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Reblog from my Tumblr ?Please read my commentary before asking any more questions~! thanks
Finished Work:
Edit: I've had a few repeated question of how I work my lineart into the drawing.
I'd like to clarify that i don't really actually have a clean line-art. I have clean-sketches that I work under, but they're not what I personally call lineart. If you zoom in, they are very messy. I do merge the layers together at some point in step 5, and I continue to literally work the colours of the lineart into the skin (which is why i turned the sketch layer into overlay so the colours become very similar and nice to work with). That way I can get an almost none-lineart quality.
also, if you're wondering about canvas sizes, check out my journal about them: [link]
The program I used was Painttool SAI, but I think you can achieve similar effects via photoshop with a low-opacity textured brushes.
I hope this helped : ) Sorry it's so darn long. I kept it as short as I could but it's still a pretty long process.
Please keep in mind this is more of a guide to my painting process and how I technically go about doing this; It's not going to automatically teach you how to render or understand structure or anatomy (which I hope I will cover in more tutorials in the future.), which is very important, of course, to the painting itself. That's why I'll be slowly going through and doing more tutorials on anatomy and structure in the next few months, hopefully
A good practice for rendering is actually to do still life and human sketches. preferably with a pencil, and not digitally (yet)
Step-by-step animation:
In the mean time, have some of my other anatomy tutorials:
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Comments: 398
Bubblette In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:55:25 +0000 UTC]
Amazing tutorial - it's hard to find such a great artist tell how they work in such great detail<3 Thank you.
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Juliusz-Cezar-Tupacz In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:51:13 +0000 UTC]
Tutorial is very well! Thanks you
You have Gimpa? If you have, you will tutorial?
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Qinni In reply to Juliusz-Cezar-Tupacz [2013-03-30 05:55:03 +0000 UTC]
sorry, I don't have Gimp
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Juliusz-Cezar-Tupacz In reply to Qinni [2013-03-30 12:58:29 +0000 UTC]
O... You don't worry ^^
You have super tutorial and I may download Paint Tool SAI ^^
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Oribani In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:44:39 +0000 UTC]
This is a really gorgeous piece.
Thank you for sharing this awesome tutorial with us!
Hand holding things or feet tutorial would be nice. I always have trouble with those haha.
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ketchupgirlX In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:44:29 +0000 UTC]
Fantastic tutorial!
Also, I vote arms/legs for the anatomy tutorials.
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PotionMasterCernun In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:42:31 +0000 UTC]
love the style--the facial hues trick i will deffinitely use!
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DeathKissuFu In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:38:04 +0000 UTC]
this is a very beautiful piece you've done here
very beautiful...and maybe this will help me once I get a tablet
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80yearoldcatlady [2013-03-29 19:37:19 +0000 UTC]
WOW!Thank you sooo much!(I don't have photoshop right now or any other coloring systems, all I can use right now is deviantart's Damuro but your tips are going to help a lot!!!
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RobmanCartoons In reply to 80yearoldcatlady [2013-03-29 19:47:47 +0000 UTC]
Until you get photoshop or something else you could use paint.net, its free and easy to use and its like a slimmed down version of photoshop mixed with paint. Its really good and gets the job done, i use it for my drawings until i can afford photoshop and learn it^^
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80yearoldcatlady In reply to RobmanCartoons [2013-03-29 20:54:27 +0000 UTC]
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RobmanCartoons In reply to 80yearoldcatlady [2013-03-29 22:55:27 +0000 UTC]
youΒ΄re welcome, just glad to help a fellow deviantart member ^^
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yooci In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:34:17 +0000 UTC]
Great tutorial! I'd like to see a head tutorial or a arms/legs tutorial! Thanks for sharing your skills!
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Sanaia-art In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:27:47 +0000 UTC]
Now this is something I really find useful since I'm getting into digital painting I found it really hard and didn't know how to start things up or what tools to use for that matter lol
I tried on my own but got stuck at some points but your tutorial is like a ray of sunshine on my cloudy way lol
I suppose it's hard when you try going from traditional to digital specially painting least I know it is for me
Anyways awesome job on the tutorial keep it up
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Nellette In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:12:26 +0000 UTC]
Nice tutorial and amazing drawing c:
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derelictSnowWhite [2013-03-29 19:10:30 +0000 UTC]
THANK YOU! And Arms. I can't do arms.
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POSEIdOON In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 19:03:05 +0000 UTC]
Really great tutorial Thank you
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Locomatic In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:47:44 +0000 UTC]
The picture at step 3 is very good xD I thought 'wow' and then you continued and I was like, you can make it even more wow?
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Kotekigo In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:46:42 +0000 UTC]
Rough sketch is really adorable. Thanks for detail shots.
hand-holding-things tutorial (guns, swords, other hands, etc) would be awesome.
