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saphiremomo — Using The GIMP :: Cell-shading
Published: 2006-09-09 17:37:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 103029; Favourites: 1571; Downloads: 3518
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2010Updated with a cleaner look and with my current style of cell-shading (which although it's a longer tutorial, it's actually easier IMO). I'll start trying to answer questions now that I'm frequenting DevART more often, so feel free to ask away!
For those of you who may prefer the older version (which I understand if you do) I've uploaded it to my photobucket for your pleasure.
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Aha! Finally I have gotten off my lazy, procrastinating butt and made a Cell-shading tutorial! Fear my cell-shading!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!
Anyway.... this is a tutorial that was kinda requested by Calypso, since she so wants to learn how to cell shade. So I searched for cell-shading tutorials, and found very few (AKA NONE) that went into detail on how they cell-shade. So I made this. I don't know if it's any better, but I hope it helps all the GIMP-users out there!
Examples - where I've used this technique
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Other Tutorials - Learn more!
Layers *Very Important* -> [link]
Soft-Shading -> [link]
Lineart -> [link]
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This helped me a lot! Domo arigato, my friend!
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I'm glad it worked out for you!
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Thanks for this! Even though it's old, it really helped. Other tutorials I've investigated seemed way too complex. This gives me a great, simple way that I can always fall back on.
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That was mostly what I was going for - something relatively simple for someone who's unfamiliar with cell-shading. And I still use this technique myself!
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BTW, I posted a couple sketches using your technique. I was able to use it to get out this idea, which had been rolling around in my head for months. I like how it came out: [link]
Thanks again.
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this is one of the best cell shading tutoral i have seen sow far.thaks you for the tutorial
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THANKKK YOUUU~~* 
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This one taught me how to shade properly! Thank you so much!!
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When I overlay the light green I use for the shading, It doesn't seem to work. It does but it doesn't work. The colours I use to do the shading (Dark blue, like you said) Just don't match the picture. It's the same with other colours. They may match something but not the over things. Unlike yours where it looks fine
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Erg, I can't actually click between my layers, or organize them like above. I am using GIMP though. But the whole no organization thing is a bummer, I can't do anything useful with my layering. Plus, whenever I use white layer, it whites out everything, so irritating, and I don't know how to fix it!
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Thank you for posting this, it was very helpful ^-^
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Thank you this is very helpful! My only problem is for the life of me, even with a light source point, I simply cannot understand where the shadows should be placed
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Hi ! I've see your tutorial is very nice but can you traduice in french D: ?
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Oh my god....this was surprisingly useful. Thanks a bunch.
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Thank you for making this tutorial
It's very helpful
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Very useful tutorial, especially the last step (the "overlay" style is really neat trick).
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I'm sure you've had plenty of thank yous already, but thanks, this tutorial is very helpful.
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This was so helpful!!! I'm definitely using this again when I need the help.
<3 it.
mnemesyne
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ee! when i closed my drawing and began to continue the next day, all the layers disappeared! now i have to make new layers? D:
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when you say keep making a new layer im confused - do i just do shift ctrl N and just do a transparent layer? x
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Good tutorial, but when I try to go to Layers > Transparancy > Color to Alpha, it doesn't allow me to do click it. What do I do?
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Thank you for posting this! This is very, very, VERY helpful!
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I was able to do this the first time, but the second time I'm having trouble because I can't select "Color to Alpha." Can you help me with this?
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If you're still having this issue, I've found that it mainly crops up when you're working on the basic background layer. If you duplicate the layer and then tell it to "Add Alpha Channel" it should work.
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it added alpha channel and it still fails
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Woop, never mind, finally got it to work
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how'd you do it? pls help me 
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Basically I did the following above my comments, I copied the copied background layer. It should work after that.
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OOHH MANS it still doesnt work
*bashes head on table*
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The "Lineart Copy" layer that saphire has in her tutorial is exactly what I did. You're going to want to have the initial drawing as the Background layer. Name that "Original" so you can tell what it is. Duplicate that layer, and then duplicate the first copy. I don't think I added an alpha channel because it worked right after that.
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DONT WORRY IT ALL WORKS NOW its so weird i saved a lineart image from the internet and the alpha worked so i submitted my lineart here on da, saved it, then put it on gimp, and it works O.O thanks for everyhting though
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right! it works with lineart i found on the internet, but not the image i scanned in!
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so the "lineart copy" you just duplicated again 
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