may just be me but it downloads small, maybe post it somewhere else and link it for a bigger picture?

Try reloading it; in order to break FA's size limit I had to upload and then "fix" the image.

Durr yeah it was just me :3

Sweet! I'll be sure to throw this to my artist friend who needs help with coloring.

Thanks for sharing this with us. It's always inspiring to see how other artists work.

I've been using multiply in the most basic way for years...never occurred to me to use it for shading. Thanks for the informative tutorial!

Ah, spiffy. I've played around with the blending modes before, but I never figured out how they work, I'll have to give multiply-shading a shot.

(I suppose I could read the manual, but that'd be boring.)

Oh thats neat! I usually do the oposite! A fill layer of my middle shade color, an airbrush/brush of darker, and then a soft eraser or white airbrush/brush to clear the areas! x3

Its really neat to see how other people work!

I love how you did the hair.

Thank you for this. It's actually quite helpful. :) I've been trying to re-teach myself digital coloring after a 5+ year hiatus from pretty much anything finished. >_>;; This should simplify things quite a bit.

Thanks..this should come in useful!

Layers are easy, but I'm never actually experimented with the blending modes... Time to change that methinks.

I'll have to modify my style a bit and see what I can do with your methods. Thanks for sharing!

yay! we canz be like angggrboda tooz!

Very nice tutorial! I may try a few of those steps!

I have a trick to clean up line art as well that's probably much faster... however, it uses a bit of Illustrator. You'd be impressed how the "Live Trace" function can be used to clean up lines in no time at all.

Also, since I'm silly and put all of my block colours on one layer, my method of selecting the lines is a little different than yours. What I do is use the magic wand to select all of the negative space in the image (shift+click to get all of the holes), then once all the negative space is selected, I choose "Invert Selection" so that now, only the figure(s) are selected.

But yeah... there's a lot of stuff I really like about this guide that I really should try.

But what if somebody's ALL WHITE hummm? =)

Well now you're just being difficult! ;-P

Much thanks for the tutorial, it is very very very welcome :)

Interesting to see the actual setup of your shading layers, once it's cleaned up and "set on normal" for comparison as you said. Very nicely detailed.

Awesome tutorial! :D

I actually color EXACTLY like this, but in SAI.
due t my blur blushes it tends to look much more like the painterly style you mentioned at the end

WOW!

And to think...all these years I've done things the hardest way possible! ^^;

I've always done a base color and then select a darker or lighter shade of the same color and proceed to color in shadows and highlights. Pretty much doing exactly what I'd do in real life if I were painting a picture. Goodness...now I feel like an idiot for never bothering to look to see if the program could simplify things XD It also doesn't help my Photoshop teacher never taught me anything...but still, the blame falls on me for not thinking outside the box.

Thanks so much for making this! You've completely changed the way I approach coloring. I might actually color my artwork more now since it won't be such an enormous pain in the ass! XD

Thanks so much for the tutorial. I never knew about the blending mode and what each one does. I just recently found out about overlay's and already my art is popping out so much. I wonder what multiplier will do with my art

Wow. I loved how you explained WHY things did what they did- a lot of tuts don't do that.

I faved this and will be giving it a try. Photoshop has never wielded super-great results from me and I think it's because there's just SO MUCH TO IT- it can do all the things SAI can do, but you have to take a lot more steps to get there (settings and stuff). I've tried to get better results in SAI, too, to no luck, so now with this in hand I might toodle on back to PSCS2!

Thanks so much for your help <3

*Hugs*

You are the best tigress

sweet, I'll see if this helps me :D thank you!

Really glad you posted this; I badly need to work on my digital arts skills (or lack therof).

this definitely will help for trying to get back into color again, thanks for uploading it =)

Wow, this really works! and Quick too, Thanks for uploading it and helping all of us! :D Thank You!

Thanks for the tutorial, it was a lot of help for starting out with coloring.

im not that good at colouring, im going to give this a go ^^

use what you got at hand.