hope it will help friend :')

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