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Published: 2010-02-25 19:29:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 161084; Favourites: 6347; Downloads: 3538
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First thing I'd like to explain: this tutorial absolutely doesn't include anatomy or digital coloring lessons. I think there are many good tutorials about it here on dA.It' just the colllection of my basic tips which are helpful when we want to save some time. These are things I have learnt myself during the recent years and I'd like to share them with you. I hope it will help you to collect ideas, arrange composition of your drawings, and to avoid typical anatomy mistakes. Moreover, I presented some solutions for correcting mistakes or getting the balance of colors in a very quick way.
I'm aware they are very general tips but I think they can be helpful for the beginners.
Hope you will like this tutorial :]
Credits:
Thank you Dear for letting me use your artwork in the tutorial!
for the texture
[link] TUTORIAL: Cleaning Pencil Linearts
[link] TUTORIAL: Drawing Hair
[link] Editing Scanned Drawings
[link] Marker Tutorial- Part I
[link] Colouring Tutorial
[link] Drawing folds and frills in women's clothes
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Comments: 264
Ooo thanks! I like the idea of using the dominating colour for the background, then building up from there. These are awesome tips! Thank you!
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You're welcome ^^.
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I suck at different perspectives x__x frustrating.
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Great tutorial! I am definately going to use it to help fix mistakes as i currently redraw! lol
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I really like your tutorial thanks for posting. I'm not a fan of resizing in PS using the free transform though, I find it becomes relied upon too much and the same mistakes are continuously made because the original problem was never corrected while drawing it was just altered in PS.
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I find the free transform method good for those who are in hurry 
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XD I totally understand, I wasn't criticizing or anything. I have just noticed this attitude on dA of "I'll fix it in PS" and it's like taking the easy way out. (I know all too well about trying to fix something in a picture and making it worse XD) I guess what I mean is I've met people who don't understand proportions properly (does not apply to my friends if they are reading this) and just fix it up on PS rather than learn how to do it properly. I mean if you entered their PS work in a contest they might win but if you entered their work by hand they would definitely fail XD Sorry if that's long or confusing... >.<;
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I know what you mean and I agree with your opinion. Photoshop shouldn't be a tool for fixing everything because it's better if we learn some things on our own :].
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Exactly! I didn't mean to sound harsh or anything before! 
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I'm glad to hear my tutorial is helpful. Thank you :].
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NP Thank you for making a helpful tutorial!
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this is so helpfull and i really enjoyed reading it
thanks so much for shareing this
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I find this very helpful, thanks! It's always interesting to hear different people's developed techniques and advice.
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Awesome tutorial. As a novice at PS, I'll definitely be using some of your tips in the future. As well as your other tutorials! : )
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normally i flip the picture over and look at it that way, but either way nice tips
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Yep, that is another way of doing it :}
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wonderful tutorial. i don't draw at all, but if i ever had the need to i could probably take some good tips from this!
lovely work!
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This is such an amazing tutorial! It very informative, helpful, and is wrapped in a beautiful theme :3 This is really going to help me improve my art, and I'm sure it will help many others as well~! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this~!
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I'm so happy to hear you find it helpful :].
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I really, really do~! :3 And I'm just as impressed with your other tutorials! It may just be me, but I really think you have a knack for tutorial-making. You explain thing in a way that's really easy for me (and many other people, I'm sure) to understand. I'm going to do my best to apply what I've learned to my own art, and hopefully I can improve (if only a little) :3 Again, thank you very very much~!
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oh so useful!
Thank you very much!
you saved my life today
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Darn you, your first rough sketch is better than my finished drawing
Thanks for the tips
I'll use them once i'm done with uni and have more time
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You ROCK!!!
Thank you for the tutorial!
It's very good!
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thank you so much for creating this tutorial! it helped me sooo much!!
i'll be definitly using your tips in the future... there were so many things i didn't know! o_____o :thumb127036525:
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seems like a reaally good tut. If only i could read it! The bg conflicts with the writing
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It looks good on my and other people's screen. Maybe the reason you can't read it is that your screen is too bright?
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yeah, that must be it cause now im viewing it on a different computer and i can read it
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OMG i've been dying to know how to shrink heads or make hands bigger with that transformation box. Thank you so much for making this tutorial T_T!
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A lot of these tecniques I've tried and still use myself. 
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Great suggestions!!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate you did it
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i love the color mode layer idea, i shall experiment! ^^
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Wow, this is a very helpful tutorial! Especially the hue/saturation color thing.
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I am guilty of correcting my anatomical mistakes through Photoshop as well
But now that I see that you've done the same thing I did, I don't feel so bad anymore. Thanks much for sharing this to our community
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Heh, you know.. Sometimes it's better to correct it digitally since when we redraw it we are often not satisfied with the result and we prefer the previous version.
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Mirroring images has helped me like no tomorrow. I only started doing it a few years ago, but I've come a long way since I think. Definitely something all artists should know. Nice tutorial
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nice tutorial ^^
theres a page where you can practice poses a lot:
www.posemaniacs.com
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o tutorial^^ widzΔ kilka pomocnych rzeczy, ktΓ³re pewnie wykorzystam. O wiΔcej takich proszΔ^^
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Very helpful, esp. the parts about adjusting the picture's color theme.
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Wow, really helpful. Thanks! = )
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Thank you for the tutorial! It's really helpful~
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Mirror images don't work with me, and i wonder why. I have to stay a bit far from my drawing for see mistakes.
About sketches, somethimes i sketch with close eyes. In that way i can get better how image that i want to draw has to look.
About references, i have not understood if pose in reference image has to be the same that i want to draw, or references is simple for see how people look.
I like this tutorial.
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Thenks for the tutorial! This halp me alot!
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