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
Tools of the Trade~by Calista
Color Pencil Guide~by Calista
Photoshop
Brief Coloring Tutorial~by Calista
Text Effects with Photoshop 5.0~by Calista
Computer Inking with Photoshop 5.0~by Seline
Text Effects with PS 5.0, Creating Fire Text.~by Seline
Text Effects with PS 5.0, Creating Ice Text.~by Seline
Creating a Reflection~by Calista
Inking Colored Drawings~by Emily L'Orange
Miscellaneous
Help Guide~by Calista
Anime/Manga Head Construction~Scanned Image
A walk through on a simple standing figure, some differences of men and women are covered, along with muscle stucture for men.
The normal drawing tools that Calista uses, suggestions on types of inking pens, erasers and paper are offered.
A brief Walkthrough on using Color Pencils, Calista style ;)
Learn how to get your hand inked drawing ready for computer coloring in Photoshop, and the very basics of Cel type coloring.
Bring more to you Text logo's using filters, and the transform features! Finish off making your very own Mighty Duck logo!
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.
Learn some REAL flamingtext, and how to do it all by yourself ;) There's a certain satisfaction in doing that!
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 ;)
How to create a reasonably realistic reflection in a few simple steps, using Photoshop 5.0
Do you have a picture, already colored with pencils, that you wish you could computer color now? Emily shows you the way!
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 ;)
By George Sellas, Artiste Extroidinare. Part of a larger book, but this image is a pretty helpful image!