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she's her own means of production!!! she's the mother and the child! she's the woman and the infant! shes the teacher and the student! she's innocence and experience all in one! shes a monster and is also infinitely human!!!!!!
If it's not too much to ask, how do you shade complex patterns easier?
Its not too much to ask at all!!
My easy trick for shading complex patterns in cel shaded Neopets style art, where you'd want to hand pick your shadow colors for each element:
First, I make a flat base layer, and put each unique color on its own layer that i clip to the base.
After i finish the flats, i then duplicate ALL of those layers, lock them, and recolor each duplicate with the color i want to use for that element's shadow. these are now effectively my Shadow layer, and i rename the base duplicated layer so i know its my shadow base.
and then i use a layer mask on either the base layer or a folder i put the shadow layers in- i use this to paint in the spots where i want the unshaded areas to be.
This method makes it really easy to change my mind on a shading color for a specific area without having to carefully repaint the shadows, or tweak where i want the shadows to fall without having to worry about matching the colors, similarly to having the shadows painted on a multiply layer.
if i'm using a PSD where I already made a shadow layer, like my basic Centibyte base, i just duplicate all of the clipped areas from the flat color base, clip the dupes onto that shadow layer, recolor it to be the shadow color for the base color, and proceed from there.
You can do this trick for highlights also- I've noticed that highlights are typically used sparingly in Neopets art though, so I kind of just go with whatever i think looks right.
For Tyrannian, I decided it looks fine with solid white highlights at a lowered opacity of 70%, so i didn't bother coming up with a unique highlight color for each area. Sometimes I'll make the highlight layer an Overlay layer since that can help the highlights with not looking washed out, but it feels a little inauthentic and loses contrast over certain colors, and in this instance Normal ended up looking better.
I hope this was helpful and not too unclear! I'm not super experienced with making tutorials, but I'm always happy to share what works for me as best I can!
Keep the sketch in and just erase the parts you don't like; you don't need to give up the sketch layer for the lineart layer or vice versa, you can keep both. it took me a stupidly long time to realise that
try to avoid "lineart" brushes (aka hard edge tapered brushes with full opacity) i think they're also called "inking" brushes yeah those are for clean, strong lineart and that's not what we're going for
look for more textured brushes instead, brushes that change their opacity with pressure ( aka the harder you press on your tablet, the more opaque the stroke becomes), you can even do the lineart with that very same sketch brush you used. When it comes to messy linework, it's about the quality of lines, not the tidiness
some parts will be messier than others and that's okay! we should give up on that perfectionism and need for control and let some parts be messy
try to think about the angles and shapes your linework creates. This is where style and personal preference come into play: I personally like more sharp, boxy, geometric shapes and figures, but you can also go down the soft, round, organic shape route (like Loish's artstyle for example if you're familiar with her works or,.,, disney idk) OR you can have a nice balance between both organic and geometric lines as it creates a nice effect ( a very good but random example i can offer off the top of my head is ehm Chuuya's hair in the dead apple manga— it has both very sharp buy also curvy "S" lines and it's just so very pleasant to look at you should look it up bshjds ) many or most artists usually use both organic (Circle- round, curvy) and geometric (Square - sharp, angle, precise) shapes in their work with a preference for one or the other. It's a spectrum, if you will
that's all i could think of........ disclaimer take everything with a grain of salt it's just word from the street aka what i do and what works for me if it doesn't work for you and i ruined your life and marriage it's not my fault
also if you meant like,, tips for /fixing/ a messy linework then i severely misinterpreted this ask 😭 nor can i help you my linework is messy too I'm not your guy anon
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how did you do that black lineart piece? its amazing...
AAAAA thank you!!!! ;w; i'm assuming you mean the one with colourful lineart and black background? honestly it's quite tricky to explain but i'll try my best to show it step by step. it mostly relies on how ms paint's transparency works and the 2 colour slots!
^ these are the colour slots in question
say you're drawing with black lineart and you want to make it rainbow. well first of all turn on transparency, which is here
usually i do this with 2 ms paint canvases open so it's easier: so basically i open another ms paint tab and enable transparency on there as well. important thing: set the second slot colour to your lineart colour to affect the lineart!!!
then if you have transparency on, you can copy the drawing from your first canvas and paste it on your second canvas, which is rainbow coloured (or whatever colour you want really), and it should do this!
TADA!!!!!! you got your rainbow lineart!!!
you can also do this with literally any colour as long as it's present on your drawing and it's selected on the second slot colour. so if it's set to the background colour, it'll do something like this
that's basically it!!! i'm not sure if you can do this with 1 tab but i do it with 2 so it's easier to copy the drawing and stuff, i hope i explained it well!!
Any tips for rendering? The way you did the fairy/slate lighting is so pretty!!
Also the seeing the differences between pre and post calamity slate when you put them right next to each other is so good 😩👌🏼
thank you so much! I can go through how I colored one of the panels if that's helpful! This is the method I use for the whole comic.
I chose this panel since it's got fairy lighting. under the cut!
This is what my layer structure looks like in Clip Studio Paint EX. The layers marked in red are clipped to the BASE layer, meaning that they will only fill inside the lines of that layer. This makes the process SO much easier. You can clip layers to the layer below by clicking this icon at the top of the layer panel.
This is what the base layer looks like, just filling in the lines:
Then, I add flat colors:
I don't always do this, but for this setting I added a teal/green tint with the blending mode set to Vivid Light 16% opacity. Soft Light, Hard Light or Overlay are also good for this I usually just toggle until I decide one looks best:
I then add a layer filled completely with a shadow color set to multiply, usually lowering the opacity depending on how intense I want the shadows to be. I then add a layer mask (also at the top of the layers panel, it looks like a white rectangle with a dark circle in the middle) which allows me to mask out the shadow shapes without actually erasing anything on the color layer. This makes it easy to make changes!
Then I add in the lighting by taking a big airbrush and lightly coloring in my light color from the direction I want the light to be coming. I set the blending mode to Add (Glow) because it create a nice glowy effect and lower the opacity as needed:
Sometimes I will go and add little shiny details to the hair, and in this case reflected light/glow from the water below:
For the fairy light, I use the same Add (Glow) method as the other lighting, using pink this time and focusing only on the areas that would receive the glow:
And finally, I add some pink shine on the edges. I don't line the whole edge, but choose peaks the light would catch:
And that's it! I don't always do this many layers, most panels really only need the SHADOW and LIGHT layer and maybe a bit of hair shine. layer masks are SO helpful i highly recommend utilizing them. I'm always happy to answer questions on main if people want to know more about my process <3