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PricklyAlpaca — Shading and Lighting Tutorial by-nc-nd

Published: 2014-03-07 04:16:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 16778; Favourites: 327; Downloads: 55
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Description Excuse my mess, I get lazy with tutorials XD My hand writing is also blehhh but I hope you can read it!

Something rather simple to explain shading. Sorry if it's a little vague, a lot of shading goes with whatever is in the drawing, so it's just basic shadow or lighting. Shading anything requires a unique technique that I challenge you to find through trial and error with shading. That's how my style came about. 

Anyway, this walks your through how I did Ryu. It's not very complex. It was done in roughly 1 or 2 hours. The style of cell shading is one layer cell shading (mine is usually 2-3 layers, but I'll make a more detailed tutorial for those methods).

Hope this is helpful!

Art (C) AgentWhiteHawk 2014


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Comments: 27

PoisonedLoveaj [2016-12-30 14:16:25 +0000 UTC]

do you need a tablet for this?  

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to PoisonedLoveaj [2016-12-30 15:28:00 +0000 UTC]

Yep. You would need one for most drawing tutorials you find on the internet. 

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PoisonedLoveaj In reply to PricklyAlpaca [2016-12-30 16:15:47 +0000 UTC]

aw man  

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KingGigabyte [2016-08-12 06:02:54 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much. I've been looking for a tutorial like this for a while. 

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to KingGigabyte [2016-08-12 15:04:03 +0000 UTC]

Np! Sorry its a little outdated, I hope to come up with a new one soon. 

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KingGigabyte In reply to PricklyAlpaca [2016-08-12 20:00:57 +0000 UTC]

It's cool ! I look forward to a new one. Shading fur is such a huge weakness of mine and having something like this helps a lot. 

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sleen-fire [2014-03-23 04:15:42 +0000 UTC]

hhm very useful


may i ask what your pen settings are for sai?

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to sleen-fire [2014-08-31 19:15:22 +0000 UTC]

For some reason my dumb laptop lagged in the pasting of that link ><
Here are the brush settings!
sta.sh/011ksglw5t4k

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to sleen-fire [2014-08-31 18:58:22 +0000 UTC]

Sorry for the horribly late reply~
here they are!

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sleen-fire In reply to PricklyAlpaca [2014-09-07 03:51:19 +0000 UTC]

ok, thank you very very much

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to sleen-fire [2014-09-07 18:01:09 +0000 UTC]

np

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Rusielewicz [2014-03-13 04:07:30 +0000 UTC]

This shall be vury helpful :3

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to Rusielewicz [2014-03-13 13:55:41 +0000 UTC]

Good to hear!

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Rusielewicz In reply to PricklyAlpaca [2014-03-27 22:58:41 +0000 UTC]

:3

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ImagineCorgis [2014-03-09 22:32:29 +0000 UTC]

All I can say is: thank youu!

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to ImagineCorgis [2014-03-09 22:32:54 +0000 UTC]

haha no problem!

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xKOVAKtheWOLFx [2014-03-09 09:36:11 +0000 UTC]

I've tried many attempts to cell shading, but hopefully this one would help.<3 (:

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to xKOVAKtheWOLFx [2014-03-09 14:34:08 +0000 UTC]

Good luck!

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Mewn-san [2014-03-07 20:31:50 +0000 UTC]

EEee you have no idea how much this helps :3 You should do an anatomy tutorial too sometime!

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to Mewn-san [2014-03-07 20:51:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
I'll try. I can help with a few things, but I'm still improving myself hehe!

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Mewn-san In reply to PricklyAlpaca [2014-03-07 21:04:10 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!!
:3 yeah! Your anatomy is so darn amazing either way~! speaking of, it took me like 5000 years to figure out that a paw does not look like a circle... xD

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to Mewn-san [2014-03-08 17:10:33 +0000 UTC]

Haha well thanks! I might get around to it at some point. 

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AspenWynd [2014-03-07 15:56:00 +0000 UTC]

This is pretty helpful!

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to AspenWynd [2014-03-07 16:16:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! 

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DragooBreath [2014-03-07 07:41:52 +0000 UTC]

Looks great!

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PricklyAlpaca In reply to DragooBreath [2014-03-07 15:05:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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DragooBreath In reply to PricklyAlpaca [2014-03-07 21:08:44 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome again xD 

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