I've been wanting to do this ever since I took my old outdated Photoshop tutorial off the 'net. But I wanted to wait until I had a better understanding of all these programs and actually found a process I really liked. Courtesy of a little extra free time over Thanksgiving break, I have finally put this thing together.
This tutorial goes through all the steps I use to produce a piece of digital art. It covers things in Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, and Corel Painter 9 (if you have different versions of these programs, you may still be able to use the tutorial but some minor or major details might be different). I hope people find this useful, as opposed to long, tedious, and redundant. I've yet to see anyone else post a tutorial on the exact same process so hoepfully you'll get something out of it.
I also apologize for how increadibly long it is. I considered dividing each step up into a different file, but that proved more complicated than I would have liked so I just stuck with this.
I apologize in advance for any typos/terrible spelling errors. The day Photoshop gets a spellcheck will be a happy day for me.
Feel free to send this link to friends and post it places and such, just please do not repost the actual tutorial itself. If you want to show it to people, send them the link to this page or my gallery, thankye.
Edit:
Thank you all so much for all the favorites and comments! I'm very honored!
Also, I've received a number of good comments that made me aware of things I should have mentioned in this desc originally:
1-A tablet is not 100% needed but there are several parts of this tutorial that will not quite work without it. For example, anything involving pressure settings like opacity transitions and line tapering.
2-If you use the pencil-linework method and don't have any tracing paper available, you can also use regular printer paper, tape it over your sketch, and put it up on a window during daylight hours...instant lightbox!
Edit 2: While you're obviously still free to use whichever parts of this tutorial you may find useful, I don't really use a lot of these methods any more because I've found new ones which work better/easier. If you're interested in seeing some more up-to-date tutorials, they can be found in the tutorials section of my website: [link]
I remember that tut of yours . *long time fangirl*
I think I recall step #7 of your old tut being your fav because it was the part where you did the eyes. I /think/. *might be off*
This is wonderfully done. Very detailed explanations, not just some random arrows and colors. No freaking wonder your lineart is so clean! Check out that detail .
Holy crap you have a lot of patience! All those steps..... *envies* But the end product is way too awesome!
Awesome tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to show us all how you do it!
Wow^^ the tutorial rocks...im really glad you made a new one
I know about half of this stuff...but the colouring will be REALY helpfull ^^ Thanks
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Once he opened himself to the light
He led way for the darkness to insue
Will he lose himself to darknes
Or can he once again see the light he once knew
*Fur-For-All <-- Needs no other intro..Just head overthere
Whoa...I never even thought of using any of those steps apart form teh first one fo course XD Too bad I don't have any of those programs of this'd be even mroe helpful. But, I'm gonna see if I can use this for something in teh prgram I have...Hmm...*begins to experiment*
-- Creak, creak, tower of purgatory
Piercing the world like light
Sway, sway, tower of spine
Will it be us or the sky that falls?
Sometimes it's simpler just to go straight from sketch to ink, placing the ink layer on a separate layer from the sketch layer. But it would involve alot of guess work, I guess, but that's what the computer eraser is for!
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I think I recall step #7 of your old tut being your fav because it was the part where you did the eyes. I /think/. *might be off*
This is wonderfully done. Very detailed explanations, not just some random arrows and colors. No freaking wonder your lineart is so clean! Check out that detail
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"DIS WILL KOM IN HANDI" - *repay
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thanks for this, i've been curious on how certain aspects were done such as the colored ink lines.
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Awesome tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to show us all how you do it!
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I know about half of this stuff...but the colouring will be REALY helpfull ^^ Thanks
--
Once he opened himself to the light
He led way for the darkness to insue
Will he lose himself to darknes
Or can he once again see the light he once knew
*Fur-For-All <-- Needs no other intro..Just head overthere
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Creak, creak, tower of purgatory
Piercing the world like light
Sway, sway, tower of spine
Will it be us or the sky that falls?
This, however, is immensely spiffy!
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Once you can accept the universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy.
[ - Albert Einstein ]
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