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CGCookie — Soft Edge Brush Character Video Tutorial

Published: 2014-04-01 18:40:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 128422; Favourites: 6889; Downloads: 1790
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Description In this Citizen course Tim Von Rueden  takes you through coloring a character from a sketch using solely the soft edge brush. The main two points expressed in this tutorial are how to work from a sketch that wasn’t scanned in as well as coloring using only the basic soft edge brush.

Check out the full tutorial along with the source files to download here: cgcookie.com/tutorial/soft-edg…
Want to know more about the tutorial? There's an introduction video giving a better look at what the tutorial is all about =]
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Comments: 127

Michael-von-Terra [2014-04-02 05:11:37 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!!!

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Loveall1229 [2014-04-02 04:03:20 +0000 UTC]

This is terrific, thanks for sharing!

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Monoyuki-san [2014-04-02 03:30:01 +0000 UTC]

amazing! This is seriously gave me ideas, Thanks for this!

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mikufan1004 [2014-04-02 03:28:01 +0000 UTC]

Omg so cool xD     

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Juicy-Peach [2014-04-02 03:18:28 +0000 UTC]

I love how soft it looks!!

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Disanvel [2014-04-02 02:52:02 +0000 UTC]

So awesome!!
And very helpful, as always   
Thanks for sharing!

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RainbowStr8ghtJacket [2014-04-02 02:49:46 +0000 UTC]

This should help me with painting my characters. I have so many sketches but I suck at digital coloring, it always looks to jagged and not smooth or clean lines

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CherryYang [2014-04-02 02:01:29 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for sharing~that's so useful .I like your sketch line and the figure

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Genericdreams [2014-04-02 01:58:36 +0000 UTC]

Great take on the process!  I'll have to give it a try in my character creation.

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eexxxxxx In reply to ??? [2014-04-02 01:23:14 +0000 UTC]

Sooo helpful. Thank you!!

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moonbaby17 In reply to ??? [2014-04-02 00:50:25 +0000 UTC]

He reminds me of Tingle.

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AtomicBomberBomb [2014-04-02 00:41:42 +0000 UTC]

No way. That's amazing!

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Kokorococoa [2014-04-02 00:24:28 +0000 UTC]

I HAVE SEEN MAGIC

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megaman0591 [2014-04-01 23:45:38 +0000 UTC]

The art style seems based on that of Bravely Default (which I love!)

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CGCookie In reply to megaman0591 [2014-04-12 02:35:50 +0000 UTC]

Same here. Best art book I've gotten this past year especially!

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megaman0591 In reply to CGCookie [2014-04-12 03:25:39 +0000 UTC]

Wait, you actually got the art book? 0.0

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Cr0atoan In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 23:39:50 +0000 UTC]

I wish I could pay $18 a month...

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TheSunWise [2014-04-01 23:27:24 +0000 UTC]

Wow...this made shading seem a lot less complicated to me.

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Junsei-san In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 23:15:44 +0000 UTC]

I love how this is drawn!

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Ghizbo In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 23:15:34 +0000 UTC]

i love this lol

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Rangyi [2014-04-01 22:53:03 +0000 UTC]

The colors are so appealing, thank you very much for this!

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meus-dilingo In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 22:11:33 +0000 UTC]

thank you for this tutorial! very helpful

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I-am-His-artist In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 21:40:47 +0000 UTC]

Nice tutorial and cool character design ^^

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GaCoFlare In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 21:23:30 +0000 UTC]

Great work. 

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ArteDB In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 20:26:27 +0000 UTC]

Great!

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CraftyPixel In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 20:14:25 +0000 UTC]

- Cool! Very helpful, ty. -

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TzarinaRegina In reply to ??? [2014-04-01 19:24:02 +0000 UTC]

This is very helpful. Thanks!

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