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It's so huge, oh my god.As a disclaimer, I want you to know that I do not think that I am really good enough to be teaching anybody anything, but some people were curious about how I go about things, so please don't think of this as a RIGHT way.
I don't really think there totally is a RIGHT way anyhow, if you can get something to work for you, then it works for you! BLAM!
Hope it's semi-helpful.
Conrad is fron Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name" !
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magic wand tool and ctrl+z are my bffls too, i think they're the bffls of everyone who works in photoshop XD
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Thanks Tessa, I used this guide to do my TF2 fanart.
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Awesome! I was wondering how you achieved all those neat color transitions. The Magic Wand tool's my best friend, too.
I'm a little unnerved by the Color Balance tool, though; usually, the results end up worse than their predecessors...
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Icreible!
Hey! Muchas Gracias! Utilice esa tecnica para una ilustracion y me ha gustado!
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Stop being so hard on yourself! My brain is not rotting, it is flourishing! I never thought to use the pencil tool, but looking at it, the hard pixelated line keeps the paint bucket tool from leaving that semi-transparent line around the inside of the outline that you get when you use the paint brush tool (this has bugged me FOREVER, because if I ever put any of my pictures on a dark or brightly colored background, you could see it through the picture!)
I am an uber cheater when it comes to photoshop, too. But I have this thing about consistent line thickness (in my art, not yours! Yours is awesome), so I have kind of turned into a pen tool wizard.
Now I'm off to go fight Voldemort with my pen tool skills *is shot repeatedly* (I'm also a bad jokes/puns wizard :3 )
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Waii Amaaazing~ Do you ever do anything in traditional media? I'm trying to get into comic drawing and thus far I have little more than bits of bristol, sumie ink and a watercolour brush...
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this is great, i always admired your style of gradient shading. It's good of you to share your technique (i'm really not so practiced at photoshop) but i have a biiiiig assignment i need to colour and impliment digitally so this has provided me with some insight into ways i can experiment with colouring. (don't worry, i won't try and rip you off) I'm a big fan of your style btw. its awesome.
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Pah, I still think it's amazing.
I loathe you and your fantastic skills ~ digital or doodle! XS
Still flippin' amaziiiing!
{I love HiNaBN!} 
Peace ooout!
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I very much enjoyed having my brain being rotted.
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I have been experimenting with new coloring styles so this is going to be unimaginably helpful to me. Thank you! By the way, I have officially fallen in love with HINABN. It's amazing and I love you for being it's creator! XD
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Dude, I didn't know how to do anything on a computer before but you have EDUCATED ME!!
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THANK YOU
They key to my goddamn questions is here
Oh man I love you XD hahaha
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Holy crap, why didn't I like of using squares/sharp pointed outlines rather than circles and ovals? I've been having so much trouble with forming my humans (i'm still in practice) and when I used a square as the head base it made things soooo much easier.
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I was driving myself crazy, wondering how you made your coloring so wonderfully unique.
Now I know!
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What version of Adobe do you have? I'd figure all of them look similar but that looks alot like Cs2...
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I'm totally have to try this out. I'm a newbie to Ps and even I found this easy to follow along with. Thanks for making it:3
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I love the way your comics always look.Thanks for sharing your technique. I might have to try some of your tips some time C;
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Lol, after I was done reading this I noticed a shoe advertisement above the add to favorites button. Also, great tutorial xD
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I've realized lately that what I've been calling "cheating" [which you also call cheating] is actually a kind of mastery of the medium... I recently got a how-to-draw-and-paint-sci-fi-type book by Doug Chiang and I was shocked to see that he used the dodge and burn tools as well as lighting effects! =O Apparently the professionals use these tools too. So give yourself a break. You aren't cheating... you've just mastered some of the tricks of the 'shop.
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Very helpful. I've been wondering how you draw your comic.
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I find these kinds of tutorials endlessly fascinating. My style, at this point, is such a mess of tips and tricks that I've hacked off of other artists.
For instance, I've been staring at your lines for days now (because I am a stalker) and trying to figure out how you got your look. I had concluded that you ink with a pen on paper and scan it in, but LO! It is infinitely more sophisticated and impressive. And I thought my brushes palette was so fancy.
Of course, what makes you so fantastic is hardly your pencil brush and overlay layers. ;D
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Tessa, have I ever told you how much I love you?
Cuz I do. You are amazing. The end.
Even if you are cheating, the end product (heck, the BEFORE product) is better than the crap doodles I do! XD
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I will have you know that this tutorial totally saved my ass for my one class. I had to get something colored in a hurry, and hurry I did. XD
Thank you so much.
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I'm just starting to use digital on the computer-- and as quick clarification, are you using photoshop?
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Primo, I adore your style, it's soo awesome.
Second primo, you inspired me to start out my own comic, well, the idea of me making it is pretty gross, but I think I could cope. Not as good as you, but at least...
Third primo! And the main thing, because the previous ones surley made you fell asleep. How do you apply the textures so you have them where you want, they have the right colour and are not interfering with the rest of drawing details?
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so...ummm, yeah. I'm like a total tech-tard when it comes to photoshop and things like that so...I'ma steal this and practice, okay? thanks bye.
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When it comes to art, there's no such thing as cheating.
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its not cheating, its taking an inovative shortcut ;D
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to shade with the gradient tool what color do you use?
the mid, tha shadow, the cast?...
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to shade with the gradient tool ehat color do you use?
the mid, tha shadow, the cast?...
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O_O I am mostly impressed by tha fact that you have PATIENCE to work like that. I flip after two minutes when I use that kind of inking/coloring.
And I got to give you credit, because your work is AWESOME and I really love the way you color and ink. And if overlays are cheating, then I know many artists who do nothing but cheat. xD
Keep up the wonderful art!
And I want Conrad's shirt. <_<
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I tried my best with this style for Sherlock Holmes fanart. I wish I did you justice [link]
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she uses photoshop cs. very behind the times lol
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omg really!? but it looks so professional, i would have thought photoshop cs3 or something
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NO WAY you do lines with the pencil tool. I HATE YOU FOR BEING AWESOME.
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As I said to my mum before, I am crazy in love with your colouring style. Crazy in love like BURNING WOAH. ~~ <3
Now I shall do what I always do with tutorials and steal little bits that I like in order to add it to my artwork. Cause I that's how I roll.
Zombie is better.
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I absolutely love your style of coloring, so thank you for sharing this! I was very interested to see how your process works. Oh, and your humor is great... love the title :3 Your newest comic strips have such a lovely texture to them too... they almost look like marker! 
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I do! I just put 'em on a separate layer and usually put them on overlay if others don't look better. X)
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I sorta tried something inspired by your style. xD; Though I didn't have the tutorial on hand so I really went batshit insane with all the gradient stuff. [link]
OTL
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thanks for sharing,I wondered for a while how could you do such amazing works!
Also,I tried to follow your steps here, and miserabily failedI hope you don't mind
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This is very useful, thank you for sharing! I love trying out new styles.
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