*squints*

the letters are all fuzzed out even when enlarged

Damnit, FA shrunk it...

FA did that once to me too before. Or was it the thumbnail? Anyways, all I did was go manage my submissions and resubmitted it and it was bigger, or the thumbnail at least, I forgot.

FA Automatically resizes image past a certain height. I'm afraid you'll need to chop it into smaller chunks.

Quite helpful I do say.

This is great! Thanks for putting it together.

goes blind from squinting and trying to read it* Damnit that sucks that FA shrunk it

dangit, as I said, I ADORE how you draw Mimigas <3 though I don't have photoshop, it's still interesting to see how you do this <3

interesting one :)

Downloaded the linked version... good tutorial, I must say! One small note about your "Magic Wand" too leaving about a pixel width space: If you go into Select > Modify, you can pick "Expand". You can expand your selection out a pixel or so, and that will probably get that pesky extra bit.

If I ever do find the time in my life to become an artist, I will likely find this handy.

Really nice! I love how you draw her...
... do you mind fan art? n.n?

Hahah, thanks for the tutorial. I'll try this out as soon as I finish my manga classes and get a tablet. Lessee if I can do more than texts.

...i liked that. so far ive ben running bling. i suck with a mouse you see T.T

....blind* :3

Wonderful basic tutorial!!!

Couple of things you might want to try that might make your coloring and shade/lighting even easier:

Breaking down the base color areas to individual layers like you have there is almost a must-do for more advanced coloring.

If you click the lock-pixel tab (the left most checkerboard icon in the lock row), then you don't have to magic lasso the area you want to detail. It freezes the blank (not white, just blank... another reason to learn to use the eraser instead of painting things white) pixels so you can only work with the areas you already have colored. Makes it much easier to add stripes, spots, shirt logos and other markings to the active area's only.

For easier shading (and an easier method of correcting your mistakes without having to do a ton of re-coloring)... I duplicate each color layer on top of the one I already have, paint over the entire duplicate's locked pixels in white, and change the layer setting to a multiply layer at around a 50% opacity (more or less) above your coloring layer lets you do a lot more with shading because it will universally darken anything... so spots, stripes, and other markings aren't anywhere near as difficult or time consuming.

This also lets you shade in multiple color tones on the same layer. Grayscale is wonderful, but not really accurate for advanced shading.

For Highlights, I do the same process, only I paint the duplicate layer's locked pixels as black, and change the duplicate layer to a screen setting (again, starting at around 50% opacity).

I save the dodge tool for the small shiney spots that make a texture rubbery or leathery or metalic... but I try not to use it for general lighting because of the faded glow that comes with it.

This is a well put together tutorial, this will help me in my future, thank you friend.

I know it's late-talk, but I just have to thank you again. First time in ages my main character (who is a mimiga also) is taking form and shape.

To think my classes only taught me how to draw faces... -.-;

I love you, man.

Interesting.

This is a pretty nice tutorial, thanks for posting this, it's already helping me ^^

I know that this tutorial is old, but I want to thank you for making it none the less.

It might be very basic as you said, but everyone has to start somewhere and it's hard to do
advanced stuff if you have no idead about the basics.

This really helped me understand the basics of drawing, an area that was rather unfamiliar to me.

Again thank you for making this.

Happy Time Period of Food and Gifts. :)
Or Happy Holidays, whichever you prefer.

Chiao.

*puts face on screen*

I'm going to try this. :3
Thanks for providing a tutorial!

do more <3

Hope you don't mind a comment on something this old Hati but I really appreciate you submitting this and linking to the full size version. I'm desperately trying to be less pathetic at drawing and while the inking and coloring went way beyond anything I was capable of it was great to see how you put a figure together. Thanks for breaking down the steps and describing what to do at each point. I still can't even draw a proper crescent moon ( ) but I'm still glad I got the opportunity to see a good artist's footsteps, so to speak.

Thanks again for sharing this. Since you put a 1 in the title I looked through your whole gallery for more tutorials but couldn't find anything. It would be great to see more like this from you in the future. Good luck with everything! ^^

The link you posted is showing up all fuzzy and weird too.

Thanks for that external link!

And for the tutorial, I'll be playing with this.