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miknimator — A Young Champion Workflow
Published: 2009-05-08 08:23:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 575; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 12
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[This is not a tutorial]This are the steps I used painted this piece:
01: Raw scan.
02: Processed line-art.
03: Flat full body color.
04: Colored the different parts in separate layers.
05: Changed the colored layers properties to Overlay.
06: Turned Overlay layers off and applied base shading.
07: Turned Overlay layers on.
08: Added extra lighting.
09: Added shadow:
10: Added background gradients.
I didn't use color pallets for a change. This method is much faster and easier. The Overlay effect is making this process work nice and fast. It cuts the time used for picking different color shades and whatnot and thus cuts the time for coloring each color and making the lighting and shading fit to other layers.
Used about 20 layers.
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Comments: 6
Interesting techniques. I don't fully understand the 'overlay' part of your process but the finished result looks good so it seems to be working for you. One question though, when you've finished and flattened the image, do you find some of those blended layers go funny or anything when you switch over to CMYK for printing? Or you haven't come across any problems like that yet?
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About the Overlay: I color the different parts on different layers. Like the shirt and fur and the skin colors are all on different layers. I then change those layer's mode to overlay. That makes the shading and lighting that is done on a single layer below the overlay color come out through the overlay layers.
I don't print my work because I don't sell it or anything, so I can answer the last question, sorry. I usually save (other then .psd) as .jpg so the flat is done automatically.
I'm still a beginner at this so there's a lot I don't know. And I'm still experimenting on all kinds of techniques that I find.
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Ahhh I understand the overlay process now and why you do it that way. I only asked because I am also beginning to try and self-teach myself how to use the computer to colour my illustrations. At the moment I've been colouring the illustration normally and then using a variety of adjustment layers to add shading and highlights BUT it's very time-consuming. I'll have to give your methods a go at some point and see what kind of results I acheive.
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Cool. I highly recommend this method. All the work is done on a single shading and lighting layer with only 3 or more shades of gray instead of doing pallets of 3-6 shades of one part of a colored area. Add that to several areas to color and you're looking at more then 8 hours of painting. Anyways, good luck.
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