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Shapooda — Texture and Painting Tutorial: Beginners
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Published: 2012-08-08 09:34:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 36847; Favourites: 1856; Downloads: 1109
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Warning: HUGE file [DL link below for slow connections]What's "spacing?" Spacing gives you this effect. While it can be useful, generally it is not. Photoshop's default setting for spacing is about 5%.
!!! This tutorial should translate fairly painlessly to any adobe CS edition. As far as technique, this should also work in any advanced program with layers. !!!
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BRUSH SETSave this to your computer, don't click 'open'
To load brushes: With brush tool active, Right click > Load
At the very bottom of the list you'll see two brushes named 175. I used the first one.
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I made this assuming you had little to no experience with Photoshop. So don't be insulted that I showed a pic of the move tool lol (sorry if there are spelling errors. Also, sorry for the scatteryness. That's how I organize things)
Should translate to other programs decently well. if something is unclear or hard to see, let me know and I'll clarify in the artist's comments. Noticed people wanted to know how to use textures and how I painted, so...this.
Here's the finished speedpaint & another with the same techniques
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This was about 2 hours of work. So if you were to keep going
it would need more highlights and such, which you can figure out on your own.
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Q: Why use RGB and not CMYK if you're going to print?
A: You can use either. I think the reason I do it is because I've had problems in the past moving textures to a project because the Color Modes were different. Or it's just a habit lol
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Q: "This is similar to the effect "photo filter" - except to use photo filter on an entire picture it needs to be flattened" But photo filter does affect the entire picture if used as an adjustment layer on top of the other layers?
A: Super true, I didn't mention that. I rarely use adjustment layers. Who knows why. Doesn't mean you guys can't, so keep that in mind when you're working! If you don't know how, that's fine, my method above is basically the same.
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!!! If you're having trouble reading it, download the fullsize here !!!
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Comments: 125
This was extremely helpful! Thank you so much for doing this!
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No problem! Glad it's helpful C:>
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Good tutorial, but the font's a little hard to read. It at least needs to be bigger 
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There's a link for the fullsize up there in the comments - I forgot to compensate for DA's upload limit OOPS ~Thanks CX
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I have CS5 but I have to say, thank you for this tut. I only use Photoshop for my art and even though my style is Cartoony, it's always helpful to have a tut that's not about SAI.
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It's really close to CS5, the only difference is some extra features and the way some things are handled also some tools disappeared ARKJNRJKGN So no problem C: Hope it works for you.
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Would this tutorial work with SAI too?
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I haven't seen SAI's layout in years, but for blending modes and such I think most programs are fairly universal. You might struggle with finding some of the menus, but the jargon should be similar.
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Too bad I don't have photoshop. Or a tablet.
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Then you can take a step forward and use real paper XD I need to draw in RL more. I still try to hit the save button in real life GAH
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I already do LOL. It's just that, it feels like I would be less limited with something like Photoshop :/
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Don't worry about it too much. Some of the best artists are still traditional, so you're not missing out. it's just another medium. If it makes you feel better, CS6 is only $169 for a student version. I think the full price is about $990. Huge discount. You don't give up your copy after you graduate either. You have to have a decently strong computer and grpahics card too though :\ In the end, I feel like it's less expensive than spending money on paint and canvas. Canvas is expensive dude.
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I guess it's a good thing I can't paint then xD
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Pencils away! I still draw with mechanical pencils XP My teachers crings lol But whatevs, you don't need to sharpen them XD
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xD That's what I do! I hate having to sharpen regular pencils xP
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Very helpful
What photoshop version is that? I love the dark interface
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I put a teeny little notification at the top that no one can see XD It's CS6, the new one. I needed to buy one for my PC and this one came out about two months ago. I like it C:
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Oh I really didn't saw it ^^
thank you for the information
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No worries, there's tons of text on this X3
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this is excellent! I love the characters you used!
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Thanks! C: They're your weapons in the Darkness II CX
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Thanks so much for posting! This will be really helpful
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Lovely tutorial! This is definitely something that I'm going to reference a bit to improve my own works. I only have one question though; Why use RGB? If you're doing stuff for print, shouldn't you use CMYK?
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Technically you can use both, but when you convert to CMYK more often than not it will look exactly the same. So if you wanna paint it in RGB then switch, it should look the same C: ~I only use RGB because I think I've had trouble in the past dragging textures onto it because the color modes have been different. Or it's just habit XD
~And thanks C: I hope it helps (Gonna reference your question and my answer in mah comments)
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No problem C: I hope it does C:>
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No problem! I hope it's helpful C:
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Thank you for the tutorial!!
(It's different from most of the speedpaint tutorials I see, since most of them are usually background speedpaints)
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Yup, It's rare that you see a speedpaint when it's not of a background, and backgrounds are just characters but they take longer and usually have straight lines lol
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aww thanks C:> If you run into any confusions do let me know! It was four in the morning when I threw it together, so I'm sure there are a fair share of mistakes.
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This will definitly come in handy. Thanks for an awesome tutorial.
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Thank you for explaining textures! I have always had trouble getting them to look right! <3
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I've screwed around with them just enough that I have a decent handle on them. If you really wanna shake things up, then eyedropper tool some colors WITH the overlay layers ON. It tinkers with your color and gives you a different shade than you thought you had. It makes painting really interesting C:
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I have little to no experience with photoshop, so trust me, the more you explain the more helpful it is. Thank you very much for this tutorial, and that's an awesome picture!
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I tried to take as many screen shots as I could. I hope I did an okay job explaining it. I used to fix the labs in Technology class in High school, so I have a little experience with it. Hopefully it works for you! ~Thanks CX
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Awesome stuff!
Out curiosity, what's the reference you're going from? It looks like some crazy monster movie
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The game The Darkness II and the Darkness I C: That pic is from the cover of the game. It's hella fun to play and their trailer cinematics are always a pleasure to see C;
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