Coloring WalkthroughJust wanted to highlight some different coloring techniques I found throughout DA. Most of these tutorials are for Photoshop. A few highlight other programs.
I have collected these great tutorials over the years from DA and want to make it easier for everybody to find just the right kind of coloring tutorial without having to search through all of DA. This is mostly focused on anime/manga and cartoon coloring styles. All tutorials are copyright their respective owners.

PS important / how to optimize PS for digital painting:

Styles of coloring:
Soft shading

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Are you thinking about starting a new creative endeavor that involves sequential art? Something you hope beyond family and friends will read? Have you thought about this project at all past the initial "can't wait to start working" phase?
Stop. Listen to what I am about to say. Many webcomic writers/artists make the same mistakes (myself included) by jumping straight to the "let's start drawing now" phase, bypassing the planning stage. Here are the most important items to consider before you even ink out the first strip:Consider if there is a chance your comic will become printed. Not only do you need t

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We do it, and do it, and do it, and do it until the job gets done.

We are excited, enthusiastic and passionate. And we stay that way for however long it takes us to win.

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The Road To Visual Badassery!

Part 1 - Sharper Than Reality

In this tutorial, I teach you the most important technique
all digital artists should use today to produce high quality
paintings or drawings. It's the number 1 secret to the
photorealism of my paintings, and yet very fundamental.
Also, I bring you behind the scenes and give you an in depth,
up close look at some of my paintings to see the technique
in action. Again, get the video file here [link] .

If you want to bring your art quality to the next level, do this!

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Here are the paintings I am talking about in this tutorial:

Don't miss my tutorial on composition!

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~OEVRLORD Jan 20, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Interesting to watch, certainly. I'd had this theory in my head already, and this video confirms it. The only issue is not over-refining the large version...

~Cherubas Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Is this on youtube or something? If you're giving it away freely here on deviantart then I'm going to assume you have no problem with people seeing it freely, but I'd much rather just watch it somewhere than download a potential virus or something. That would actually be much more convenient anyway. Is there somewhere I can do that? Watch it without downloading and unpacking a zip?

*DarkSilverflame Dec 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

With over 13,000 views and 650 faves, you can rest assured it's just a video file

~moocheeser Dec 26, 2012

many thanks, this makes perfect sense

*DarkSilverflame Dec 27, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

My pleasure

~Hollystar-of-IceClan Dec 17, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

I already have the badassery skillz, I just dn't know how to use them. LOLz

~Raesyra Dec 15, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks for the tutorial!

*DarkSilverflame Dec 15, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

my pleasure

~Nekonuit Dec 7, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

just downloaded it, thank you very much for taking the time to do it, and I just gotta love the title ''road to visual badassery'' xD

*DarkSilverflame Dec 7, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

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