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Description just some quick notes for the few who asked

didn't really spell-check! let me know if you see any typos.

still workin on that one tutorial for drawing male faces! if you have any other ideas for technique-related tutorials post 'em here.
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MalianMe [2014-11-11 08:30:51 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I'm doing digital paintings for as long as I can think now and never really understood how others got there shading to look so watercolory. I guess there's always more to learn
Thanks so much!

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Willsdarklady [2014-09-04 15:16:26 +0000 UTC]

this is great, jeinu, as are the ones for body shape & heads/faces. for some reason, i don't really absorb stuff from most tutorials, but yours are very easy for me to understand. if you have any more, i'd love to check them out. if you don't but know of others that have a style & lay-out similar to yours, can you let me know? if you're busy or something, that's fine. anyway, thanks for these. they're so helpful!

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Tolfinator [2014-04-25 17:53:26 +0000 UTC]

Dude this is really helpful, thanks!

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Dupreewolf [2013-03-11 18:52:50 +0000 UTC]

How long does it normally take you to do shading?

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jeinu In reply to Dupreewolf [2013-03-12 07:40:52 +0000 UTC]

Entirely depends on what I'm drawing

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Dupreewolf In reply to jeinu [2013-03-13 20:48:55 +0000 UTC]

like a whole picture or a single page of a comic

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jeinu In reply to Dupreewolf [2013-03-14 10:15:47 +0000 UTC]

for the miamaska comic: i average about one and a half hours for basic rendering (which is cel-shading to start, then going back and softening some edges), then i spend another hour polishing (which includes highlights and non-shading details like hair strands and fabric textures). that's usually for 8 characters on the page. but that is a completely separate technique for shading that i discuss a little more on my tumblr here: [link]

this style of shading without the use of multiply layers and the like really does depend on what i'm drawing, there's no simple answer. most of the time there is no actual "shading stage" in the drawing, it's constantly painting it and adjusting the lighting until it's right for me. like i don't sit there and draw the line art then the flats then start on the shading as i do with a comic page, it's all painting from the very beginning.

hope that clears things up!

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Dupreewolf In reply to jeinu [2013-03-14 16:25:26 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that's a lot of work but yeah I understand what you mean. You know I've always wanted to be professional artist but after seeing just how much patience I would need I long ago realized it was just going to be some hobby or mine.

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jeinu In reply to Dupreewolf [2013-03-14 17:14:00 +0000 UTC]

Drawing started as a hobby for me, and even though I still consider myself more a hobbyist than a professional, I make enough money off of it to not need a day job. So I say: keep with it, you never know where it might take you :--)

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Dupreewolf In reply to jeinu [2013-03-15 16:00:02 +0000 UTC]

Well thank you for the advice I really appreciate it and I love your work and how different all of it is and all the styles you have. It's amazing to look at.

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TheSkaldofNvrwinter [2012-12-03 22:30:54 +0000 UTC]

I only have GIMP and can never figure out the ins and outs of it

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jeinu In reply to TheSkaldofNvrwinter [2012-12-07 14:20:48 +0000 UTC]

look up "gimp tutorial" in the deviantart search bar, there are literally thousands of results

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TheSkaldofNvrwinter In reply to jeinu [2012-12-09 08:10:26 +0000 UTC]

I will only save up money for PS when I know it's worth the money, that I can translate what I do to a computer with any real skill. Here's an example of my GIMP work: [link]

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jeinu In reply to TheSkaldofNvrwinter [2012-12-10 14:49:32 +0000 UTC]

GIMP is pretty versatile, i don't know if any digital artist even needs to buy photoshop now-a-days. i'd say look up some tutorials and figure out how best to use gimp. that drawing you linked looks like it has a lot of accidental mistakes like little white blips and spots that could be prevented by learning more about the program.

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TheSkaldofNvrwinter In reply to jeinu [2012-12-15 01:23:06 +0000 UTC]

exactly! I don't know the ins and outs so my attempts have always had white pixels or dots around the lines

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KitsTitsIttyBits [2012-08-25 04:03:53 +0000 UTC]

thank you for this!

