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 Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:14 am
integer01853 pritong_sushi i fail at drawing chibis xd but i'll try this tutorial! thanks! I fail at drawing period. Even my stick figures are lame! dramallama
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:34 pm
integer01853 pritong_sushi i fail at drawing chibis xd but i'll try this tutorial! thanks! I fail at drawing period. Even my stick figures are lame! dramallama haha come on integer! i'd like to see you try too wink ok sorry for the long wait but i'm using a diff. computer right now & i can't find the installer for the scanner so i used a digicam instead:  i didn't color it this time for fear that the scanner might ruin everything again confused edit: i knew it! i did the wrong boots again xd
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:59 pm
pritong_sushi integer01853 pritong_sushi i fail at drawing chibis xd but i'll try this tutorial! thanks! I fail at drawing period. Even my stick figures are lame! dramallama haha come on integer! i'd like to see you try too wink ok sorry for the long wait but i'm using a diff. computer right now & i can't find the installer for the scanner so i used a digicam instead: i didn't color it this time for fear that the scanner might ruin everything again confused edit: i knew it! i did the wrong boots again xd
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:09 pm
----How to color basics----
Alright, going to post how to color the same chibi. This is going to be a page stretcher, lots of steps.
Keeping your line art on top of the color, create a new layer (or in my case several) below the line art.
1. Color in the base skin. Doesnt have to be neat and pretty. Scribble it on there. Can get it outside the lines as long as it is with in the drawing itself, not on any white space outside the drawing.
2. add a slightly darker shade where the shadows will be, you'll keep going as you'll see like this with atleast 2 more darker shades.
3. fill in the deeper shadows with slightly darker color.
4. do the same again with a darker color.
5. Now add in the highlights. Usually only typically do two shades of highlights, you may need more depending.
Second highlights which you really cant see atop the other highlights, but they'll make a difference in the next steps.
After you've got those in separate layers (this is just the way I do it, I like working with alot of layers. If you like minimal layers, then you'll have to adjust this tutorial accordingly.) You want to hide the visibility on everything but the base skintone and the 1st dark layer.
--------Smudging.--------
Next step, find a soft round brush, or a brush you feel comfortable working with, and adjust the size as needed, from there, you want to use the smudge tool and blend the colors together. Should at any time your darks you're working with look like they have a white fade to them as sometimes they do, its a simple fix of going up to the layer settings and selecting darken. It'll fix the white edges.
Smudge tool I have is set at a soft round brush at 17px. You can go bigger or smaller as needed.
Now that you know what that looks like, lets start....
As you can see, you can tell a difference already with the smudging. Don't be afraid to go side to side with the tool, you dont have to follow the lines precisely in the way you smudge, it all just depends on how you want to make it look.
This is what the first layer completed smudge should look like. Continue with the smudging on the second layer, which is the next darkest color up from the base dark color.
This is what the end product of smudging should look like with the second layer. Keep on going with the smudging until you're finished with the skin.
Once finished, should look something like:
Now if the colors you chose look too dark, you can always change them.
1. First way is to change the layer style, at the bottom of the layer menu there should be a circle with a f in it, click it and goto color overlay and play with the colors on each layer.
2. Or, you could do it a more lazy way and take the base skin, copy it and bring -the copy- above the other layers and try selecting soft light from the menu options, see if that helps.
Lightened up a bit using option 2, soft light with a fill layer setting of 69%.
Incase you needed a visual.
-------Dress /Boots, Etc-------
Now, with the dress, use the same steps that you did with the skin.
1st base color
2nd a darker color
3rd another darker
4th if needed another dark color.
5th a light color
6th a lighter color.
Keep in mind if you want to get fancy and do wrinkles, which way the light is and all that other good stuff. I won't post a step by step process as its going to be the same idea as the skin.
Boots, if you dont plan on doing anything fancy with them, basic coloring like above, just keep in mind light source.
Bracelet same deal, best to start with the base color, then the darker colors coming in from the outsides, slowly getting lighter towards center.
-----Example----
Fast quick coloring job on my part, your's should turn out looking much better than this.
---Teeth---
#D4D1D0 - base
#ACC2C3 - dark
#8EA6A7 - darker
#DDF3F6 - light
those are the colors I used, mixing a gray base with a bit of a blue grey and a light blue white
Is the colors unblended
From there blend and adjust as needed.
