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kalamu — TUTORIAL: How I Colour Stuff
Published: 2008-03-29 15:12:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 7806; Favourites: 353; Downloads: 131
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This is just a quick tutorial on how I colour most of my sketches and doodles in Photoshop. Of course, sometimes I might be daring and try another style, but this one has grown to me, in all it's shiney, eye burning gloryYeah, my native language isn't English, sorry 'bou that
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What a nice change from the bazillion-step tutorials I see everywhere!
This is just what I need--something simple yet instructive.
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I love it when someone gives tips or tutorials like this.
Thanks so much
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Awesome! I've always wanted to know how you color stuff!
One question: What color do you start out with for pieces like these?
[link] (do you start directly on the blue?)
[link] (reddish gray?)
[link] (...what!?!?)
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You're welcome!
Alone: This one started with the line art as everything else, and then I coloured the background the colour you see it now and made a new layer above that for the little dude in the front
Shine On, Shine: I don't quite remember this one, but my guess it that I started out with a lighter green than the darkest shadows you see there. The style looks more experimental and if you look closely you'll notice cross-hatching and the fact that the darker coloure are layered above the light ones
GAX: Gang...: This one was one of my very first pieces in coloured pencils. My guess is that I drew Gang Gang and then coloured a bit of her, then a bit of the background and just swithced back and forth. It was a new medium and I was mostly trying to figure out how stuff worked (and coloured pencils makes it quite hard to work from dark to light, as well)
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Oh cool! Thanks very much for the help!!!
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Thanks so much for making this. I've always really enjoyed your coloring style. Also, your English was excellent! I hardly ever use color, but I made this: [link] after your tutorial. Thanks again and keep it up!
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I love how you do the dark areas first, that is really nice. Usually when I paint I put on medium or slightly leaning towards the dark side than do shadowing first. I think I actually tried something similar to your technique once when I painted a little pumpkin and it made it look so cool! For some reason, I really love the look of Dan at stage five, sometimes in between stages actually look just as pretty as the finished piece, just in a different way. Wonderful tutorial, well done.
P.S. You have better English than most people who claim to have good English, you always word things very nicely and I never go "what?" (as I do when reading what most people write....) So no bashing on your lovely language skills!
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Glad you dig. Also, I rather like the non-shiney, non-eyeburning one as well
P.S Aw thanks
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I love your use of very saturated colours. Heh.
Nice tutorial. Your style is so very pleasing to the eyes.
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not only is this an awesome tutorial but the fact that you used the word "fugly" in it makes it twice as good.
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Fugly is a real word in my dictionary. Period
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This character's expression reminds me of a random character from the movie Horton hears a who. xD
Brilliant tutorial. =}
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You know I have to find out about this character/movie/expression now, don't you?
I wouldn't say brilliant, but I do hope some may find it helpful : )
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yay! I've always enjoyed your style I'm glad you made a tutorial to show how you do it. Now I just wish I had my art computer back so I could try this out for myself.
also I don't see a problem with your English at all, I didn't realize it wasn't your first language till now XP
Thanks for sharing your eye burningly glorious technique with the world!
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Wow, glad you hadn't met me two, three years ago, my grammar back then was so, so bad and I used a lot of netspeak in addition to that *shudders*
You're quite welcome, dear
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aww lots of people go through that phase, as awful as it was at least you got over it, some people never seem to outgrow it *shudder*
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Awrgh, yeah. I find it kind of sad when people in their twenties (and thirties and forties!) use it, as if the teenagers weren't bad enough. Really gives the impression of a mature and responsible adult, eh?
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Oh yeah it still catches me off guard to learn someone using l33t speak is actually 23 and still typing like a 4th grader an neopets, ugh. Maybe its the urge to fit in that drives it? I'm just glad you dont type like that, proof the 'disease' can be overcome! ;D
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OH THE EYE-BURNING GLORY. HOW GLORIOUS IT IS.
Always did enjoy your style of coloring. Thanks for the tutorial.
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Oh my! Ohmyohmy! 8D
You just use a opacity/flow-pressure-snesetive brush with low spacing? Coool
Thank you for making this, it's REALLY helpful!
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Ja, amazing isn't it xD
You're very welcome, dear
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Thanks for doing this, I've always admired how you color
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Hmm, I'll have to try starting with the darkest color. I've always just shaded with a darker color.
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Well, I loved this on FA, and I love it just as much here. Thank you!
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Either "duplicate layer" if it's set as a background layer and set the topmost one to multiplay and colour beneath. Or open a file in Photoshop and paste it in, it will automatically become a separate layer
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