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LauraHollingsworth — A Lostie's Tutorial - Coloring Method
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Here is my coloring method! Also on Tumblr and has a bonus section on Coloring from Reference: thesilvereye.tumblr.com/post/5…This technique can be done with any drawing program that has Layers, a Polygonal Selection tool, a Gradient tool, and a Paintbrush (and most drawing programs that I know of have those tools). I used Gimp for this.
More tutorials by me: lostie815.deviantart.com/galle…
Color Scheme Designer: colorschemedesigner.com/
For a more in-depth look at shading with gradients, you can look at Global Lighting Tutorial by Angelus-Tenebrae: angelus-tenebrae.deviantart.co… and Gradient Tutorial by damie-m: damie-m.deviantart.com/art/Gra…
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How do you blend the colors? As I recall, you don't believe in the smudge tool..
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Here is a decent tutorial . I keep one hand on the shortcut key for the eyedropper/colorpicker tool, and flip from color picker to paintbrush quickly as I paint to smooth out the colors. It gives me total control over my colors, and it leaves the drawing with nice paint stroke textures from either just the round brush or a textured grunge brush.
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Sorry I haven't replied to this. I wanted to save this message and didn't realize there was an option to save the message after replying to it! Thanks so much for the help!
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That is probably the very best ultra-basic 'here's how to color if you've never done it before' tutorial I have ever seen. Wow.
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i love this ^^ this looks simple but yet it has its own complexity. thanks for the tutorial
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Heheh.. I like the little cactus thing.
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That was my favorite part to draw.
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My brain... x-x
This is overwhelming to me since I am a very new artist to this kinda stuff xD
But this seems really helpful. I will try to break it down and stuff so I can learn how to do the skin and clothing right... Right now my shading is horrible and I can't even do lighting ;3; Good job though. I will be trying this out :3
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I understand, it took me years to learn these things 
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ur tutorial is osm
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i follow ur tutorial n tis is the result
missrukia-chan7.deviantart.com…
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Cool. Thanks for the resource! Not entirely sure how to get it to work in photoshop but hopefully I will figure it out
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Photoshop has all the same tools (though some have different names), so it should work there.
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Question for you! What version of Gimp do you have?
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The latest one, 2.8
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Awesome, thank you!
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thank you sosoo much for this tutorial!
really helped me with this heheheheheh zjeanelle.deviantart.com/art/D…
your drawings are so good they inspired me to draw more like damn thank you so much!!!!!
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Lovely!
You are very welcome! 
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I want to use this tutorial really badly but I get super confused...
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Which parts are confusing? I'd be happy to try and help out.
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I don't know... I'm using Photoshop CS3 and I want to do the part with the lines and using the overlay style with them so they blend more with the background... but I'm having issues with the color under it making it look like shit. D; It just ends up looking super messy and you can see where the color ends under the lines.
I guess I just rely on my lines too much. Plus I can't seem to get the same effect with polygonal selection tool... I tried 3 different ways and it was just not clean like in your example. Ugh.
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Not sure if it would help, but the example image is 3500x2300 pixels big. The full size is pretty messy, but then when it scales down, most of the messiness gets hidden. It might help with the colors under the lines problem too, like this drawing: fav.me/d6iqjdg zoomed out it looks a lot cleaner and less noticeable than zoomed in. Sorry if this doesn't help.
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Ooooh I see what your saying.
O wow, I feel like a dunce. That actually helped me understand what was going on in the other image, cause I couldn't zoom in to look. Thanks! <3
I'm a visual person, and small stuff like this can stump me. xD
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Yay, I'm glad that cleared it up!
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Hey there! I used your tutorial to help with my most recent piece! Thank you so much again for making this!
golden-flute.deviantart.com/ar…
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Aww, what an awesome picture! I'm glad the tutorial helped!
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I really wanted to thank you for this simple and amazing tutorial. Really. Thanks to you, I finally succeeded in what I wanted to do.. for SO long.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
(You can see my drawing there, >abbyredcurse.deviantart.com/ar… if you want.)
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You are very welcome! I'm glad it helped!
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That reeeaaally helped. 
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Thanks so much for this helpful tutorial! I just wanted to let you know that I made use of your technique in my latest drawing and it turned out great. >w<
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You are very welcome! I will go check it out!
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You make awesome tutorials. Just thought you ought to know. 
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Thank you! If feels good to help people.
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Wow thats beautiful work. you have really showed me some wonderful techniques to creating amazing artwork
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woah this is exactly what i was looking for D; thanks!
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You are most welcome!
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