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Since a lot of people have asked, I've decided to make a quick tutorial highlighting my process for coloring my Neko Noire Template:

This really is just a simple modification to a basic cel-shading setup. The idea is to use the soft round brush to soften up the hard transitions you have in normal cel shading coloring without relying on applying gradients everywhere with the selection tool or masks. Its very fast and you don't have to be very precise with it, which is what makes it simple.

You can expand on the ideas here by including more layers. For starters, I'd increase the shadow layers to least 2. One for ambient occlusion effects and one for hard shadows. Here I combined the two but in my more detailed paintings I keep them separate. I do a lot of other tricks in those too but for the Neko Noire deviation, all the clothing skin was done using this technique. The hair I also used a layer mask which I'll talk about in another tutorial.

It's been a while since I made a tutorial but hopefully this was clear enough to help people who need it. If you have any questions just leave it in the comments.

Description
Instagram |Twitter |Facebook |Tumblr

Since a lot of people have asked, I've decided to make a quick tutorial highlighting my process for coloring my Neko Noire Template:

This really is just a simple modification to a basic cel-shading setup. The idea is to use the soft round brush to soften up the hard transitions you have in normal cel shading coloring without relying on applying gradients everywhere with the selection tool or masks. Its very fast and you don't have to be very precise with it, which is what makes it simple.

You can expand on the ideas here by including more layers. For starters, I'd increase the shadow layers to least 2. One for ambient occlusion effects and one for hard shadows. Here I combined the two but in my more detailed paintings I keep them separate. I do a lot of other tricks in those too but for the Neko Noire deviation, all the clothing skin was done using this technique. The hair I also used a layer mask which I'll talk about in another tutorial.

It's been a while since I made a tutorial but hopefully this was clear enough to help people who need it. If you have any questions just leave it in the comments.