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Published: 2011-11-26 03:41:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 151493; Favourites: 1954; Downloads: 0
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Well good golly gosh this took me long enough, ugh!But alas, it's finally done ;u;
Thank you so much for almost 800 watchers~ You guys are seriously what keeps me going sometimes
Up next will be the painterly colouring tutorial, so stay tuned! (Hopefully i'll have it done within the next couple of weeks >_<)
My other tutorials:
PS I won't be uploading the image featured in most of this until I figure out what's going on in the background OTL;; Sorry!
PPS I want to redo my lineart tutorial sometime soon... it's so messy :<
-runs off-
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I really love how you explained every little bit step by step. It's clear to understand and I'm totally going to use the first method since I struggle a lot with cell shading in general and shading digital. Thank you so much I feel it's going to help me a lot ^^
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Cel Shading looks like such a simple technique yet in practice (Especially when you dont know what your doing) can be challenging....This tutorial helped me alot tho. Thank you.
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Clear, short and to the point. Just what I was looking for. Thanks Caydett.
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I wanna use cel shading to do simple rendering of some portrait photos. The point is how to determine and place the boundaries of the color shades, because in the photo, it appears to be a smooth gradation of color. Anyone knows?, pls tell me.
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So, wait; what's the difference between normal shading and Cel shading?Β
And what exactly is 'normal' shading?
Is Cel shading basically adding cute light reflections or something?
Why did I put all of my questions here? Is that more convenient? Why am I still typing?
;~; I'm so.. me.. e.e
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You might have figured this out already, but the difference between normal shading and cel shading is:
Normal shading: Used to show lighting conditions and define the form of what's being drawn through varying levels of dark values. This forms what's called a "gradient" from dark to light. This tutorial about shading black and white traditional art covers the basics . In color shading, the shading comes from combining colors and blending them together to get the gradient. Normal shading tends to give art a "3D" realistic effect.
Cel shading: Used to show lighting conditions and define the form of what's being drawn through strong shadows without a gradient. As such, there's less colors used to shade. "Normal" shading is to "realism" as "cel shading" is to anime and cartoons, but good cel shading AND regular shading pay attention to light sources~
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Just sayin' the tutorial was super helpful and the characters used reminds me of Alibaba and Morgiana from the Magi series.
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You have a tutorial for those of us who work on paper?
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Thank you, this gave me some really good tips!! I'll keep all this in mind when I next draw digitally. c:
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you're awesome, thankks for making this.Β
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what art program do you use? Sorry if this is an overly asked question but i have an apple computer and dont know what programs for art to get
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I use photoshop cc to draw 
however if you're looking to try a free program to see how you like digital art then GIMP has a mac version. It's not quite as versatile as photoshop, but people create some lovely things with it
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thanks for the tut, will be using cel till im able to master other types of shading
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YOU MAKE THIS SEEM SO EASY ASKDJALSKDJKLSADJAKSLDJ
Β BUT MY BRAIN CANNOT HANDLE THIS
Β ITS AN AWEOSME TUTORIAL BUT I JSUT CANT DO IT!!! D:
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definitely using this for my (current) profile pic of crisps. thanks!
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This is very helpful, thank you very much. You do great work.Β
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Thank you very much for putting up this tutorial. I've just always loved the cell shaded appearance whenever i see it.
Actually now that i think about it: Is cell shading one of those art styles that takes much longer then others to complete a picture, because you have to be very careful with what you're doing?
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Glad you like it ^^
As for the style, well I guess it depends on the artist... personally when I was first figuring out how things worked it took a lot longer. Now that i'm more used to the technique, it's actually two to three times faster than soft shading because I don't have to worry about blending or anything and the colours are easier to change.
So I guess it depends how used to the technique you are? You don't have to be too careful about placement (and like any technique you'll get faster at it the more you use it).
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Awesome tutorial. I need help with the skin shading, because it looks something like thisΒ img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20β¦ Now I don't know if it's a style preference, or what. But I need to make the skin look.... well good.
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wow... I'm just getting back to digital art after a very very (embarrassingly, really) long hiatus... and I kinda forgot a lot of the photoshop tricks. This tutorial is awesome
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A handy little tutorial. A refresher on the concept, but the color dodge and linear burn shadings are something I'll have to try out. Thanks!
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Oh my goodness! Thank you so much, you don't know how much this helped, when I'm finished with the picture I'm making from using this picture, I'll be sure to send a link!!!
Thank you again, this was super helpful! One of the best tutorials I've seen! I'll be sure to check out all your others as well!!!!
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SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT CEL SHADING IS. Some people says it's to make 3d objects look like 2d objects, I thought it was 3-D Shading (the shading of mass (like a sphere with a light bulb above it)). PLEASE SOMEBODY EXPLAIN IT TO ME.
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cel shading is basically shading with hard lines (no blending involved), but some people change it to blend!!!!!!!!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel_shadβ¦
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I think I understand what you're doing here- in a general, vague way. (I am out of my depth here...)
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well if you have any questions, feel free to ask
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Sweet lord baby Jesus in heaven, this tutorial is exactly what I needed. Thank you~~~~~
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I was wondering how you shade the skin/hair/clothes. Do you need to use tablet for this?
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The tutorials in the description show how she shades skin/hair/clothes.
You do not need a tablet, it just helps to have something that has pressure sensitivity to it
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