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mayshing — How To Go From CellShadeTo Painterly

Published: 2014-04-23 05:47:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 9525; Favourites: 197; Downloads: 83
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Description For those who needs to transition from just cell shade into lineless painting. I did find alot of people struggled with that transition, including myself in the past, hope this tutorial makes it easier. 

Disclaimer: 
+ This tutorial progress is different from the traditional painting process which includes alot more figuring out, this is not a fun method, just a fast one. 
+ Don't forget to add rim light and fractal light, as in cell shade usually won't have those as obviously. 
+this tutorial won't help with drawing problems and shadow and lighting... See my other tutorials on Cell shade for lighting: fav.me/d5agypr

My example comparison: 

Cell shade                       VS              painted
           
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Comments: 21

Lunangel07 [2015-11-05 13:57:16 +0000 UTC]

I always always wondered how to do this....hmm I kinda want to be able to do a mix of both. Hehe

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mayshing In reply to Lunangel07 [2015-11-30 21:12:16 +0000 UTC]

its not how i actually paint unless i need to sprint my stuff out, but the idea of it helps transition from cell shade to painting. 

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Lunangel07 In reply to mayshing [2015-12-01 13:48:02 +0000 UTC]

Oh I see! It's very helpful regardless. ^_^ So thank you again <3333

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mayshing In reply to Lunangel07 [2015-12-02 23:52:30 +0000 UTC]

ur welcome. ^_^

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bread-doh [2014-04-24 13:26:57 +0000 UTC]

i think its easier to learn painterly style when you mastered celshade, no kidding here, I degraded into flat coloring when I realize that I can't even fill a lineart neatly,

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mayshing In reply to bread-doh [2014-04-24 17:49:58 +0000 UTC]

Yes, its painterly style is basically a very... detailed, accurate cell shading work. lol The more accurate you put in the detail the better it is. 

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tiffa [2014-04-24 04:19:07 +0000 UTC]

Cool! I'll have to give this a shot! I'm terrible at line-less styles D=.

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mayshing In reply to tiffa [2014-04-24 17:48:37 +0000 UTC]

I think you will master it in no time. ^^

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hefeigal [2014-04-23 23:51:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for this! I've never used cell shading personally, but the bit about not blurring the edges was really helpful.

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mayshing In reply to hefeigal [2014-04-24 03:04:37 +0000 UTC]

I was really into blurring too when I first started. haha. *still have to undo my blurring habit*

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bluedrgnMethy [2014-04-23 20:47:01 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow this is extremely helpful! Thanks!

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fusionmarioart [2014-04-23 17:28:54 +0000 UTC]

this is very beautiful  but can u explain to me  how to make a shadow layer and if u please a gradient color background in sai

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mayshing In reply to fusionmarioart [2014-04-23 19:53:13 +0000 UTC]

Shadow: Just make a new layer and set it on multiply mode in Sai.
Gradient, there are no gradient tool in sai, what I would do is make a new layer, and just paint on there and blur the edges to make it a gradient. 

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fusionmarioart In reply to mayshing [2014-04-25 17:37:58 +0000 UTC]

thanx a lot

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mayshing In reply to fusionmarioart [2014-04-25 23:25:04 +0000 UTC]

ur welcome.

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SoarinSoraya [2014-04-23 15:13:19 +0000 UTC]

This was incredibly interesting, and now I'm tempted to try it out myself! Thanks for sharing. *Smiles and bows*

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mayshing In reply to SoarinSoraya [2014-04-23 19:50:17 +0000 UTC]

let me know how it goes and if there's something you didn't quite get let me know. 

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SoarinSoraya In reply to mayshing [2014-04-23 20:13:58 +0000 UTC]

Thanks and will do! *Smiles and salutes*

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Josh592 [2014-04-23 05:48:05 +0000 UTC]

Super helpful!

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mayshing In reply to Josh592 [2014-04-23 05:51:14 +0000 UTC]

glad it helps you. 

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Josh592 In reply to mayshing [2014-04-23 06:10:27 +0000 UTC]

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