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Coloring Walkthrough


Now that you've got the flats down its time to lay down some shadows.

The one question I get asked the most is "How can you tell where to put the shadows??"

And the only answer i can give them is go buy yourself some blocks or grab some of your Transformers and a lamp and play around with them, observing how shadows fall depending on where your lightsource is.
And the reason I say that is because there honestly is no way you can tell somebody the one secret on how you tell where to lay shadows to give the proper 3D effect with a 2D screen

That or you can simply copy what i've shown here :P
The choice is yours


Now to lay down shadows, its a rather easy process.

You have your layer with your flats selected, now all's you do is create a new layer [shift+ctrl+n] and set the opacity to about 35%
After that, tap "d" on your keyboard. This should change your color selections to black over white. Now you simply paint on the shadows the same way you painted in your flats. What the low opacity black does is it just makes the red a slightly blacker red. And of course you're free to mess with the opacity but i've found that 35-40% works just right. And if you need it darker or just need some more refined shadows, simply create a new layer set with the same opacity and just paint over some more shadows.

Mess with it and you'll see what I mean

One thing i do in all my pics is i usually create another layer of shadows, just to refine and define the character[s] some more

-= First Layer Shadows

-=Refined Layer Shadows

 

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