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Published: 2012-10-13 10:19:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 28753; Favourites: 866; Downloads: 302
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First off, this is not a tutorial!Rather, it's a step by step process of how I complete a piece of art. As many people will tell you, there is no one right way, this is just to show you how I work =} I haven't gone into depth with tools and techniques, I'll save that for a proper tutorial one day in the future.
Please enjoy!
*EDIT* - Re-uploaded with a larger file size, full view to see in better detail =}
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It's good that you posted this, maybe I can use this as a sort of guide when I start doing digital work and develop my own process from there. X3
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woooooow, havent seen you post much lately.....then again, i havent either, so i cant complain.....
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nice incite to your creative process.
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cool i JUST finshed the my real pic take a look type this in
megaman copy x then go to newest
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This is very cool, thanks for sharing your techniques with us!
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It's amazing to see how you do things.
Wish I could do this. x_x
Gen will always be one of the best chars out there.
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cool it is 7:51 sorry about the hey I am still tierd
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wow she bad ass the shoes and gloves are awsome and great color X) think you could teach me how to shade
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but the thing i dun get most is how to get the blackink outline into the color xD! Thats the thing i am having trouble wit o.o Like here i am..inking the picture but when i set off to lighting and shading the color, the black outline stays black and doesnt blend wit the color XD there like a way for that... ?
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If you find out how to do that, please let me know! I was thinking the same the other day, that I don't know how to do lines that are not black. I think it'd be great to work it out ;_;
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Lmao, well alrite, thank you anyways XD and Yes it would be best, o-o i would sometimes use that Select By color Tool to get the outlines colored, but sometimes i get lazy so i dun color it xD.. "sometimes"? What am i talking about... that's like all the time ...heheh
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It's also something that puzzles me as well, colored outline. Recently I found out that a friend of mine accomplishes that by using highlights OVER the lineart layer, in order to both give lighting to flat colors and the outline. She doesn't do it with dodge tool (no pun intended, I find the colors produced by dodge tool very dodgy and difficult to work with) but selects an overall light color for the whole image at hand and paints over the desired places with a wide brush. The layer is low in opacity and has OVERLAY effects. I found out that technique is actually beneficial when your character goes through an environmental change which affects the overall color palette; instead of changing the entire color palette of your character, a simple hue/saturation tweak alters the whole colors in a suitable way (since the outline highlighter layer is low in opacity and colors in different overlay effects work very differently).
Alternatively you can try MY technique that I used here: [link]
It's primitive; I actually only select (you may also try layermasking it) the outlines and boldly brush over it with different colors on a different layer (tweaking the opacity is crucial for the best way if you're unsure about the colors). It's primitive, it actually wastes your time trying to figure out all the new colors and you also have to color over different parts of the same outline with different colors to match the flat colors, and if you choose to select the outlines, the marching ants animation of SAI or PS kinda strains your eyes as you work with it. I was kind of happy with my end product however so I don't know if you think it's worth it.
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you say it's not a tutorial it's actually a pretty good simplified one, I think. For someone like me that's still learning digital art, and to use PS properly, it's excellent ^^
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I've always loved the way you color! Thanks for posting this. One thing I've always wondered about is how you get the white outline around her to be to even. Do you just draw a white line around her or do it a different way?
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You mean the white outline on the final image? It can be done a few ways but how I do it now is to make a copy of the entire image then flatten all the layers (except the background, so you have like a cut-out of the character). Select it, then expand the selection by a few pixels. Fill it in with white (so now it looks like a silhouette but white), and then paste that on your original image under all the layers. It might take some playing with how far to expand it but you can always go back to the copy image and expand the selection more.
I hope that helps, sorry I'm bad at explaining!
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No, that was a perfect explanation! Thank you so much for taking the time to type that all out.
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What a cute hedgehog! And she has a nice butt xD Nice picture
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Lovely work. If I may, when you start coloring, how do you do it? Do you just brush/paint the color in, do you use shape masks or? I'm looking for ways I can accelerate my coloring process and I'd love to hear how you make yours so clean~
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I'm not a very efficient worker, so I probably do it all the hard way XD For the base colour, I select an area with the magic wand, expand, then fill. For the shading onwards I'll do the same by selecting the same area with magic wand, and then use the pen tool to draw a shape and fill it in. Sometimes with smaller areas I will cheat and do it free hand with the paint brush, but for big curves or straight lines I find making a shape and filling it in is easiest.
If you've magic wand-ed an area too, you can make the shape as big as you like and it will only fill in where the selection is =}
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There are all wonderful tips, thank you kindly :3 I've been using shape layers as a base and painting shadows over them, so I'll have to try some of these~
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That shading part is always what gets me in the end @-@
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hehe yeah the step by step is really nice. well I also love that pose. I mean not only because we can see her cute bum, but it's also very charming. and the lines and colors are very very well done. awesome job girl!
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Excellent art, Gen. Wonderful tutorial.
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Awesome! thanks your tuto give me much tips for draw! :3
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may I ask something? What kind of lineart you use? (1, 2, .5...) (sorry for bad english)
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That's ok! It depends how big I've made the picture, I work in all strange resolutions 
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