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Published: 2007-07-31 05:09:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 4462; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 929
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It's been a while since I posted a tutorial anyways.This is an extremely basic shading technique. As crude as it is, I sometimes still use this as it is very fast....
also cause I am lazy.......
With this technique, I can rapidly shade and colour pictures. Found that especially for comics, it is very useful so as not to leave the thing half-done due a loss of inspiration.
Using triple shading or one of it's variants, I can often get past shading in bout less than half an hour and so giving me more time for effects.
Though more recently I had started advancing and trying various improvements on this tutorial.
This tutorial is mostly supposed to be used in conjunction with a lineart tutorial. (such as [link] )
Methods used here are NOT hard-and-fast rules but more of guides that you can use for more experimentation.
Beyond this stage normally I will do minor effects and so on. May do a tutorial on that if anyone is interested.
Model used was an old Drakenfox sketch somewhere in my scraps heap.
Some of you may recognise the Drakenfox...... that little bundle of horror.
Hope this is useful to anyone out there that's lost.
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You're welcome this is quite an outdated tech for me though.
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no wonder it's old for you. But for a photoshop-newb like myself, where even the most basic stuff is hard, then it's really helpful with stuff like this
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haha...
great after i learned how to
lineart a scanned picture i have
to learn how to shade a picture
...
but this is a real nice tut
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Maybe but this type of shading is one of the nicest.
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well, it's simple soft shading.
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yea...but even this is 'basic' I don't see so many pictures with it.
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in my gallery?
cause well, I kinda advanced beyond this already.
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not only in your galery, at all DA.
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ah
that's cause everyone has all sorts of different styles.
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huh... I moved away from burn tools and that. May have to try them again to improve my work with lighting
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Ah....
well, I did too, then later returned to burn and dodge to get some effects.
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Well when I get Photoshop back (today I hope) the next few requests I get I'll give it a try if I get that oppertunity. So thanks for posting the tutorial up.
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well, happy trying.
there's a whole pile of tutorials on the anthro tutorials club.
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this tutorial is great, unlike some of the other more advanced artist, i can actually understand what is being said. I will actually be able to put this to practical use. Thank you
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And thanks for the fav.
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Haven't tried it yet, I am still compiling our MSN Drawing Conversation like 3 days ago... O_o
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Hmmmmm well, this style is a extremely fast shading method. Mostly use this if I decide to colour fast. Also it became the basis for any more interesting shading methods.
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by the one.. on your drawing.. you mostly never use anti-alias? like the one here
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Well, I almost always use some form of anti-aliasing. be it the manual one or the quick and lazy method.
Though this one is a shading tutorial, not an anti-aliasing tutorial..... so I left those bits out.
Also anti-aliasing is one of the last few steps that I do when I draw. It normally occurs once I start with the effects.... Cause I prefer to work with crisp images for shading and before..... easier to select with the various tools you see.
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I really need to use this O,O
thank you! (now for basic coloring ><
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Basic colouring? Oh, That's easy. Just use the paint bucket tool.
Unless you're talking bout the lineart. That is different..... and I have a tutorial on that.
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ok.. so that is how you do it
but how does everyone get those nice pretty lines ( not pencil or pen)
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Oh that.
Like I said, it's in a separate lineart tutorial that I made much much earlier.
Link is in the picture's description.
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Excellent tutorial! Great work! Thanks for submitting this to the club!
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My pleasure
And thanks for the fav.
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Thanks.
Well, this is very basic shading stuff.
Wonderfing if I should do basic textures.
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Your welcome.
I normaly do color shading.
I think that many would like a basic texture tutorial.
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Mine's centred round burn-shading. Though I do know that there are 4 shading paths: Burn/dodge, Black/white translucence painting, Black/white layering and manual colouring.
Though the basic texture involves only how to do fur (simple), minor anti-aliasing, basic eyes and orbs.
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You can allso build shading up with the lasso tool. Good for small spikes to fluffy parts of the shades if your going for the cell-shaded look.
I'm thinking about doing some tutorials about the glow and silver FX. Just need a good picture to show it at.
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Oh. that too. I do know that there's probably tons of different shading methods. (one of my friends uses some unusual technique with the pen tool and vector art) Though admittedly I haven't tried the lasso tool before.
The only tools I used so far are paintbrush, pencil, magic wand, mask, smudge, burn/dodge/sponge, layers, shapes and the various filters.
Yes, I'm a really simple artist
Ah
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What else do you need? Part from the burn tool that is must the same tools I use. Plus a lot of filters and well I like the polygon/lasso tool to build shapes.
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Odd. I use the polygon tool quite a bit, but haven't got to experimenting on the lasso.
Actually those are bout all the tools I use. That leaves with bout half or more of photoshop that I don't actually touch.
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The polygon tool is good for hard shapes and shades. The lasso can be used the same way but to make more soft shapes. Like the water I did on DF in the shower.
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Hmmm I should really attempt to fiddle around with that tool.
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Thanks.
This is just a really basic version of shading.
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well it helps me... coz i cant do shading for shit >_<...
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That's basically what I do... except a little differently >>
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If I had photoshop, I would use this.
*weeps*
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Well, you don't need photoshop for it. You could try downloading GIMP. That one is about as powerful as photoshop (quite similar too), and it's completely free.
Just run a google search for it.
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I'll try, but I'll probably have to skirt a ton of security stuff and piss off my dad.
then again, it would probably be worth it just for that.
and I'm only half kidding.
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Nah,
Just go to [link] the GIMP website.
download the runtime environment and the GIMP itself.
And you're done. It's completely free.... just do warn you that GIMP is a little user unfriendly and so you may have to spend a while at the tutorials.
But it'll be worth it.
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well, my dad blocks me from downloading files and stuff, and he's a computer master, so I have to blindly navigate my way through.
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