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By mandelak
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A simple almost step by step of how I go about colouring in photoshop.
hope this can be helpful to someone.
(there really is only those four main steps lol.)
download for full view.
PSD file can be downloaded here [link] which can be used to break it down further.
P.S. I use a mouse now. I don't have a tablet anymore. I broke mine lol
Edit:
what I meant in step one is that I coloured the whole character in a SINGLE solid colour first, being brown this time and then locked the transparency, which is the little checkered icon in the layer window just above the top layer and below the blending options drop down menu. I then added the flats on top of the brown (same layer as brown layer). the reason for this is so that there are no gaps between colours.
hope this can be helpful to someone.
(there really is only those four main steps lol.)
download for full view.
PSD file can be downloaded here [link] which can be used to break it down further.
P.S. I use a mouse now. I don't have a tablet anymore. I broke mine lol
Edit:
what I meant in step one is that I coloured the whole character in a SINGLE solid colour first, being brown this time and then locked the transparency, which is the little checkered icon in the layer window just above the top layer and below the blending options drop down menu. I then added the flats on top of the brown (same layer as brown layer). the reason for this is so that there are no gaps between colours.
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nothing just scanned straight in and adjusting the levels to clean it up a bit.
how ever with this I didn't draw it, but you can usually tell if its pencil or digital and it was done in pencil and scanned straight in.
I don't go over the lines with pencil/brush/pen tool any more. takes too much time.
how ever with this I didn't draw it, but you can usually tell if its pencil or digital and it was done in pencil and scanned straight in.
I don't go over the lines with pencil/brush/pen tool any more. takes too much time.

in this artwork[link] can u define if it was a digital or just a scanned lines?


got it!thanks 
i was just new on making cellshading,and got troubled in my lines.[link] still practicin to make it perfect.

i was just new on making cellshading,and got troubled in my lines.[link] still practicin to make it perfect.
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