User:Hazeleye/ Charart Tutorials

White spots around the image? Need help with shading and highlights? Tabbies and tortie trouble? This tutorial is here to help!





Now you're familiar with these tools, let's put them to use

Solid Color Cats
Solid Color Cats are one of the easiest cats to do. Let me take it step by step

1. First you go on your little layer box and click the lock twice, this let's you make the image tranparent and put other layers behind it. Make sure the layer setting is on multiply.

2. You make a new layer and name it pelt or don't name it, you then take your fill tool and fill the layer with the pelt, nose, and eye color like so:

I know what you must be saying:

"Whoa, there's so much waste!"

Well, we're gonna get rid of it later, but not yet.

But, notice how when you use layers there is a stunning lack of annoying white spots.

3. Time for shading! Create a new layer and use a black brush on the spot where you would put shading like the one to the right. It may look weird but it's not done.

4. Remember the gaussian blur I showed you? Time to use it! Gaussian blur the layer with shading. If it turns out boxy, put a dot in each corner. Then lower the opacity.

When you're done it should look like this:

See? Much better, is it not?

5. Create a new layer for the highlights and do what you did for the shading except use white instead of black. After you're done that it should look like this:

So Purty, but NOT finished yet

6. Now it's time to get rid of all that waste, go to the lineart layer, use your wand tool and select the area around the cat. Then Click delete and repeat on every layer the completely finished product should look like this:

Ta Da! So prettyful! <33 I name you Epickit.