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Description A lot of people ask me how I paint my paintings and collaborations, so I decided to finally make tutorials explaining the steps I take to get to the results you can see in my gallery.

Here's part 1, which shows how to get the shapes down easily.
In Part 2 I will explain how to lay down the colors, and in Part 3 I will further explain how to polish and detail the picture.


This technique is actually a variation of really old traditional oilpainting-technique called grisaille, aka greyscale. It's a very useful technique which helps separate the painting-process into more easily controllable steps.

I know I personally can get carried away by all the lovely colors of the world and my painting turns out to be a complete mess unless I think about the shapes first, as a separate step! Then comes the colors, then comes the detailing and polishing.


I'm sorry about certain inconsistency with the screencaps and whatnot, I painted the painting in another city with a mac and then came home and changed to my PC, I used two different versions of photoshop, etc. So getting this together was a bit messy. Hopefully you peeps can still understand something of it! @_@

LINEART by *MeganeRid !

TUTORIAL part 2: Adding Colors
TUTORIAL part 3: Overpainting and Finishing

TUMBLR -> [link]

FINISHED PIECE:
Wallpaper:
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juuhanna In reply to ??? [2019-10-15 13:46:44 +0000 UTC]

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Amarthrien In reply to juuhanna [2019-10-15 14:57:07 +0000 UTC]

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MikesScribbles [2018-03-09 04:01:23 +0000 UTC]

Not the program I use, but your tutorial is good enough I can translate it into what I use.
Thanks!

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juuhanna In reply to MikesScribbles [2018-03-09 09:42:14 +0000 UTC]

Great, I'm happy to hear that!

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Elwainen [2016-10-18 02:53:07 +0000 UTC]

finally found a tutorial in english. this is awesome, thanks!!!!

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juuhanna In reply to Elwainen [2016-10-18 21:04:30 +0000 UTC]

Glad to be of help!

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pandamade [2016-06-05 11:03:39 +0000 UTC]

very helpful!! thank you very much! I've been looking for digital grisalle tutorial I saw a lot on Pixiv but it's in JapaneseΒ 
um, I want to ask a question...Does every color (light grey to dark grey) in same layer or different layer?

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juuhanna In reply to pandamade [2016-06-08 09:43:37 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad it's helpful! For this painting I had a solid base layer of neutral mid-grey to start with, and then made new layers for light areas and dark areas. Β 

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pandamade In reply to juuhanna [2016-06-24 05:32:19 +0000 UTC]

ok! thanks for the answer

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hushrain [2015-06-19 00:49:53 +0000 UTC]

What brushes do you use? Photoshop brushes are awful imo :c

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juuhanna In reply to hushrain [2015-06-20 09:22:02 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, I think I used the standard brush at the time I painted this piece... I might be wrong tho, it was so long ago.
These days I use custom photoshop brushes, there's a bunch to choose from! I especially like Loish's, Cubebrush's and Verehin's brushes right now.

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chocosola [2015-02-01 09:07:10 +0000 UTC]

Excuse me, Β I do you think that's a lesson that I helped to translate. I can even download ????Of course, does not matter if you refuse.

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jmarcel2014 [2014-08-27 13:19:09 +0000 UTC]

tHANX ! hELPFUL. Β *<

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juuhanna In reply to jmarcel2014 [2014-08-27 16:39:05 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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bluedrgnMethy [2014-07-17 16:51:34 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful!

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juuhanna In reply to bluedrgnMethy [2014-07-24 15:41:21 +0000 UTC]

Awesome, thanks!

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Ryfaku [2014-06-11 07:32:37 +0000 UTC]

love it
can download this ?

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juuhanna In reply to Ryfaku [2014-06-14 07:55:44 +0000 UTC]

Sure!

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Ryfaku In reply to juuhanna [2014-06-29 01:50:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much

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Do7anii [2014-05-21 00:49:10 +0000 UTC]

Wow.. THANK YOU

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juuhanna In reply to Do7anii [2014-05-22 18:12:58 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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Nayatrei [2014-03-14 23:43:53 +0000 UTC]

nice tutorial btw what are your brush settings?

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juuhanna In reply to Nayatrei [2014-03-17 09:25:22 +0000 UTC]

Uhh, I'm not sure to be honest. I used to have the opacity at around 80% and use a soft edged brushΒ when doing greyscale, back when I did this tutorial (I think). :0 But it's been some two years since I painted this, so the memory is vague...

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Desona [2014-01-05 16:01:04 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial! It helped a lot! Thanks

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juuhanna In reply to Desona [2014-01-05 23:13:29 +0000 UTC]

That's great!

