The cell-shading walk-through I'm working on right now is taking an interesting turn, and more than ever, I feel like I'm under-qualified for making tutorials at all. My incompetence aside, this is one of the few times I'll be using thicker lines instead of thinner lines.
But then, while I was lining it, I completely changed my mind about her clothes and her pose, on her left side, and I changed a lot of things... like pulled her cape back and such. I was actually lining and sketching at the same time... on different layers, of course, but this might need to be omitted from the walk-through as to avoid confusing people who will use it.
And this would be the lined-up version of it. I used blue since I never like to use true-black nowadays in coloring. It creates a weird color 'hole' in the image by making things too bold. I used the same pressure brush I used on sketching. I turned down the opacity on the sketch layer, made new layers, and lined on top. I should note that you should always use eraser. The eraser is your very good friend. Have your left hand on the hotkeys (b for brush and e for eraser in Photoshop) and you will save years off your life.
Oh gawd... what am I going to do for the background? I guess it'll draw itself in eventually and I could just tell everyone that it was entirely planned ahead of time! (Kidding!)
Please keep in touch for more updates on this process!
I think you're doing a fine job with this tutorial :3 I'm doing several right now as well, people have been asking me a lot of 'em ^^;
ReplyDeleteBut all in all, people have different styles and different techniques, so the tutorials would be reflecting how the artist work :3 The only thing I could suggest is maybe showing closeups of the lines with the sketch beneath to show the result :3
Good call. I will do that. :D
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