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Full view please.For Photoshop, but I imagine it works well in any other program where you can control the opacity of your layers.
This is the step by step process of how I did my last upload using Rubens style of using a green underpainting for fleshtones. One would think that it's really difficult to do an underpainting digitally, but nope! It's not! Actually there's several ways to do it, this is just how I did.
If anyone can tell me of other ways I would love to hear them so I can try them out!
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This is interesting, and I may try this the next time I paint a nude, might let you know about it too. Thank you!
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this is great because it is similar to what we did in my painting class! my canvas paintings turn out great with the underpainting methods, but my digital paintings struggle so It's neat to see kinda how you went about it. do you post wips of your works at all? *goes to check*
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This was SO helpful! Just messing around I recently came up with a sort of similar way to paint, but this tutorial gave me the last few pointers I needed to make it work really well. Thank you!!
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Oh I'm so happy you found it useful! Do you have a link to your experiment you applied it to? I'm still futzing around with it myself, haven't quite gotten it perfected, so if you have any additional pointers you've discovered I'd love to hear em!
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Oh, I only played around with underpainting a little in this deviation: [link] I used blue for the underpainting instead of green, obviously. I'm not nearly as far along with digital painting as you, but so far this technique really suits me, more than anything else I've tried. I'm still playing around with digital, trying to find what works for me. I think my problem was wanting my digital pieces to be as good as my traditional work right away, instead of treating digital as a whole new medium that you need to practice the basics with first.
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For some reason DA is being weird and that link sent me to your gallery main page and not a specific deviation, but is it the one of the girl in the water?
I really hope you continue with it, I'm still practicing. Just yesterday I tried that grisaille method using just gray instead of a colored under painting. It takes a lot of work to get the overlaying color to not look flat and muddy when you put it on top x_x but like you said, it takes practice! I think I too fall into that frustration of not getting it right the first time.
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Oops, that wasn't the right link I guess? I'm bad at technical stuff lol. Maybe this will work: [link]
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Hmmm, I'll have to try this out. Thanks for the great tutorial
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I love this tutorial C:
and hmm, do you have any ideas as to what colours would be good to use as an underpainting with darker tones? I suppose I could just play around-- one day that I DO start painting humans, but I like hearing other peoples' input too X3
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I'm not actually sure but my default is more of a desaturated indigo for most things.
Glad you like it!
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Never thought to do that, I'm going to have to experiment with this concept a bit.
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i've been using underpainting for watercolors, but had no idea how i could manage that with digital
thank you so much ^^"
i still have trouble picking the right color (for the final skintone), considering its opacity will get lower though.. would you mine explaining how you pick that color?
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By far one of the best and useful coloring tutorials out there.
By the way, I've been using your tutorial for a few weeks now and I keep forgeting to come here and thank you for sharing, so finally here I am. Thank you.
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youre welcome! Do you have any samples of the technique applied?
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[link] & [link]
Most of them are over y!-gall, but anyway.
Of course they aren't good as yours, but I'll
practice. C:
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*I ment that most of the drawings I did wih your tutorial are over y!-gall, not here, btw.
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Do you choose green because it's complementary to the flesh tones?
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Yes, for real pale "pink" figures, green makes more sense than with a tan figure.
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:/ Uh... Yeah... You didn't have to show us that... f-fat lady, man. Didn't you thought of something else like a teenager?
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Nothing's preventing you from moving on, but the fact you felt the need to take the time to comment speaks volumes.
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Being that this is a tutorial meant to teach, drawing something that would distract those being instructed would take away from the over-all tutorial.
Therefore it's important they used a less "distracting" subject.
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Sorry, it was in reply to someone asking why you would use a larger woman.
I assume that's why?
Of course, assuming... ><
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YAY! Finally big women 
And your tutorial is epic wickedness.
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Thank you so much for this. It will help me out immensely.
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This looks very helpful and easy to follow. I hope to try it out some time - thanks so much for this! ^_^
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I had never thought before of applying a grisaille technique digitally. I'll have to see if I can work with this sometime, after replacing my broken tablet..
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THATS the name of it I keep forgetting. Thank you.
Yeah try it when you can, I bet with your skills it would turn out /awesome/.
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That's awesome! 
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This is great. THanks for the tutorial. I plan on trying the technique out some day.
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That's awesome. People sometimes don't understand what I mean when I talk of that technique, but this'll show them in a very good way.
Thank you!
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For me, I think it is a very good and useful tutorial even in traditional media. Very clear and understandable. Thanks.
(DA is acting weirdly. Sorry if I accidentally doublepost now)
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For me, I think it is a very good and useful tutorial even in traditional media. Very clear and understandable. Thanks.
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Have I mentioned how much I love your tutorials? This was amazeingly helpful, and I want to try it out LIKE NOAW.
Any suggestions for wanting to try this under an animal painting?
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ooooh animal painting is a whole other ballgame my friend. The purpose for the green underpainting in /this/ piece is because combined with the red flesh tones it gives an illusion of paleness.
My suggestion would be to use an indigo shadow instead of a green.
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Wow great tutorial! I have trouble with digital shading so thanks for sharing your technique
*Hurray for Macs!*
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ahh, thank you for making this! I've tried to do this before and failed, but you make it look so easy here. xDD thanks!
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I'm really going to have to try this; nice work!
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I use a similar technique
One crit- check the size of the head relative to the body. It seems about half as large as it should be to me.
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Yar, someone already said that :3 I'm still practicing with anatomy, I really just wanted to color something.
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i noticed the same thing...
but honestly, I think it's probably harder to understand good color theory than to get your anatomy right 
great job, btw :}
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To tell you the truth I noticed a lot of things "off" but I was so determined to just have something I could color. I almost didn't make this tutorial because I was so sick of it. Would have probably been better to color someone elses drawing XD
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OH WELL... i suck at anatomy AND color! it's a double fail! at least you can do color :}
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pish tosh! you are not bad at color/anatomy D: how daaaaare you say that *gasp gasp gasp*
...goodness is this one big ego stroking thread or what? ;9
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lol
...and what's so bad about that?
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That's how it goes sometimes
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hmm I should try this on one of my projects.
runs about.
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