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Charlie-Bowater — New Video Tutorial
Published: 2014-07-21 20:33:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 73184; Favourites: 2609; Downloads: 1198
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I'm pleased to announce that I have a new video tutorial available. In a follow up to my previous Skillshare class I'm releasing a new tutorial covering my colour process from black and white!The tutorial vid is 36 minutes long and gives you a pretty good general overview of my average colour process. I've tried my best to explain things as thoroughly as possible for any beginners watching, info on layer ordering, colour choices, layer modes etc. I'm sure most of you will understand what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, but I haven't assumed that everyone will know by default. So explanations a-plenty!
The full size PSD is included, with the B&W character from the previous class and the new colour version so you can toggle between the two. My brush pack is also included, which is available all the time regardless (you aren't paying for it!) but I've included it in the pack as well for convenience.
The tutorial is available to download now.
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Discussion is closed? That's OK I'll just ignore that like you ignored what I said 
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Ehmm... right. You have no idea what you're responding to, not to mention you're a little late to the party and this discussion is closed.
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"i just think it's not very honorable to ask, you're making your content unavailable for people in poverty"
"if you were to charge a basic amount of 2 bucks (...) you would be more considerate of people in different situations."
Sorry but this IS personal. You basically called her inconsiderate, dishonorable and tried to put your own, "appropriate" price on her tutorial in your very post. You are now
trying to backpedal by saying that "it is not personal" because you like her art. You liking her art has nothing to do with it.
You are stating your opinion and people are disagreeing with it.
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No, i stated my opinion.. I THINK it's not very honorable. And i said "If you were" it's a what-if situation, she doesn't HAVE to do anything, i give her a suggestion and she can ignore it if she likes, i even expect her to. I NEVER said she's inconsiderate.
If you don't agree with me that's totally fine, but i never attacked anyone and i wouldn't because I (maybe unlike others) am not like that.
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Of course everything you say is your opinion, but it really doesn't matter how you call it. If everyone here understood your opinion as being unfair to the artist, then maybe
you should take into account that they may be right.
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So peer pressure should make me change my opinion? What i think is that it's easy to chime in when 2 other people have already responded negatively as well as the artist herself.. It's easy to back up the artist you like, it's not easy to go against it. Think about that maybe..
(I'm done with this now btw, so if you are done with all the bickering it would be great if you would also not respond anymore)
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It's a discussion = people respond. I don't think this problem is trivial at all, and it's not just about Charlie, but about any artist who decides to make their tutorial available for a price.
You can say and think whatever you want, but the way you worded your first comment makes it sound like you take this paid tutorial practice as dishonorable. Which is why many people feel offended.
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I never said it was just about her.. I even started of by saying it's about a lot of professional artists in general. But.. this is good for now and i'm tired of this.
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People will see what they want to see.
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I'm a student myself and rely on loans that I'll have to pay back one day. I just don't blame others for putting a price on things. But nice try on twisting my words.
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That's something totally different, paying back loans is not the same as being in a situation you can't get out of unless you better yourself as an artist, because that is MY situation, you can just go to school and get a job after that, i can't. Relying on loans also isn't the same as not being able to buy any food, just saying. So free tutorials with good information are important to me, it means i can get myself out of this dire situation.. But at this moment my fridge is empty and i have 3 bucks to survive 3 days, i haven't eaten anything today and paying 9 bucks for a tutorial just isn't an option. I even suggested that maybe charging 2 bucks or something and asking for an additional voluntary donation would be less troublesome, people who want to support the artist can support the artist and people who can't afford it don't have to, in the past when i actually had some money i would donate to people who deserved it in my opinion and i'm sure i wouldn't be the only one.
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Elaborating on your situation doesn't change my opinion. I still stick to what I said in the beginning. I'd like to end this here and wish you the best.
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Sure, you got your opinion and i got mine.
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Well I guess it all comes down to perspective really. I've paid for many tutorials over the years from my favourite artists, and I'm personally happy to support other artists and to see those artists being supported as well!
And saying that I'm not honorable, or I'm not entitled to set my own price, being compared to Mr. Brunet, is indeed personal. Whether you intend it to be that way or not.
