Tutorial 2: Lineart to finished artwork
Step 1
Find a lineart to color. You can draw it yourself, or ask some one else to draw you the lineart and use that one. Stay away from stealing the lines! (but I guess when it's only for practicing, no artist would mind you using his or her lineart... only practicing means that it will never be put up online and you will not take credit for the whole image.)
The lineart I'm going to use is from the previous post/tutorial.
Step 2
Take a look at your reference picture (if you have one)
Now we start making the palette for the picture. Select different shades of the colors and organize them like you feel like.
This is my result. Not quite clean or anything fancy but helps to get the job done.
Step 3
Start filling in different colored areas. Each color on a different layer. If there are different items that are the same color, but next to each other, then it's better to draw them on different layers as well.
When filling in areas that are really light, use a darker color first and then recolor it to the lighter color. When using a darker shadow of the color of the area, you can see better, if you have missed any spots.
This is my picture with the skin colored in.
Step 4
Continue filling in the lineart until you're done.
Step 5
Let's start shading~
The brush you are going to use for the shading is quite important. If it doesn't give you the results you wish it did, try a new brush. ^^
These are the characteristics of the brush I use for shading (in photoshop 7.0.1)
Basically, it's a round brush, with a opacity that depends on the pressure of the tablet pen. I find it a very useful brush, since I only have to do a little color choosing myself. ^^
Ok, now for the shading process..Take the darkest shadow color and start marking down where the shadow should be at. Don't worry about being messy, we're going for a soft shading in this tutorial, so it will eventually be fixed anyway.
I also marked down some highlight areas. Looks quite ok now, doesn't it? During this step, you can try out different angles for the lighting. My current light source is in the top left corner of the image.
The feel of a picture depends greatly of the placement of the light source.
Step 6
Smoothing it out.... is quite a tedious process, but the hard work pays off!
The process goes like this:1- use the darkest shadow color and mark down the shadow areas.
2- take a middle tone (between the darkest and the normal color) and start to make a sort of a blend.
3- take different shades of the colors and smoothen things out.
4 - add highlights and blend them in. (they're not very noticeable on my image, sorry^^; )
Step 7
Finish shading. My final result:
It looks a bit too.. hmm.. bright in some places, so we'll add more shadows.
Step 8
Add the additional shadow on a new layer above all color layers. Choose a random color that is not represented in the picture much (for it to be seen better...)
Draw the shadows in the places you think the shadow should be darker and more distinctive. I used purple for the job~
Step 9
Make the shadow look like a shadow. Put the layer into multiply mode and if you want, change the color of the shadows. I found the purple shadow quite fun, so I left my shadow purple. You may blur it in some places.
All you need to do now it to draw a background and you're done!
<<; I wont be teaching how to make backgrounds because I just randomly create mine and some even come by accident, so it's kind of difficult to make a step by step tutorial on that. My finished drawing:
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