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Published: 2008-11-22 16:38:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 11779; Favourites: 193; Downloads: 0
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Hi guys~ ^^ This is a tutorial / guide on how I like to colour skin in photoshop <3 Its not for realism though, more simplified cartoony work, so I considered less tones and hues than I would if I were painting a realistic portrait.Hope you like it and I really hope its useful
I'll hopefully be doing more tutorials whenever I can find the time..
Enjoy~
Meg
www.artbymeg.co.uk
megan@artbymeg.co.uk
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Love it. Even without reading it its easy to see the difference it makes. (Though I did read it. xD)
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Thank you!
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I really dont mind. I think this is very usable though maybe an update would be good.
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Ok, thanks for your feedback!
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this tutorial was a great help here: [link] 
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I'm so glad it helped! Lovely work, keep up your drawing!
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Thanks
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Hi again. OK I used your tutorial to colour this it is now finished. [link] thanks a bunch. I think it turned out pretty good for a first try.
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I just looked at your gallery. You don't have a hair tutorial.
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Nope, sorry! But maybe I will make one in the future when I have time
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Do you know how long I have been looking for a tutorial like this one that is simple and easy to use. I am going to try to colour using this from now on. Thanks
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I'm so glad I could help! 
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I'm so excited about your tutorial. Here is a WIP of the pic I am colouring using it.
[link] I'm obviously making it my own, but I am very happy with it.
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Ooooh~ Thank you very much! This helped a lot, and I'm very grateful to you for making it! ^^ Thank you! ^^
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I'm so glad it helped you!
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This helped a lot. I'm a bit embarrassed at the techniques I used after reading this.
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Don't be embarrassed at all! Everyone picks up things differently so there is no need to be ashamed of any method you use at all
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FINALLY an easy to understand tutorial for noobs like me!
thanks!
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You;re very welcome! I hope it helps, and I hope you enjoy using it
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Also, how do you get the nice smooth clean lines in photoshop, my lineart always comes out jiggly and rough
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Well, this depends firstly on how you draw your lineart - do you use a mouse, or tablet, or other method?
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I use a mouse, but I've heard of guys who use tablet and have the same problem
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Ok, well I also had this problem when I started 
If you use a mouse the easiest thing I found to do when I was in your position was use the pen tool in Photoshop to create perfect lines. Do you use photoshop?
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yeah I use photoshop cs5, just started, but I'm kinda used to the lines in flash(smoothens for you), but I found a way to make the lines in PS look like how I want, thanks anyways
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Ah I have never used flash. Thats a handy feature!
Just out of interest what way have you found in PS to make the lines smooth?
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Ah ok
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Thanks, I'm glad I could be of help!
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Wow, this is the best skin tutorial I have seen! I usually find it quite hard to colour skin because of my lineart always ends up pixelly even when I use vectors. Now I see I can just go over it with highlights and it will still look cool 
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Thankyou so much! I'm really glad my tutorial helped you so much
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OMG. this tutorial was so helpful, i was doing a manga artwork right, and i realised i had no effing clue as to what the hell i was doing when i was colouring!!! sucks to be new. anyways, i did the entire skin layer in less than an hour with this! and during it i figured how to make my pen drawings linearts with only a few settings instead of doing all this fiddly stuff with a brusk (yay!!!)
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I'm glad to hear that you found it so useful!
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I DO!!! i can colour!!! my first image is up already, i did it in one night with that tutorial of yours. first image i ever coloured on photoshop. thanks so much!!!
^_^ positive comes from having AOCDD (artistic obsessive compulsive deviant disorder)
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Great stuff!
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WILL DO!!! ^^ --hugs for you!!!--
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yay!!
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