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I made this one for the sake of this tutorial. It sux, but it'll work.
2) Open up the layers dialouge (dialouges>layers). Duplicate your layer and fill the bottom one with white. Then, set the layer blending mode to multiply.
3) Create a transparent layer inbetween the two layers already existing.
4) Use the ink tool to fill in a section with a color of your choice. Only do this for one section.
5) Create a new layer and place it either over or under the layer (To help keep the colors from overlapping). Use it to ink another section of the image. Repeat this untill your entire image is colored. Remember to use a nev layer for every section.
6)Now comes the shading. Select a single layer of the image and go to "layer>transparency>color to alpha".
7)Now, take the image tool and select the airbrush tool. For tablets, set pressure sensitivity to opacity and size. Create a new image and then brush with both white and black untill you have some basic, rough shading.
8)Go to edit>select>none so that nothing is selected. Then go to filters>blur>gaussian blur and blur to what ever radius seems clean.
9)Click on "Layer>transparency>Color to alpha" again. Then press ctrl+I or "select>invert". Then press ctrl+K or "edit>clear".
10)Do this with the other parts. Merge layers to make it easier. With faces, I tend to just do the hair and the face seperately.
11) You're really done, but you can fool around with your pick or add a background as shown below.
That's the basics, but the bluring/airbrushing method isn't the only way to shade. You can use gradients, transparent flat colors, or the dodge and burn tool.
gradients:
transparent flat colors:
dodge and burn:
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