Minato (need help on this)

[Weapon_X]

Hello there. Currently I'm going through the zurosaki tutorial (http://www.naruto2.com/Naruto2/Zarosaki-ColoringTutorial.aspx) and so far I've reached the "Lightcource +Shading" section. I selected a "dark brush" but how do you shade? My shading doesn't appear straight, it appears wavy and out of context. Is there any tips? or do you have to do it manually?

This is what it should like (the Zurosaki example) :

But mine looks like this when i try to shade:

Please reply as soon as possible because my Photoshop trial CS4 is going to expire in 4 days. Thanks. Oh and I don't have a tablet either.

Also if there are any other better and tutorials without the need for tablet, please state.

 

[- aMt -]

better ways to do with the brush, you need to use the rubber, and combining brush and rubber.

note: the color of the rubber base

 

[Weapon_X]

What do you mean? Like colour the whole hair with the darker colour and then rub out someparts so they look like shading?

That's hard. It still comes out as wavy, it's hardto get it straight. How do you get it straight? Isn't there a tool or something?

 

[tEchIe]

you need to learn how to use the pen tool, it's not only the fastest method to trace lines, its also the best method to cell and soft shade;
plus, it retains edit-ability better then any other tool or method...

I have some illustrator tutorials, but no photoshop ones, although their are the same, for them most part...

 

[Weapon_X]

Can you tell me how to use the pen tool? Cell and soft shade as well.

 

[tEchIe]

I'll do one better:
http://www.tutvid.com/tutorials/illustrator/tutorials/thePenTool.php

now, it's for illustrator, but it uses the same keyboard shortcuts and it's basicly the same...

let me know if it's still not enough...

p.s: and then, their is this: http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-pentool.html
it doesn't cover the usage of keyboard to get the proper work-flow, but it covers the basics pretty well...
- the idea is that once you've got your target area selected, you can fill it with colour... this will result in cell-shading
- from that point on you can use all the normal tools and methods you already know in order to make it a soft shade - softening the transition between the colours you filled, and then using the other tools for the detailing...

 

[nat]

Hmm, usually the pen tool is for cell shade only, unless you do gradients for soft shade or gaussian blurs (which I don't recommend).

Sometimes you draw lines with small brush to make a perimeter line and then with the wand tool you select the area you want and fill with bucket. (that's what I do with paint tool SAI). Or the lasso works too.



Another advice will be to choose good colors, the colors you chose are simple. It's not your fault, it's the typical tutorial that teaches how to simply shade and nothing more. By colors I mean stronger contrasts and different hues for shading
Most of the times you can tell an artist by the colors he uses.


If you want fun tutorials maybe these can help , don't know what you have in mind but there are some easy tricks in these tuts...(for color and shading)

http://forums.narutofan.com/showpost.php?p=24002266&postcount=115

edit: fixed link