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CG tutorial for mouse + tablet
Published: 2005-08-28 21:00:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 139419; Favourites: 3472; Downloads: 31142
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edit 4/26/08: holy pig. never have I even dreamed of getting a Daily Dev... thankyouthankyouthankyou so much for this honor ;__;--
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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you champ !
was finally able to make some sort of a proper picture,
even though its not as good as your picture shown,
lol !
nice work .
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looks great! When i get adobe photo shop, i'll use this.
Thanx for teh help Poli-chan
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....I did good untill I got to where I needed to create a layer set. My adobe photoshop 5 wont do that. Trying to figure out another way to finish this...
Great though
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That is a great tutorial, this will help me a lot 
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omg . u are amazing! definitely a fav~! thanks soo much for ur help.. i finally managed to cg a sketch i did from ages ago
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wonderful .......cute......
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No, it wasn't confusing. :3 It helped, thank you very much! <3 And since you don't go perfectly around the hair, is it the same for that then too? Like while coloring the hair, say you were to get some hair color on the face? Or since the 'hair' layer is above the 'skin' layer it would overlap it and then you would just have to erase what you don't want outside the hair? Let me know if that didn't make any sense. x-x
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No, it wasn't confusing. :3 It helped, thank you very much! <3 And since you don't go perfectly around the hair, is it the same for that then too? Like while coloring the hair, say you were to get some hair color on the face? Or since the 'hair' layer is above the 'skin' layer it would overlap it and then you would just have to erase what you don't want outside the hair? Let me know if that didn't make any
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Even though I'm a beginner at attempting to cg, this is probably going to sound like a horribly dumb question. I've gotten everything fine up until this point though. When you color and shade the skin using the polygonal lasso tool, you don't go perfectly around the lineart to color it, which I understand. But then when you moved onto the hair, all the the skin color, like around the face and parts that colored up into the hair, are cleaned away. So is there an easy way to clean up what you don't want outside the lineart, or do you just have to use the eraser to carefully go around it and clean up? Sorry if this doesn't make sense.
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oh! that's because, in the example with the skin and the hair, I cover up the skin color ~ if you look at [link] , you'll notice that the "skin" layer is underneath the "clothes" and "hair" layers, so anything on the clothes/hair layers overlapping with the skin would cover the skin.
(...let me know if the way I worded it was confusing o_o;)
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I love it!!!
Thank you very much!!! I always wanted to learn to draw like that in ps *o*
Sorry for the bad english U.U
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werry nice you helped me alot thx man I realy thx you
I didnt know how to make at the end the tineart I mean its blu but you showed me thx again
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Thank you very much for making this ^^ It really helped me a lot!
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omg thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i really wanted art on my account u rock for doing this
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This is really helpful! Thank you! This colouring style looks nice.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH that was soo usefull! But umm... How come for step number 6, you said that it won't colour out of the lines, but when I did it (I followed your steps) It goes out of the colours of the skin layer? PLEASE HELP. Thank you so much
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did you group the layers? ~make sure the layer that is grouped (in the layers palette, it's the one immediately above the skin layer) is selected. you may have been coloring on another layer :9 (...I do that sometimes. XD)
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when I press ctrl+g, it makes the layer go in a "set", like that folder thing. But maybe it is because I have photoshop cs2. Have any idea >👍: 0 ⏩: 1
for photoshop CS... ~JyShin told me you have to use a "clipping mask" and set it to the base (in your case, the skin) layer.
[link] says to do this, you should "hold the Option key (Mac) or Alt key (PC) as you move your mouse over the border between the adjustment layer and the underlying layer. When the cursor changes to a double-circle, release your mouse. " try it and let me know if it works!
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Oh my gosh, It worked! Thank you soooooo much!!!!!!
*bow*
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i really like this tutorail i tried to make one with one of youre sketch (yes i was lazy XD) so now im finnaly done
that drawing with youre sketch is on my deviantart i hope you like it
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Wow, Dude the Final piece is excellente!
Are the Wings and the hair the only part you don't blur?
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awesome!! as soon as i figure out how to make a freakin' eye with the pen tool i'll try this out. ^^
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I didn't quite understand the hair shine part
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What don't you understand about it?
Uhmm... create a new linear dodge layer (although personally, now I just use a color I like on a normal layer XD) for the hair shine. Take a biiiig brush on medium-low flow, and brush in a circular motion--around the crown of the head (or wherever else you'd like to shine).
(Did I go over the confusing part? o_o)
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I prefer Linear Dodge layer. What colour do is use?
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Thank you so much for this tutorial it was so helpful.
I don't want to sound stupid, but what is open canvas? Is it some kind of program like photoshop?
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yes, it's an art program. however it's not designed so much for photo editing (as photoshop is) and is aimed more towards CG artists, I think. it has some really cool capabilities with its brushes that photoshop doesn't~
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Oo that sounds interesting. Thank you very much for the info.
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omg! you're my hero. i soo needed this! thank yoU!
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how do you colorize the sketch at the beggening?
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make sure the layer containing the sketch is highlighted, then press Ctrl + U. then you can drag the little sliders around :9
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This is great! Thanks, I'll be needing to use this tutorial!
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thank you! this will be very useful to me! thankz heaps!
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THANK YOU! Thank You so much for your detailed explanation! it helps me a lot! really! thank you!! i LOVE you!
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Wooow! Good thing I just got a Wacom Tablet for Christmas.
And... I don't have Adobe Photoshop. D:
Do you have any idea if this work with Paint Shop Pro?
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I've never actually used PSP, so I wouldn't know... but try it out and see what happens. If it doesn't work, there are plenty of PSP tutorials out there that describe basically the same thing. :D
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For the people who sketches it out on paper and scans them, colorizing doesn't come out nice. Maybe you can add an extra section for when you do scan the sketch, you can go to Image > Adjustments > Variations... and then pick the color.
I think it's better that way 
BTW, I love your tutorial. Without it, I'd end up airbrushing everything >_>;.
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