Tutorials by Jared_T

[Jared_T]

Well I was wandering through the floating stickies thinking maybe I'll clean up my "layers" guide from some 6 odd years ago, and was inspired to post a set of tutorials that I made earlier this year.

They were done as a set of walk throughs of my coloring process.
I don't know how many pictures we're allowed to have in a post so I'm going to do one tutorial a post.
There are 7 of them so please hold any comments until they are all posted so they are all one after another.
(EDIT: All are posted)

Picture done using Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe After Effect CS3 with Optical Flares add-on.
Phase 1
Pose and Line Prep.

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Phase 2
Skin Texture and shading

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Phase 3
Eyes

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Phase 4
Lips

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Phase 5
Hair

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Phase 6
Cloth shading and texture

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Phase 7
Metal, Reflections, and lighting

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[NoiseHERO]

WHOA WHOA, BRO, WHOA BRO, WHOA DUDE

SPOILERBOXSSSSsssssssss!!!!


AAAGGGGGHHHHH I HAVE 8 GIGS OF RAM AND MY BROWSER IS CRASHINGGGGGG

[Jared_T]

Sorry didn't mean to kill anyone's computer.
I guess that wasn't too dial-up friendly... or DSL friendly for that matter.
Didn't realize that I posted 9.6MB of pictures.

[qoxolg]

Just thinking about how long this would take, makes my mind go crazy! So many steps and so much precession must take ages!

I've toned down my regular steps in drawing/painting to something like 5. the rest I do is completely random with every picture, though these days I put most time into actual painting (just regular brushes in a single layer).

I do find it fun to make up clever new ways to do stuff in photoshop. I once did the shading in a picture by making a Brightness/contrast layer, where I turned down the brightness, then I put a mask on it and only used black/white brushes to shade the whole thing (by painting inside the mask), starting from a 50% gray. That way you can work both lighting and shading in one layer.