Well, you asked and now I have delivered Lighting is NOT COVERED in this tutorial. Light is the one thing I have recently got a hold of, I don't think I know enough to be able to explain it.
The art in it is featuring Twilax, owned by =Opheleus, drawn for a point commission. The picture itself isn't finished yet haha
typo: 'wuite frequently' = Quite; 'sharoness' = sharpness I wish Text on photoshop didn't put an underline on these things, I didn't pick up the sharpness one til now because of that xD
Don't be afraid to ask questions~
And remember; Alt+click and brush is your god. It makes drawing that much faster and easier. Even if you use an airbrush it still gives the same effect.
Up next: Backgrounds! There will be several tutorials behind that: Another huge one for composition, and then smaller ones for textures.
>I use Photoshop CS5, but this technique is usable in all versions. All brushes have pen-pressure activation. If you use a mouse, toggle 'Flow' to 20% instead and you get a similar effect for shading.
This is a beautiful tutorial, but I must admit I'm having a spot of trouble with the alt+click+brush shading procedure. Would you mind if you explained it a little more to me?
Welp. Alt is the shortkey for the eyedropper tool, but only if you hold it, while using the brush. As soon as you release alt, it goes back to being a brush X3 So while painting, I hold alt, click to select a colour, and use that colour. When blending two shades, I usually colour lightly over one, with the other, and select the colour in the middle, and repeat the process, which gives a smooth blend.
So it's not literally blending it, but altering the colors to make it appear blended? Okay, I think I understand more now. Thank you for clearing that up!
I always had crappy-looking cell-shaded style drawings before I read this. I kept thinking to myself, "There HAS to be SOME technique that other photoshop users employ that I just don't know about." Customizing brushes helped, but you've showed that the almighty ALT BUTTON is the key. Haha.
Thanks for making this, or I would have never figured it out.
yesss ;u; If there's one thing I'd teach anyone wanting to use photoshop, it's CLICK ALL THE BUTTONS AND PRESS ALL THE KEYS. It's amazing what one can stump up using that~ It's how I found Rotate on CS5 too.. went to go blur something but the hotkey had changed and ended up with a skewed canvas instead, it's amazing~
ohh okay I'll try this next time! I have been searching for a "fluffy" way of shading and I could never find a good one without having a shit load of instructions and un-readable thingies >.<""
Alt is the shortkey for the eyedropper tool, but only if you hold it, while using the brush. As soon as you release alt, it goes back to being a brush X3 So while painting, I hold alt, click to select a colour, and use that colour.
When blending two shades, I usually colour lightly over one, with the other, and select the colour in the middle, and repeat the process, which gives a smooth blend.
Thanks for making this, or I would have never figured it out.
It's how I found Rotate on CS5 too.. went to go blur something but the hotkey had changed and ended up with a skewed canvas instead, it's amazing~
Do you just flick with the selected color for the tufts or do you use something else? o3o
Yep c: Of there's another tuft over the top of one of them, I flick with dark colour and then back over that with light, creating a shadow under it.
ohh okay I'll try this next time! I have been searching for a "fluffy" way of shading and I could never find a good one without having a shit load of instructions and un-readable thingies >.<""