Wanna know how to really improve?


STOP FUCKING DRAWING STUPID SONIC RECOLOR CHARACTERS YOU RETARDS.



Srsly guys, it isn't art.

SEE THE DIFFERENCE?

NOW QUIT CHER BITCHIN AND STOP DRAWING THAT FUCKING FURRY

Enjoy.

Just as a side note to what spring just said, when you want to get a clean selection of whatever is on the current layer or any other layer, say the red on the color layer, you can hold ctrl and click the layer you want. It will "load selection," which means it does the same job of selecting everything on that layer that the magic wand would do, and does it quicker and more efficiently too.

Ok.... I didn't know that. Poo.

Oh yeah, if you're real paranoid that your colors will mix, just give every color it's own layer. I did that for this little guy.



I was afraid I'd screw it up so I put a shitload of different layers on it.

I followed your tutorial and....



TA-DA! Yay! I know how to shade now!

Thanks Spring, your tutorial helped me, though i only have one question...


What is "Flow"? I cant seem to find it when i use my brush tool.

Mayhaps Creepy or ona tha admins should pin this.

I don't use it. But it's to control the amount of paint that goes into the brush. I don't use it because I just like to lift the pen to make it darker. You can change the flow if you don't like lifting the pen.

Also when doing the lighting... Try to make it more circular. It makes it look less flat.

I think this is a nifty and methinks this can be very useful for peoples that don't know how to shade or anything.

*Styckied. :D *

This tutorial is so simplistic, yet so....helpful! I give you congrats on this, because everyone can understand it, it's easy to follow, and helps like (I can't say hell) scrathing an itch (Oook that was lame)

Ooh! Thank you! Yeah, I needed to do this. I've been promising people I'd make this and it took me forever to stop doodling and get to work on it.

Hummm, whats that doodle in the background anyway?

Oh, the Pink thing? I'm working on a big high quality pic for Andres.

Well i used the skills i learned from your tutorial and drew my first drawing in photoshop.

Thank you once again Spring, your tutorial is awesome.

Welcome! Yeah, I hope this really helps people. It seems to be working.

I haves yet, another question. I cant really get the hang of "a source of lighting". I understand what it is, but i cant really get tha hang of it. Any tips?

Um. Draw with your heart? Ok... Um. I don't know how to explain this. try to imagine the drawing as a 3D object.

Will this work with PSP8?

I guess. I don't have PSP but it's pretty simple so I guess so.

PSP and PS both work in the same ways but with a widly different layout, if you can do it in PS than you can do it in PSP. It's just a matter of finding where the controls are.

I can answer that, let's say your lightsource is the sun on a sunny day, maybe it is like, noon than the sun would shine on the upper left hand corner (I think) of your object, so put your lightest color in the upper right, and the shading in the lower left. It's hard to explain, but I think that's how the physics work.

I've been using this technique for fireworks, although I don't bother to select the part of the colouring I'm going to shade. I just cut any pieces that went out of the lines out from that layer, whee I'm lazy...