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The companion piece to [link]I've been meaning to make a tutorial on how I make my stuff, but video-editing software hates me. So I'm going this route.
Keep in mind, this is on how I do my hand-drawn-then-digitally-colored art, which is like 95% of my stuff. Otherwise I just draw the linework straight into Photoshop with the tablet/CINTIQ, but the rest of the process is pretty much the same.
I might do an advanced tutorial on shading and backgrounds as well.
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Fabulous! Really helped when doing my first photoshop coloring piece!
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I love this image! You are very confident with your pony lines.
Can I make one suggestion to your tutorial...or at least something you might try using with your next image...
Use the magic wand tool to extract your lineart is great, but not really the best way in Photoshop to do it. I would recommend using Ctrl+Alt+~
It is designed to remove all white from your black lineart layer. [link] <-- Will show you how to use the command correctly.
It's been a real time saver for me.
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What kind of paper do you use do draw? Any particular make or manufacturer?
I've been working with pen and ink off and on for many years and haven't been able to find paper that can take ink without bleeding.
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Wonderful tutorial ^^
Although I don't really use PS, but it's quite informative
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Personally, I use Levels to adjust my scanned work. Half of the time I need to adjust grayscale sketches to be used as a guide for vector art, and Levels generally allows more control over shadows, midtones and highlights, as well as brightness.
I also usually skip making transparent lineart since I work at low resolutions. Setting the layer to "multiply" and making all the fills and shading underneath the lineart works similar to painting behind an animation cel. But it is a little harder to manage when adding the background.
Anyway, it's always nice to see how others work. You can pick up a few tips here and there! For example, I only learned about locking transparent pixels during the training grounds event!
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I've tried Levels a few times, I dunno, it didn't really work for me. At least not as quick-and-dirty as this method does.
And I typically like to make the lineart it's own Layer so it's easier to manipulate, in case a part needs to be skewed or enlarged for the proportions. Plus, as you said, BG insertion.
That's neat. I typically learn or try some new technique with every picture I make, in a big way or just a tiny way. The ATG event overall helped me work on my speed, as well as accurate pony anatomy. Plus it gave me some serious respect for deadlines.
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Excellent tutorial... and I appreciate that you did it without talking down to the viewer. (Not all tutorial authors have internalized that little skill yet...)
Plus, Octavia.
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Well I tend to mimic the style of my better art professors; informative, but understanding that the student may not be quite ready for this level of instruction. More than anything I tried to make sure I didn't skip over any important steps, so I meticulously went over every stage of the process.
I feel like I accomplished that.
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OMG Thanks brah! Now all I need is a scanner and those pens.....
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You can use any kind of pens, altho the ones I use have a REALLY nice line quality.
I get them individually for $3.00 or so at art stores.
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If I ever teach myself Photoshop, I will need this badly.
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I suppose it can come in handy, yeah.
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Well I'll need it for everything, including ponies. And is this the Octavia from Tumblr?
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I didn't upload it to Tumblr. Tho maybe someone else did.
I make the Ask Surprise blog, remember?
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I know that. But there's an Ask Octavia. So I'm guessing Octavia is a real pony, then? I'm so behind on episodes it's not funny.
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Octavia is a background pony who plays the cello in the season finale episode. She's only on screen for about 3 seconds and has no lines or any important plot points. People just draw her 'cuz she's pretty.
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I've noticed that the pretty ponies are never the important characters.
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Well, Rarity notwithstanding...
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That's true. But you see her prettiness every episode, so it's not as noticeable sometimes.
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Oh snap! someones using physical mediums for art
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I just don't like how my tablet linework looks.
Despite using that method for the Surprise Tumblr...
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Honestly I hated doing my line work digitally too until I started using paint tool sai and got accustomed to the stabilizer settings which makes my line work damn near perfect with some hiccups here and there despite the tiny ass bamboo I'm using. For example [link] , did that in a little less then an hour with out too much trouble in sai. Honestly zach if you use sai once you'll become a sai junkie like me and the rest of deviant art lately
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Nooo, I must... resist... temptation...
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Search your feelings, you know your desires to be true!
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Magic wand? Hmm... but why don't you use select by Luminosity which works much better and accurate than MW (as far as I can see)?
ctrl+alt+2
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I hadn't even heard of that... Might try it sometime.
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You probably need to play with Levels a bit as well to remove some leftovers from dirt sketch. In this case the feature will work better.
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Oh, dirt's not really a problem, I always do a little touch-up cleaning of things like that when I have the linework isolated anyway.
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Forgot that you need to desaturate image first ofc.
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