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Published: 2012-08-08 20:04:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 90299; Favourites: 3279; Downloads: 1270
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Check out the whole 3 sets on how to cell shade tutorial:Part I | Part II | Part III
Other cell shading tutorial: [link]
Printable version Zip file download available
Disclaimer: I did this for my helpers to follow my style and do it with the most used lighting condition I handle for my manga. So it doesn't cover everything there is to be known in lighting, nor is it the most accurate. (in fact I just want believably to my eyes.)
Edit: added another section at the end.
Edit2: 1-wrong way to do it, I just simply didn't do it wrong enough. XD
This tutorial done for my E-Depth manga/anime project My tumblr: [link] My Studio tutorial blog: [link] I noticed a lot of people can "cell shade" and there is a lot of cell shade tutorials!
But there's almost zero tutorial on various lighting direction and how it affects shape of the shadows. (and I thought photographs would help, but no.)
At least my style/anime is formulated enough, i can make a template set for people. (especially my helpers)
I'm doing a series of this...!
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Comments: 129
Omg I cant tell u how nice it is when I type how to draw shadows it doesnt pop up the hedgehog but your thing comes up haha so appreciated XD
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Wow this is SO helpful!!! Thanks you so much!
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looks great! i'm wondering how this will go down in ms paint.
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that's outta be tricky. For free program i suggest you try at least GIMP.
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i have photoshop, but i get confused using it.
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tried youtube tutorials yet? o.o maybe search anime and photoshop...
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i'll do that...which would you recommend? just asking.
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Wow, Thank very much, really simple, and to the point.
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Nice tutorial but you should have made the correct/wrong ways to draw the light side by side instead of underneath each other. the way it is now you have to scroll up and down to see the difference between them and see what you are saying is wrong.
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good point.
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Yay shading Tutorial!
Thank you for posting this
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ugh...I always have a habit of tracing the lines XD
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*checks ur gallery*
i don't think urs is any problem, its ok when most shapes are correct and you are just stylistically highlighting something.
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This 3 part tutorial is great~ One of the best I've come across so far!
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glad to know. I might have to do a 4th part though.
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That'd be cool. Up to you, though.
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Ah ..I didn't know that shading can be this precise .
Thanks for the help .
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Looks like I need a lot of practice :/
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This is probably going to help me out a lot on a current piece I am working on, thankyou!
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Your tutorials on cell shading look like they will be handy reference. I tend to bounce back and forth of weather my coloring should be anime cell style or not since my drawing style seems to be between cartoonish and realism.
Thanks for writing this tutorial.
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This is great! Idk how this will work with frontal views but I'll deff try. Thank you!
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A lot of this I already knew, but sometimes light sources can be tricky, depending on the pose. This still might come in handy one day though. Thanks!
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light source does get tricky, its a science itself. Have to look at everything as not what they are but surfaces and items, to break it down to the most basic.
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Thank you for this! 
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Ahhh thanks! It's always good to have references like this~
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I studued it for a while and I still don't get the difference between right/wrong shading... But I guess it takes some time and practice.
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you need to know still life drawing in order to see "wrongs" in fact not all my cell shading is accurate either, just make it believable is enough. *actually all the wrongs are examples I copied off of other people's mistakes i might have not made it "wrong" enough. It's usually a lot of little "wrongs" that makes something not work.
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1-wrong 的鼻子我看不太懂為什麼會失去質量感，覺得和 2-right 的頗像，算是反光吧？
Soft Area 有沒有我倒是覺得還好XD
日本動漫看久了(尤其黑白漫畫) 就會覺得這種硬線的陰影也看得挺習慣了，而且和"線條"的風格是整體搭配的
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是我做得不夠爛~我怎麼爛都爛不到那些不會的人的功夫...那種真得爛掉時是很難看的.
硬的邊緣我沒問題,不過有些時候光線是柔和的其實不該有硬的影子. 要真的來分要畫一整本書了~ XD
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喔喔XD
柔和與硬我是覺得看風格
現在一種流行的風格就是有硬的輪廓線, 但彩稿的地方是走柔和的, 但走不好就會兩邊不討好很慘XD
這方面優秀的作品pixiv最多了, 今日Pixiv 的DD這張頗讚
[link]
我個人偏好是如果有soft area的話我會把線條的實感降低, 例如沒那麼黑, 或者染色, 或者有些穿插一些無線繪只有臉留下輪廓...沒法, 就是愛漫畫風格臉XD
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柔和與硬我是覺得看風格 <<---沒錯~我同意你,只是我之前講得不是風格問題是真實光影情況.
柔光有柔影,強光製造強硬的影子,光滑的表面容易出現強影,粗造的表面出現柔影,只是一個客觀的資訊,風格就是主觀的選擇了.
線條柔硬的確是很深奧的課程,好像研究書法筆劃一樣^^
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哇哈 不過我頭髮時常上柔影打高光, 純粹因為比較好畫 (滾動)
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I'm sorry, I'm a visual learner! Walls of text to nothing for me! D8 (Well, unless I'm reading a story)
This is so much better though. I was digging around through so may cell shading tutorials and they're just like "lol u know what you're doing just GO!"
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this doesn't cover everything yet just more of less of what i usually use in edepth. SOOO hope this helps, you will be using this alot if you help me color. ^^
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thank you so much this was a major problem for me and now you did this!! hoooray!!!
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