Tutorials

Welcome to the Tutorials. People have written to me and approached me wanting to know how I do a number of things that I do. Rather then explain to each person seperately, I figured this would be easier ;) And due to a little push from a friend, I've decided to make this a permanent thing! Anyone can send in a tutorial for review, but I will be selective on what is posted here. Now, everyone go learn something, and enjoy!

Tradtional

Beginners Only Figure Drawing Tutorial~by Calista
A walk through on a simple standing figure, some differences of men and women are covered, along with muscle stucture for men.

Tools of the Trade~by Calista
The normal drawing tools that Calista uses, suggestions on types of inking pens, erasers and paper are offered.

Color Pencil Guide~by Calista
A brief Walkthrough on using Color Pencils, Calista style ;)

Photoshop

Brief Coloring Tutorial~by Calista
Learn how to get your hand inked drawing ready for computer coloring in Photoshop, and the very basics of Cel type coloring.

Text Effects with Photoshop 5.0~by Calista
Bring more to you Text logo's using filters, and the transform features! Finish off making your very own Mighty Duck logo!

Computer Inking with Photoshop 5.0~by Seline
Here you learn the difficult task of computer inking with the freehand pen tool. This one takes a little practice, but is 'well' worth it.

Text Effects with PS 5.0, Creating Fire Text.~by Seline
Learn some REAL flamingtext, and how to do it all by yourself ;) There's a certain satisfaction in doing that!

Text Effects with PS 5.0, Creating Ice Text.~by Seline
A continuation of the Fire Text, Seline show you how to turn things around and make them icey..learn some things about hues, curves and pixelation you might not have thought about ;)

Creating a Reflection~by Calista
How to create a reasonably realistic reflection in a few simple steps, using Photoshop 5.0

Inking Colored Drawings~by Emily L'Orange
Do you have a picture, already colored with pencils, that you wish you could computer color now? Emily shows you the way!

Miscellaneous

Help Guide~by Calista
Tip on making a portfolio to send out, and what to include. Comic book companies, Animation companies, and Colleges, remembering that applying to get into a US college is as hard as applying for an actual job. So you can use these as standards to go by ;)

Anime/Manga Head Construction~Scanned Image
By George Sellas, Artiste Extroidinare. Part of a larger book, but this image is a pretty helpful image!

All Tutorials on this page are © to their respective writers, the head graphic is © to Michelle Latta. Concepted by the lovely and talented Crow, used with permission. Nothing my be taken, reprouduced, re-posted or otherwise mangled without express written permission.