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Published: 2009-10-04 22:13:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1293; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 22
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Uploading it because someone actually cares! w00t XDSolid State Scouter's coloring process, step-by-step. As I said before, it was a really simple image to color and an example of how I color my sketches quickly, minus that I don't usually do such strong lighting... or draw such dark sketches. But toned sketches are really nice to work with!
The steps toward the end (last row) all look the same, kinda... the differences are hard to make out because they're all relatively small changes (and because the previews themselves are tiny .__. sorry).
Basically, 14 adds white highlights (best seen on the gloves), 15 a second layer of brown outlines and 16 fixes all the tiny imperfections I left till the last minute. You can probably see the biggest difference throughout the row in his left armor plate (?) on the bottom right.
Colored: [link]
Sketch: [link]
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Es simplemente genial! El paso por paso de como coloreaste el dibujo; me sorprendió bastante, lo haces muy bien ^^
Me gusta como se ve en el cuadro 2 
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Gracias! 
Pero... porque te sorprende tanto?? 
Y gracias por el fav!
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Por que a mi también me gustan ver los step-by-step, y el tuyo es muy agradable de ver; me da mucha emocion verlo, no se
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Jajaja, ya veo...
Talvez haré mas de estos en el futuro. Tu tambien deberias hacer uno!
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Siii!! si haces mas me encantaría verlos!
Creo que algún día también haré uno :3 A ver que tal
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Si si, haz uno!
Haber si se me ocurre guardar los Save States del proximo dibujo para hacer otro... :3
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Ahhhh, buena idea, intentaré hacer el siguiente dibujo como me dices
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Que bueno! Looking forward!
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thaks to make this step by step but It looks really comlicated 
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Let me tell you, after experimenting with coloring in about 50 other ways... this was extremely simple! 
All it takes is a bit of knowledge on layers and done!
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It's only to keep things tidy and organized... XD There's no actual need for that many layers, after all.
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Just don't be so quick to give up...! 
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I'd like to learn to use my Photoshop like that o__o I'm just too lazy to do it. And my head explodes if I have to use more than 4 layers in one pic
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WHAT. FOUR LAYERS.
My head explodes if I use anything less than 10, and THAT is stretching it!!
With only 4 layers.... THAT WOULD KILL MEEEE~~~! 
But yeah, I think this has like... 20 layers or so. That's discounting the layers I duplicated when I made massive changes and wanted a backup (there's probably around 10 of those). Most are just base color, but then there's the 'effect' layers (BG gradients, outlines, white and yellow highlights and hard shading).
It sounds kinda overkill but the truth is it's really simple and not hard to learn at all! Anyone could do it.
The thing with toning the sketch itself is that it takes care of most of the shading for you when it comes to coloring. It kinda feels like cheating, lol
...Now why did I just type a wall of text.
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But... but that just sounds so complicated!
We are all guilty of going into wrong layers.... 
Although actually when I'm done with the picture I nearly always do superficial touch-ups on the JPG version - the one-layer-only bastard child of the PSD file XDD lol
But yeah, the more you practice... You should go for it! I'd like to see the fruits of using more layers!
I admire those that can work without layers though. It must be so freeing somehow. Kinda like working with paper, another thing I can't do. 
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I name them, too, but I always either forget to change the layer or simply just jump back to previous layer by undoing some mistake.
Haha I've already tried it 
Paper working = best working. Tho' I haven't really finished a single work since I was 12. I mess up all the time, maybe that's why I'm used to it
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OMG, I hate it when that happens!!! It's always when you make a new layer and undo by accident.. and you end up fucking up the previous layer soo much!! AGHHHGHHAHAJ!!!
I now make it a habit to look at the Photoshop window bar (which also has what layer I'm on written on it) before doing anything (because looking in the layer bar takes too long, since I dock it)... Call it a survival instinct.
Hell yeah, it's handy! XD And hell yeah, it takes longer...
...I'm so jealous of your mad paper skills... 
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My Photoshop's history is too short to save me in most of the cases. 
Well, maybe I'll get used to it too, someday XD
*chough* They really aren't all that mad.
And I mean that I haven't really colored any of those works so that I could've scanned them and put them here XDD All of them are mere sketchs. Messy sketchs.
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Damn! Another hateful thing.. saving too little! I hope you do get used to it... although, isn't there an option in ps to make your history longer? Maybe in the options around where you can choose to have save states? I have to look.
Haha, sounds a lot better than me anyway! Any paper stuff is better, tbh...
You should upload some of those sketches for the sake of it! I'd love to see pencil stuff, no matter how messy~ 
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I don't even find the options XDD Photoshop is above my English skills. Last time I tried to do something like that, I fucked the brushes up. Though that was a long time ago, when I didn't even know what a word "brush" ment.
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Hey! Now I found History Options! And what the hell does all these things mean... I don't understand these words even in Finnish
I hate to even think about trying to scan those sketches with our scanner. It's so slow XD
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Well, let's see if I can help! *goes to her Photoshop history options*
Hm, it appears I have no option to make the history longer... .__. I only have the snapshot options (which is what I keep calling save states btw) and a few more. What Snapshots do is that they save a copy of the document in the history at that point in time, so you can go back to stages from a really long time ago! Much longer time ago than the history has space for, so it's really handy! They pretty much work like save spots in games, lol. But you do have to make sure to save... that's the only catch, haha.
As for the non-linear history stuff... it seriously confuses me. I always end up going to the wrong timeline and screwing everything up! Coupling that with Snapshots is hellish and confusing too! You end up with saves from different timelines and things thrown all between each other and... ACK... @.@ Not recommended, unless you're a wizard! lol. Okay, maybe not... But you should try these anyway and see if they suit you.
Aww. Slow scanners ftl...
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Well now I know what were those Snapshots for XDD I gotta start using them. Thanks for the tip
No, NO! Such a word as "timeline" makes my brain hurt so hard. I just... It's too confusing
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Haha, timelines...
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Always interesting to see things step by step.
I must say, I rather like number two with just the bands colored in. It looks rather symbolic.
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I was thinking the same thing about the red bands! XD It's the kind of thing I'd really like to do more, but I never know when. I'm too trapped in the 'either colored or black and white' mindframe...
Thanks for looking! :3
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