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Luna and Cel out for a twilight stroll. Maybe in that brief period between day and night they managed to hit a club.
Just somethin I whipped up casually over the past month. April was a bust for me, but I’m looking forward to a more stable schedule and time to draw this month. Happy MayDay, everyone.
Just somethin I whipped up casually over the past month. April was a bust for me, but I’m looking forward to a more stable schedule and time to draw this month. Happy MayDay, everyone.
Category Artwork (Digital) / My Little Pony / Brony
Species Horse
Size 1024 x 1280px
File Size 192.1 kB
Hello hello! I simply love the style and calm nature, and the prepping stages reminded me of a certain question I needed to ask. How do you apply shading to your digital works? I've been tinkering with it and I might have a grip, but it'd be nice to receive some advice. Currently, I've stuck shading on a separate layer, should I do different?
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask!
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask!
For this one I tried something different from my usual stuff. It wound up having around 80 layers in photoshop, which is crazy. Just all the diferent complicated background stuff and lighting effects.
Usually I've got lines on the top layer, a base color that fills the entire character and any accessories on the bottom, and over that I add as many layers as I need, all assigned as "layer masks", which you do in photoshop by putting the shade layer directly above your base color layer, right clicking the shade layer and selecting "create clipping mask". I set the layer at about 50% opacity and use Black while I figure out where the shading will be, then I adjust the opacity and what color I actually want it to be later. For highlighting things I do the same for White, but also add a 100% opacity layer of just thin white lines that I put along the edge of the character that faces the light source.
So, tl;dr keep shading on a separate layer and play with having multiple layers of shading; light, dark, and whatever colors are in your background
thanks for asking! email me if you want any more help.
Usually I've got lines on the top layer, a base color that fills the entire character and any accessories on the bottom, and over that I add as many layers as I need, all assigned as "layer masks", which you do in photoshop by putting the shade layer directly above your base color layer, right clicking the shade layer and selecting "create clipping mask". I set the layer at about 50% opacity and use Black while I figure out where the shading will be, then I adjust the opacity and what color I actually want it to be later. For highlighting things I do the same for White, but also add a 100% opacity layer of just thin white lines that I put along the edge of the character that faces the light source.
So, tl;dr keep shading on a separate layer and play with having multiple layers of shading; light, dark, and whatever colors are in your background
thanks for asking! email me if you want any more help.
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