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iiCollectiive In reply to iiNoName [2017-03-20 20:31:33 +0000 UTC]

Very good

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theBluYu In reply to DrawPokemon [2017-03-18 17:46:22 +0000 UTC]

I think it looks like that because it's supposed to be a stamp. The thick white outline, the cut-off terrain, those are both qualities that a stamp would possess. As for the bandanna, I personally see nothing wrong with it, but that's just my view.

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DrawPokemon In reply to theBluYu [2017-03-18 18:00:33 +0000 UTC]

That's just the way I see it. The line could be a little thinner and, well the bandana is supposed to be triangular in the front

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theBluYu In reply to DrawPokemon [2017-03-18 18:03:00 +0000 UTC]

True, but what if the bandanna isn't really a bandanna... o.o

dun dun dun XD jk

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Steve-does-art In reply to Johnauditore [2017-05-30 11:57:23 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, great to hear that! ^^

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Steve-does-art In reply to Phant0m-Thief [2017-05-30 11:57:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! ;o;

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Steve-does-art In reply to MileniaKitsuvee [2017-04-24 18:48:15 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! :3

Yeah, I usually take the sketch, color and shade it and then make a new layer to paint over it or paint directly on the sketchlayer then
The sketchlayer for this one here looks like this:

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MileniaKitsuvee In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-04-24 19:23:02 +0000 UTC]

Ok neat! I have to try that, I just start painting directly. Maybe that's why I find it harder to do xD

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Steve-does-art In reply to MileniaKitsuvee [2017-05-14 11:39:02 +0000 UTC]

Yeah it definitely helps :3
Good luck with it ^^

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Steve-does-art In reply to CocoaRawrs [2017-03-31 18:29:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! ^^

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Steve-does-art In reply to Absbor-Phamtusin [2017-03-23 18:43:17 +0000 UTC]

Danke! :3

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Absbor-Phamtusin In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-24 18:01:07 +0000 UTC]

Bitte,

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Steve-does-art In reply to Alfabem [2017-03-23 18:43:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! ^^

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Steve-does-art In reply to Xael-The-Artist [2017-03-23 18:43:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! ^^
I'm sure that you'll get there soon and I can give you some tips or try to answer your questions if you have some, so feel free to ask when you want to know anything! :3

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Xael-The-Artist In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-24 05:54:40 +0000 UTC]

Well, mostly tips for shading XD (i'm doing some comissions, and i need to improve the final look of my works at least :3)

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Steve-does-art In reply to Xael-The-Artist [2017-03-26 23:56:20 +0000 UTC]

Oh ok :3
I'll have to aks you a few things first tho: How do you shade so far and what do you know about shading in general? ovo
So that I kinda get a feel for what you know and what you still need to learn ^^

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Xael-The-Artist In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-27 00:07:04 +0000 UTC]

Well, mostly like one layer at multiply (normaly i put it on 37%) with color depending of the background (  here i use an intense red for the normal background because of the sun and time of the day, and it the gradient background i used an intense blue), and in comissions liek this   i use the same technique, but i use more layer with spray-like brush settings to do more "realistic" or "better" shadings, and i discovered the garussian blur in photoshop so that helps me a lot on shading sometimes XD

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Steve-does-art In reply to Xael-The-Artist [2017-03-27 00:11:18 +0000 UTC]

Oh ok, nice ovo
You actually use cold colors like blue for shading when the lightsource is the sun and warm colors for highlights, like red When it is indoors it is the other way around with cold colors for highlights and warm for shadows tho you don't have to do it like that of course, it's just a kinda loose rule o3o

Oh and you use Photosho? ovo

Also, is there like any artwork that I made where you want to know specifically how I shaded it or just tips in general?

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Xael-The-Artist In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-27 00:14:20 +0000 UTC]

I think, hmmmm......... both XD

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Steve-does-art In reply to Xael-The-Artist [2017-03-27 00:49:58 +0000 UTC]

Ok so which artworks would you want to know more about? Am just asking them cause that will be the ones I'll use as examples then ovo
I'm not that good at explaining stuff which is why I often use visuals instead, which is a better method to get that stuff across in my opinion anyways ^^

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Xael-The-Artist In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-27 01:18:55 +0000 UTC]

I would say of these three ^^

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Steve-does-art In reply to Xael-The-Artist [2017-03-27 21:22:08 +0000 UTC]

Ok ^^
So let me start with the first one, that one is quite simple, for the most part I just used 3 different layers for the shading
Here is the unshaded version:   then I shade it with a shade layer and blue on 80% opacity:   < here is how that layer looks like
I go really really rough first with a big brush and then refine it in som areas but I personally like it to kinda shade big areas and cover everything with either shadows or highlights so that there are not many areas where the color is just the base color, you don't have to do it like that and it really just depends on personal taste but it's what is the most fun to me and I guess more realistic too? After shading it I put in the hightlights which looks like this here then: which pretty much works the same than the shading layer but I use a luminosity layer instead and on 80% opacity too, the actual layer looks like this:   there you can really see how big I had the brush at first with the huge strokes on the left side and then I reduced the size to put in more details ^^
Also a good trick is to erase with the actual brush itself, in painttool sai for example there is this little icon which looks like this (i have to resort to discordimage links now cause dA only lets me use 5 st.ash thumbnails here ;v cdn.discordapp.com/attachments… which lets you erase with the brush which you can use to blend things in more nicely and have the texture of the brush on the whole area you use it :3
It can also create some cool looking effects depending on the brush, for example with the marker you can make stuff like this here then: The little explorer by Steve-the-Lucario
And I actually have a recording that I cut together of how I made that here: orig05.deviantart.net/1f50/f/2…

