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Illogical-Lynx — Digital colouring tutorial
Published: 2007-12-13 06:27:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 3311; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 60
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When I submitted "Covering Fire" , someone asked me how I do my digital colouring and I said I'd make a tutorial out of my next digital piece.This tutorial is a step by step recipe for how I made Bloodlust . It's a very different picture but still I had hoped that showing what I did in creating it might eventually be of some use to someone. If one person learns just one tiny thing from this than my effort was justified as far as I'm concerned.
I used Photoshop 5 all the way through to the background, so if you've got Photoshop anything then everything I'm doing here will be there for you too.
I haven't included how I did the background, but that's because it was an absolute mess, I have zero skill with backgrounds so I'm not going to poison anyone's mind with my ideas as to how one should do them.
Anyway, please let me know what you think of this. I enjoyed doing it and I think I'll do it again next time I try something on Photoshop too, I'll try and do a more metallic-y one next time too. Like I say at the end, this is not just to help others, it's also for anyone who kicks ass at Photoshop to see what I'm doing wrong and correct me, so if you have a suggestion or a comment, please let me know!
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Yay 
I just done my werewolf --> [link]
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Thanks for the link! It's a pretty damn cool picture! Very glad I could be of help.
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Psh, course you can!
I just use the polygonal lasso and the paint bucket for the block colour and thats easy enough to do just with a mouse.
The hair is just a series of curved lines and the blood is just splashed everywhere (no pun intended).
Just take some time with it, good things take time! *waves wise-guru's stick*
This picture probably took upwards of 8 hours and that's pretty quick for me. Don't rush things and they just fall into line. That's probably the best piece of advice I could give someone really, it can get rather tiresome spending lots of time on little details, but you'll get to a point where it all suddenly just starts to come together and look really good. Spend the time and it'll work out fine.
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thank yoo! and i haven't fixed the leet picture yet but i'll do it soon 
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browsed it, nice ideal about making the counter guidlenes
(something i found our recently. "create layer clipping mask" will make a layer that only shows up where the one it's attached has pixals. aka it'lll do simlair to the selecting the area.
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Thanks very much!
That clipping mask idea does sound like a good idea actually, I'll definitely have to give it a try.
Thanks for the feedback!
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You're welcome, it didn't take much extra effort. Once my computer's back I'll try do one for a more metallic, armoured character.
Glad I can be of assistance.
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Pretty good stuff. Nice basics...now if only you spent a bit more time practicing basics in something else...you'd be better than me...although you probably already are lol.
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I've been doing the basics at this sorta thing since I could hold a pen... What I'd give for that much experience with a bokken.
Still, I'm gonna try do 500 cuts a day either side these holidays, it's something I can do on my own and it's good training.
We should meet up in the holidays some time while Robert's off and do some practice.
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Yeah, fine by me, but by the way, where were you on thursday? Email me or be on messenger moar often. Btw, it's 1000 cuts, that '500 cuts a day' only works while school's in.
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nice to see you finally psted the tutorial after all^^ to be honest I Higly doubt I'll ever get to use it (since I've never had the patience to use tutorials) but it's good never the less that you're posting it
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Hehe, I'm just waiting for the moment when the tutorial ends up getting more attention than the actual picture! xD
So far it's about even but it could still go over.
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WONDERFUL!!!!!!I shall give it a try as soon as I am free of my work.
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Yah, Photoshop is the good stuff! I just have an old version but it does the trick very well.
Uhm... once my new computer's back home, I'm fairly certain I could help fix your lack of Photoshop for you, if you know what I mean.
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Heh.....perhaps. I tried uploading it once, but Vista is a rotten bitch.
I finally figured it out though! You run the program you wanna install as Administrator, because Vista doesn't exactly like giving access to files your program needs to install correctly.....fucking Windows.
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