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Published: 2009-03-27 21:44:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 45418; Favourites: 1007; Downloads: 1084
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Tutorial will work in Photoshop 7.0 and up, as for earlier versions, I haven't use them so I got no clue.beware of huge file size. And, keep in mind, I am no pro, not everything I do is perfect, so is this tutorial. It just shows you how I colour, that's all. You should know some basic functions of PS already before looking at this tutorial.
LOL, a tutorial after 2 years of the first request (forgot who it was from >.< ) and it's becoming a habit... I am starting to forget uploading stuff to DA and keeping everything to myself D:
Here is a tutorial I wrote back in January (I know...late). If you have any further questions, post them in the comment and I'll try my best to answer them. (note it's also coming close to my exam week so it might take me a while sometimes).
This tutorial is generalized to save space and size. If you want a even more specific tutorial on specific parts, I will consider it in the future.
Part II: [link]
Finished Deviation: [link]
Legend of Zelda copyright: Nintendo
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Comments: 107
Great tutorial, will try to do the same thing 
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Thank you so much for this cg , love the way you are drawing hair.^.^
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very nice effort to make a good tutorial.....
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Thank you Thank you Thank you a million of times XD It really helped!!!
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Thank you very much dear >w<
I am glad it helped ^^
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Lol. Its actually obvious for me that it's Zelda because of the hair and BG. GREAT STUFF.
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Drawing looks easier now 8D
Thank you for this awesome tutorial! <3
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it's just one tiny thing bothering me.. in your tutorial you wrote the further you are from light, the darker the skin becomes. It is true to a certain degree, because it's not only the light from the light source you have to take into consideration while making shadows, also the reflections from the light source as well.
So as an example the back of the neck should be a bit lighter, because there's always some light reflecting on it. In your finished CG pic, that person is standing in water, and water does reflect the light pretty good.
Maybe you already know this, just forgot to mention it, since I can see some reflections on the clothes from the water, but none on the neck ^^,
oh well, as a side note I really like this tutorial 
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Thank you, well, as mentioned in my artist comment, I have said I am no expert ^^', I can't give you a perfect tutorial. Yes I have forgotten the reflective highlights on the neck (Thanks for telling me ^^), but I haven't forgot about using it. I did mention about reflective highlights (in general) in the second part of the tutorial ^^.
The reason I said "the further you are from the light, the darker the skin becomes" is for generalizing purposes. I thought saying it would make the tutorial easier to understand in short sentences. And the tutorial is geared toward beginners, so learning 1 light source as a starter isn't so bad. The tutorial ends with some mentioning of reflective light sources, so if anyone wants to look into it further, they are free to do so, it's just this tutorial won't cover this.
That said, my drawing style has changed since then. I posted This tutorial very long time ago. Looking at it again after 2 years, I can see a lot of flaws XD.
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after all we learn something new everyday
and no one is perfect after all
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you are welcome ^^, thank you for viewing it ^^
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excellent tutorial ^^
I hope you will make one to have your beautiful lineart <3
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Thanks ^^
I will think about it in the future ^^
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ah cool <3
I will be wanting for it ^^
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How do you decide which colours will make up the shading?
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Hi there ^^, you can chose shading tones that are on the same gradient of your base colour. Say, I have sap green as my base, I could chose a darker sap green for shadow.
Or if you want more variation. I could have sap green for base colour, and then chose a darker tone on the whole spectrum of greens, or colours that are analogous to green on the colour wheel. For example, I could have a dark blue-green for shadow to go with the base sap green colour.
But after all, you can break out of these rules through trial and error, which is still the best method ^^.
Hope it helps.
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Thank you! this tutorial has been really helpful, (though I doubt I'll ever be able to do skin right 
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O I am sure you'll do fine ^^. If you like I do have the skin tones I used listed in this tutorial ^^.
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I've tried and deleted it so many times 
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It's right in this tutorial.
If you've read it it's in there.
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? can I steal the colours from it? thank you!
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I think I might want to try your style. Thanks so much
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you are welcome ^^ Hope it helps ^^
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realy interisting, and practic
and the draw and technic is nothig bad, i learned some new now,
i think that i have to tell "thanks"
so, thanks!
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Thank you for looking at it ^^
I hope it helps ^^
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darn it! I have photoshop 6 i'll try out the tutorial to see if it could work for photoshop 6.
Thanxs for the tutorial
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Oh very cool ^^
I've been trying to get into realistic cg so this will help ^^
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Thanx alot for the nice tutorial . I tried to follow it [link]
<-- That's the result @w@
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I have a q/ if u can aid me on this one,i took a peak at ur CG tut ,and in part I i noticed the variety of colors u used for the skin shadow tone (i have the most trouble with that exact same thing) how to pic out all those diff.colors?
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Well, it's explained in the tut.
The lightest shadows first, then darkest shadow last. The order of light-dark skin colours I gave in the tutorials are placed in chronological order. You apply the lightest skin tone first, then apply the second lightest onop of that, and repeat adding darker colours until you are satisfied. I hope it helped.
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Thanks soo much for the tutorial ^__^
it really helped sooo much!!!!
here is the final result!--->[link]
if possible do you think you could give me some feedback?
its ok if you dont have the time
but THANKS SOO MUCH!!!
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Cool tut, love the cloth in part 2
People reading this and wondering how to get the sharp edges might wanna look at:
[link]
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thanks,
but I only use the Hard brush to get the sharp edges, not what you have there. People reading the tutorial should know that.
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Thank you for the tutorial! I'm always learning new things and this will help!
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Whoa, that's an awesome picture AND an awesome tutorial! It's really helpful! Thanks!
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Thank you ^^
I hope it helps ^^
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You're welcome! It's inspirational
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Faving this to read it later. Seems interesting and looks like some good tips! ^^
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Thanks ^^
I hope it find it useful ^^'
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