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naomi160 [2013-11-28 14:23:49 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I'm going to try this right now.

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juuhanna In reply to naomi160 [2013-12-09 11:47:07 +0000 UTC]

Ok! Let me know how it went!

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f-a-n-t-a [2013-11-24 02:23:50 +0000 UTC]

Hi there! Lovely tutorial. I just had a quick question - when you add lighter greys, do you keep the hard brush or do you start using a soft brush once you get to other layers?

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juuhanna In reply to f-a-n-t-a [2014-01-01 22:37:48 +0000 UTC]

Hey! I'm sorry to say I can't remember what I did with this one exactly... but unless I'm totally mistaken, I mostly used just one semi-soft edged brush with transparency set on pressure sensitivity. *.*

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f-a-n-t-a In reply to juuhanna [2014-01-03 02:00:52 +0000 UTC]

Ah, makes sense, thanks! (:

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Duexmarble [2013-10-14 05:48:17 +0000 UTC]

How did u put the line Art in Grey. ? Multiply dint work for me.

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juuhanna In reply to Duexmarble [2013-10-14 13:10:36 +0000 UTC]

The lineart is on its own layer, which is set to multiply. So the greyscale and lineart don't go to the same layer at all. I hope that helps? I'm not sure 100% what your question meant..

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Duexmarble In reply to juuhanna [2013-10-16 03:00:37 +0000 UTC]

Ty so much is a good tutorial.

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Quick-Step [2013-10-09 17:15:27 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial was beyond helpful as choosing how and when to colour and shadow is always a challenge that is new every time i tackle a drawing. Thank you for sharing your know how!

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juuhanna In reply to Quick-Step [2013-10-16 07:36:41 +0000 UTC]

Hey that's awesome, I'm happy you found the tutorial helpful! Β 

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ManishaChan [2013-08-26 19:34:21 +0000 UTC]

what does setting it to multiply do?

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juuhanna In reply to ManishaChan [2013-08-27 09:25:16 +0000 UTC]

It darkens while being transparent, so it shows through the values underneath.

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HeartGear [2013-08-10 19:35:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for this tutorial. Β  I've been trying to get a good beat on this style of art, and this is very helpful.

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juuhanna In reply to HeartGear [2013-08-11 08:24:29 +0000 UTC]

No problem, glad I was able to help!

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vandel0123 [2013-08-09 13:58:51 +0000 UTC]

sir tell what number code for the light, grey, medium dark, darklet and what techniques, are you using different type of brush ?? or opacity manipulation? plz sir i need you're help i want to make my own character PLz reply me~~~ T_T

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juuhanna In reply to vandel0123 [2013-08-12 04:46:45 +0000 UTC]

There is the palette of tones of grey at the tutorial (3rd picture), you can pick the colors from there with a color-picker! But yeah, I use 3-4 greys usually. And no pure black or white!

As for opacity... I make a 100% opacity, flat neutral base under the lineart, and then start painting the light and shadow into it with a brush set to around 60% opacity, and with the transparent line-art (60-80% opacity) on top.

I hope that helps, ask me if you need more advice!

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vandel0123 In reply to juuhanna [2013-08-14 04:34:15 +0000 UTC]

ohhh thank you very much sir for having time to answer my questing thx sir ~ ^_^

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juuhanna In reply to vandel0123 [2013-08-14 08:21:01 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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vandel0123 In reply to juuhanna [2013-08-15 14:28:42 +0000 UTC]

vandel0123.deviantart.com/art/…

sir here's my workΒ  i need to clean this and my big problem how do i color this XD any tips sir

Btw sir thank you again for giving my the pallets for light value and dark

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juuhanna In reply to vandel0123 [2013-08-17 08:37:47 +0000 UTC]

I actually have a coloring-tutorial for this method of painting! You can check it out here:Β juuhanna.deviantart.com/art/TU… I hope it helps!

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vandel0123 In reply to juuhanna [2013-08-19 06:16:47 +0000 UTC]

thx sir

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OOQuant [2013-07-16 07:36:35 +0000 UTC]

Hi, I found your tutorials helpful and suits my black and white style...Β 

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juuhanna In reply to OOQuant [2013-07-19 06:42:07 +0000 UTC]

That's great! Thanks for stopping by!

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OOQuant In reply to juuhanna [2013-07-20 04:11:27 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome ^^,

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j-uyen3 [2013-07-08 22:54:20 +0000 UTC]

Ahh thank you so much, I'd been looking for hours and hours for a tutorial on how to paint in just black/grey/white colors... This is so helpful for me! Your other tutorials are great too! Thanks once again!!!

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