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chex-mix — Gimp Tutorial - Soft Shading
Published: 2007-08-26 16:07:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 43248; Favourites: 433; Downloads: 1415
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Lineart Tutorialchex-mix.deviantart.com/art/Gi…
I finally got off and decided to finish this. So yay. Enjoy~ The character I depicted is Amaterasu from Okami, epic video game on ps2 hahah.
UPDATED! - 9/9/10
AAaaa.. much better now. It's short and simple, but I think this method is really good for both beginners and more advanced artists!
Hope you guys like!
Feel free to comment with any question
Since the old version featured a different method, you can still find it here: img826.imageshack.us/img826/21…
warning: super old art lmao
HEYYYYY HERE'S THE FINISHED VERSION OF THE DRAWING FEATURED HEREEE: fav.me/d2ydfjm Note: this tutorial is from 2010! If any part of it is outdated let me know and I will update this tutorial.
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Comments: 102
This probably sounds stupid, but I've never done lineart before.
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But how do you just color inside the lines. My color is just covering the linart and the background so its all grey. :[
Help! *screams and runs in circles*
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Make sure you invert the selection.
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That's amazing, nice tutorial, very helpful. And your ending picture is cool as well. Thanks again ^_^
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i have a really silly question...but how do you view your layers? and how do you colour over the lineart without colouring over, if you know what i mean.
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Press 'Ctrl + L' and a dockable Layers screen will pop up. To get a new layer press 'Ctrl + Shift + N'. You put the lineart on the 'top' layer and colour on any layers below that. If you need anything else, I suggest googling it, it's usually explained much better over there ^.^
Hopefully this helped!
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I have a quetion. After you use the fuzzy select to grow and invert, how do you turn it off?
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you must go to
Select > none select
( i have the german version so I don't know wht it called in english but I hope it helped)
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Helped a lot in my search for a new style. Thanks!
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OMG FUCKING FINALLY
THANK YOU
I KNOW HOW TO USE THE FUCKING FEATHER TOOL NOW
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Who very great !
It's amaterasu from the game Okmai 
Thanks for the tut ^^
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haha!i love you now<3 thanks alot hun<3 haha time to try it ;3
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THANK YOU for the tutorial! xD I tried finding a tutorial on shading and I usually didn't get it and... I got this one! Thanks, this is gonna be very useful for me. >_<
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THAAAAAAAANNNNNKKKK YYOOOOOUUUUUUUUU!!!! VERY helpful, both of them
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Pretty nice. Saved me a lot of pain with the "lineart OVER color" order
*resumes staring at screen to obtain results*
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I cant so the darker tones of shading cause it wont appear, Yes, I duplicated the color layer but it wont pop up.
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omg, this tutorial is so old D:
I'll have the new one up either today or tomorrow, so check back and if you have still have questions feel free to ask :}
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ahh! thank you for this tutorial! I've been filling in those white dots one at a time and it's a pain! *happy*
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No problem!
If you wanna check back in a couple of days, I'll have the updated version of this tutorial up
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when I'm on my color layer I can't select any areas I want to color. do I have to be on the lineart layer?
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Question (a really stupid one): How do you CHOOSE a color? I can't find it! *sob*
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use the dropper tool xP
It looks like the thing you squeeze eye drops out of or something.
then click on whatever color you want to select : D
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this is awsome!! Im gonan try this and see if my pics look better
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=This is very good! I would try it out, but my scanner won't work so, oh well. I just have one question. I need help on how to delete the border around text. Like that yellow and black flashing border that you can't un-select. I need help with that. Thanks anyways! I hope you continue!
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sorry for the way late reply...
but if you still have this problem, the border around text isn't delete-able, unfortunately. It'll show up whenever you work on the image, but if you view the image outside the gimp you won't see it (:
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That's the layer boundary. You can't delete it without deleting the text.
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Thanks to both you and Chex-mix... I've been wondering about that for a while!
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Thanks for putting this up I'm still new to GIMP so this is easy to learn.
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Thanks for making this tutorial. My art looks slightly better now.
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This helped me so much! I used to take hours to color/shade my drawings
And when I used to shade it I never thought to use the blur tool -.-;
Thanks a lot
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OMG! last night i tried to color my first picture on gimp, i think it took me about five hours - if i would have read your tutorial before i would have saved a lot of time.
thanks again.
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where do you find the dialog> Layers? I'm having some trouble finding it.
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if you have the newer version, go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Layers to get them
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Wow thanks for the Tips XD ill try them, they seem easier than the way i am doing it now
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Thanks so much. :3 It's helped me a lot, both this, and your lineart tut. ^^
Thank you.
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hahaha..... we both do the same method.... ^______^
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Wow, your guide is tottaly amazing. I am going to try it the moment my scanner works again.
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