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Silvernazo — Riolu the lion
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Published: 2012-04-19 10:07:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 634; Favourites: 28; Downloads: 13
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I was mucking around on paper, and came up with a riolu/lion design
So I decided to draw it digitally, and here it is ^.^ The only thing I didn't really like about it was the paws...
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Simba as a Riolu!
Or maybe he got mixed up with a Shinx
Who knows
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Awwie!
It's so cute!!
Aha I really love it!
Great job on the shading!
The eye is very pretty as well!!
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haha, I'm not that great at teaching though XD
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it`s nothing 
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XD well ok, I'll give it a shot, dunno how much this will help you but here ya go:
First I use MS Paint, and do the outline (base) of the picture with the curve tool (not sure what it's called exactly, but it's the one that has a picture of a bendy line) Or I suppose you could use any other tools if that tool gets a little tricky to use. Then I colour it in *without shading yet* and maybe add a colour for the background. Save it in a folder.(The picture won't look all great yet, but the next part will improve it a lot)
Then I open photoshop (I have photoshop editor 7.0, but I think anything similar would be fine) and open the picture in there, and that's where the shading comes in. Firstly, I stay on the background layer, and darken the outer parts of the background (like I did here) with the tool that just colours things in... (Still don't know the names of all the tools XD) set the width to 100, 200 or 300 (whichever best suits the size for your pictur) and go around your picture, trying to avoide colouring over it.
Now for shading. First I try to add shine to parts that may need it (like I did for the eye here) and to do that, just go over a bit of it in white. Now create a new layer, and click the shading tool, and in the shading options click *darker. Go over the spots that would be shaded (parts that are under or behind other parts) and that's the darker done. Now create a new layer, and make this opton *brighter. Go over the parts that would stand out a bit more, and that aren't covered by other parts. Finally, go new layer, click *spotlight and choose a small width. Go over some of the edges of the picture, and then make it a large width and just click on a spot once which should give it a standing out effect 
If you want the picture to look more detailed, it's probably best to use other shades other than those.
Well, that's what I did to draw this, I'm not sure how useful it will be to you since I'm a terrible teacher XD But that's probably as good as I can type it...
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