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FMA Cel Shading Tutorial
Published: 2010-06-14 05:33:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 47633; Favourites: 2349; Downloads: 1054
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I'm pretty new to DeviantArt, and people have been very kind so far.
So I thought I'd do something for you guys! I've had a couple of people message me asking for a tutorial, and I figured I'd give it a try.So, here's my cel-shading tutorial. Really basic, it's my first one and probably not very good/a little confusing, but I really tried to make sense, I swear. If you have any questions about something in the tutorial, please put them in the comments or message me and I'll try to clarify!
If you'd like to see a bigger version of the finished image from this tutorial, here it is -->
Hopefully the tutorial is useful to somebody!
Thanks,
-Jen
Edit: Thank you so much for the DD! I'm honored. I would have never expected to get one on my old FMA artwork, haha. It's been over a year since I made this tutorial, but I hope you fine people still find it to be helpful.
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Comments: 387
It's nice to see a tutorial that shows layer grouping.
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Thanks man. c: It's one of the most useful aspects of Photoshop, I think, but a lot of people tend to look over it.
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Why don't you use the magic wand instead of the Poylygonal lasso? It seems pretty time consuming to me to draw the selection around the front hair.
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I've found that, personally at least, the polygonal lasso helps me keep more accurate lines. I use the magic wand tool for small, tight areas, but prefer the polygon function for any linear stretches or large areas.
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Ok, personnally I use the magic wand for all the main flat colors at the begining. I select every zone and I expand the selection by 3 pixel just be sure that when I fill it will go under the lineart. It seemed to me pretty tedious to trace with the lasso over line when I saw your process. But it seems to work well for your. Good job !
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This is really helpful! Thank you so much - I'm going to try it out today. ^.^
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Ah, great! I'm glad you found it helpful. c: You're welcome!
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FAVE!!!! this helped me soo much thanks youuuuuuuu!!!!!!!
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Awesome! I'm glad it helped you out! c:
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well we still have to see my next drawing but im at least more confident bout shading
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really cool but how did you get the sketch to look that good in the beginning?? o.o
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Thank you! I've just practiced drawing this character a lot. c:
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well the final result looks very professional (:
but did you scan in a drawing/sketch then draw over the sketch with the brush tool or something? o.o
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I scanned in the drawing, then I used my Wacom tablet to make lineart over it with the brush tool, yep!
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oh you have a tablet like my friend faben does
those are really cool
and hard to use XD
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Arrrgh if only I had a tablet and photoshop....D:
This is great, thanks for making it.
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Hopefully someday you'll get your hands on a tablet and Photoshop! c:
And you're welcome
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<3 i really like Ed <3 he's so cute and short, short tempered,violent ^^ <3<3<3<3
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This tutorial is so great! Thank you! 
I credited here because I used this to color a lineart.... I don't think I'll be able to draw Ed. He's too epic for me. XD [link] If you wanna see 
Thanks again! 
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You're so welcome!
The coloring on that picture looks great! Really awesome job on the hair and eyes especially. C: I'm so glad the tutorial was useful to you!
(and haha, thank you <3)
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Wow, this is really helpful! I got a tablet for Christmas, and I've been having a great time playing with it, but this tutorial gave me a lot of useful information. Thanks a lot for setting it up. I'm off to experiment.
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Great! I'm so glad it's helpful to you. c:
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Wow, this is really helpful! Even if I don't have Photoshop, it still should help with my shading on the Manga Studio!
Ed: I look awsome!!!
Yes you do, Ed. *pats head*
Ed: OI!! HANDS OFF!!!
O_O Sorry!
Anyway, thankys!!!
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Glad you find it helpful, haha! You're very welcome. c:
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This tutorial is very fantastic !!!
very nice work ^^
I want to know how good coloring >w<
(sorry for my bad english)
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it and I hope it was useful to you.
(Don't worry, your English is fine!)
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You're welcome
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An alternate to using clipping mask is to lock the layer's transparency. that way the only thing touched is the pixels. But to each is own
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Yep! I used that in the tutorial. I just prefer to be able to edit my shadows on their own layer. c:
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gotcha. I must have missed that.
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Wow. I can't draw Ed, and I'm sure the animators get really irritated having to draw this thousands of times. Thanks with much love!
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Oh man, I bet it was pretty tough to draw a single character so much. c: Thank you! <3
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I always wondered how people did the really clean drawings like this. I love it, thanks! Though I have a question for you. What do you have your layers set to? Im a noob in photoshop and Ive been playing with different things. Do you have them set to multipy or normal settings? Thanks
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I'm glad you like it--thank you! With this particular kind of shading, all the layers are set to 'normal'. This is because my lines are on their own layer (I do them digitally) so I can paint underneath them with no trouble. However, if your lines are drawn traditionally and scanned, set the layer to 'multiply', then paint underneath, on 'normal' layers. c: Hope that helps!
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Thank you that is helpful
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From your point of view, do you think this would be a good method when doing animations?
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I have used this style for a few animations and it worked out fairly well. c: If you can keep the shading consistent, then I'd say yes, it's a good method.
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Thanks!
Haha--oh gosh, I tried. XD
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Great tutorial! Very helpful
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Great! I'm glad it could help you out! c:
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