Oh man my head hurts so bad.
But doing this tutorial makes me realize how little I still now about color and I probably made things wrong and those typos and askdkasd blah. But I hope this makes you think more about how color affects other colors in your works! And maybe not use gray to shade stuff. :U;;;
Ugh I need to lay down.
AND SORRY THE FILE SIZE IS HUUUGGEEE
Edit 8-17-12:::HOLY MOLY where did you all come from? I just woke up with over 1K feedback messages and I'm used to seeing less than 10! Aaaa thanks so much! ;; I'm so happy so many people found it useful.
So I went in and fixed some typos, reworded some things, etc, so it's all nice. C':
ALSO for traditional artists, especially painters,
the book I mentioned in the tutorial talks a lot about this stuff.
As for colored dry media: for colored pencils, I was taught in high school to use dark, cool colors along with the compliment color and dark brown as the base for shading. You'll need to experiment with this, since I haven't used it in a long time and I'm not sure how it'll turn out.
And the journey continues on!
Edit 8-21-12:::I... got a Daily Deviation for this?! Wow!! I... I don't think I deserve it but I feel so honored! I feel bad because I wish I could've explained things better in this and cleared things up that were misunderstood... but I'm glad this helped people! That made making this tutorial worth while!
Thank you so much *
Tristaeza for the suggestion and ^
Elandria for the feature!
Edit 8-25-12:::I just wanted to feature a tutorial by ~
ArchAntoinette about this same topic. Before I give the link, I just wanted to point out that even though my tutorial was uploaded first and the format and photos are eerily similar, she touches upon things I didn't talk about, not to mention she's a very talented artist. Check it out!
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Its amazing to me how much adding a little of the right color tint to the shading adds to a piece!
I love the fact that you actually explained why shadows and highlights need color instead of saying "They just do!" like so many other tutorials, and then proved it with photos!
I'll throw in a bit of a side suggestion that I think might help some folks:
I have a somewhat ADD tendancy to bounce between making highlights and shadows, and I find constantly having to switch between layers doing highlights and shadows separately frustrating. An alternative method I've found works well for me is using soft light or low-fill linear light layers (aka. grain merge for Gimp folks). Instead of pushing toward black (multiply) or toward white (screen), soft light and linear light push away from 50% grey. It can be a bit tricky to master picking colors to use in the "light" modes because they are very sensitive (remember that farther from grey=stronger effect), but the trade-off is that you can essentially do the work of two layers in a single layer!