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Published: 2011-10-08 11:51:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 53620; Favourites: 2473; Downloads: 1332
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Ok. Finally on English
But... Only the first part. Other parts in process...
If you know Russian - see this [link] version and don't crash your mind with this
Video from the tip 2: [link]
Useful link "Colour theory simplified": [link]
Other tutorials ad steps: [link]
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This is by far one of the BEST coloring tutorials I have read. Shading has always been my issue but you make these simple exercises that are so amazing! Thank you so much!
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Thank you for sharing this!
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ΠΡΡΡΠΎ. ΠΠ°Π»ΠΊΠΎ, Π½Π΅ ΠΏΠΎ ΡΡΡΡΠΊΠΈ...
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Π’Π°ΠΌ ΠΈ ΠΏΠΎ ΡΡΡΡΠΊΠΈ Π΅ΡΡΡ 
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Π‘ΠΏΠ°ΡΠΈΠ±ΠΎ! ΠΠΈΠ΄Π΅ΠΎΡΡΠΎΠΊ ΠΎΡΠΎΠ±Π΅Π½Π½ΠΎ Π²ΠΏΠ΅ΡΠ°ΡΠ»ΠΈΠ»!
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I plan on getting a tablet and photoshop for christmas and... I had no idea how to blend colors or everything, and I just learned it. Thanks
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Very nice. I'm only trying digital art now and I learned something new.
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Thank you! I haven't tried more than a few attempts of digipainting but I
- used the smudge tool for blending
- used soft brushes
- used a lot of custom brushes
- used dodge and burn trying to do highlights
This is a really helpful read and will def help me as I try to teach myself in my free time.
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So there's one thing I don't understand, although I know its simple.. how do you apply the knowledge of gradients when you're coloring a picture? Is it simply that the gradient provides the right blending colors to use? Or should you color the whole thing with a base color, then add the darkest shadows and lightest highlights and use the opacity technique until you can't see the transition between the two colors?
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I think that will be better to put the basic colors on objects and after that adding shadows and highlights. The basic colors will help you to see the whole picture.
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This is oh-so-very helpful for every novice artist, as myself. Thank you for remembering unsignificant us and taking some time to provide us with such treasure ^^
ΠΠΎΠ·Π΄ΡΠ°Π² ΠΈΠ· Π‘ΡΠ±ΠΈΡΠ΅ :Π
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If you ever find yourself bored out of comprehension you are more then welcome to post critics on my work. I know you are very busy and that i'm mere beginner so i don't expect much, but you can't blame the guy for trying
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THANK YOU, thank you very much. I've been using photoshop just for photo editing but I'm trying to color mi drawings with it <3 thanks for this guide it gonna be really useful <3
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I couldn't read it wholly right now, but can I say a big thank you and compliments for the clear explanation? Really, it left me jawdropped! Thanks and compliments again!
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;________; this is just what I've always wanted to know!!
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Thank you so much for sharing!
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Good tutorial, I could learn something from this. Anyway, an improvement to the tutorial would be better use of English or more images to show the process.
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Sorry I don't understand you. What do you mean about "be better use of English"
The process you can see in video. I posted link in comment
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Oh, I mean't grammar. You'll get better as you write more. But the tutorial is alright.
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I've made a smudge brush that looks nothing like that effect at all and I don't personally agree with never using smudge tool but this is an excellent tutorial and one I'd love to share around with friends having trouble painting or any colouring for that matter in PS. Good job.
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The artist can use anything
"Remember, you can use the things youβd better not to use, but do it only when you know for sure how to use them, otherwise there will be no sense."
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I'm aware of that. I'm sorry if I offended you. Just the wording, makes it a bit contradictory to say never then you can use it. Gives mixed messages is all, and a bit confusing. Beginners can be very literal with tutorial instructions and if you say never use something and they admire you they might never ever use that tool or experiment with it and potentially miss out with learning about it which is all I meant by what I said and again sorry if it offended you because I can see you took a lot of time to make this tutorial and it is a great tutorial. This is one of the best tutorials for painting on DA and actually explains unlike a lot of others skipping important things but mostly the explanation of how to blend and paint is done very well. Again sorry if I've offended you in anyway.
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Oh. Don't worry! You didn't offend me 
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really good basics, this will save many newbies out there.
A tip though, in order to make sure this info gets into the heads of the newbies: use more illustrations, you have a lot of text there. I'd recommend you to bold important words in the text in order to make the reader alert through the whole tutorial (since it's a pretty long tutorial, the mind will get tired after a while and start to skip the text parts and focus more on the pictures.)
And for the pictures, I'd suggest you do not only use color-bars as examples, it will sink down much faster if you actually show how it looks like in theory. Like with "light color moving away gets darker" could be illustrated with two or three trees with different distance from each other.
I don't know if you are asking for feedback or critique about this, but I feel this tutorial series are needed for this community. So I wanted to share my best tips for tutorials - they helped out a lot when I did my own tutorial series "manga to realistic" and "understanding anatomy".
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More illustrations - this is a big problem for me. I like to talk a much 
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the illustrations doesn't need to be advanced, heck you can probably use stick-figures as examples haha
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You can see here but on Russian
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Thats really helpful for me. Thank you for such a great tutorial!
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