---eyes---
Using about the lightest color you used on the teeth, use that for the whites of the eyes, adjust accordingly.
From there fill in shadows, then use white for the highlights in the whites of the eyes.
Next goto the insides, do the typical repetitive steps you have been and smoothing. For the pupil selecting a darker color in the same family of the eyes color sometimes works really well if you get it close enough to black.
After you've added all the colors, smudged, got the center done, use your brush to make white highlights and smudge just a little in a tight circle to blur it just a bit.
Should then have something similar to this.
---hair----
Start out the same as you have the last 8 million times, base, darks, leading into light. Smooth.
Should gain something like this. Now, you could leave it at that, or if you want to get creative take a darker color than the darkest color you used (in this case black) and draw lines following the way the hair lays:
In the example above I used red, just so you could see it better than with black. The strands go with the flow of the hair.
Once you have them in place, go over them with your smudge tool and FOLLOW the strands of the hair on this one, no side to side movements, you want them to look like strands.
Black lines after smudging.
Following the same steps above with a color lighter than your your lightest color, make more strands if you'd like. Now, sometimes smudging them can be a pain all over, so, lower the opacity to 40% or so. ...And if it doesnt look right, keep playing with it. From there, smooth a few sections in the places that have less light so they dont show up as well.
And after that you have yourself now one completed long winded tutorial, and one chibi hooker. =D
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:55 pm
wow... eek
now i understand the power of layers! & yet another awesome tutorial, ToushinYusuke! mrgreen
i hope to try this tutorial soon...
& yes i've always had issues with chibis! xd the first time i tried, i failed so hard that i NEVER bothered trying anymore haha
thanks to your tutorial, i guess i didn't fail this time around so thanks a lot!! i will link this to my journal once i get it scanned blaugh
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:38 pm
pritong_sushi wow... eek now i understand the power of layers! & yet another awesome tutorial, ToushinYusuke! mrgreen i hope to try this tutorial soon... & yes i've always had issues with chibis! xd the first time i tried, i failed so hard that i NEVER bothered trying anymore haha thanks to your tutorial, i guess i didn't fail this time around so thanks a lot!! i will link this to my journal once i get it scanned blaugh
XD Thanks.
One of these days if I can find the original art for it, I'll post up something I did the same way you usually do your's. Colored pencils and scanning it into the computer with a little bit of editing and alot of smudging. All done on a mouse too originally.
Know theres got to be others here that thought like us. Use colored pencil works to make them look like CG.
=O I still deny the fact that you had issues with chibis. >P
But if you say it helped, then I'm glad. =D!
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Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:59 am
ToushinYusuke
XD Thanks.
One of these days if I can find the original art for it, I'll post up something I did the same way you usually do your's. Colored pencils and scanning it into the computer with a little bit of editing and alot of smudging. All done on a mouse too originally.
Know theres got to be others here that thought like us. Use colored pencil works to make them look like CG.
=O I still deny the fact that you had issues with chibis. >P
But if you say it helped, then I'm glad. =D!
yeah you really should! eek i mean, pls. share us your knowledge about editing/smuding/burning & all the goodness out of scanned drawings!! xd edit: you glow! wahmbulance
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 5:53 am
pritong_sushi ToushinYusuke
XD Thanks.
One of these days if I can find the original art for it, I'll post up something I did the same way you usually do your's. Colored pencils and scanning it into the computer with a little bit of editing and alot of smudging. All done on a mouse too originally.
Know theres got to be others here that thought like us. Use colored pencil works to make them look like CG.
=O I still deny the fact that you had issues with chibis. >P
But if you say it helped, then I'm glad. =D!
yeah you really should! eek i mean, pls. share us your knowledge about editing/smuding/burning & all the goodness out of scanned drawings!! xd edit: you glow! wahmbulance
I'll have to hunt that art down. I know I have it around here somewhere.
Maybe if I look and work on it, it'll kick up my drawing muse on me. Need to enter art for a contest and my brain is drawing a blank. >/
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:41 am
For colored Pencils and other such media to look more CG...
Years and years and years old avatar art I did up for someone on gaia.
Hand drawn, colored, yadda yadda...
Cleaned up using photoshop using only the smudge tool, dodge, burn, added in a little color here and there, mouse, mass quantities of soda and sugar.
