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Mini Painting Tutorialby *juliedillon

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Digital Art / Drawing & Painting / Photoshop

Oh my gosh, it's a dopey coloring tutorial! As if there weren't enough already on dA.

If anyone is curious, this is pretty much how I've been working lately. I would have uploaded this sooner, but for some silly reason I chose to use a commission image and had to wait a bit before I posted it publicly.

Oh! And this was done in Photoshop. But you can do the same thing in Painter, too.

The actual image was made for Dungeon magazine, issue 148, I believe.

EDIT: Some additional notes:

*You can use this method with full scale illustrations, not just portaits. It can be a little tricky figuring out what colors to use in the Overlay layer, but it's still a good quick way to get your overall color scheme worked out and (most importantly) unified.

*You don't have to start with green. Any darkish color works well. And if you don't like it, you can always change it very easily. Think of the Multiply layer as just your underpainting. Whatever color you choose, it's going to look weird until you start painting on top and bringing out the midtones and highlights. But that rich underpainting will help make the colors on top pop out that much more and saves you some time as far as figuring out your midtones and shadows.

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*White-Noizz May 5, 2013 Student General Artist

This is AMAZING! I never thought to color like this!

~DenNami May 4, 2013 Student Digital Artist

ty for this, I've used it to color my last two paintings [link] and the fox one. ty agiai!

~murasakimochi Apr 10, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I'm glad I found this! I'll go ahead and try this out. Thanks for sharing!

*ArtOfWarStudios Apr 10, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Awesome Tutorial! I used it to practice painting in the Procreate ipad app for this.
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=FOERVRAENGD Mar 13, 2013 Student General Artist

You know, the first time I stumbled upon this tutorial a few years ago (I think around 2008) I didn't understand how you got all the colors to work at all. It didn't look as good on my own painting as in the tutorial, but now when I have grown a bit (and also learned a lot about such things as values and color theory etc) I actually think I get this technique now. I'm going to give this tutorial a second try

~Meemzer Mar 8, 2013

This is so helpful! Thank you! Recently, I have been trying to develop my own way of digitally glazing over a black-and-white drawing, because I always struggle with values when I move to the color phase. I have been fighting with PS for a few weeks trying to work it out and haven't had much success. (I'm Photoshop retarded, I spend more time arguing with the program than painting.) Thank you so much. I'm sure you get lots of comments on your work, but I just wanted to let you know I appreciate this tutorial you made.