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Description edit 4/26/08: holy pig. never have I even dreamed of getting a Daily Dev... thankyouthankyouthankyou so much for this honor ;__;
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If you have questions, please ask. I'll do my best to answer them. (:

If you want to try this and need a sketch (...too lazy to draw your own? XD), you can use one of mine;
cow , angel , ...

If you just want to try to CG, you can use one of my linearts:
(will update as soon as I finish one)

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Regarding the PEN TOOL - err.. it's kinda hard to explain XD; ..which is why I didn't really explain it. It's like the bezier tool in oekakis or MS Paint -- in a way.
Click once at the starting point of your line, and click and drag in the direction of the line (at the spot you want your line to end). Play with the dragging until you like how the line looks (don't let go of the mouse button!)~ and then do the right click > stroke path thing. Look at this if you can't visualize it...XD [link]

LAYERS - if you're confused about what I meant with the layers, take a look here --> [link] That's the layers palette for the image in the tutorial.
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Comments: 514

Drazalon In reply to ??? [2008-01-19 20:33:25 +0000 UTC]

thanks for posting this up.
this kind of helped me a bit

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xentek [2008-01-18 13:35:05 +0000 UTC]

Oh my God I needed this so badly!!! Thank you thank you thank you!

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Newmanart In reply to ??? [2008-01-04 14:02:43 +0000 UTC]

hey
this is great tutorila
i used your sketch coz i cant draw with tblets and i was on a ddifferant computer so i couldnt use my sktches

imm quite happy with the finsihed resutlt since its my first time coloruing proprly


i was wondring
if i could post th imaage on Da
and on description i woudl write
drawing by poli-chan link

is that arite?

plus
i cant draaw proprly at akll with tblet any help?



P.S My a and e key are missing so its hrad to use thm coz thyre gone, so sorry bout spelling.

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poli-chan In reply to Newmanart [2008-01-12 21:37:15 +0000 UTC]

sorry for the belated reply ;;;;;
BUT yes, feel free to post the image in DA. i'm glad you're happy with the result (:

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Newmanart In reply to poli-chan [2008-01-13 15:35:52 +0000 UTC]

thanks

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Sx2 In reply to ??? [2008-01-03 07:22:43 +0000 UTC]

thanks, this was helpful!

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Monochrome-Rainbows In reply to ??? [2007-12-31 06:33:14 +0000 UTC]

This helps a lot, thank you x3

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renoskiller44 [2007-12-28 22:55:18 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful....thank u!!!!!

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midnight-revolution [2007-12-18 04:54:53 +0000 UTC]

i was wondering hopw you made your sketch so.... not sketchy? its perfect lineart!!!

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tutti-fruppy [2007-12-13 19:57:14 +0000 UTC]

omg! thank u very much!!! *_* now i understood everything!!! haleluya
thanx once more^^

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turtle-crazyfan [2007-12-09 15:18:35 +0000 UTC]

thanks this helps alot!!!

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wertysachu [2007-12-05 04:01:56 +0000 UTC]

oh thats how u do it

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LighttoDark [2007-11-29 06:03:02 +0000 UTC]

nice. adding to my fav's right now

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IZ-Person [2007-11-23 19:35:49 +0000 UTC]

Lol. You don't sound so much like an expert. but I really like the tut. Maybe the best one for anime in the entire DA community. I think this will help me so much with my art. I didn't know how to do the pen tool stroke thing. And now I do! ^__^
And, to make things easier, try and use the Burn Tool and the Dodge tool unstead of Linear Burn. It's a lot easier in some cases. But keep the Opacity really low in some cases and use shadows for black/white surfaces and Highlights for eyes.
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Anyway, sending you a note asking if I can use this on my site!

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poli-chan In reply to IZ-Person [2007-11-24 02:27:25 +0000 UTC]

XDDDD i keep telling myself to redo this tutorial and make myself sound more professional. (too many emoticons, rofl) ... UHH, I'LL GET AROUND TO IT SOMEDAY ;;;

thanks for the comment, though. i'm glad it helped you and i'm also happy to hear other methods ^____^

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IZ-Person In reply to poli-chan [2007-11-24 02:40:32 +0000 UTC]

NP. And it looks like you got much better. I just looked through your gallery. Great art! ^__^

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monkeydlu [2007-11-16 00:36:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanks soo much. I'm trying to get started with cg, and this is helping very much XD.

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xXMonsterManiacXx [2007-11-10 10:20:41 +0000 UTC]

Actually its explained nicely!! And i'm in love with the colors XD. Just curious, when you were doing the line art again [from apricot or whatever that color is to grey] how were you doing it :S?

