Step-By-Step Coloring&Painting of Mareep

[hanabluebird]

I decided that since I got lazy and didn't want to do a stream of this, I would make a thread of the step by step for how I color and paint since a few people said they would be interested in that. So I picked my favorite pokemon for this, Mareep! This first part is just the coloring as I did this part yesterday and it's 10 steps.

Program used is PaintSai and my Huion tablet that will be replaced soon as it has no pen pressure so all this is without any pen pressure. Can't wait for my wacom to come in.

My usual method is very random parts at a time but I wanted to make it more organized for this. Also, I started with attaching the files but well, there is a limit and I forgot about that so only the first two are attached files, the rest I uploaded to a side tumblr account and just added via URL image attach. But the image when finished will have a transparent background(Unless I change it who knows). And if this isn't in the correct subforum, please let me know!

The lineart is by lilly-gerbil on Deviantart, click the link to see directly!

Step 1: Base color added in and where I want it. The lineart is on mulitply on a layer above.

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Step 2: Second tone for the base coloring in a new layer on normal same as the base, though messy, I do clean up later.

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Step 3: First bit of blending!

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Step 4: Now here is the first bit of shading, another layer on multiply. For the shading, I picked where I wanted the light source which I picked the upper right of the image for it to come in from so the shading would be on the lower and left part of wool puffs and under the hair poof.

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Step 5: More blending, shaping the wool puffs more with it.

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Step 6: That wool looks a little flat and needs some light on patches. With the spray brush, used pink, it's on a new layer as well, right now on normal to show where I put it.

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Step 7: Layer changed to overlay, no blending.

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Step 8: Oops, forgot to put the head shadow along with the tail, time to add that in. New layer, multiply. I seriously use a lot of layers.

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Step 9: Blend the edges and where I want it lighter and more spread out, added some more at the head shadow, and lowered the opacity to 42%.

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Step 10: Clean up! Some small bits are still messy and small patches look odd, but that's okay as this is just the coloring, the painting will take care of that and fix it up.

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Thats that for the main coloring, now the hard and time consuming part of making this even better and more like a painting style!

Edited June 24, 2015 by hanabluebird

[Shing]

Mareep ^v^

But nice tutorial.

[hanabluebird]

Mareep ^v^

But nice tutorial.

Thank you so much! :3

I'll have the painting part done soon, hopefully tonight and can put it up as well.

[CrazySheriff]

Nice work. There is no hope for me as a painter/drawer but I still enjoy looking at tutorials to see the slow change from start to finish.

[hanabluebird]

Nice work. There is no hope for me as a painter/drawer but I still enjoy looking at tutorials to see the slow change from start to finish.

There is still quite a bit to do but this is a progress shot, got a lot of shading and lighting and some texture to do left and the eyes completely and gem but wool is almost done!

[Fumble]

Cute~

I love Mareep!

[Peepeepoopoo]

So kyoooooooooooot <3 <3 <3 I had no idea colouring took so much work

If it was me I would've just left it at step 1

Hmm, have you ever considered recording your colouring and then posting a sped-up version of it? That'd be an interesting way of showing us how you colour, as opposed to streaming the entire process (as I imagine it takes a long time to colour).

[Guest]

Ah, Hana's got a nice pair of hands.

Keep it up!

Maybe I should get back into drawing..

[hanabluebird]

So kyoooooooooooot <3 <3 <3 I had no idea colouring took so much work

If it was me I would've just left it at step 1

Hmm, have you ever considered recording your colouring and then posting a sped-up version of it? That'd be an interesting way of showing us how you colour, as opposed to streaming the entire process (as I imagine it takes a long time to colour).

Thats actually a really good idea, though I don't know what program to use to record and stuff. But I like that idea!

Yeah, it takes a few hours xD

[Peepeepoopoo]

ezvid enables you to capture your screen and edit videos as well, and it's a free to use as well.

Edited June 22, 2015 by DarkSpite

[hanabluebird]

ezvid enables you to capture your screen and edit videos as well, and it's a free to download as well.

You are a wonderful person and wonderful friend, thank you so much.

Now if I wasn't nearly done with Mareep, I'd record painting her but I'll just have to do a new pokemon for her(or if there are any reborn character linearts I can try that!)

[Zephyrus the Priestess]

eeeeeeeeeeee

I can't wait to get to my tablet and pen set to practice these techniques. You've no idea how I'm grateful for this tutorial. <3 thank you so much

[hanabluebird]

Okay so now for part two! Painting style minus some steps because I didn't want to make this a 30 step part, I'll make a video for the next pokemon I color to show this better and didn't want to also show repeating steps too many times.

Step 1: Go on the lineart layer and change the line colors to a darker version of the shading like this.

Step 2: Now on that same layer, start adding the same color of a dark shading where you want it darkest.

Step 3: Blend those added spots(Yes, the lineartt layer) and blend the lines around everything so in this case the puffs, blend it nice as it'll add to making it look less quite so cartoony with lines to a more painted look.

Step 4: Repeat for the skin section of the lineart.

Step 5: Repeat.

Step 6: Repeat for horns and tail(Honestly I only added these steps because I got in the habit for this saving a new png after parts so . .. yeah it wasn't needed to show it but wasn't gonna skip on this wasted time pfft)

Step 7: Alright now MORE darker shading that will make it look even puffer and such. I used a pink gold for this and on multiply, under the layers of the light spray brush so it doesn't cover it up.

Step 8: Blend in large circles to give a over all color and hue.

Step 9: This one is a bit odder for the skin because I decided to TRY and make mareeps face look a bit like a sheep, make it have a hint of the nose shape and under under the eyes that makes sheep and goats look cute but also a bit weird. I just wanted to try, the lines for the snout are easy to skip, I put a version at the end of this without the nose and my regular shading for the face.

Step 10: Blend it in, baby!

Step 11: Those horns and tail have a nice shine so make sure to add it in!

Step 12: Blend as usual.

Step 13: So eyes were done, it would take another five steps to show it so I skipped ahead, added pink to the nose and started the ball on the tail!

Step 14: Blend the colors on the ball, alter as needed until pleased.

Step 15: DONE! There is pink to this background just because I was cleaning up the lights and some wild shading I had done. There was light added to the ball in two layer types, overlay and luminosity to make it bright and gleam. Some more light was added to the wool puffs as well. The shadows for the head and the tail were darkened and body shadow under the feet was added.

Alternative Face: Tadaaaaa this is finished just different face as promised.

[Peepeepoopoo]

I like the alternative face version much better :3 also the pupils make Mareep look scary

[Deleted User]

My god, this is truly amazing. PLEASE do more of this.