Give me a bit here and I'll post a how to guide up in another post.
And yes, for the record, its suppose to have a flat chest and a bulge. =O was a male avatar.
Now that we got all that cleared up...
-wanders for food first.-
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:55 am
1. Start with your image.
2. Get yourself a small smudge brush that's about 5px hard edge.
3. FOLLOW the color pencil strokes. Unless, you know, you just scribbled it all in and didnt take your time, if that's the case it's best to just try and follow the drawing itself and smooth it all out to the best of your ablity.
4. dont worry if you make too many tiny mistakes, you can fix them later on. Say you smudge some black into a white area. Dodge tool will take care of it.
You can see where I've started smoothing the skin and everything. Looks a little flat.
Keep smoothing the image out that way until you have something thats completely smoothed
After that go in and define things.
Using burn tool fill in the darker areas. If you're using photoshop look up top at the drop down where it says mid tones, shadows and highlights. Those are the colors it'll "over write" so to say. So selecting midtones, I burned the hell out of the bandanna area. This way I could run right over the dots.
Next, using the dodge tool, fill in the lighter areas. Using once again the drop down menu up top to suit your needs.
you can see where I've used it to bring out some of the whiter areas in the coat.
If you need to do any touching up of colors, use a brush with opacity of 37%, flow 100%
Dont forget you can use other layers to add a little color over top of things, and play with settings on that layer to see how it makes it look. Maybe you want to add some blue highlights to the hat and hair to make them stand out from the rest of the black?
Use another layer to do so! =D
As you can see, its slowly becoming less flat looking, and more like a CG drawing.
Keep it up, play with the settings, add colors in if needed, define the shadows and highlights and you'll have yourself a CG drawing.
Should be looking something like this now.
I killed off part of the background as you might have noticed, so I didnt smudge white into my hair and other areas.
To take that out I used a 3px hard brush mode eraser tool. Went around the drawing first then once I did that erased with a bigger size anything that was left over.
You can really start seeing the difference with the image now that you've been at it.
This is a result of smoothing, using the dodge, burn and other layers to add some other fine details into it and smoothing some more as well as removing the background using the eraser to make it look less scanned in.
After some more smoothing, shading and some hand cramps later... you should have this. =D Or something better.
I got tired of shading and smoothing and hand was cramping.
And after all that: finished product!
And that is how you make colored pencil look CG'D
-goes to smoke and relax hand now.-
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:35 pm
(sorry speechless)
*breathes in deeply, then out!*
ok one question: how long did it take you to finish everything? surprised
i really like how you did the rainbow edit! it's so smooth & everything else looks perfect now! meh you used photoshop, how could you?! (sorry i gave up on that program a long time ago)
xd @ hand cramp
wish me luck on my crazy attempt at this using GIMP dramallama
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:57 am
pritong_sushi (sorry speechless) *breathes in deeply, then out!* ok one question: how long did it take you to finish everything? surprised i really like how you did the rainbow edit! it's so smooth & everything else looks perfect now! meh you used photoshop, how could you?! (sorry i gave up on that program a long time ago) xd @ hand cramp wish me luck on my crazy attempt at this using GIMP dramallama
Rainbow all I did with that was take darker shades, slap it on the ends, then put in lighter colors of the same shade smooth, got tired of smoothing, cheated, used Gaussian blur.
As for how I used photoshop. Its not too hard to get the basics down.
I use mostly in it:
Wand tool, Polygonal lasso, brush, pencil, smudge. For the tools on the side the most.
In the menus > edit and transform/free transform.
And the styles, mostly Gaussian blur.
Everything else only use when I have to have it.
Good luck on it! =D Show me how it turns out.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:52 am
If anyone else has any tutorials they want to post. Feel free to, this isnt just my how to area.
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:49 pm
ToushinYusuke If anyone else has any tutorials they want to post. Feel free to, this isnt just my how to area. but u do it so well and i luv ur work
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Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:02 pm
Angeni1 ToushinYusuke If anyone else has any tutorials they want to post. Feel free to, this isnt just my how to area. but u do it so well and i luv ur work
Thanks, though these things are just minor basics. There is still alot of things I need to work on and get back in the practice of.
So I would gladly browse any tutorials posted here to get some more tips. =D
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