Loklorien s'Ilancy
Sep 22nd, 2005, 11:43:36 AM
This is just a very basic tutorial I decided to throw together. I don't have any screencaps of the drop-down menus for some of the actions (keyboard issues), so I'll just describe them in as simple a way as I can.
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First we'll start off wih the inked drawing:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut1.jpg
From there you can choose whatever colors that strike your fancy. I use seperate layers for skin, hair, clothes, and whatever other trinkets are drawn on to the subject. Use the magic wand tool to select the areas you wish to color; to make multiple selections you can hold down the shift key. After making your selections, go up to the 'select' button on you menu, and hit modify>expand. 1 pixel should be enough, though 2 never hurts either:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut2.jpg
Now that we have the basic color matte done, it's time to add shading. Using the burn tool, begin to shade the drawing. You can use the burn tool directly on the layers you've colored:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut3.jpg
Now it's time for highlights. You want the dodge tool for this. Like burn, you can work directly on the original colored layer:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut4.jpg
Normally after I've gotten the shading and highlights done, I go over the drawing once again with both the dodge and burn tools, making some areas darker and some lighter:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut5.jpg
The wings were a bit tricky, but it's all about layer order with this step. I drew in the wings on a seperate layer, once again using the dodge and burn tools to give them folds. At this point, my layers looked like this:
Wings
White bckgrnd for wings
Hair
Misc
Skin
Bckgrnd
The 'white bckgrnd for wings' was a simple layer where I made a selection of the wings, then filled in the selection with white. Experimenting with layer masking will yield transparent effects, and the longer you fiddle with it the more you'll be able to get things to look the way you want them to:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut6.jpg
And now, the Reaver. Adding to the canvas size gave me enough room to make the Reaver however big I wanted it.
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut7.jpg
On a new layer, I began drawing in the ethereal/otherworld weapon. After getting it the closest to my liking, I added both an inner glow and an outer glow. Finally, I used the smudge tool to make it a bit more 'edgy':
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut8.jpg
And finally, I fudged around with the wings some more, adding color overlays to both the wings layer and the white wings layer. On both, I changed their normal setting to use different masks:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut9.jpg
So there you have it - a superquick tutorial on a quick color job. If anyone else wants to take a crack at the Cat Reaver, here's a link to a larger version of the inked original:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut0.jpg
Happy coloring :)
- - -
First we'll start off wih the inked drawing:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut1.jpg
From there you can choose whatever colors that strike your fancy. I use seperate layers for skin, hair, clothes, and whatever other trinkets are drawn on to the subject. Use the magic wand tool to select the areas you wish to color; to make multiple selections you can hold down the shift key. After making your selections, go up to the 'select' button on you menu, and hit modify>expand. 1 pixel should be enough, though 2 never hurts either:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut2.jpg
Now that we have the basic color matte done, it's time to add shading. Using the burn tool, begin to shade the drawing. You can use the burn tool directly on the layers you've colored:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut3.jpg
Now it's time for highlights. You want the dodge tool for this. Like burn, you can work directly on the original colored layer:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut4.jpg
Normally after I've gotten the shading and highlights done, I go over the drawing once again with both the dodge and burn tools, making some areas darker and some lighter:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut5.jpg
The wings were a bit tricky, but it's all about layer order with this step. I drew in the wings on a seperate layer, once again using the dodge and burn tools to give them folds. At this point, my layers looked like this:
Wings
White bckgrnd for wings
Hair
Misc
Skin
Bckgrnd
The 'white bckgrnd for wings' was a simple layer where I made a selection of the wings, then filled in the selection with white. Experimenting with layer masking will yield transparent effects, and the longer you fiddle with it the more you'll be able to get things to look the way you want them to:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut6.jpg
And now, the Reaver. Adding to the canvas size gave me enough room to make the Reaver however big I wanted it.
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut7.jpg
On a new layer, I began drawing in the ethereal/otherworld weapon. After getting it the closest to my liking, I added both an inner glow and an outer glow. Finally, I used the smudge tool to make it a bit more 'edgy':
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut8.jpg
And finally, I fudged around with the wings some more, adding color overlays to both the wings layer and the white wings layer. On both, I changed their normal setting to use different masks:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut9.jpg
So there you have it - a superquick tutorial on a quick color job. If anyone else wants to take a crack at the Cat Reaver, here's a link to a larger version of the inked original:
http://s93860457.onlinehome.us/tutorials/tut0.jpg
Happy coloring :)