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Published: 2007-10-28 15:56:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 39969; Favourites: 853; Downloads: 1641
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Just some things I thought you guys might be interested in.My rambling tutorials seem to go down well. This is less of a rambling tutorial and more of a ramble, but seeing as so many people seem not to know about these things, I thought it was worth writing up. Nothing specific on here, just haphazard advice, but enjoy.
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Oh wow, you are a lifesaver. Thank you so much for all your tutorials (particularly the joke ones).
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Thank you for the tut! I haven't tried painting fur, but that was a great tip!
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really helpful advice
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Very informative and useful tips. Thank you so much for making this and sharing it with us.
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So many words x.x
But alas, the ones that I have gotten around to reading have been incredibly informative, and I'll definitely keep reading.
Thanks for posting <333
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You have great tutorials. Thank you so much!
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thanks a bunch for the tutorial. I'll be certainly looking back on this and others to get better at my painting. thanks again. ^-^
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Nice. <3
Even though I knew most of this already, it's nice to learn new things.
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This is really really helpful o3o I want to give digital painting a go, but I'm researching tips and such before I do. Your tutorials are really helpful and I'll keep what you say in mind :3
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very imformative. this has helped me quite a bit with my details etc and what not to do
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Your tutorials speak the truth.
Thanks for the great advice.
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may i ask if using dodge and burn tool creates a fake-looking results? i saw a tut about dg-painting and he said that its better to smudge... how true is that..??
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I personally dislike both dodge and burn and smudge. 
Dodge and burn:
I think that it's better to select your own colours for light and shade because then you can really control the hue (changes in hue as well as tone can make for an interesting picture). With dodge and burn you get a really dark version of the 'base' colour or a really light one - it often goes 'too far' and results in something that looks like plastic.
I don't understand why a tut would tell you to smudge instead of dodge/burn though. 
These are just my opinions but hopefully they'll be interesting to you.
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i see! you really said a lot and thanks for that! lately i tried using those 3 tools, and yeah. i don't really like the results... that's why its so embarrassing to upload it in DA~!!
really thanks a lot!, after school, I'll try ur advice! hehehe!~!
~thanks again!~!
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aww this is just the ultimative tutorial 
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That's so very helpful, thank you for making this! ^^
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Hey, useful tute! You make some good points I'll try to keep in mind
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Excellent, I myself have experience with digital painting, but it's all in my old account(which I had to abandon due to "making enemies" so I am still skittish revealing it).
But I think there are possible, responsible ways of using dodge, burn, multiply, screen, and liquefy, as long as they are mere touch ups, or you will paint over, etc. I often used multiply and screen blending modes to help unify shadows, extra shine or mix colors. Dodge and burn used very very carefully can adjust a shadow or highlight a little bit. And I myself have done artwork done only with filters to make textures or backgrounds for things like sigs and banners.
It shouldn't be something to be ashamed of as long as the results are indistinguishable. Even in physically existing artwork, tricks are done such as tilting a watercolor painting to wash a sky or putting salt on wet water color, or sponging or adding in different mediums that alter the paint in texture, consistency, etc. The terms "dodge" and "burn" come from traditional darkroom photo editing techniques.
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Hey! Your tutorials are not only useful, but also you are quite skilled with the compostion of layout...
I have a specific question about this one. The picture with the "cloud filters" - What exactly did the filter do to the picture? To me it looked just like a normal shaded painting and I don't really see what you mean there.
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Cloud filter is a particular filter in Photoshop that randomly generates clouds on an image using whatever two colours you have selected. People use it all the time in an attempt to create realistic looking skies but it just doesn't at all - it looks worse on a bigger canvas, where it's really obvious that it's a result of an automatic filter.
In the screenshot in which I demonstrate the cloud filter it's not really obvious because I had to take such a small cut of it, but it's an attempt to show what it looks like when people try to create a misty effect with the cloud filter - they'll put the filter on a new layer and overlay it over the painting. It can look quite blotchy and throws the colours all to pot!
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These are awesome tips. I admit I made almost all of those mistakes, but this gives me a better understanding.
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great tips. thank you for taking the time to write and illustrate them.
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wow - i feel slightly guilty now! it's nice to see a tut from a real digital artist
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nice tips here 8) i do the flipping of the image some times, too.... I also like the tips with the fur and stuff. And ugh I hate it when people overuse photoshop effects XD It's just so annoying, like they're cheating or something.
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good insight... I want to get photoshop now...
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Awesome advice XD I should flip my work more often.
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Well said
Hopefully this will make some of my pictures a tad more realistic ^^
Also, do you use a graphic tablet or a computer mouse?
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I use a graphics tablet and I really recommend getting one - it's not a magic tool that will vastly improve art but it's much easier to hold a pen-like object than it is to use a mouse.
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Ah, no wonder I can't write some days. I've been thinking about getting a graphics's tablet for about a year now, and my mum is actually going to get me one for Christmas.
Thanks for answering my question =]
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No problem! I recommend requesting a Wacom if you're getting one for Christmas. The pressure sensitivity is great and Wacom's worth the money.
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hi.... yeah!... i'm doing my first illustration on photoshop... with mouse and is really, really hard! but i don't have any option... i need to finish this digital painting now is my final project, and it's a shame, we never work with graphic tablet... well the course was for learn the basic tools of photoshop like the horrible filters and things like this... i wanna buy a graphic tablet, but later, now i don't have money :[
... well sorry 4 my english
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This one has a lot of good tips in it. (:
XD But it's so hard to remember to flip stuff! I remember sometimes, then I work on the drawing for three more hours (or some other random extensive amount of time), THEN flip it, only to notice a handful of new mistakes which would have been easier to correct if I'd flipped more like once every half hour or so. 8DD But yeah.
<_< I should also listen to the other thing... Uh, what was it... dA, your comment box is way too far down, I don't like having to scroll up and down all the time. Oh, yeah, the part about naming layers. 8D Have you been spying on me?
*tends to have 30+ layers involved an average piece... and never names them* It is confusing... But naming them is so definite, you know? You have to decide what's going to be on it, and then if there's something else you have to change the name. And yeah. XD I tend to rule that out as extra work, while in reality, it would probably help.
I shall end this borderline-spammy comment here, I think. I'm getting too tired to withhold my coherency, you see.
Nice tutorial, though! (:
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wow..I paint so..WRONG 
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