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Hair Coloring Tutorial
Published: 2012-09-04 06:31:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 56279; Favourites: 2955; Downloads: 916
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F U L L V I E WEdit: Please only leave a comment about the actual tutorial. I'm getting a lot of irrelevant critiques on the lineart, which really doesn't have anything to do with learning to color. ;0;
Edit2: Now available in Italian! -- eiko8.deviantart.com/art/Tutor…
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A coloring tutorial! Finally! I hope you guys find this helpful. If you have any questions, please ask! 
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Adobe Photoshop CS III
Please do not redistribute this tutorial.
Art © Popo-Licious
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No problem! Thanks for looking!
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wow, it's really good. and the technique you are using with colours, lights and shadows, is very helpful. thank you!
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This is a beautiful tutorial! You have such a unique and gorgeous coloring and lineart style- I'm sure that I'm speaking for a lot of people when I say thank you for uploading this. ;u;
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Awww, thanks! I hope you find it helpful! >w<
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This is incredible! Thank you so very much for making this. I will try my best to apply this information and the sum of other tutorials I've read and get even better!
>.< 
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Yay! Glad I could help you! <3
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How did you do the shadows on the hair? i'd like to have that explained please? since it looks great.
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Do you mean in the very last image? I flattened the base, shadow, and highlight layers for her hair, and then I lightly went over certain parts with the burn tool.
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This is really helpful, thanks!
Is this Florina from Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword?
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It is indeed Florina!
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*is silently fangirling on the inside* Words cannot express how much I love FE 
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No problem! There's a finished version in my gallery and an alternate color version in my scraps if you want to see the whole image.
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When you have the shadows and highlights in colour green and red, how do you change them to the gradient?
You use the magic want and then you use the gradient or what?
Thank you in advance
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All you need to do is lock the layer, and then go over it with the gradient tool. :3 The base coloring, green shadows, and red highlights should all be on different layers. You'll want to use the grey layer lock, and not the black layer lock. If you have the green shadows on the the same layer as your base, then you won't be able to separate the shadows. >o<
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Oh, okay, thank you, it took me some time to know how to lock the layer, because there are 2 grey locks
Really thank you, this was really usefull, I will probalby use it in my future drawings
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True in Sai I can't use the gradient for the shading. But for the lightenig part I can do it in a different layer, for exemple in my new layer I do the "light part" in a different color (like pink) to see exactly where I light and I can change the choice "addiction" to "lightening" in the layer's option (I don't know if it's the exact name because i use the french version of Sai haha ^^') aaaand It's done ! thank you very much Popo 
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Thank you! And I'm glad you're able to find a way to do this even though you can't use gradients. >w<
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Could this method be executed in Paint Tool SAI as well?
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I don't use SAI, so I'm not sure. However, someone early stated that SAI doesn't have gradients. That really surprises me, but if it's true, then I suppose you wouldn't be able to use this. D:
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Ah. Well, thank you anyhow! The tutorial will probably help me a lot!
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one way to make gradients in SAI is to take your colors and list them from light to dark with a large pen tool, then use a fair sized blur tool (too big will mess it up) and blur each of the colors overlapping spots individually, giving a lovely gradient
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You can draw a pretty nice gradient on your own with the airbrush and water tools on a new layer, then put it as a clipping layer over your base color layer. This tutorial will definitely work with sai ^^
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Awesome! I'll be sure to test this out in the future! (Okay, Actually, right now... XP)
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Yay! I hope it works for you!
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Thanks! I drew a bit right now, and I also used the line thing that you mentioned! It looks really great, thanks to you!
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You're welcome! Thanks for commenting!
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No problem! Thanks for looking!
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I love the technique and am looking forward to trying it out!
Maybe the tutorial could do with an extra step to show how you get from the second to last image to the last one. You've gone through and darkened it considerably in areas where the shadow is deeper like under her arm, which obviously makes sense but might not be clear to people trying to follow the tutorial and wondering why they're getting a quite different result.
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Thanks for commenting! I include all that darkening and highlighting in my post-processing, and since I don't really have much of a science to it, I didn't mention it. >o< Thanks for pointing it out though! Maybe I'll make a post-processing tutorial at some point. XD
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CONGRATS ON THE DD, POPO!!!!!!! * 7 *!!!
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Poeple like you deserve a medal for helping out others to improve. The tutorial is wonderful, I hope you continue to stun DA with your awesome.
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Awww! Thank you! *w*
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That's a really neat and interesting method to colour hair, I might try this out one time
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Awesome! Thanks for looking!
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Gorgeous tutorial! I always seem to have problems with cell shading hair :<
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It can be really tricky sometimes. >o< Glad you found this helpful!
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*sobs* I dont have a pretty gradient tool because i only have Sai and not Photoshop...
but, i like the idea of doing the shadows and highlights in a different color then going back and changing the color. It's smarticle.
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You can get a pretty good gradient in Sai by using the water tool: [link]
I mean guess takes you more than 1 second to do but can still get you one that's pretty much as smooth as Photoshop's within a minute or two.
If you already knew that, then sorry~ XDD
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