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stitchpunkz In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:44:40 +0000 UTC]
thanks! it's great! One question though, is the shading done in the same layer as the base colours or in a different layer?
a tutorial on head or hand-holding-things would be awesome! (though all of them seem really useful to me)
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Qinni In reply to stitchpunkz [2013-03-29 18:48:15 +0000 UTC]
The shading is done on the same layer as the base colours (which is why I lock the opacity so it's a little faster for me to get that part over with). I do merge everything after I do as much as I could with the sketch on top though and keep going just on one layer after that.
awesome, kk, I'd like to start doing more tutorials cause i've got a little more free time these days (skipping my classes cause i hate the models )
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stitchpunkz In reply to Qinni [2013-03-29 18:56:25 +0000 UTC]
thanks for clearing up ^^ that does makes sense... (the opacity thing)
well, i guess that's fortunate for us, but unfortunate for you?
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Qinni In reply to stitchpunkz [2013-03-29 18:58:06 +0000 UTC]
no problem
it's okay for now; the models will change after a week or two, so I'm just waiting it out v_v;;~ xD
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Yuki-Namida In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:39:21 +0000 UTC]
That was super useful, thank you!
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Qinni In reply to Yuki-Namida [2013-03-29 18:48:26 +0000 UTC]
no problem~! glad they helped
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Daumenkino In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:25:18 +0000 UTC]
Incredible. Do you have any videos of you painting? This is very helpful, but I think it would be more so if we could see you in action.
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Qinni In reply to Daumenkino [2013-03-29 18:44:06 +0000 UTC]
thanks~! the problem with videos is that those programs are pretty RAM consuming, and I like to watch videos and listen to stuff while I'm working, so my computer gets too slow if I run those programs, and, being the HP that it is, it refuses to fan the heat properly, so sometimes it likes to overheat and shut-down if I'm not careful.
plus i'm REALLY SLOW at painting xD;; i thought about livestreaming while I was working on this a few times but I thought everyone would probably get their pants bored off them watching me do every strand of hair -_-;;
I'm thinking of getting a new computer soon so I might do a video someday once I get it and do one of those speed-up stuff .
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Daumenkino In reply to Qinni [2013-03-29 19:03:21 +0000 UTC]
Looking forward to it. Excellent painting and advice!
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Reedflower101 In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:25:05 +0000 UTC]
OH! You're the same person who is a part of that critique blog on tumblr! I thought the name Qinni sounded familiar.
I've hit a bit of a roadblock with digital painting lately and this tutorial really helped me along, thanks.
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Qinni In reply to Reedflower101 [2013-03-29 18:41:06 +0000 UTC]
oh, yes, I am
no problem~! I'm glad it helped .
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inkryptid In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:23:10 +0000 UTC]
You told me the cat's rough sketch looked awful... the one you showed here looks adorable! xD
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Qinni In reply to inkryptid [2013-03-29 18:40:26 +0000 UTC]
hahaha, thanks xD;; but it was worse than this, trust me. for here, i just kind of re-drew what i remembered of my initial sketch cause i deleted that layer once i cleaned up the sketch layer xD;.
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0utsid3r In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:22:34 +0000 UTC]
awesome! thank you very much
I would like to learn about
arms/legs
hand-holding-things (guns, swords, other hands, etc)
more! if it's possible
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Qinni In reply to 0utsid3r [2013-03-29 18:38:41 +0000 UTC]
no problem~!
yah, i want to get to all of them eventually, but one at a time for now xD;
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Pikatoro In reply to ??? [2013-03-29 18:22:32 +0000 UTC]
Thanks a lot for sharing!
Very useful! Especially the part about warm/cool + highlight for facial feature colouring!
Don't usually see this kind of tips in a lot of tutorials
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Qinni In reply to Pikatoro [2013-03-29 18:37:46 +0000 UTC]
thanks~! yah, i recently just learned this too and I feel it adds another dimention to my work
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Qinni In reply to Smiia [2013-03-29 18:37:19 +0000 UTC]
no problem as long as it helps ^^
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Pippyrae [2013-03-29 18:18:03 +0000 UTC]
Very nice, thank you for the walk through! I may have to try playing around with the brush tool... usually I try and use Water for shading, but it never quite gets the effect I want. Maybe this will help. Anyway, beautiful work!
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Qinni In reply to Pippyrae [2013-03-29 18:37:09 +0000 UTC]
I heard the brush tool also works pretty good too . there are custom brushes you can download online (and on dA too, i think!) for SAI, so try stuff out and play around
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Pippyrae In reply to Qinni [2013-03-29 18:41:52 +0000 UTC]
Ooh, that's great to know! I had thought that downloadable brushes were only available for Photoshop. Thanks for the info~
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Pippyrae In reply to Pippyrae [2013-03-29 18:21:08 +0000 UTC]
Excuse me, I meant marker tool lmao. xD My fingers are faster than my brain ahah.
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Qinni In reply to Mermaid-Melly [2013-03-29 18:16:59 +0000 UTC]
thanks! the details took forever "orz.
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Mermaid-Melly In reply to Qinni [2013-03-29 23:01:25 +0000 UTC]
Your effort shows beautifully <3
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