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KathyKnodoff — Tutorial thingy - manes
Published: 2010-02-15 21:41:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 7940; Favourites: 365; Downloads: 160
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My way of painting manes. No smudging, no burning, no dodging! I used to do it with premade hair brushes some time ago, but as for now, I don't use any. I'm actually more satisfied of their outcome since I stopped to, so I thought that maybe I'll share what I came up with ^^ The brushes I described are easy to make 'at home', so I didn't include a brushpack [especially since one of them is 'stolen' from another artist
] If you want, just save those three as 'manebrushes' or something like that.Another good thing when you're trying to shade your mane is playing with your own hair! Twirl them, stand at different angles to the light, observe how does it affect your hair, and try to compose your work based on that
Plus, a REALLY lazy way of general shading is merging the hair layers and playing with the curves (CRTL + M). Though personally I hardly ever use that
I'm not sure if there are any grammar or spelling errors... Sorry in advance
Anyway I hope it's understandable.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a premade brush for that. You'll have to rely on the presets that I've presented at the beginning.
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zomg thank you thank you for this and your new one I luv them! And now my manes and tails aren't my least favorite part to do anymore.... [link]
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You're welcome! Glad to hear it! 
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I'm glad you found it useful, thanks!
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That was an enjoyable and helpful tutorial, thanks!
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My pleasure, glad you found it useful
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Amazing! I've been trying to figure out how to make my manes looks like real hair and not hard plastic helmets. :-P This helps alot! Thank you!
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Not a problem, I'll be happy if this can help!
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more tuts on like, manipulation all together, you should do a series, like....
1. Manes
2. Tails
3. Cutting
4. Blending
5. Lighting
6. Eyes
7. Effects.
(:
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Um... Maybe you overlooked the category, but the only thing is, that this tutorial was meant to help mainly digital painters, not manipulators 
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I FRIGGIN LOVE YOU.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
Make more tuts. or I'll EAT you. -snarls-
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o.o -stands back-
Err... more tuts about what, for example?
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A bit of practise and you'll draw the same ones
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tried here: [link] ....
not so good
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Oh c'mon, as for the first try it's pretty good! It all takes time, besides I assure you that my first attempt on drawing manes was way worse
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o.o oh well, thanks.. 
my first digital mane was over-smudged *facepalm*
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Mine looked like a helmet
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I can't get over how awesome this tutorial is! And it's so simple! You only use 3 brushes! Thank you so much for answering my prayers and creating a tutorial on how to do manes and tails properly (particularly white/cream colored manes. I can't tell you how long I've been looking for a good tutorial on creating white manes!)
Does this method work the same way, for say, a black mane? Or do you do something different for that?
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Yay, nothing makes me more happy than hearing I was able to help! 
I dare to say that this method is even easier when doing black manes, because depending on the base color I use, I'll need only one color to do the shading part, or sometimes I just do the lighter parts right away, with using no shading colors at all
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I have GIMP, but I believe GIMP does have those brushes. How do you get them? >.<
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I'm afraid I'm unable to help you. I use Adobe Photoshop, while its brush packs have a completely different format than GIMP brushes.
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Oh okay well thanks anyway then
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Feel free to do so, I'll be glad if it helps :3
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Hmm... It seems like various ways of drawing manes manually don't differ from each other that much
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Manually drawing manes is loove
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I've actually learned that a lot of photoshop tools are in corel too (crappy program i use), just sometimes using other names. It bugs the crap out of me that corel's brushes don't make the manes go as smooth as they look on photoshop. That's what makes me so mad I just end up erasing it all and letting it be... Maybe I can play with this idea a bit and try to form it to fit corel
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I'm thinking she's discovered a new power XD
Great totorial thingy
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Wow, this looks great! I'm definitely going to try it sometime!
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I'm glad I could give some hints ^^
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I actually really like this tutorial...there a lot of tutorials out there about shading manes, buuuut...what I especially like about this is that you point out where lighting would go. Shading is something I really struggle with, so...looking forward to trying this ^^
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I recall having problems with that too, so I thought it would be useful to tell everything I've learned ^^
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wow this sounds easy enough, i may try next time
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SHOOP DA WOOP! I'MMA FIRIN' MAH LAZER oO
EPIC 8D and a really nice tutorial indeed
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This is so helpful, and really great! You maked the steps easy to understand. I can't wait to try to use it!
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Good to know, I was worried that perhaps I wrote the explanations in a twisted way or something ^^" Thankies!
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Well, I understand it
It's a pretty good tutorial!
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