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Published: 2012-08-03 12:47:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 13391; Favourites: 244; Downloads: 429
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I've been constantly told to make a Tutorial, so here is my first one!! I hope it helps many people
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super cool! (on my main acount from ) Um for the base colours would you suggest like matt colours rather then bright colours so like keeping the saturation down low also if I was to go about putting extra colour highlights do you think I should go about that the same way and the bright highlights?
Sorry for the questions thanks in advance if you can help >w<
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Going with a matt color is really good for the base. I used a similar method in my speed-painting [link] for the face mainly. Going from dark to brighter is easier to do for my experience.
For the highlights there are many methods for doing them. To keep the saturation down for the highlights don't use the 'luminosity' mode for the highlight layer, instead keep the mode on normal and manually select your highlight colors.
For extras, try using a separate layer over the entire image and You can either use the method shown in my tutorial or others, really it depends of the picture. With the extra highlights on a different layer you can adjust the opacity and modes to best blend in the highlights in order to create a better flow for the picture.
Looking at your questions, it seems like you want your colors to mesh well together. A useful tip is to try overlaying a color over the image with different blend options (or the "mode" options show in this tutorial) depending you what effect you want. Photoshop is really good with that kind of stuff.
Send me a note if you have more questions 
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-Sooo sorry for the late reply- Thanks allot my colouring has improved quite a bit since then >uu< I will be posting some things soon. I think using highlighters, blur and a mixture of multiply layers have helped allot. I've dapples in the art of photoshop but I have to say it's fairly intimidating with ALL those buttons XD
And I've finally gotten a tablet so it'll be easier to make the hair shading look nicer and more hair-like hopefully >uu<
Thank you for all your help ~~~~!~!~!
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That's so great!! I'm sooooo happy I could help n_n &&& Photoshop is intimidating at first, but given some time in paying with it you will get use to all the button
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I thought it would be like that. I mean I'm still learning new buttons in paint tool sai. XD
I don't know about using the tablet all the time. It's good for hair but I'm finding it difficult to execute tidy lineart XD I think it's better to use the mouse for most things. I'm too used to it cause I use the scrolled to Zoom allot and it means it's faster XC
I'm using a Wacom Bamboo, I've been told that Wacom are very good at making tablets. But it's the cheepest one I could find so the screen is a little small >o<
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For the lineart, when using Paint Tool SAI You can set brush stabilizers to help (just double click the brush you want to use and a window will pop up with a few settings) For scrolling, rotation, & Zooming I always rest 1 hand on the keyboard.
Hold "space" = Pan (move the canvas)/ scrolling
"ctrl"+"space" = Zoom in
"ctrl"+"alt"+"space" = Zoom out
"alt"+"space" = rotate
I hope that helps some. Also link the brushes to different hot keys helps with speed. You can simple hold "e" (for 'eraser' {you set it when set}), do all your erasing and let go of "e" to switch back to your previous brush.
The Bamboo is a good start for a tablet, I started with a Graphir4 & it was & still is wonderful n_n
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This is how i do it too! except i never considered using the marker tool... I just use a wide pen. I think i'll try it next time
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Goodluck! I think I just kind of fell for the marker tool early, so I haven't tried using the pen tool for much more than lineart & filling a color XD Guess I'll experiment with it lol
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Wow...This is helpful. Thank you. I'm just now getting the hang of SAI thank you for sharing this technique~
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That is good you hear n_n && You're welcome!
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To be honest I prefer Photoshop over SAI mainly because of my style of art. But this tut may make me reconsider.
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About 8 months ago I would have said something similar 
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Yeah, Sai has WAY More brushes and textures, while photoshop (personally) is just easier and more enjoyable to use.
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Yes you're right. SAI just takes a while to get use to. It was the same way for me lol. You should check out the vector tools in SAI they are soo wonderful, especially for really fast lineart XD
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hmmm vector tools....I'm intrigued.
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Here is a good tutorial for vectors:
[link]
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You're welcome. I'm just happy to help n_n
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haha, thank you much! I tried to make it as easy to follow as possible =3
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This is really helpful! Thank you for posting! <3
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You're welcome! I'm glad it helped, that means a lot to me n_n
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