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Edit: Adding some more serious things, mainly details for those keen on following it up and using the techniques as good as possible.

First of all, this tutorial is made in photoshop, and mainly talks about tools available in the same program. The version does not matter, seeing as I stick to the simple options.

If you are using paint tool SAI or a similar program, you will notice you can't find the same brush or most of the shortcuts. I WILL make a tutorial for SAI eventuallym but for now I hope it will at least help you a little bit if I say you can use the regular pen tool on low opacity, paired with the brush tool for softer 'gradients'.

The way of selecting the colours in between and going over your shadows is one pretty much every painter in photoshop uses, and is often seen as one of the most basic elements of painting.
Ofcourse, you can always smoothen things up with the smudge of blur tools, there is nothing wrong with that, but please... use them for touchups and added effects, don't rely on them like I used to when I started out. Looking back at my hours of faffing about was somewhat hilarious.

I hope this tutorial will help you, but ofcourse... if you have questions, feel free to leave a comment or PM me, or check out other tutorials in the groups designed for them ;D

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FINISH'D 8D ohohoho
Hope you like it!
Sorry for the length of this tutorial. It's a huge file, I know.
I wanted to show as much as I could but... well I could use some training on the 'short but sweet'-element.

Eric and Kyle aren't mine, ofcourse. They, and Southpark as a whole, belong to Matt Stone and Trey Parker. I just used them for the tutorial seeing as I had this painting planned for a while.

By the way, just ignore the massive rambling. I love text boxes.
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~xxmissarichanxx Dec 31, 2011
THIS IS SO HELPFUL!! THANK YOU SO MUCH D'x *tears of joy*

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~Kiwisaurus Dec 31, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Gwaa, I'm really glad to hear that! No problem dear, haha

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~xxmissarichanxx Dec 31, 2011
thank you again Cx and happy new year~ C:

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~evetus Sep 21, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I will try this for sure!

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Mood: Love ~shortsis1 Jul 25, 2011  Student Digital Artist
that drawing looks absolutely amazing! The tutorial helped alot too. :3

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~Kiwisaurus Jul 25, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Why, thank you very much! x) Glad to hear that.

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*teddysama Jul 14, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Good job! It's hard to modify the nose though.

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~Kiwisaurus Jul 14, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Thanks a bunch x)
What do you mean with 'modify the nose'? Is there anything I should have clarified more? I did go over the smoothing process rather quickly, but it's really a matter of selecting colours, or, in case of the nose, using the harder lines as guidelines so you can fill in the 'dark planes' first, before smoothing and refining.

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*teddysama Jul 14, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you :) What tool do you use for:

*blending
*High light-ing
*shading
*smoothing*



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~Kiwisaurus Jul 14, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Welp, photoshop really only has two options, you erase or you paint xD
For blending, I simply use one of the two colours and softly (or with a brush on low opacity)stroke over the edge where the two meet, as seen with the little orb in the tutorial. It's a matter of selecting tones that lie between two shadows and going over them to soften it up.
Highlighting and shading is about picking the right colours, (in which case 'a darker/lighter version of your first colour' often doesn't suffice. Add a bit of variety when you go, eh. Purples and reds often work nicely.)

I have enough experience with Photoshop to get by without needing different tools for smoothing, but if you're really stuck on a hard spot or a really big surface, you could always use the blur tool to soften parts up.

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