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pokings [2007-11-05 16:07:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for making this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Helped alot!
I was one of the lazy ones who used your sketch! Lol!!!!

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SrahCzrs In reply to ??? [2007-11-03 17:06:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks soooooooo much! This was great~ <3
Especially since I'm a nab with photoshop ;x Nice work!

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Chibi-Gazimon In reply to ??? [2007-10-29 23:23:05 +0000 UTC]

thank you so much, you wouldnt believe how much this helped me

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darknight0x0 [2007-10-21 02:30:22 +0000 UTC]

omg this is amazing u are my hero

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LilSasami13 [2007-10-19 19:26:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!! I'm going to try to use this. ^^

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CLassicNightmare In reply to ??? [2007-10-05 13:12:28 +0000 UTC]

thx!
now i understand about how to make some linearts

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Kai-dono [2007-09-24 07:37:09 +0000 UTC]

Crazy xD
You used a pen tool!
Thanks for the tutorial!

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noodle-lin-chan [2007-09-05 11:53:01 +0000 UTC]

OMG
Thxsss!!!
Now I know how to outline!! ♥♥♥ thxs!! ♥♥

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Andreea2000 [2007-09-01 13:24:11 +0000 UTC]

extra coooooooooooooooool!

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kearei In reply to ??? [2007-08-30 21:34:14 +0000 UTC]

omg so helpful ^^

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HeartDisease In reply to ??? [2007-08-25 12:50:45 +0000 UTC]

this tutorial is very helpful
thx a lot!

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Fennikusu In reply to ??? [2007-08-24 17:01:41 +0000 UTC]

...POLI-CHAN!!!!! Thanks so much for providing this lovely tutorial!!!!! <3
I will love you forever. XD

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exidoo In reply to ??? [2007-08-16 07:22:10 +0000 UTC]

i will try this out thx +fav ;]

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WannabeHero678 In reply to ??? [2007-08-12 06:03:37 +0000 UTC]

do you think you could make a tutorial for putting in a backround???

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WannabeHero678 In reply to ??? [2007-08-10 18:42:44 +0000 UTC]

great tutorial, one of the best ive seen

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Altremix [2007-08-07 01:09:12 +0000 UTC]

wow this is really nice! thanks!
*favs*

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globunny In reply to ??? [2007-07-23 03:33:29 +0000 UTC]

that is very helpful XD I don't use photoshop myself. I'll keep this in mind for those days when i do X3

as for the pen tool...o3o looks so confusing. I prefer free-hand XD

Thanks for uploading!~

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meepitsmanga In reply to ??? [2007-07-19 04:46:56 +0000 UTC]

hurrah! I LOVE this tutorial--I can finally color stuff in CS2!

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00Tetra00 In reply to ??? [2007-07-10 23:05:55 +0000 UTC]

It's very helpful!

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harajukulover [2007-07-06 20:24:08 +0000 UTC]

cool! thanks so much for making it!!

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SForler [2007-07-05 19:51:35 +0000 UTC]

WOW this tutorial is the best I have seen xD This help me soooooooo much *-* *favs*

ps: sorry my bad english xD

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lilgangstagyal [2007-07-01 03:19:01 +0000 UTC]

cool, really helpful :3

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Kohana90 [2007-06-28 13:06:14 +0000 UTC]

Just great tutorial! I'll try to do something good..I'm just a beginner *sob* so thanx u very much ^^

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Rebellious-Saint [2007-06-24 16:37:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks to ya, I'm actually able to do something decent in photoshop!
Arigatou!
Gracias!
Merci!

and I overreacted xD

See ya!

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hxk [2007-06-23 18:24:07 +0000 UTC]

this is a great help.

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Kittiefan [2007-06-18 01:33:05 +0000 UTC]

Really great tutorial! The girl's chin looks a little pointy though.

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DiGiCharatChii [2007-06-15 00:50:59 +0000 UTC]

i has a question.....(yes i'm a noob) but what does CG stand for??????? (plz no laughing...) anyway well done!

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hotshadows [2007-06-13 11:39:04 +0000 UTC]

I love it one little comment xD she doesn't have a nose

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konijnenbaby [2007-06-10 13:17:30 +0000 UTC]

It do really help me! Bud how do works the ''en tool''? I dont know XD. Can you make a Tutorial of that? Yes... Thanks ^^
P.s. Good job!

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thestrangestboy [2007-06-04 07:13:22 +0000 UTC]

great work man_

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orlandobloomsbabe [2007-05-30 19:28:29 +0000 UTC]

oooohhh pretty

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Icetrix In reply to ??? [2007-05-25 18:40:03 +0000 UTC]

This is a nice tutorial^^, Fav^^.

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