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Niinakho — [Tutorial] Skin Shading

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Published: 2017-06-11 01:29:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 6371; Favourites: 234; Downloads: 87
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Description It's time once again for a tutorial! This time for skin!
Please notice how the skins tones change drastically at the final step! This is because of 
overlay function Really good!! 

1. First make the lineart ^_^


2. I will usually put the skin color layer underneath everything~ Sense your skin is under everything irl!


3.  I just colored in everything else on top of the skin layer here!


4. Take your airbrush and airbrush the bottom of her chin and chest where we want to show more roundness!


5. Next I start making shadows with a brush tool! I colored in three different ways here to demonstrate different lighting and the different ways I shade necks. Shading the edges of the chin and arms helps to add more roundness and make it look less flat!


6. Here I just took my blur tool and slightly blurred around the edges of every shade line I created. Just the edges! If I blurred too much I would love the shapes I created~ I then lowered the opacity so that it's not so deep.


7. Next I took a dark purple/blue and colored in the very edges of many of the shaded areas.


8. After that I completely blended them out the give more depth to the shading without adding anymore harsh lines~


9. Now just add little stroke of lighting and your done!


10. After I finish all the shading, I like to make a new layer above everything and set it to lumi and shade then air brush some yellow over the face and body to give it a bit more of a glowing effect! After that to avoid the washed out effect, I fill the entire image with dark blue and set it to overlay. I turn the opacity of the light layer down to abut 3-9 and turn the opacity of the overlay layer to about 30-50! 

That's it! That's how I do it usually! I hope you guys find this helpful! Please leave in the comments what you'd like me to make a tutorial on next!

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Comments: 6

TaeyongAdopts [2017-06-11 06:53:34 +0000 UTC]

Your tutorials are EVERYTHING. 

Thank you so much! I feel like I've improved a bit. 

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Niinakho In reply to TaeyongAdopts [2017-06-16 01:27:17 +0000 UTC]

I'm so happy I can help you a bit ; 7 ;;;;;;; <3333333

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HeroofEnelios [2017-06-11 06:00:40 +0000 UTC]

Hurray for new tutorials!

*goes off to practice*

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Niinakho In reply to HeroofEnelios [2017-06-16 01:27:24 +0000 UTC]

Best of luck~!!!

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YukinaMomo [2017-06-11 04:28:02 +0000 UTC]

Hime-Senpai~! Your Tutorial is so helpful ^7^
// LOL, Its Surprisingly helpful cause im not really into dark skin 

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Niinakho In reply to YukinaMomo [2017-06-16 01:27:37 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad it can help you ^__^!!

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