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chex-mix — Gimp Tutorial - Soft Shading

Published: 2007-08-26 16:07:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 43268; Favourites: 433; Downloads: 1415
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Description Lineart Tutorial
chex-mix.deviantart.com/art/Gi…

I finally got off and decided to finish this. So yay. Enjoy~ The character I depicted is Amaterasu from Okami, epic video game on ps2 hahah.

UPDATED! - 9/9/10
AAaaa.. much better now. It's short and simple, but I think this method is really good for both beginners and more advanced artists!

Hope you guys like!

Feel free to comment with any question

Since the old version featured a different method, you can still find it here: img826.imageshack.us/img826/21…
warning: super old art lmao

HEYYYYY HERE'S THE FINISHED VERSION OF THE DRAWING FEATURED HEREEE: fav.me/d2ydfjm

Note: this tutorial is from 2010! If any part of it is outdated let me know and I will update this tutorial.
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Comments: 102

Blue-Bird24 [2009-11-20 21:21:37 +0000 UTC]

So when i try and select an area the entire page is incircled, not the area that i want, Any help?

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chex-mix In reply to Blue-Bird24 [2009-11-28 15:53:05 +0000 UTC]

(sorry for the late reply)
There's probably a gap in your lineart somewhere that's letting the selection leak out. Make sure to go over your lines again and cover up all the gaps like that.

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Blue-Bird24 In reply to chex-mix [2009-11-28 17:45:05 +0000 UTC]

Ok thanks! ^^

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xXNikki95Xx [2009-10-16 01:52:18 +0000 UTC]

im getting really frustruated...i clicked on the paint brush and im clicking on what i wanna color but it doesnt even color

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yurisaku In reply to ??? [2009-09-05 09:04:33 +0000 UTC]

this is really helpful ^^ I have an on-the-spot contest tomorrow and i consider this as an immediate review.. thanks

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Brassassin [2009-09-03 23:06:08 +0000 UTC]

Very awesome and helpful!

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memew906 In reply to ??? [2009-08-25 01:04:13 +0000 UTC]

i really like this, but i have one problem i cant select growth. can you help me with problem?

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chex-mix In reply to memew906 [2009-08-25 20:24:58 +0000 UTC]

make sure you actually have something selected, then go to Select > Grow. [:

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memew906 In reply to chex-mix [2009-08-28 01:56:05 +0000 UTC]

thanks so much!

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darksword512 [2009-08-20 15:11:35 +0000 UTC]

A billion thanks for this tutorial I've been trying to do lineart for a while now but I never got the hang of it seeing as I can't draw good straight lines without sketching (I can't believe I never thought of uing vector tools ). Again, thanks

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Squirrelfl1ght4evr [2009-08-05 15:38:03 +0000 UTC]

erm, I thought this would teach me HOW to shade. I still don't know XD

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Yazzy-Quinn [2009-07-07 04:56:58 +0000 UTC]

I'm still confused. I'm not to smart in stuff like this...

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chex-mix In reply to Yazzy-Quinn [2009-08-14 00:01:04 +0000 UTC]

it'd help if you elaborated. :\

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Yazzy-Quinn In reply to chex-mix [2009-08-14 19:55:39 +0000 UTC]

I get it now, sorry

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Flickerflie [2009-06-23 21:26:32 +0000 UTC]

this is really frustrating :/
when i click "grow selection" nothing happens, the quality isnt any better. and ive done everything right.

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HuanLang In reply to Flickerflie [2009-07-10 10:11:46 +0000 UTC]

Have you tried using the wand to select OUTSIDE the lineart then INVERT then SHRINK by 1 pixal. It works pretty well ^^ It's how i colour.

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Sultan1923 [2009-06-04 07:08:12 +0000 UTC]

Your tutorial really helped. And the drawing came out great. Thanks!

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Kiba222 [2009-04-17 09:05:28 +0000 UTC]

it helped me so much!! thanks for this awesome tut

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Sochead21 [2009-01-01 22:25:18 +0000 UTC]

For some reason,coloring that way doesn't work for me. In fact it won't even let me color on any layer but the background layer. What might I have done wrong?