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Dustdown [2012-04-10 01:07:34 +0000 UTC]

That is such an interesting midtone tips at the end there! Awesome! I will use it in my next sketch for sure.


I'd love if you ever stop by my profile and give your thoughts on one of my pieces. I could certainly need some direction.

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jeinu In reply to Dustdown [2012-04-17 03:32:05 +0000 UTC]

done so-- sorry for the late reply!

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Dustdown In reply to jeinu [2012-04-22 05:40:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Megil [2011-11-05 09:46:37 +0000 UTC]

OMG finally where has this been for so long... a tutorial that does not require pen pressure lol i just have one quick question when painting do you use a normal 100% flow 100% opacity and 1% spacing for the base so that you can get like say the edges of the face and then use this technique when blocking then blending the shades and highlights ? and then what about edges for like the nose and around the eyes?

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cozacat [2011-08-19 03:45:39 +0000 UTC]

Very neat and very helpful

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UsayFudo [2011-07-24 18:18:06 +0000 UTC]

o.O Awesome

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Sidorra [2011-02-11 09:28:17 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful tutorial, thanks alot for making it!

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JesrewnMirmo [2010-10-24 04:13:02 +0000 UTC]

oh - did you notice that if you press alt with the brush tool active, it will turn into the eyedropper until you let go? In case you did, a couple other workflow helpers could be '[' and ']' to control brush size, and space bar to use the hand tool to navigate when you're zoomed in!

Sorry if you knew all these!

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jeinu In reply to JesrewnMirmo [2010-10-24 17:03:05 +0000 UTC]

i knew about the spacebar and alt shortcuts, but not the '[' and ']' ones, thanks for the tip!

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JesrewnMirmo In reply to jeinu [2010-10-24 18:49:28 +0000 UTC]

No problem! You're one of my big sources of motivation!

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democracyFTW-ng [2010-10-17 15:33:25 +0000 UTC]

I first noticed your art on newgrounds in some flash collab, and following your userpage here, im glad I did. I love your shading and am so glad I found this. Thanks!

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jeinu In reply to democracyFTW-ng [2010-10-19 18:03:49 +0000 UTC]

glad you found it helpful

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ebo2 [2010-05-28 00:39:52 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!

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jeinu In reply to ebo2 [2010-05-28 03:19:34 +0000 UTC]

no problem, glad you enjoyed it! next one's coming out next week, keep an eye out for it!

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U-naught [2010-05-23 23:51:41 +0000 UTC]

Very cool, thanks for posting this!

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Loath-some [2010-05-05 14:03:21 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you had a saturation in the gradient (middle tone). Cause there's so many people that get the blending wrong and just blend two colors together.

I've been thinking of giving Corel Painter a shot since photoshop don't actually blend stuff. Corel painter confuses me though.. guess it's cause I'm so used to PS.

Good tutorial!
I'm blabbing!
Aaah!

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jeinu In reply to Loath-some [2010-05-05 18:19:34 +0000 UTC]

yeah, the automatic blending abilities in Painter are a lot nicer than photoshop's. you should definitely try it out, though there are a ton more tools to get used to. I still haven't figured out a regular way of working in that program!

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Loath-some In reply to jeinu [2010-05-05 19:00:45 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, same thing for me. I don't even get half of all the stuff that's there.
Neither have I tried the mediums it tries to mimic.

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SamGreenMedia [2010-05-05 00:01:22 +0000 UTC]

I hoped it was done like that, time consuming but worth the efforts!

Make sure to use AT LEAST 3 colors to blend, as just using a dark and a light doesn't work as great!

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JesrewnMirmo [2010-05-04 23:35:56 +0000 UTC]

"bursh tool" - only typo I see,

Hey, something like this would be cool if lots of people made their own technique notes, creating a huge knowledge base of stuff everyone could learn from each other!

thoughts aside, thanks for yours on shading! The saturation bit is a great idea.

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