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Published: 2010-03-13 07:56:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 90429; Favourites: 2918; Downloads: 1697
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Basic tutorial, for beginners, and I apologize, it was VERY rushed.Okay so I realized I didn't re-upload my Lion Coloring Tutorial when I came back. So I decided to revamp it a little. And make it a little easier. For those who are either, Technology, age, or English challenged.
I included all the little baby steps inbetween, hopefully it's as easy to follow as I think it is. And hopefully there aren't any confusions. This is how I color. You may have a totally different way, that's fine. I'm just sharing how, over the 8 years of digital art I've been doing and learning different short cuts and what not, the system I'm comfortable with.
You can use it for things other than lions, it's just best suited for TLK style coloring and shading. It's meant for all types of Photo shop, and can be adapted for things like gimp, and other programs with some tweaking.
Enjoy, and pick it apart and use what you want from it ^^ I hope if helps.
And if it does send me a link! 8]
And feel free to ask me any questions you may have. (If there are any typos I apologize, dyslexia is a hell of a disease!
For more tutorials, go to my gallery, I have ones on Lineart and shading tips, anatomy, and Backgrounds!
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Hi, thanks a lot for this tutorial, it helps me a lot because I wanted to try to colour a picture like "disney". You can find my work here : [link]
Thank you very much !! ^^
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OMWord! I LOVE YOU!!! I have wanted to know how to do that for like....forever! THANK YOU!!!
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Glad it could help! 8D
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Hey do you think you could help me with one more thing? I just want your opinion, you don't have to do anything. ^^
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Sorry was that a litte to much to ask for?
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I just was wondering if you might have an idea of what colors to do this guy in. ^^
[link]
Thanks for your time.
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I have started on a 1000 by 1000 canvas and also tryed starting on a 3000 by 3000 canves but my lines still look blurry blocky and well, really bad.
I dont know what to do.
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Do you have a screen shot or something I can use to look at, like which brush your using and what the lines look like.
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I can get you one. ^^
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Great tutorial! I just switched to photoshop since Corel Painter doesn't work on Windows 7 and I'm quite confused so I hope this clears things up.
It should, the tutorial is very well done.
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I might give this a try. the style I use is similar to this to some extent, well without the gradient shading that I had never thought of before. I just usually invert the main color of the character, darken it some, then use it for the shading.
I'll have to remember to set my shading layer to multiply next time I draw 
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Thanks so much, you really helped out a noob!
Used here 
And I love your Simba
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8] glad it could help.
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I hope it works for you!~
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I'm going to fave this and use it later. I'll try this way instead of the way I normally do it. :3
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x3 hope it works for ya!
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x3
Btw do you do the same thing with the base color for humans as well? like their skin tone or?
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yep, I use this for almost everything unless I'm doing a realistic portrait.
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oh! okay 83 and do all those steps then just put down the colors you really want? ^^
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Ah okay, thank you. Sorry if I was annoying you slightly
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I've only ever used GIMP to color my work. What program are you using in this tutorial?
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So, Hey, Where can I find this photomanip at?
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What Photomanip? This is a tutorial about drawing.
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Oooooohhhhhhhh?
o_O
Heh I'm an Idiot!
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I use the expand/contract option a lot in photomanip, but it never occurred to me you could use it in drawing too. O_o
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It seems like the expand/contract is a tool hardly anyone realized was there, or that they could use it.
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Well, I knew it was there, obviously (very handy when it comes to getting rid of excess pixels when you're combining two images), but as for using it for digital drawing, I didn't know you could use it.
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Yeah, and it works very well ^,^
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Wow, that is awesomeee, I love Simba. I might try it. I hope it not too confusing for me XD
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It shouldn't be, it's pretty much as simple as it gets~
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okay :3 its still awesome XD
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great tutorial! ^^
there's quite a lot of usefull shortcuts here that i didn't think about!
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x3 Hope it can be of some use~
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I'm not sure if you can help me, but I have problems finding the right brush to use. I have Corel 11 instead of Photoshop, and though I love the program to death, I can't seem to find the right tool to make my line art look like this! Is there a specific brush name that you know of that will make the lines smoother, but thick??
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Hmmm, I don't use corel But maybe this can help you. [link] If not I'm sorry, I wish I knew more about Corel
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Alright, thanks! I think I have the closest looking brush- I fiddled around with the program and used your tutorial as a reference.
And I wish I also had Photoshop! XD
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