The video may not be hours long, but it took me many hours to paint that image, edit the footage, narrate it etc. It's a lot of work, and $9 or £5 in my currency, does not seem like an obscene amount to me.
I've already made a free tutorial, there are tutorials available in magazines, and I've answered hundreds of artists questions over the years. I have given away plenty of help and I don't have to apologies for not giving absolutely everything away for free!
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how dare you x'D
seriously... what a discussion. i never paid for an online tutorial before to be honest, but now i seriously want it going to get it.
you are doing a great job and maybe some people realize that making free stuff is only possible if the artist isn't hungry and homeless >>
(no offense, homeless people who are making free "art"... but i'm not sure it's pretty...)
and if someone is taking time to do stuff for others, there's no time to do things for money. if someone have to work for money, there's no time in doing stuff for others. and guess what? the artist doesn't even have to care. so making stuff for others and getting money out of it should be~ the most honorable way o_O in my humble opinion. thank you for the tutorial!
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That's great and all.. But that doesn't change the fact that ambitious artists in poverty can't get their hands on the better tutorials because people ask money for it, turns out even art isn't free from social status by income.
You have all the right to ask money for what you make but i don't have to agree with it, personally i think it's a shame that all the better artists are charging money to learn about their content now.
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I'll repeat what others have said - drawing is her JOB. She makes COMMERCIAL art and lives out of it. How can you not agree with that if you yourself want to earn money out
of it someday?
She didn't have to make any tutorials at all, and still decided to do so - some are free, some are her extra income. You seriously don't need every single one to get better
at drawing.
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You haven't read my comments right, how could i not agree with her job indeed. I also stated she has more than enough options to make money, she doesn't live off these tutorials you know, that's why i don't agree with what she charges, i just don't agree with her choice.. But it IS her choice and she does whatever she does. You clearly also don't understand the difference between different tutorials, a "tutorial" that just shows her process but doesn't have any explaination whatsoever is barely a tutorial while this one actually has explaination.. Indeed i don't need to see every single tutorial, you're stupid if you think i do (considering i actually MAKE tutorials).
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"but i never attacked anyone and i wouldn't because I (maybe unlike others) am not like that."
You just attacked someone. IF they think that you need every single tutorial, you just flat out called them stupid. It is our CHOICE to buy the tutorial or not. You obviously choose not to, so please leave it at that and stop attacking every single person who disagrees with you. We can agree to disagree and leave it at that. This is Charlie's tutorial, Charlie's choice to charge for it, and OUR choice to buy it. If you have no wish to, then please leave her alone. You've said your fair share and we've said ours.
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Are you serious right now? O_o
Do you know ANYONE who wants EVERY single tutorial? Didn't think so. Didn't attack him personally because he never said that he wanted that.
Case closed. You're just nagging for the sake of nagging.
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In fact, your ImagineFX things are on the magazine's YouTube channel now! Something for everyone on the lovely calming internet www.youtube.com/results?search…
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Making money from YouTube is a lot more involved than most people want to be. You have to not only make your videos but also promote them pretty hard, since it takes large numbers of views to translate into decent amounts of cash. It's not a simple numbers translation either, since the amount you make per advert-supported view depends upon the nature of the advert Google serves for that view.
You're right that there are artists out there just doing the YouTube thing, often non-monetised, just sharing that knowledge. That's great, and you should watch them, but it's rude to come to a teacher to talk about how you're "so over" having to pay for their lessons. It's perfectly normal for students to pay for classes.
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Nothing rude about stating my opinion, no disrespect but she's not a teacher and you are not in a class.. Paying for actual advice where you attend a class is logical but paying for a 36 minute video you find on the internet.. I wouldn't call the maker a teacher in that case.
Fact is not everyone has the money to attend classes, so what is the next best thing for someone in that situation? Tutorials. Now lately proper tutorials are rarely free or cheap.. This is a problem for someone in a situation like mine because that means that you can't help yourself out of a poor situation, the fact that she asks 9 bucks for a short tutorial is part of the problem of society. I'm sure she just wanted to make a little extra cash because she IS an amazing artist and deserves what is coming to her, but i do think it's a very commercial way of thinking and i am saddened by the fact that so many artists choose to do it for the money instead of helping others out.
