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RapCloudStrife
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posted 20-08-2004 02:58 PM
    
im so sry i wanna improve my high lightings and shadings. I wanna know how u guys do it step by step. do u blend the colors, airbrush , watever.... but tell me how to do it step by step.......
my first "try"
and this one my frien did(she just mess up with the brushes and showed me how to do it) im confuse i wanna do it how my friend did it. compare the metal guard shoulders
which on is better, my friend or tell me how to do shading and highlightings like u guys do it on the photoshop, step by step plz..........
i neeeed help badly, plz
(im sry ben, no offense that i could not get it or it just me )
but i neeed help... [ 20-08-2004: Message edited by: RapCloudStrife ]
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Zephos
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posted 21-08-2004 09:18 AM
You don't seem to be too much off on a tangent, you might want to use more saturated colors than darker colors (particularly for shading light colors like yellow and orange) if your style is more whimsical, and use more highlights (A lot anime/manga styles seems to have a natural love for shiny things and use of white), but I really don't think you need a recipe as much as practice to improve your work. The guys at animenation seem to have given you a bit of trouble, but there's a good reason for that, you can only take your work so far using tutorials. It wouldn't be any easier for us to explain it to you step by step as it would be to read a tutorial on this site, or the hundreds of tutorials elsewhere. You want us to hold your hand and walk the path of an "artist" but it is difficult for us, because you are asking us to make a custom tailored tutorial on the spot for you, but we are not you, and we don't know what your artistic priorities and style are, so we cannot accurately write out a path for you (It's a REALLY wide path mine you). You already seem to have the right mojo for coloring, just work at it and use more highlights, and don't worry about going to hell and back with layers, mattes, masks and channels. If you have any specific questions, we would be more than glad to help you, but forging an entire path out on this thread is difficult, especially without pictures for visual aid.
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G.i.A.m.
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posted 22-08-2004 06:56 PM
well unfortunaly I cant see your images as I'm not registered at animenation so I'm not 100% sure what the problem specific is.But from what I read sofar I would say you are better of by doing the following: Get some coloring tutorials, read them carefully and everytime you have problems grasping what the hell is going on, get the manual of your grafikprogram.
read up what the funktions actually do. This will help you understanding what exactly the artist is doing. after you read the tutorial as a whole and have a general idea how certain things are achived. open your program and try to do the same, and remember to take another look into the tutorial when you are uncertain how to execute something.
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Cloud
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posted 15-12-2004 10:12 PM
do you want me to tell u? okay, but your eyes will get sore from reading...
step 1: scan your picture at 300 dpi and at grayscale (I'm not telling why because this would be too long if I did). once it's scanned in straighten it up by rotating the canvas a little. go image>rotate>canvas. Now start fixing the image up a little by using the paintbrush tool and going over those messy spots with white and fixing up the lines.
step 2: transparency
once you have your image cleaned up, go over to the channels tab in the layers pallete. select the button at the bottom of the pallete that looks like a ring of dots. now your image should have little moving dots all over it. hit (ctrl+shift+i)
and make a new layer called outline. oh, before I forget, change the image mode to RGB color by going to Image>Mode>RGB color. don't flatten your image! now your back with the little moving dots. make sure your foreground color is black and hit (ctrl+backspace). when you do this make sure the outline layer is selected. now delete th bottom background layer. now your image should have grey and white checkers all over it. go select>deselect.
make a new layer underneath the outline called background and fill it with white. lock it's poition and now by making a new layer inbeetween the outline and background called "skin", you can now color all the skin of the picture under the outlines!
Step 3: layers
make a new layer for verything on your picture (e.g. clothing, hair,skin,neclace,eyes etc.) and once your done laying all the base tones, it's time for rendering!
step 4: Rendering!
once you have filled all your flat tones, make a new layer above the skin called "skin shading". hit [ctrl+G] and your layer should have an arrow on the left of it. now you can only paint on the skin, and you can't go off!use the color picker to get your skin color and make a darker one to shade on the skin! repeat this process for all the layers and your picture should be rendered!
step 5: backgounds
to make a background, color on the background to make your own!
if this tutorial didn't help, there is a handy one that ben(a.k.a bomu) made here: organic metal tutorials
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posted 20-08-2004 12:18 AM
