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Dawn-Shade — Cell-Coloring Tutorial using GIMP
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Published: 2011-01-13 16:14:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 14854; Favourites: 292; Downloads: 484
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Hello, I'm back again! And I have something to you!OMGWTF 10.4 MB on size?
This is an enormously sized tutorial with the length of longcat.
Don't forget that download button on the right!
This is my most advanced tutorial. Not for the faint-hearted.
j/k. It's still easy to follow. But, you must already used to most tool in GIMP.
Other tutorials made by me :
Link to final image
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Waah, thank so much for the critique!
I'm glad you like my tutorial!
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No problem! X3 and thank you for the llama!
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Firstly, I must say, this is greatly appreciated. Not only have you gone in depth with this tutorial, but you have also added great visuals and have mixed in a great sense of humour, making it easy and light hearted to watch. Plus a bit of /b/ humour. I can, without a doubt say that i have learned a lot from this tutorial. Your humour made it original and your technique of explaining was brilliant. You answered all the right questions, and allowed us time to absorb all that colourful knowledge of yours.
Read this tutorial.
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PROFIT!
i feel I need to suggest this for a DD, so all the GIMP users can benefit from this!
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What a lovely tutorial! Thank you and I want to try bakso xD
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I've used some of these techniques before (like the perspective tool one) but man, what a great tutorial! 
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I am happy to read that!
Thank you
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There's a lot of GIMP tutorial here y'know
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Do you have any tips for using the perspective tool to make the shadow? It seems no matter what I do the perspective image looks crazy. I even put the four points like you have in the image but for me it ends up being small or far away from the base. It doesn't look neat and connected like yours does...
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certainly! I think I know what's wrong..
since it perspective tool, you need to use it like you draw with perspective lines.
for example: [link]
that's a perspective lines with 2 vanishing points. you need to put all four points with that lines as guides.
perspective tool, you just need to arrange them perspectively.
(sorry, i kinda hard to explain with words. If you still doesn't understand, don't hesitate to ask further. I'll explain with my own images!
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Ah, thank you. Service with a tutorial! I think I understand it now as you pointed out. I've recently been looking at perspective lines and that tool is making more sense to me.
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Good to hear that you understand!
Glad I can help you~
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can you also use images from Google too? Your tutorials are very helpful by the way
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some images are copyrighted, while some are free to use. I suggest use images from stock providers since stock images are usually free to use.
If you use copyrighted images, you may not publish it.
And thank you
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okay and will do. Thank you very much :3
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yes, if you don't, you can check my other tutorial about lining or use linearts created by others (but make sure you have permission to use it!)
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I have a question about the texture thingy.
How do you resize it?
And how do you change the colors?
Hope you don't mind.
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resize with scale tool.
and there are lot of way to change the color. easiest way is with Hue-Saturation
no problem~
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im really confused about the shading thing how does that work i did the mask thing and i know how to use the path tool and i did the selection thing and it turned into a shape thing but how does that help with shading??
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that shape thing is where it will be shaded
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how do you make it shade do you just color it?
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yes, color it with transparent black
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you can make a color transparent?
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of course. you can reduce an opacity of any color.
need a step by step to do that?
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This is the best. X3 Ya know, I had absolutely no idea how people can make those shadows. XD
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Thank you!!
It's simple, to be honest
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Wait: I don't get it, I tried the mask thing for the shading but nothing came up. Am I doing it wrong?
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Make sure you already select the area. then, after masking it, try to draw inside or outside that area.
You should know the differences
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Thanks SO much! ^^ I'll try this method and see if it works for me!
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I tried to do the "grow" part but the edges still come out all jagged and some of the other detail line were gone. What should I do??
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it might be the wrong layer..
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:/ The tutorial in and of itself was decent, and the touch of humor was refreshing, but telling people to just take an image and make it the background it kinda lazy. It gives undue credit and doesn't help people learn how to draw backgrounds, not to mention it just doesn't look as good as if you learn and get good at drawing your own.
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hmmm.. did I tell people to just take an image for a BG?
I'm just taking an image as example for a BG..
Drawing your own BG is always better.
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I don't think you should encourage people to not learn how to draw backgrounds.
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hmmm.. did I too encouraging people to not learn how to draw BG?
I'm just using mine as example. Drawing your own BG is better.
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This is epic hilarious XP I was only looking for trying to make shading tools (like the gradients used in manga) and came across this. Nothing to do with what I'm looking for, but I was compelled to see the whole thing cause the dialogue is very funny
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Thank you so much for your compliment.
I'm very proud of my dialogue-based tutorial.
Did you looking on tone-shading? A shading that used in manga using a tone.
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I found some, but thanks anyway!
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Thank you so much!
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Mind=blown
And I think my cerebellum fused.
This is so awesome, thank you
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