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Sunflorii β Soft Shading Tutorial via Paint Tool SAI
Published: 2013-05-25 09:36:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 122196; Favourites: 3074; Downloads: 2481
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Please download for full view (apologies for the pixelly images in full view XD)This tutorial shows how I go about shading using Paint Tool SAI.
It includes a general technique overview and goes into detailed examples on how I shade hair, clothes, and eyes, including my brush settings and layer modes.
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Hmm I'm assuming you mean after making the base colour layer for hair, when adding the shading on top of that, the colour is affecting places that aren't the hair, correct?
The shading layer should be "clipped" on top of your hair colour base layer or any other base layer like skin, clothing, etc. (step 7) So by the end you should have one layer clipped above every one of your base layers (ie. hair + layer clipped to it, shirt + another layer clipped to it, pants, etc) This is the "clipping group" checkbox above where your layers are (there's 3 check boxes there)
Hope that helps!
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Thank you so much!!!!! oh! i have one more question for you just to see if you might know lol i noticed when people upload chibis here the background is completely gone and its just the picture... how does one do this? is there an option on deviant art or is it all photoshop? Thank you again sempai!
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i know its late but there isnt an option on DeviantArt but the option on the program you're using! ^^
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That would be in photoshop, as long as background is transparent when you save!
Happy to help
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This tutorial is very promising, thank you for making it!β
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Hi there. Just wanted to say thanks for this tutorial. It sounds really great~ I'll definitely be using it to improve my skills.
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Glad to hear it 
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Do you have a tutorial on making colors Translucent/See-Through?
If you're confused on what I mean I can link you to a example?
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Something like this.
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I've tried every method on Sai to make something look Transparent/See-Through even lowering the Opacity didn't work. @^@
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Hm! Lowering opacity should work!
i.imgur.com/F9dlF65.png
Do you have a screenshot of what you're working on ?
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I don't have a screenshot of it but, I'm gonna try out your method to see if I get it right this time. Thank you for the help. ^_^
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Thankies!~ I'll let you know if it works out well. ^w^
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NOW THIS is a real tutorial, If i could, I'd donate (might be able to soon). Thank you soooooooo much
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So glad you found it helpful! Cheers
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what are the settings for the oil water tool?
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There's a link to the brush settings in the FAQ section of my profile!
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This tutorial is really, really helpful.
I really like how your finished picture turned out.
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That's great to hear
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I used your tutorial to color one of my drawings! Thank you so much for the help <3
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I've been looking for a tutorial for hours now and this one is the only one that has actually helped me. thank youuuu ;v;
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I'm so glad to hear it!! Any time 
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I highly appreciate this tutorial. Usually I don't express myself, but I had to - that's how useful it was.
Once more, thank you
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Thanks for this! I really suck at coloring. I'll use this tutorial to improve my coloring.
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Ugh thank you so much for this~!
I've been looking for a tut like this for the longest time~ / v \
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Happy to help! Best of luck
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Thank you so much! This will help me now how to do the right coloring on my chibis
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ok this is a stupid question but I'm not sure for the first step are you supposed to fill with a color? or just use the magic wand/select tool?
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Ahhhhh you are amazinggggg ;v;Β Β this tutorial helped me a lot ;v;
thank youuuuuu
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Aww I'm glad it was helpful x
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quick question.. how do you make a colour gradient?
(really good tutorial btw)
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There's no gradient tool on sai so I just use a very big airbrush instead
Thank you!
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Holy dog biscuits, I've been looking everywhere for that coloring trick! Thank you so much! Great tutorial!
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