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Cataclysm-X β Tutorial: Shading and Blending
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Published: 2007-08-30 13:36:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 503844; Favourites: 7858; Downloads: 11833
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...::EDIT::...Larger and edited file on request.
Several people were complaining about the small font. Leaving critiques and comments are more than welcome, but I just don't like it when people use my tutorials and at the same time nitpick about the smallest things and don't even leave a "thank you" note.
So for those who do appreciate the 30 hours I spent in writing and drawing this tutorial: I uploaded a larger file. You can click download for full size.
...Whoa...
This is a MASSIVE tutorial I did in only 2 freakin' days! LOL.
I said I would do a gift for you all because someone hit the 60.000 pageviews. Besides, I got over 1550 watchers and my drawings of Vincent and House got over 1000 favourites.
Ooohh look at the pretty colors. My previous tutorials look quite boring compared to this baby.
Ehm... what else to say...
Have fun!
Watch my other tutorials here!
1. Eye Tutorial
2. Nose Tutorial
3. Hair Tutorial
4. Shading & Blending Tutorial
5. Drawing Progress Tutorial
6. Detailed Hair part 1 Tutorial
7. Detailed Hair part 2 Tutorial
8. Editing Drawings Tutorial
9. Drawing Materials Tutorial
10. Male Lips Tutorial
11. Female Lips Tutorial
12. Proportions Tutorial
13. Group Images Tutorial
...EDIT...
Tortillions cannot be reused except for smudged areas.
However, blendingsticks can be used more often if you sharpen them with a pencil sharpener or sandpaper!!
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Comments: 961
Wow nog een zeer handige tutorial van jou! Thanks for sharing this!!!
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Thank you so much for uploading this! This'll be really helpful
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thanks so much fdor the tutorial! i started practicing realism portraits two years ago because of your artwork! i had lots of trouble with hair, shading, and eyes, so your tutorias have helped me improve by a lot!
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It's easy: you first draw a circle, and than everything else magically appears on paper. Piece of cheesecake!
Good luck!
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Th-thank you, Nic. You are amazing.
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I love your tutorials, my art is looking loads better thanks to you
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I'm glad to hear 
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I love this tuturial^^ It is really helpfull
I found out that you can shapen you papersticks with a knife
and a secound method I figured out in school was that you can blend areas when you are get a sanpaper ( in my case a nail file) and rub your pencil (2h for light and 2B for dark) then get a brush and draw with this the powder...
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wow, this was really helpful, thank you! (:
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LOVE your tutorials! They're clear, well planned out and very helpful, great job!!!
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HA! You're a psychic! sandysupernatural was looking for a shading tutorial lke this yesterday. I have to show her this one. Thanks! ^^
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Even after reading this tutorial I was actually kinda skeptic about blending with anything other than my finger xDDDDD Months later I started using tissue paper and holy SHIT my stuff got THOUSANDS of times better, all thanks to you so
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Highly useful for anyone. And there are more Tuts i will check out.
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Tortillions can be used more often by sanding down the end(s) gently with sand paper. If you get thicker tortillions, this works better (and you can still make them nice and pointy, so you don't have to sacrifice detail blending 
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please read the description first
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...Sorry >< I had read them, but I missed that bit.
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i only have one stupid question .. how do i get that very dark black shades ..
i use canson papers .. and when i shade some area i get gray color .. black and tiny white areas ..
i wonder how do i get that perfect black .. i tried so hard .. even using 8B pencils .. but always gray ..
do u use photoshop after scanning to refine the blackness of those areas ?
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I kind of found how to do this, see there's something odd about the B+ pencils and the H+ pencils, if you only use B+ regular pencils, there is bound to be white graininess, but if you first blend with an HB and then go over it with something like a 4B(you don't really need to go much higher) it will be perfectly black, and you don't have to always blend to the very end, the last layer can be left unblended to achieve the darkness.
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thank you Mr. TheMexicanSmeargle for this explaining .. really appreciate it 
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Oh sure thing no problem :3
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there's no such thing as stupid questions
it really depends on what kind of paper you use sometimes. The paper I use, HahnemΓΌhle Nostalgie sketchbook paper, catches dark pencillines perfectly fine, even when I use regular 2B pencils! Very thin paper such as copy/printing paper wrinkle easily and don't really show the blackness of soft (B) pencils. Canson is a great brand, but perhaps you got the wrong kind of structure and thickness. Make sure to get heavy paper. The thicker, the better
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thanks so much .. but i just wanna show you how did i get the blackness using 6B pencil on this drawing for me [link] check out this link to see the grayness that i got .. do u see those tiny white spots ?
and i've used photshop to refine the blackness of those area that i shaded hardly .. to get this : [link]
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You really are super sweet. I'm not even going to use this and I wanna say thanks.
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aww! 
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Thank you for editing this tut, I really love it..!
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I'm glad you enjoy 
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Thank you for the tutorial! I am recently drawing an anime picture using ref from this wonderful artist
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Awesome tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure if i've got blending sticks or tortillions but I use a nail file to scrape off the dirty parts so I can re-use them again and again
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thanks a million! this is extremely helpful!
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certainly most welcome!
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Maw fricken gawd.
YOU ARE EFFIN AMAZING!!!!
I love you. <3
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No.
Ummm...
You're awsome.^^ Your tuts are really great and veeery helpful.
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Een paar van je tutorials wil ik graag afdrukken voor mijn zelf, mag dat?
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sure thing
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I don't sharp tortillons with a pencil sharpener... I just can't make it right...I use a metal nail file that I found in here,cause I'm to lazy to go buy some sand paper...he,he... And I don't do it,cause the 'sandpaper' result is way better,but some people just erase it...
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thanks! for this tutorial, really needed it. Youre the best! Going to trie this out soon. Hopefully it helps me.
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