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Dang so this is the biggest file ever, haha.
This is a quick (?) walkthrough of how I did the colors for the most recent page , using the first panel as an example.
I was going for a more general overview here, more of my thought process than a set of instructions of how to color like I do. Personally I don't think you should color the way I do, I take kind of a long time and anyways, everyone should develop their own style.
If you're one of those people who NEEDS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW what settings and such I use, here is a list for you:
- fill tool
- gradient tool
- default round brush
- default soft brush
- dropper tool
As of March is use Photoshop CS4, and as of last month I use a Wacom Cintiq (before that I was using an Intuos 3)/
I don't use fancy brushes or settings in Photoshop other than messing with opacity and pressure.
And my final color file for this page had these layers:
- Frame + Text
- Lines
- Soli Shading
- Soli Base Color
- Room Details (several layers flattened into one file)
- Room Shadows
- Room
- Base
Google Sketchup, a free and simple 3-D modeling program, is available here .
Hope that satisfies your curiosity
The Meek (c) me
My other tutorials:
Pose tutorial
Expression tutorial
Hand tutorial
Foot tutorial
Ladies tutorial
Fellas tutorial
Face tutorial
Commission Tutorial
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Lol googleing everything is pretty much how I found this awesome artist! XD
Thank you for this. X3
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I love how you googled "everything"
I do too
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I come back to this tutorial over and over again but only now I realized I hadn't faved this. Oh well, got that fixed.
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All your tutorials are wonderful, they're some of the easiest I've found to follow, while going into enough depth that you actually learn!
Sorry for the fave spree <3
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Another great tutorial. : )
I've got a question about Sketchup. I checked its license for the free version and it says it's only for non-commertial use. It means I can't sell anything created in that program but can something made based on it be sold? I know they have no way to check it.
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I think you could sold something based on it 'cause first, nobody will never knew if it has been created on SketchUp or not ( except youΒ Β ) and secondly this is not SkecthUp that you show, it's your drawingΒ Β
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Wonderful. One of the best coloring tutorials I've seen yet.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS
I NEED THIS SO BADLY
AND NOW HERE IT IS
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[AGGRESSIVELY SAVES THIS IN MY WEBCOMIC REFERENCE/FLUFF FOLDER AND ON THREE SEPARATE USB STICKS]
Your tutorials have always been my absolute favorite and I know I wouldn't be half the artist I am now without them.
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No, even if I had just browsed a few of your excellent tutorials, I did not think that you would forget the chinchilla. I did not.Β Β
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omgomgomgomg this is beautiful.
Thank you for making this!
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thankyouΒ Β Β (even though this is hella old)
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I know this is old, but this is really nice! Thanks! ^^
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cool and useful stuff you got here. Thanks for sharing!
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But... How can I google things when I'm behind the great firewall?
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Ahh, reeeeal sweet! I have the annoying habit of picking "correct" colors for everything. This mostly confuses the eye, seeing there's no pointer towards what's important and not. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you so much for this !!
This will be very useful !!
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Brilliant tutorial, one of the best I've read. Thank you so much!
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OOSHIZ - I have just gone through like half of your tutorials before realising that you're the guy who did The Meek. I thought your art style was familiar...
Anywho, love these tutorials. Would like the webcomic to start again, but I get that its not looking likely now..
Also, loving the chinchillas.
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LOL I feel like an idiot but after seeing Step 05. I went back to The Meek - 3.07 and checked to see if there was actually a chinchilla in the background. I was slightly surprised when I found out that the scene was lacking chinchilla. xD
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thank you for posting such a helpful tutorial!
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Thanks for reading
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This is totally awesome and inspirational. I used the sketchup and coloring stuff on a comic I've been meaning to start for forever: [link]
A couple questions--do you use the dark-to-light technique for everything, or only in dark scenes like this? Also, how'd you determine the base color you started with?
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Depending on what kind of coloring you do, you want to use a different technique. Sometimes it's nice to have a light color coming through from below, for example you can look at `loish since she's done that a few times on her rougher paintings. Basically you should experiment and find out what looks best for the mood you're trying to achieve, it helps to work from a photo ref or even another artist's work if you find it helpful or inspirational.
You should set the base color based on the mood of the piece. This doesn't always need to be the base color of the piece if you're painting over it. Like for a night scene, you might be tempted to use blue at the base. I might go for bright purple instead and paint blue over it, you'll get a more interesting feel out of it than if you went with the more simple choice. For painting skin you could paint bright orange on the body first, like light through blood, then add skin on top. That will give the skin more life and vibrance (just some examples, and of course variations are extremely useful as well).
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You're real good at making me understand so easily! Wow.
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aieeeeeeeh.
Nice tut/walkthrough/how-to/dsfuishy-a-hufdfyhd or whatever you want to call it.
And the chinchilla... THE CHINCHILLA.
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would you make a video tutorial of this ??
please please please X 10
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Generally, we make concept art before we model them, but you say we should model them first? PARADOX!
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Model them before you draw them, at least. You should probably concept first, but for the purposes of this tutorial I had a pretty good idea in mind of what I wanted already so the sketchup phase was the same as the concepting phase.
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Thank you sooo much!!;u; I learned a lot! *O*<3
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This is really helpful. Breaking down all the elements step by step. thank you.
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OH MAN I've never heard of sketchup before. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Also, your tutorial is very nice.
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Wo, you're great with sketchup! Coud you please make some tutorials for this, too?
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dude
this isn't a coloring walkthrough, this is a how to build a believable background and shade it appropriately walkthrough
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