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Published: 2013-05-28 00:57:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 55599; Favourites: 1627; Downloads: 717
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Hey guys! Here's something I've had alot of requests for for a long while. This is a step-by-step for the character rendering style I do in the pages of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Universe every month! I've been meaning to put this together for ages and finally had a window thanks to the production schedule for the Sonic/Mega Man crossover.I hope this is useful or at least sheds some light on the process for ya'!
Also, I have a PSD of this lone panel with each of these steps separated onto its own layer. If someone can suggest a way to host that and link it here for download, I'd be happy to share that, too.
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Alright. I always want to find other methods. I should experiment with your tutorial here.
So how have you been?
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2-3 hours?!
Well, I need to speed up. I'll start by checking out those books you recommended, and seriously looking at my coloring process. Thanks for putting this tutorial together!
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No prob! Thanks for checking it out!
Speed largely develops over time and mostly out of necessity. (Especially when juggling multiple books and/or books that blow their deadlines.) What's funny is that I developed this coloring style for the "Genesis" arc - which was supposed to be this big anniversary event with more time and effort put into everything... I liked it enough that I kept doing it, and that style ended up being the fastest way I could color.
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Actually this helps quite abit. I never was that good at managing cel-shading in CMYK. This definitely helps me set a baseline for managing percentages. I do have a couple of questions.
1) So long as your 2 colors adhere to these definitions, do the gradients fall into the 200% to 300% range automatically or do you have to manage them more closely?
2) Noticed you used a dot tone for the background, do you use other programs like Manga Studio to make and manage these or custom in Photoshop?
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1. Yep! Automatically. Also, if you haven't used any K Tone in the mixture you can go in and darken or even use Adjustment Layers or Modes on that area and it will stay 300% or lower, since it only has CMY in the mixture to adjust.
For example, in the final page, panel 3, where Sally is in the foreground. I colored her normal then selected her entirely. Then Adjustments->Hue/Saturation where I knocked the Lighteness down about 20 points. Then Adjustments->Color Balance where I added more blue into the mixture. Because I never used any K Tone in Sally's coloring, all of those mixtures are still 300% or below.
2. All Photoshop. I actually bought some screen tones at an anime convention several years ago that I scanned in and cleaned up. Now I have a small library of dot-patterns to work with!
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1) Nice that's really sweet. I'll definitely give it a shot with the next few projects.
2) Cool I think I can handle that. I do have a few samples I can throw together and define some PS patterns. I probably need some training on their basic use cases and proper application, but that's what research is for. Thanks again Matt!
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oh as for hosting a PSD, Google Drive and Dropbox are great services for sharing files both privately and publicly.
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I know your probably really busy but i took a crack at your coloring style, and thought id share with ya
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Dude, that's awesome! It came out great!
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Thanks for sharing your awesome techniques, Master of Colors.
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8D Wow! Very cool of Archie to let you post this! And nice tutorial!
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Wow I might try to give this coloring technique a spin!
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Interesting. I employ a similar technique, but it has more steps, different tools, and apparently takes me much longer...
This is a very useful tut! Thanks for sharing!
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I always highly enjoyed the work that you do, but finding out that you use Photoshop has made it so much more.
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Way past cool! (seewhatIdidthere//headshot)
I always enjoy seeing people's take on how to color comic panels/pages.
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Might have to give this a shot when i have a chance, thanks for sharing
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Are you guys bringing Shard, Hershey and Julie-Su back?
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Hershey and Julie most likely won't be back in the book anytime soon or ever because of Ken Penders. Shard was created by Ian so he should be back eventually.
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Never say "never" bro. If Penders is really true to the StH franchise, he'll work it out with Archie (we can only hope).
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