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Another walkthrough as opposed to a tutorial because I've been running short on time recently, my job has been taking most of my time and attention. This one featuring GV Intense Suspense , who's been waiting far too long for a proper reference, poor boy that he is.

Panel 1: Flats, including his splash white areas! This is my starting point.

Panel 2 and 3: When highlighting horses with a lot of white, my first step is to hide the white marking layer, and shade as if I were shading a black horse (in his case, at least). So I pick a highlighting color for my Screen layer that will provide me with a bluer sheen for Tension, which is what I'm looking for. I set my brush to 5% density (or 5% opacity, if you're using another program) and get to work with my similarly-built reference!

Panel 4: Face focus! I have a lot of trouble shading heads, and I'm trying to get better at it. I got to a place where I'm reasonably happy with it, and that's where I stopped for the day!

Panel 5: Ta-da, all highlighting is done! Enter Day 2 and shading in the form of a Multiply layer, either 5 or 10% density, and a very grayish lavender color. I get started working, and it goes quickly, since it's easier to shade a dark horse than highlight. However, that leads us to the next issue; shading on a dark horse looks very different (and not as detailed) when you make the white markings visible again.

Panel 6: So for my standards, I need to do a LOT better on shading now that the white markings are visible. Before I start, I lock the highlight layer opacity (the Screen layer), and color over anywhere that is base white with a much, much lighter highlight color so it's visible on his white areas. This is easiest to see on Panels 7 and 8.

Panel 7: I go around the white areas and refine the shading on the Multiply layer, neatening it and detailing as needed. The hind leg is the best example of this.

Panel 8: A zoom in on the face again, also featuring the updated highlighting on white areas. The two images are before and after images, for fixing the shading on Tension's face.

Panel 9: All done!

Art: (c) shot-fired
Tools: Paint Tool SAI, Adobe Photoshop CC, Wacom Intuos tablet, music player, etc.

Description
Another walkthrough as opposed to a tutorial because I've been running short on time recently, my job has been taking most of my time and attention. This one featuring GV Intense Suspense , who's been waiting far too long for a proper reference, poor boy that he is.

Panel 1: Flats, including his splash white areas! This is my starting point.

Panel 2 and 3: When highlighting horses with a lot of white, my first step is to hide the white marking layer, and shade as if I were shading a black horse (in his case, at least). So I pick a highlighting color for my Screen layer that will provide me with a bluer sheen for Tension, which is what I'm looking for. I set my brush to 5% density (or 5% opacity, if you're using another program) and get to work with my similarly-built reference!

Panel 4: Face focus! I have a lot of trouble shading heads, and I'm trying to get better at it. I got to a place where I'm reasonably happy with it, and that's where I stopped for the day!

Panel 5: Ta-da, all highlighting is done! Enter Day 2 and shading in the form of a Multiply layer, either 5 or 10% density, and a very grayish lavender color. I get started working, and it goes quickly, since it's easier to shade a dark horse than highlight. However, that leads us to the next issue; shading on a dark horse looks very different (and not as detailed) when you make the white markings visible again.

Panel 6: So for my standards, I need to do a LOT better on shading now that the white markings are visible. Before I start, I lock the highlight layer opacity (the Screen layer), and color over anywhere that is base white with a much, much lighter highlight color so it's visible on his white areas. This is easiest to see on Panels 7 and 8.

Panel 7: I go around the white areas and refine the shading on the Multiply layer, neatening it and detailing as needed. The hind leg is the best example of this.

Panel 8: A zoom in on the face again, also featuring the updated highlighting on white areas. The two images are before and after images, for fixing the shading on Tension's face.

Panel 9: All done!

Art: (c) shot-fired
Tools: Paint Tool SAI, Adobe Photoshop CC, Wacom Intuos tablet, music player, etc.