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CG or Coloring Tutorial by *Doomfest:iconDoomfest:

Categories Resources & Stock Images > Tutorials > Digital Art > Drawing/Painting/Airbrushing > Photoshop

©2009 *Doomfest
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Do comment if there is something you don't understand or want me to fix.

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~x-Falling-Leaves-x Jun 20, 2009, 8:14:33 PM
This is really helpful thanks!;D
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~AsunaNegi Jun 20, 2009, 8:21:20 PM
Doomfest, you continuously make me wish I were you.
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~SatansBestBuddy666 Jun 20, 2009, 8:22:54 PM
Why a jester?

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~zephi-san Jun 20, 2009, 9:11:20 PM
Thanks for sharing! I never used photoshop to create the flats, but I'm considering it now after you mentioned the expand pixels by 1-3.
Saves time having to go over the entire canvas looking for white spots.

My main problem with CGing is the choice of colours... I'm so bad at it Orz But I'm glad to see that even the great Doomfest needs to change colours a lot....

Really love how you CG the clothes.
Learned a lot from your tutorial, thanks for sharing your knowledge ^^
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*Doomfest Jun 20, 2009, 9:33:33 PM
Anytime, glad to share. When it comes to colors I try to make it as saturated as I can without it looking off, so the colors don't look grimdark or desaturated. It's not on here, but try to come up with the light direction, light color, and shade tint early.

Then, "pull" highlights towards the light color a bit and the shades towards the tint a bit, as you go lighter or darker. I usually use cool colors for the tints and warm colors for the lights.

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~zlxq3000 Jun 20, 2009, 9:36:44 PM
This is amazing. *saves for future use*
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~LOLRapid Jun 20, 2009, 9:51:54 PM
thank you for making this tutorial though i do not have photoshop... I maybe using it next time ^^

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~zephi-san Jun 20, 2009, 9:59:55 PM
so all in all, how many layers of shades would you use on average. Same with the highlights..

In the end I'm usually using about 2-4 layers of shadows for clothes on top of the base colour, and about 1-2 for highlights.
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*Doomfest Jun 20, 2009, 10:21:20 PM
Four, counting the base colour. (Two shades, one highlight.) Five if I'm doing the tint at the end. Six for the blush. i find that using too many shades makes it look a bit shiny and cheesy. For white clothing, since sharp highlights are practically nonexistent, I can use three. In this case I used four because the skirt is pretty dark and I didn't want the white to be too incohesive, so I added a darker layer.

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~zephi-san Jun 20, 2009, 10:38:50 PM
I've still got a heap to learn about basic CGing...
Most of my works have been from experimenting... that's the reason why I use so many layers lol.

One thing which I've noticed when comparing my stuff with yours, is your use of blacks for shading.
I tend to avoid blacks... but in doing so I lose a lot of depth. I think for the next piece I colour...

I'm gonna try what you told me. Increase saturation, use cool colours for shade while warm for highlights.
lol I'm no good with these artistic terminology (never studied art), but I'll do a bit of reading up on colours after my exams end. Thanks again for the help
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