Thread: Tutorials and Resources

Heya guys... so this is going to be our official thread where you can post tutorials and resources that you made or that you reference to be getting your technique down! The idea of this thread is to be helping and allowing for aspiring artists to be having something to looking at to be better getting something down.

This thread will be updated about... maybe every two months, depending on how this thread goes. All tutorials and resources will be taken from user posts and will be put up here in the first post so that people don't have to tear this thread apart looking for any one thing in particular.

One thing I'd like to be making clear is that if you are posting a tutorial and/or resource, to be crediting the person or site that it comes from with a link to their page. Remember, artists always love it when you credit them -- not to mention you'll have less angry people with you if someone wants to check out more of their stuff. This doesn't exactly apply if you're the person that made a tutorial.

Here's a list of allowed tutorials and resources that you can post:

Tutorials:

• How to colour
• How do make clean lineart
• How to draw [insert subject matter here]
• Lighting and Shading
• Anatomy
• Spriting

Resources:

• Brushes
• Fonts
• Textures
• Templates
• Stock

This is actually all I can be thinking up of at the moment, so if there's any other kinds of things that you think should be added to these lists, I'll add them to them. In the meantime, I look very forward to seeing any and everyone out there to be posting what it is that they use as references when they go to be doing what they do. :)

Tutorials:

:: tutorial 1 - coloring hair by lostsoulx44
+++Line art tutorial+++ by Norli
Basic Line Art Tutorial by Kliptopyro
Colored Pencil Tutorial by Kamikaze777
hair painting tutorial by brilcrist
Hair painting tutorial by Dianae
Hair Tutorial by Rueme
How to Draw on MS Paint by Shipuh
Inking Tutorial for Painter by celesse
Line Art Tutorial by Larein
Photo 2 Painting by Orioto
Realism Tutorial by yumix
SAI Tutorial: Vector Line Art by SakuraChan776
Simple Cloth Pattern Tutorial by budgie
SKIN: a tutorial - Part 2 by navate
Tutorial: How to draw hair by cataclysm-x
Tutorial: Painting Hair Part 2 by Foxbane
How to Draw Whimsicott by user HallowHeart
How I Do Colors and Stuff by R0-S3

Resources

DesignFruit
PhotoShop Mosaic

These have resources for anything listed here, which is why they're not in a category.

Brushes:

Brush King
Brusheezy
FBrushes
Free PhotoShop Brushes
Get Brushes
My PhotoShop Brushes
Obsidian Dawn
PS Brushes
QBrushes.net

Fonts

DaFont

Textures

8 New Paper Textures by hibbary
Denim Textures by messa
Miscellaneous Textures by kamino
PhotoShop Textures
Smoke Textures by DaughterOfSnape

By Princess-of-Shadows:

Color Grunge Textures
Exclusive 10 Texture Pack
Rust Textures
Texture Collection SAMPLE -- Offers five free textures - hence the being called 'sample'
Turn Back Time Texture Pack
Victorian Dreams Texture Pack
Vintage Grunge Textures
Vintage Wallpaper Grunge I
Warm Days Texture Pack

By Sanami276:

Textures 15
Textures 16
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Textures 35
Texture 36: Old Paper
Textures 37
Textures 38
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Textures 60

All of Sanami's other textures can be found on their deviantART page.

Templates

Nothing yet

Stock

Bubble Stock by Princess-of-Shadows

For Spriters:

Tutorials

Inverts the Right Way by Elite4Will
Pokémon Trainer Tutorial by DemandInCompensation
Sprite Revamp Tutorial by Guest

Resources

SpriteSheets.com
The Spriter's Resource

This should be helpful to newbies

Do sprite tutorials belong here?

^ Yes, and I will post one.

For this tutorial, I will teach you how to make a revamp. I will be using a Bulbasaur from the Yellow version. Let's look at it for a second:

Yuck. That needs fixing up.
First, paste the Bulbasaur and an advance-gen sprite of it into your image editor. I would like to show them side by side, but I use a layered editor (no, it isn't Photoshop) so the best I have is this:

Now zoom in, recolor and make the outlines black.

Still... Yuck. Now you get rid of the clusters of black and shade the bulb.

