Spool ✨Wørking on… idk✨さんのイラストまとめ

Work work work

Add your shading back, and you’re good to go on and make any final adjustments! I don’t generally add ‘light’ unless the character is darker toned. I hope this little walkthrough was helpful to someone <3 I’m here for any questions, and thank you for joining me!

Add your base colors!

Then I’ll go in and, mostly in the deepest parts of the shadow, add this blue tone in a normal layer on top of the shading then lower the opacity. You might opt to use another color than blue based on your chara/piece, I like warm shadows/cool depth.

Now I’ll merge the shading layers and go through, erasing small parts against the line art to add some bounce light(?) and detail. Just go with what looks best.

Now soft shading! Excuse the pixelation of the tutorial slide, these are 300x300px pagedolls so that’s an even tinier slice of that aha. I soft shade muscles mostly, again keeping in mind the light source. Fill, then erase towards the light with a soft brush and adjust opacity.

Next, once I’ve lined, I’ll go in and add hard shadows to the harshest areas. Think abt the subject outside in bright sunlight. There are some gradients in this phase but not many. Some areas are lower opacity (like shoulder wrinkles & lower legs) as they were too dark at 100%.

Finished this boy a few days ago (I just keep missing the posting window aha)! I loveee how this one turned out. Will tag their owner in the next post so Twitter doesn’t hide this c;

Further (important) info in the tweet belo, so the bird app doesn’t hide this ad //weeps