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Jotaku — Start-to-Finish Tutorial: Part 2 Shading
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This is part two of a complete step-by-step, start-to-finish tutorial of how I did the image below. Part One of the Tutorial is in the middle, Part Three is on the right:Part o2: Shading
*This tutorial is primarily for PaintTool SAI
*My four main brushes and settings: [link]
I used the pen tool (though at size 4) for the lineart, the brush tool for the sketch and coloring, and the brush and water tools for blending purposes.
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If you have any questions at all, totally feel free to ask me anything!
Also the little cheeb next to Jotaku is Del and belongs to ~fetalstar
Edit: Step by step tutorial on how I did frame one: [link]
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it says mode but it doesnt have the same thing
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SAI has like 2840930932 different versions out there unfortunately, and not all of them have the same tools.
On some versions it's called Shade. Some don't even have it--in which case your closest option to what I use is Multiply.
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thanxz
thats alot of versions
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I don't seem to have the %oA%oe on my blending mode drop down... What are your other blending modes?
I have normal, Multiply, screen, overlay, Luminosity, Shade, Lumi and shade, Binary color. Whatever mode you don't have on mine should be the %oA%oe equivalent. 
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I'm sorry this is such a late reply (I don't check dA often oops!)
But my weird mode is the equivalent of Shade on yours!
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I have to ask! I have an spanish version of paint tool sai and I very lost u_u I mean, I can't find the layer clip and I don't know what do you mean with putting the fringe to 2. Is that possible to show me an image of your PTS with this things? English is not my native language, sorry
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Gosh... This tutorial is really helpful!!! >.<
I was working with SAI for some time but I always had a problem with hair... this helps me a lot.... though now hairs doesn't looks so good with body colors....hmmmm.... >.<
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The way you do the hair is really lovely!
Thanks for the tip (:
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You amazing person you, I love your tutorials but I have one problem. Sai doesnt have this setting that your saying to use. T_T
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Unfortunately not all of them do. :c
In that case you can use Multiply--but you will have to pick more bolder colors instead of something neutral to get the same shading effect.
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really good tut, i hope its the one that will help me finally color good... ohhh.
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What version of sai do you have? I can't seem to find the 'opacity lock' thing anywhere...
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There should be something like it... I believe there are, like, three options below the blend mood drop-down. Whichever one has to deal with opacity? Sorry, I dunno what it is exactly, but it's there, just under a different name. :c
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hummm, I can't find it XD
That's okay.
...wait...would it be the 'keep opacity' check box under the blending persistence and dilution bars?
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Probably! :'o Draw something, click that, and try to scribble all over the page with a different color. If it only stays over what you've already drawn, you've found it!
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haha, alas, it didn't XD
but clipping group does that....
hummmmm interesting... XD
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Clipping group should be, where, like, if you draw something, then make a new layer, then set it to clipping group, it will only color what's underneath it. That's what it's called on Photoshop and it does the same thing as layer clip on my SAI.
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hum... so the opacity lock still eludes me... XD
oh well, I guess I'll manage XD (I'll keep googling and looking though )
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You could screen cap it for me and I might be able to point it out? :'o
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okay 
[link]
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It's the 'preserve opacity' option. That will preserve, or lock, the transparent and non-transparent pixels on any layer.
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ahahahahhaaha I see it now! XD *feels like a doofuz* lol, I can't believe I didn't see that XD
Thank you so much!
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thanks !
how many layers did you use for the tones and base layers?
and such.
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Ugh, jeez, I don't have it saved in layer format. Maybe around, like, 8 or so for the flats? I don't know, exactly. I just made sure each color didn't touch on the same layer.
Shading was all done one one layer, and.. Other than that, there's just the graphics layer in the back and a couple effects layers like my overlay or highlights layers.
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thanks! >w<
How did you get the shading to not overlap or was it the same color on the .. multiply-like .. layer?
Sorry for all the questions ! ><
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I used one color for all the shading; this one right here --> [link]
The nice thing about that multiply-like layer, is that it sorta darkens and combines the color you use for the shading and the color beneath it. This way you can have all the shading have the same tint, while also still being a darker version of whatever is beneath it. C:
(Hope that makes sense!)
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yea it does !
I have Photoshop and tried doing that multiply thing with photoshop but it gets really sensitive with the blending so i get these awkward rings if i don't blend/ blur perfectly. >< ;;;;
Thanks again!
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thanks !
how many layers did you use for the tones and base layers?
and such.
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Thanks for this! I'm a complete noob with Sai and with digital colouring, and I love your style, so maybe I'll take a stab at it using this as a guideline.
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No problem! I really hope it can help you out! :'D <3
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change mode to %a%e... mmm do you need a proper version of sai ? cause i don't have that % stuff 
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Haha, yeah, I have a portable version. XD It's the one like Multiply, though, so... I figure anyone with a brain could dick around until they got the right one!
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KSDLDKLSAJDLKSAJDKASDJAS THIS IS a Great tutorial !!! thank you
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