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gizmo00999 In reply to Sochead21 [2009-07-20 13:47:46 +0000 UTC]

press on the layer you want to color =3

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appel-ninja-warrior In reply to Sochead21 [2009-03-07 13:28:02 +0000 UTC]

Have you locked the transparency on your colouring layers? if you have, undo it. It doesn't let you colour on tranparent areas.

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Trixafena2 In reply to ??? [2008-12-26 18:33:20 +0000 UTC]

just wut i needed

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Jukkiz In reply to ??? [2008-12-03 11:40:29 +0000 UTC]

This tutorial helped me a lot.
Thank you very, very much!

^_^

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chex-mix In reply to Jukkiz [2009-08-13 23:59:30 +0000 UTC]

aww glad I could help [;

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NelmaThyria In reply to ??? [2008-11-26 03:37:51 +0000 UTC]

This is really helpful! Thanks for making it!

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chex-mix In reply to NelmaThyria [2009-08-13 23:59:15 +0000 UTC]

no problem!

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Apri-werewolf [2008-10-09 01:32:12 +0000 UTC]

Just what I needed for a tutorial
Great job, I couldn't figure out Gimp for a while-coloring's kinda hard for me

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Mechwarrior250 [2008-08-20 14:42:31 +0000 UTC]

You Tutorials are great und helped me very much!!
yet i know much more about Digital Drawing

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chex-mix In reply to Mechwarrior250 [2009-08-13 23:58:46 +0000 UTC]

thanks, glad it helped {:

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KyraWolf289 In reply to ??? [2008-07-24 11:12:23 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the help but i can't seem to get fuzzy selection to work i click on it and reduce the threshold to 8 and the when i click on the area i want to colour it doesn't do anything the only thing that happens is the egg timer shows up on the screen? Thanks again.

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punifa In reply to KyraWolf289 [2008-07-27 19:52:55 +0000 UTC]

Do you have the right layer selected?

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KyraWolf289 In reply to punifa [2008-07-28 09:33:37 +0000 UTC]

No matter I figured it out now thanks for your help your tutorial was really useful ^^

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punifa In reply to KyraWolf289 [2008-07-29 04:54:15 +0000 UTC]

Ahaha this isn't mine,
it's 's

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madaramaster [2008-07-12 03:43:30 +0000 UTC]

this is a good and simple tutorial thanks

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Exquizite [2008-04-27 17:53:00 +0000 UTC]

Thanx This really helped a lot!

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chex-mix In reply to Exquizite [2009-08-13 23:56:46 +0000 UTC]

glad I could help~

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Chrisalee In reply to ??? [2008-04-10 00:58:38 +0000 UTC]

thanks this was really helpful

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chex-mix In reply to Chrisalee [2009-08-13 23:56:34 +0000 UTC]

glad it helped! [x

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pyro-at-heart [2007-11-02 22:28:15 +0000 UTC]

this really helped me i just downloaded the GIMP yesterday, so i'm still learning how to use it, and this helped me alot with shading

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chex-mix In reply to pyro-at-heart [2009-08-13 23:54:59 +0000 UTC]

glad it helped [x

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RETARDEDnana [2007-10-03 09:49:16 +0000 UTC]

thnks so much for tis!
now i know how to get rid of the little white parts

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chex-mix In reply to RETARDEDnana [2007-10-04 22:53:39 +0000 UTC]

thank you~ :3

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YamPuff [2007-09-07 15:42:30 +0000 UTC]

Great tut! Very useful.

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chex-mix In reply to YamPuff [2007-09-08 00:16:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! (:

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KoopaDasher In reply to ??? [2007-08-26 16:11:17 +0000 UTC]

This is great! Just what I've been needing!

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chex-mix In reply to KoopaDasher [2007-08-26 16:38:11 +0000 UTC]

Thank youu~ n.n And for the commenting too xD Too many people just like 'hayhay favfav no comment kbye' x3

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TheNateDawg [2007-08-26 16:09:03 +0000 UTC]

Looks nice. I'll try to give it a shot in the near future.

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chex-mix In reply to TheNateDawg [2007-08-26 16:39:00 +0000 UTC]

thanks :3 goodluck~

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Amy-Sun [2007-08-26 16:08:21 +0000 UTC]

awsome

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chex-mix In reply to Amy-Sun [2007-08-26 16:39:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ;3

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