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You're 20 years old. It's ridiculous for you to talk about a decline in moral standards among artists (or poverty, come to that). Paying for tutorials in not a new thing. It's been this way forever. In fact, the number of free tutorials from professional-standard artists is increasing, and I assumed that was going to be your beef. You also don't have to explain poverty to me, since I grew up in serious poverty and have never fully risen out of it. I spend everything I get, and I'm happy whenever I'm not in debt. My whole life has been about dealing with the problem of not being able to have much of what I want, and no money means no things. I pay for my music, software and other media because of this, not in spite of it. And yes, I'm not in a class where I'd get a qualification, and the price of the lesson reflects that. It's about the same as the cheapest art class at my local community centre, and that would be unaccredited too. This is much more useful to me.
You mention YouTube though. Go there, and find Ms. Bowater's other tutorials, gratis. Fill your boots
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It's not been this way forever. My age has nothing to do with this, i actually know quite a bit about artists through different era's, fact is that it used to be a poor people job! You didn't expect to get rich BUT you could actually expect support from other artists.. In this era, art is mostly commercial and that sucks. People used to help each other out but i only see that among less succesful artists now. I guess it's personal choice if you think an art class is worth less than a video tutorial, to me personally that seems a little odd. At the moment i am in debt (which i've never been so it's very stressful), my outlet is art.. But to then see that there is being money charged for tutorials i'd like to see.. Just reminds me in what a sucky situation i am right now and nobody really even truly cares that i'm about to get my ass thrown out on the street you know.
It just baffles me how little respect and compassion people have for other people at the bottom of society, people just tend to say "well, go find a job then" but they don't listen to your situation or try to understand, same for the people charging for tutorials, they don't care that the people who can't afford it would still want to see it. You can't better your situation if you don't get the tools to do so, fact is that money makes money.
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Sold! Thanks Charlie, very helpful.
Very concise, too. I've bought tutorials by other artists that took me from being perfectly alert to literally falling asleep in my chair, but yours is easy to follow and everything you say is useful. Also you left no gaps in your explanation, so there were no points where I thought, "Wait a minute, how did you...?".
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Same. I know of some people who make really amazing art but the way they explain it is so laborious. Not that you have to be charismatic to be an artist, but to teach, perhaps a little.
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Aw, thank you so much! I tried to be very explanatory so I'm glad that comes across
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It was very interesting to watch how you manage this b&w to color process, especially when you mostly use overlay and normal layers, while many other artists I've seen tend to play with a lot of different blending modes, which can result in a weird "metalic color" effect (if you know what I mean). Yours seems pretty natural, although it requires a lot of overpainting, which leaves me wondering - do you use this method often, or only when it's essential to paint a b&w picture first? It looks as if it was faster and - well, at least for me - easier to paint with colors from the very beginning. I've never felt the need nor was I told to paint b&w things first so I still wonder what are the pros of choosing this method over the other? Thanks in advance for answering.
Oh, and thank you for this tutorial, I was looking forward to this part. The character you created looks fantastic. I also love listening to your voice! ^^
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Yes I suppose there is a fair bit of over painting with my method, and to answer your question starting with B&W wasn't something I used to do very often. I'd usually just start with linework or colour. I picked up the B&W method from my day job really, as most images I work on always start in B&W. I think starting this way just means you've already laid down the values. I don't really think one method wins out over another.
I always say go with whatever is most comfortable though! Line, B&W and colour are all great
Thank you!
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So i guess I shouldn't feel guilty for not liking the b&w method 
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Hehe, not at all! I've just gotten so used to it now!
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Wish I could digital paint like this *_* Fantastic work
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Very pretty, and very nicely done!
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This is fantastic! I bought it as soon as I saw it.
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Love the detailing and the colouring technique.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, you colored it, you're awesome
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hmm, the selz.com link didn't give a paypal option (i ended up just using a card to get it from gumroad anyways)
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That's been fixed now, but nevermind! Thank you
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it was an awesome process tutorial by the way, first 10 minutes pretty much blew my mind on workflow and changed how I view overlay layers...
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Oh sweet, thanks! Glad it was helpful
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I loved the tutorial. Even though I'm already pretty familiar with the method of coloring you used, I bought it because I always dig listening to you talk and watching your art process.
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