And well yeah, the last thing that is missing on this artwork is the backlight which also works the same ovo
Layer itself looks like this: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments… used a light blue and luminosity on 60% opacity, same brush for all the different shading layers btw. and that looks like the final artwork then if you ignore the eyeshine which I have on a seperate layer
A neat little trick is to not make the eyeshine white, I for example used a luminosity layer on 100% and used this pink color here: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments… which looks like this in the actual layer then: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments…

I'll explain to you how I made the other two in the next comment then cause there is only so many words I can put in here and only so many thumbnails You can already aske me questions to this one here that way tho so I can already explain these then with the next example :3
I hope it already helped you so far!

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Xael-The-Artist In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-29 06:02:07 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, the bad thing is that the luminosity style layer maybe it doesn't work like in SAI, actually it just show it white, also, i'm still trying to figure it out at all, but i feel a little frustated when i actually try and it doesn't come out as i wish to, specially on backgrounds, also some layer doesn't have the same name so it might be kinda confusing.

Explain the other two XD

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Steve-does-art In reply to Xael-The-Artist [2017-04-05 20:29:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh when I export a sai file to psd it changes the shade layer into a "Linear Burn" one and the luminosity one into a "Linear Dodge (Add)" one but it looks a bit different than in sai I know what you mean, don't get demotivated because of that, not everything we make is a masterpiece and it takes a lot of good to bad drawings before we make one, so be patient and don't worry too much :3

The Ivysaur is pretty much the same than the Lucario one with the difference that I then painted over it, here is how it looked like before that which the only difference is that I used an watercolor brush for the shading and highlighting instead of a more rough brush like with the Lucario one:
Usually I make a layer over it to paint over the actual kinda "sketch" like this one here but in this case I merged the layers and just kinda painted it in by going over it with a rough render / blur brush on the same layer ovo
And then I added some color adjustment and effect layers on top which are these ones here:   They are to adjust the shadows and highlight a tad bit, change the colors slightly and for the eye shine and a bit of a reflection too ^^

Like I said, usually I do that on a new layer like with this eevee here:
Where the sketch looks like this:
I also made a layer there where I just slightly crossed over some colors from bodyparts or parts of the background near to other parts on the eevee with a light waterbrush as you can see it on the neckfloof where there is some brown from the face ovo
Then I added a ton of overlay layers to make the colors more fancy and kinda split some color transitions up to creat some neat patterns which looks like this:
These here where the layers used for it, the ones that are completely colored are the ones I used to change the colors: Eevee Overlay Layers by Steve-the-Lucario
And as I said I then painted over it on a new layer ( I did it seperately for the eevee and the background to be able to create the effect of it kinda coming out of the canvas more easily but usually people do it on the same layer as far as I know): Eevee Render Layer by Steve-the-Lucario
It also shows that I painted over the background in that layer too in some parts to fix up the edges of the eevee in some parts since the lineart / sketch is visibly in the sketch which is basically just one layer and I painted over the lines then too o3o

And yeah, I'll explain the one I made for Zander next then and sorry for the very late reply ;o;
I hope this helped you and as with last time, just ask me whatever questions you have if any new ones came up :3

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Xael-The-Artist In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-06-08 05:20:13 +0000 UTC]

Well, sorry for the UBER DUBER SUPER LATER REPLY MAI FRIENDO!!, i would like to see about the third XD

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theBluYu In reply to Xael-The-Artist [2017-03-18 17:48:28 +0000 UTC]

Lolz! You'll get there... XD

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Steve-does-art In reply to DelTa-DRagon7997 [2017-03-23 18:42:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot man, it means so much to me coming from someone who makes such amazing artworks like you do! ;o;
YIS THE FLOOOOOF I am totally not addicted to putting floof on everything 👍: 0 ⏩: 1

DelTa-DRagon7997 In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-26 18:48:55 +0000 UTC]

Awh thank you as well!! ;v;;;
YISSS XD ikr oml everything must be a floof >w>

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Steve-does-art In reply to DelTa-DRagon7997 [2017-03-26 23:58:21 +0000 UTC]

No problem :3
Put floof on top of floof for maximum floof >:3

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DelTa-DRagon7997 In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-28 03:20:25 +0000 UTC]

AHAHA YES MAXIMUM FLOOOOOF   

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Steve-does-art In reply to DelTa-DRagon7997 [2017-04-05 19:59:47 +0000 UTC]

TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH FLOOF  

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theBluYu In reply to DelTa-DRagon7997 [2017-03-18 17:47:49 +0000 UTC]

XD DelTa-DRagon7997 has fainted by choking off of cuteness! What would you like to do now?

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DelTa-DRagon7997 In reply to theBluYu [2017-03-21 03:14:12 +0000 UTC]

XD RUN AWAYYYY
It's cute level is too high for mY POKES

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theBluYu In reply to DelTa-DRagon7997 [2017-03-21 20:52:51 +0000 UTC]

Lolz! DelTa-DRagon7997 has escaped! *A wild Select{set}.Null has appeared!*

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Steve-does-art In reply to theBluYu [2017-03-23 18:41:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! ^^

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theBluYu In reply to Steve-does-art [2017-03-23 22:21:26 +0000 UTC]

YW

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