Heh, cute.

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Use shading. It will help a lot with showing the depth of the character. Otherwise, everything will look flat, and I hardly think that's the look you're going for.

And make sure you're using layers, if you haven't yet discovered them. I went a while without figuring out something that basic, and felt like an idiot for doing things the hard way. Layers will allow you to keep certain colors or objects seperate from everything else, so you can make changes and alter things without having any mistakes affect the entire picture.

I would suggest working with thinner subjects first. It may not be the sort of thing that you're interested in, but underneath that spherical girl is basic form and bone structure. It seems like a lot of WG and inflation artists start with a slender model, and then work on top of that. The bigging model has some things wrong with her, such as her arms being too short, etc, so you might want to start working there, first.

Although it is nice that you make a story with your art. It adds a lot to it, I think.

Thanks a bunch. What methods do you use when you provide shading to a picture in Photoshop?

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I use GimpShop, but they work basically the same. I make a new layer above the color that I'm going to be shading, and will adjust the brightness of the base down until it's darker, but not completely black. I use an airbrush will low pressure and rate. Make sure you determine where the light source is coming from so that you're consistant with the shading. I also typically add lighter shading where the light would directly strike the object, which is basically the same process (often on the same layer) but instead I start with the base color and then increase the brightness towards white (by about 20 on a 255 scale).

If you need to make sure that none of the shading goes outside the area, use the selection tool to select continuous regions, select the base color from the original layer, and then select the new layer on which you want to shade. Now when you draw, you cannot go outside the area that you laid down the original color. This is also nice if you want to shade using the paintbrush tool instead of the airbrush. I prefer the gradient from the airbrush, but the paintbrush would give you more distinct shaded regions.

If you want to add shine to something (like metal parts or eyes), brighten the color until it's almost white (almost nothing is a true white), or a bit towards the color of the light source (yellow for sun, red-orange for firelight), and then use the airbrush to make distinct regions of light. Like before, do this on a seperate layer. That way, you can keep erasing and redo-ing it until you find a method that looks good to you.

Besides that, just practice until you find a style and method that you like. If you have problems starting off, look at the shading of other artists here at dA to get a start of what light techniques you'd like to have in your own work.

Wow. This sounds very helpful. May I contact you if I have any other questions? If not, it's fine but either way, thanks for all of your advice.

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No problem. You can contact me here or at FIR, and I'll help you with whatever I can.

I like how this came out it looks cute. as a tip for drawing I taught myself by watching anime and pausing the tape and drawing what I have paused. it helped me alot and once you have drawn a couple of things it begins to sink in. I hope that help any.

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Good comic.

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