Then improve the shading and add some extra details.

Next, shade the outlines and you're done!

Congratulations on your first revamp!

And on the third, fourth and fifth images, you may have seen a black pixel around the bottom-right. That was my pencil tool, sorry about that.

Heres one

Here's a trainer tutorial: http://demandincompensation.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d1b00m3
EDIT: Credit goes to DemandInCompensation for the tut c:

Originally Posted by Muffin™

Here's a trainer tutorial:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs28/f/2008/062/0/4/Pokemon_Trainer_Tutorial_by_DemandinCompensation.png

One thing I'd like to be making clear is that if you are posting a tutorial and/or resource, to be crediting the person or site that it comes from with a link to their page. Remember, artists always love it when you credit them -- not to mention you'll have less angry people with you if someone wants to check out more of their stuff. This doesn't exactly apply if you're the person that made a tutorial.

What's even worse for you at the moment is that I actually know the person that made this, DemandInCompensation as we're both competitors in the Pokémon Ultimate Battle Frontier that's being held on deviantART. I'm really positive that she wouldn't like not being credited for something. :C

Keep this in mind for future tutorial and/or resource posts, please.

Originally Posted by Shiay

What's even worse for you at the moment is that I actually know the person that made this, DemandInCompensation as we're both competitors in the Pokémon Ultimate Battle Frontier that's being held on deviantART. I'm really positive that she wouldn't like not being credited for something. :C

Keep this in mind for future tutorial and/or resource posts, please.

Ahh.. okay. Sorry about that. \I just looked on google for the picture, and found a random one xD

Here are some resources:

for brushes:

http://www.brusheezy.com/

for fonts: (Not sure if needed)

http://www.dafont.com/

Lists updated with new Textures, Fonts, Tutorials and Stock links as of Tuesday, June 1st, 2010.

Remember to report any broken links to me.

Not sure if I can post this but, Here are my lessons on Infernos and Neons ^^

Recolours:

Hi there, and today I'm showing you how to do recolours. Now, my eyes bleed when I see a recolour where no shading is done at all, and everything is just a few colours. For example:



Isn't it horrible?

Firstly, the basics. Choose your pokemon sprite, and then choose what colours you want to make it. I'm gonna stick with Bonsly and the red and blue colours, so some good pokemon to use is...



Toxicroak!

Now that you have your pokemon that will change it's colour, and the pokemon you'll get the colour from, you can compare the colours. Just use the eyedrop tool on both pokemon, and get all the colours together.



On the left is Bonsly's colours, on the right is Toxicroak's colours. So now we've got the colours together, let's do the recolouring! Just use left click the original colours with the eyedrop tool, on right click the new colours with the eyedrop tool as well. After you've done, use the eraser, hold down right click, and hover over the original colour to change it. Slowly do with each colour into you get the finished product:



That's much better than the original attempt. Just keep on following these steps, and your recolours should be better.

Originally Posted by The Zorua

Recolours:

Hi there, and today I'm showing you how to do recolours. Now, my eyes bleed when I see a recolour where no shading is done at all, and everything is just a few colours. For example:



Isn't it horrible?

Firstly, the basics. Choose your pokemon sprite, and then choose what colours you want to make it. I'm gonna stick with Bonsly and the red and blue colours, so some good pokemon to use is...



Toxicroak!

Now that you have your pokemon that will change it's colour, and the pokemon you'll get the colour from, you can compare the colours. Just use the eyedrop tool on both pokemon, and get all the colours together.



On the left is Bonsly's colours, on the right is Toxicroak's colours. So now we've got the colours together, let's do the recolouring! Just use left click the original colours with the eyedrop tool, on right click the new colours with the eyedrop tool as well. After you've done, use the eraser, hold down right click, and hover over the original colour to change it. Slowly do with each colour into you get the finished product:



That's much better than the original attempt. Just keep on following these steps, and your recolours should be better.

Here's a video of the eraser trick.

Shiay's Line Art Tutorial Posting that here for future reference for when I go to edit the OP with more Tutorials/Resources when I get to it -- eventually.

A PhotoShop line art tutorial by me.

can someone add a tutorial for making pics transperent