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------------------------------Oct. 14 2009------------------------
Here you go, the whole thing at last! I hope you enjoy it.

I added the actual techniques for making spots, plus notes. Let me know if anything is too confusing and I'll try and fix it.

I'm not trying to do a full coloring or digital line art tutorial, there are a bunch of excellent ones out there on DA - I have links to many of them in my favs: [link]

Got the Spot Tutorial finished Tuesday night, but could not upload it due to the fact the massive Microsoft patch was hogging all the bandwidth on my home network. The tutorial is kind of large, so it was not going to upload gracefully. Tonight is much better now that all my home systems are patched.

------------------------------Oct. 12 2009------------------------

This is the start of my promised "Spot Tutorial". Very much a work in progress with no notes on it yet. Stay tuned, I'll be adding notes and the spots in the next few days.

Of course, to make spots, first we need the horse. These steps show in a nutshell my coloring process, starting with a scanned pencil sketch and proceeding through several layers to produce the base colored horse.

I usually keep the base body color and the mane/tail coloring on separate layers. It makes later color adjustments easier.

I am using Paint Shop Pro 7 for the artwork, but the techniques will work in any graphic program that gives you layers, including the GIMP. I should try this in ArtRage too, I'll bet it would look pretty good.

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It's been weeks since I uploaded any artwork, so I had to get something put up tonight/this morning. This is what I get for trying out WoW... an amusing time-sink but not so good for art-production.

Description
------------------------------Oct. 14 2009------------------------
Here you go, the whole thing at last! I hope you enjoy it.

I added the actual techniques for making spots, plus notes. Let me know if anything is too confusing and I'll try and fix it.

I'm not trying to do a full coloring or digital line art tutorial, there are a bunch of excellent ones out there on DA - I have links to many of them in my favs: [link]

Got the Spot Tutorial finished Tuesday night, but could not upload it due to the fact the massive Microsoft patch was hogging all the bandwidth on my home network. The tutorial is kind of large, so it was not going to upload gracefully. Tonight is much better now that all my home systems are patched.

------------------------------Oct. 12 2009------------------------

This is the start of my promised "Spot Tutorial". Very much a work in progress with no notes on it yet. Stay tuned, I'll be adding notes and the spots in the next few days.

Of course, to make spots, first we need the horse. These steps show in a nutshell my coloring process, starting with a scanned pencil sketch and proceeding through several layers to produce the base colored horse.

I usually keep the base body color and the mane/tail coloring on separate layers. It makes later color adjustments easier.

I am using Paint Shop Pro 7 for the artwork, but the techniques will work in any graphic program that gives you layers, including the GIMP. I should try this in ArtRage too, I'll bet it would look pretty good.

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It's been weeks since I uploaded any artwork, so I had to get something put up tonight/this morning. This is what I get for trying out WoW... an amusing time-sink but not so good for art-production.