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Published: 2007-09-04 03:19:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 147479; Favourites: 4554; Downloads: 2894
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This tutorial covers:-efficient sketching
-how to get smooth lines
-inking freehand
-inking with the pen tool
-neat coloring
-cell shading
-the basics of gradient shading
As the title states, it is a massively huge frickin' thing. Sorry, my dial-up friends. I saved it as a jpeg so it would load faster.
This covers most of my knowledge on how to create an image using photoshop. Hopefully it will be of some assisstance. I'm pretty sure I covered anything, but f you have any questions, please feel free to ask me!
*Ah yes, I forgot to mention a few things in this tut that are pretty important:
-if you're inking with the pen tool, after you've stroked your paths, right click and select 'delete path"
-After you've expanded your magic wand selection for coloring, delete the extra color before you deselect*
**HOLY LOL OVER 1000 FAVES**
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this is some very useful information. Now I can at least get some idea of how to draw in photoshop. YAY!!!
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This Helped me so much! Thanks to this my digital drawings don't look like random lines anymore!
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This is awesome! You`re a huge inspiration for me, thank you for this!
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Finally! A tutorial that makes sense to me! Thank you so much!Β
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This really clears up a lot of questions I had about layer locking, and I love all the extra hints. Great tutorial!
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the only thing I'm confused about is changing the color of the lineart...I'm using GIMP which is very similar to photoshop. 
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Yes, that's what i explain in the tutorial. I haven't used GIMP in years, but there should be an option to transparency lock any layer.Β
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Ahaha, I was about to type a reply saying that I couldn't figure it out, there was only the lock so that you couldn't draw and a lock alpha channel... I have no idea what I did because I definitely couldn't get this to work earlier, but when I select the lock alpha channel, it lets me recolor the lines like you do in your tutorial. Awesome, this is going to save so much time. Thank you!!!
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You look really surprised you had over 1000 faves XD
It's really great tips and techniques, as well as great quality ^^
It definitely helped me out... lots I just wanted to send you lots of thankies for that
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I've been wondering all my life why my shading is messy. I know now! Thank you!!!
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This is very cool! Thank you for making this!Β
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You have no idea how helpful this was,
Β Seriously thank you so much
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This was quite useful..Not sure if I did all the steps properly but I tried n.n' heh. I'll have to look at that background tutorial as well lol...They were harder to make and move around than I had anticipated. Thanks a lot for making this it's very well put together.
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I appreciate the time you took, reading the tutorial made me realize a simple little tip that solves some of the issues I've been having coloring digitally, thanks!
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do you have a tutorial on how you sketch wolves or dogs?
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I don't, sorry! My methods are mostly using lots of reference photos and practice
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it'sΒ ok. I'll just looks at more reference photos! ( including some of your pics )Β XD
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Could you please make a tutorial on how you make backgrounds?
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Yay! Ok, that was actually what I thought
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Okay, so I've been looking for tutorials on how to do this everywhere. And I mean EVERYWHERE. Youtube, Tumblr, Deviantart, Google images, everywhere. And I thought I just sucked, but this was SO perfect I can't. Seriously, I can't express in words how amazing and helpful this tutorial was. I stopped drawing for awhile,(just because I couldn't do layers) but this had me drawing again! Thanks for bringing back my inspiration!
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Thanks so much, I'm very glad you found this helpful! Please let me know if I can do anything else to help you out
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This tutorial is really helpfull and because I'm doing/starting a tutorial blog on tumblr I wanted to ask if I may upload this there? c: I'll credit you of course c:
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Sure, just link back to this page if you can c:
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wow! it's great it actually helped me so much! thanks fro doing it!
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Can you make something like this but then for paint tool sai
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I don't use or know how to use Sai, sorry
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ok still like the tutoriol
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So helpful! A good guide to nice clean lines and colouring
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This was incredibly helpful for a photoshop n00b like myself. Thank you for making it!
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god, this tutorial is helpful, funny, and really fun to read! thank you so much!
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what size should the brush be when you are inking the picture?
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Doesn't matter, just use whatever you think looks best.
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hi, i am totally new to photoshop (never used it in my life...) and i don't have a tablet... i was wondering what was used to do the sketching part? cuz i cant seem to find any tool remotely like a pencil... =.= thx in advance for the help! :3
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For sketching in this, I used a tablet and just the default Hard brush in photoshop. If you're having trouble with sketching digitally I'd suggest doing your drawings on paper first and then scanning them in; it's much easier to that than try to sketch with a mouse, in my opinion
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hi kaylink, i managed to get a sketch in, and i've drawn the lines, but somehow i can't use the magic wand tool like you do, because mine still looks exactly the same even after i've done what you said to do... :/
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Can you be more specific? Which step isn't working for you?
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i'm on the part where you started coloring kaylink, but i'm stuck because i can't make the colors stay within the lines...
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