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Published: 2005-08-29 04:41:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 185642; Favourites: 3306; Downloads: 20804
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WAIT GUYS HOW DO YOU ADD THAT NICE CUSTOM THUMBNAIL PIC??Whew finally finished.
Well this is the tutorial that I said I'll do all the way back in January. It covers basically how I color the face and hair.
Well I put a lot of work and thought into this, and hopefully those who asked will find it useful. If you are a beginner, you might want to read this as well:[link]
It's the tutorial that I first learned how to CG from
.For those of you read it, I'm curious as to what you think so please leave a comment if its not too much trouble.
I feel that I haven't explained some of the steps very clearly so if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them here.
Notes:
1: Example of LIGHT:[link]
Example of SHADOW:[link]
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thanks muchly! (: This is, by far, the best tutorial i have ever seen
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I've already got a nice foundation for CGing (though I'm not really good at it yet), so this tutorial was pretty good. I got a bit confused with the colors. I'm not quite sure I fully understood you there.
For your first tutorial, you did well.
Heck, I even learned what the lock thingy did in PS (yea...I don't know 1/2 the stuff I can do with PS yet...I learn as I go....). I'll definetly use that this time when I color my picture!
Also, the extra links are nice. but [link] doesn't work.
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you are amazing. i've seen a whole bunch of other tutorials up on deviantart but they just gloss over a whole bunch of sections like blending. for beginners like me blending has always been a complete mystery. i've tried a million different ways myself but none of them ended up like the painterly effects all my favorite artists have.
about the brush part in your tutorial. when you said it would be better to drag the slider to firm, but would be better as painter, did you mean it would be better to use the painter program or something? my lines always end up so raggedy no matter how steady my hand is or how fluid i try to make it, hopefully this will work.
i was also curious if you know of any particular reference books that you use for coloring with photoshop?
later
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hi...wooowww i realy luv your gallery and the tutorial...and the link for bigginers(like me) ...thanks..
ok...see you...bye
AND THAKYOU!!..THE TUTORIAL IS VERY USEFUL
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Very helpful without a doubt, instant fav! ^_^ oh and thank you very much for the link to the other tutorials, very much appreciated! ^_^
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OMG this is awesome. Can this work for painter IX as well
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thank you so much for sharing this with us 
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Muahaha, the same old howtodrawmanga colouring tutorial. I start my journey in CGing from there too.
Well, I guess my only problem are the eyes. I draw them too big.
THNX A LOT FOR THE TUTORIAL.
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this is a very useful tutorial. Thank you so much for sharing ur technics..... u r the man.
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wahhh so very helpfull.. especialy the blenind.. I always mess around for hours and it still doesn't look how I want it.. I'm jumping to try for myself
I don't know if anyone else has said it but..
To have a nice custom thumbnail pic, as you call it 
I'm off now to finish some sketches and try all new things I've read!!
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Someone out there is very happy with their Gaia commission, I think...
Wonderful tutorial! XD *bookmarks*
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Im gonna try that....and probably challenge myself by using a mouse until i get a table xD
You're a very good CG artist and I like people who have that HTK style in their drawings or coloring. Nice job
Im an amateur but im gonna do my best to get to that level....if i can xD
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I love this tutorial! Can't wait until you next one!
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Very nice tutorial :3
I hope I can do this +_+; I never have much patience for colouring this way...
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What Painter 8 blend tool do you use......
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Detail blender 3. 10-20 opacity. 8-18 size.
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What a magnificent finished piece! :33 I love the part about the blue shading; I had never really thought it through, and now I know basically how it works. Domo~.
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waw! THANKS! now i can colour anything aside from porings haha
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Gya~ finally found a PS7 coloring tutorial. ><~ everyone is using CS T_T
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Wow, excellent tutorial, I'll definitely have to try it out! And speaking of the Neji pic that you used... 
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Super Excellent Tutorial....Thank you for all of your hard work getting this together to share with us... learn a lot from it..great that you took the time to explain where you did..sure helps.
Will treasure the part about the painting a nose...!! great examples!!
Would love to see you do one using just Painter..any version.. Thanks again, Coin
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This helps a lot. I never did CG before, so I'm not very good at it, but now my stuff look decent
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nice tutorial...but this computer is........ so slow ....i don't know what happened to the server and the connection...... i'll watch you, so i can drop by to see this tutorial tomorrow 
nice gallery 
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Lovely tutorial, now I know what the layers are for . . ^_^
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My tablet cant TIp feel i set it but when try in painter 8 it not take effect TT
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OMG!!! thank you SO MUCH! this is so incredibly helpful ;o; wahhhh idnars secrets revealed!!! XD its a lot easier than i thought actually @__@ it really really helps thank you so much for putting your time into making this for everyone X3 its also really great how you put that one thing that shows where the shading should go. that is so useful and just what i needed. youre my savior XD!
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Ha ... Nice Tutorial, I hope I am able to use it for my art in the future ... if I can improve my drawing skills first ...
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totally kickass
great tutrial, but i havent tried using it yet
cant wait to put it to use when i get a tablet thingy
sorry if i havent been checking ur work latley but i will do not worry hahahhaa
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Thanks a lot
keep it up and ...
Best of luck
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wow this would have saved me so many hours painting my dragoon if i had discovered it earlier!
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thank god for this! You... are a good, good person.
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LOL not really, but thanks anyways ^^'
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Aw... I see... ace tut my dear!
But I might need some help from you on a test piece, see whether it looks right or not T__T;
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Sure! Tell me when you finish.
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This is going to come in handy. Thanks for all your help and hard work.
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1. How did you put your base colors on your pic? Did you color over your rendered sketch or you created a new layer?
2. What the substitute for the "blend tool" in Photoshop?
3. On your STEP 4, instead of using a soft-round brush to blend the colors, can you select (feathered) the part to blend and use gaussian blur (w/ desired radius value)?
4. Oh well... it's really confusing. Let's warp to the last part of your tut. On the last pic (Neji), How did his skin got smooth like that? Still using blend, soft-round brush, and/or liquify?
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1. If I have a lineart over it, I use one solid base color on a layer under it. If I use a sketch I just paint over it with 3 base colors, approximatingly matching the value under it.
2. Shoot did I really say there was a "blend tool" in photoshop? There are no blend tools.
3. You don't have to select if you locked the layer's transparency, I but I wouldn't recommend blur to do anything other than blurring. You lose detail, and I forgot to include a sharp points in shading section(more to do this weekend).
4. Sorry, if you think it's really confusing. Yes, the soft-round brush tool, actually I used painter 8's detail blender tool as well but it's perfectly possible to do it with the brush tool (I've done it lots of times), its just faster. I don't use liquify to blend anything, only to modify misaligned/ugly features, anatomy problems, etc. Not recommended if you lineart.
Hope that helps.
LOL you're Omega-Knight! Its not like you really need the tutorial all that much. Maybe the light source section might help. Love your comic, hilariousness. But I must say, with all those comments, yet0 favs makes you a seem a very...interesting person 
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I may draw semi realistic pics right now... your works are very inspiring!
More tutorial!!
Handseals: 
BYAKUGAN!!
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