soft cell shading tutorial

Easy and fast soft cell shading technique for photoshop users on anime lineart.

Steps translation:
1. Chose and match the colors you will use

2. Use selctions to quickly fill the shapes. (use magic wand on the lineart, then chose selection - modyfy - expand, and expend it one or 2 pixels. on a lower layer, fill the selection with color)

3. Place the shading. Be carefull to put shading on a separate layer, just like base colors and lineart.

4. Soften the shading with the smudge tool. Complete shading with gradient tool.

5. Backlight adds vollume to your shading. You can soften the light the same way you did before.

To cut the unnesesairy color, select the outside of your base color shape, then move to your shading layers and cut.

6. Once your done shading, You can use the filter "gausian blur" to make your picture softer.


in the end, the secret to fast coloring is selections.


artist: cozzypaper from www.cozzypaper.deviantart.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• art
• drawing
• digital
• painting
• deviantart
• cozzypaper
• soft
• cell
• shading
• tutorial
• anime
• manga

[pandachinoman]

I wish I could understand french...

[Jillihan]

@pandachinoman o.o; i translated the steps in the description of the video

[Yoruzena]

thanks for the tutorial! learning French is useful sometimes C:

[firedragop1]

Thanks for the tutorial. I'm going to practice it now :). Also, what song is this? It's very cool :D.

[Bauch373]

thank you! This tutorial was very helpful!

[beatboxpeej]

muh x3

[katethegreat19]

Very useful!!

[upsonkz]

Thank you so much!

Modify->Expand beats using the lasso tool anyday. This really helped me speed up my coloring process. 5/5 + fav

[SuchxAxSin]

This was very helpful.

Thank you.

[aexm2]

Nice tutorial ! :)