Thank you :3

Thaaaaaaaannnkk yooooooooouuu

lol you're welcome

Perfect timing.

Oh? working on a piece? :3

Nah. But I was hunting for something that explained shading in Sai in laymens terms. All i ever find is stuff for PS.

Thanks a bunch for posting this. Also, I mean this in the best possible way: But, I'm surprised, and impressed at how simple your method is. It always seemed to me like people go through shading by adding a gajillion layers and basically recoloring everything a second time, but this method seems way more straightforward.

It depends on the type of shading you'd like to do :3 Cell shading, or basically, shading you see in anime, hard instead of soft, is usually simple. You can add more detail if you'd like to, more colors and dept, different shading techniques, etc. But this is one of my more simple ones ^^

Wow thank you for this! :D

Welcome!

Saving this for my personal study! this will help my art education ^_^

Glad it will ^^

Nice, I might need that for some future tutorial refs. :D

Glad you like it :3

I did, it's awesome, plus its helpful> XD

This is great, I can't wait to try it out! :D

Glad you like it!

this helps a lot ^^ Thank you :3

welcome :3

KOOLZ

Nice tutorial! :D

But damn... I wish I had SAI ;o;

I really enjoyed reading this, thanks for the tips Strawberry!

I <3 you.

excellent this will help

I think this might work on photoshop.

OMG, This is exactly what i wanted to see from you!!! :D I will totally save this tutorial to my folder on my desktop. I dont know how long i have looked for a tutorial like this for shading. Now i have one XD OMG *flaildie* Thank you so much for taking the time to make this.

Your welcome :3

This is a different shading style then the one you had asked about. It'd be too difficult to make them all, so I picked one of the easier ones to do. Another easy one is the hard cell shading, more anime style. You draw the shading in directly, instead of erasing, but you use the layers the same way.

Definately helpful. I will make very good use of it. I like this shading style better than the one i asked about. Im thinking of combining them thought, maybe see how that looks.

It's quite possible to combine :3 I do it a bit. Like, the tails are the softer look, even if I'm doing the hard look.

This actually might help me on shading

This can help me since I'm learning how to be a great artist:)

this is different to my normal method, i may give it a try!

Awesome!
thanks for tips

this is one of the first shading tutorials i actually liked. it didnt go into extensive detail about light. we get it, lights important. that doesnt help me much!

thanx man

Welcome :3

It's cause I don't know much about it either, so I just showed how I actually make the look.

np

lolz alrighty then :P

i know your not on the mentor list of aamp but im hoping i could ask you a few questions :x

np

lolz alrighty then :P

i know your not on the mentor list of aamp but im hoping i could ask you a few questions :x

Sure, I dont mind answering questions. Just note or IM me instead of commenting :3

sorry for double comment :x and will do :D

and thanx o3o

This'll come in very handy, thank you :)

Very helpful.

This is actually a very simple, but still cute way of shading. I'll have to give this a shot and see if I can finally shade pictures :D

great! :)

Someone linked me to this, and I never really thought of doing shading this way (putting it all down and erasing where the light is). I will definitely have to try it!! I think the finished product looks really good in your art, so it seems like a simple but very effective way to do it, and it looks like something that I'd easily be able to build upon if needed...

So I think this was a great and helpful tutorial/post!! Thanks so much for making this :)

Layer clip is not existing anywhere. I got multiply thing.

Btw thank you for posting this :D Rest of tutorials show lighting details... Those aren't helpful one bit.

Nvm about clipping layer. Mine was named differently. "Clipping Group"

Thanks so much for this.

I can't thank you enough! Thanks to this my latest stuff has turned out brilliant! ^^

I didn't follow it one hundred percent- I use GIMP for one thing, and I couldn't find a clip image button in that program, but aside from having to clean all the excess shade from the white part of the image, this was really easy.

Thanks so much! ^^

This shading tutorial is pure liquid wonderment D: this is exactly the technique i required~ and your lighting instead of actually shading is genious! :3 danke!

You don't know how useful your tut is. Simple but effective :D Thx!

thaaaaankyou very much for this :3
added to favs n.n
and this will work amazing when I start with my drawings again (in some days)

Dankeschen :3

That's a really interesting way of shading. I might give it a try. C: I find it a butt when there's multiple colors for markings when I'm shading, but I think it's just me. When I see a different shade of color on my black, I don't think it looks right. xD

I'm just starting with sai and this is so very helpfull

wow, I cant believe I didn't try this before, you my dear, are a goddess.

You use the same technique as I do :D

That is exactly how I do my cell shading XD

I use PS2, but this actually helps me too. Thank you =)

+1

I can tell just by looking at it, this tutorial will help me do better shading.

I will favorite it, so I can come back to it latter.

Great information! Thanks for the Tutorial!

Thanks, I wish more people would help others with tutorials like this. Not all of use are familiar with techniques of how to use digital tools.We all have to start somewhere.

It's an easy technique but it's very helpful :D thank you!

Really well done, its understandable, and its a awesome way to shade. Thanks for sharing this :D

oh dear lord you have no idea how bad i needed this! Thank you! ><

This is very helpful! Thank you very much!

Way simpler than I thought

Thanks, this was very useful ^^

I know this is old but thanks so much for this. just tried it out and it was so easy, I don't have to leave my characters flat anymore x3

I remember seeing this somewhere in some kind of social site but I never thought it was really yours, it helped me improve by then at that time, so thanks for creating it even if it was old, it helped so many people who have so e difficulties using Sai :)

I would've never been able to do my picture http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19234780/ the justice I was desiring without this tutorial. Thank you so much for this ^^

Thanks for the explanation! I'm busy to draw things. If you want to see it than you click on my page. ^^ Just look around :P

Haha I know I'm 6 years late, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to lighten the pressure applied to the eraser. So that you can take one stroke to lighten the color and another to completely erase color on the multiply layer. Or is it a trick wither multiple layers?

It's very old and it wasn't long that I stopped using this specific method, but taking a quick look at SAI (I no longer use it), I think if you just lower the min size to 0, turn on density and put hard/soft to 0, it makes the brush both soft and has line width.

There are two better methods I'd recommend, which would allow you to use any brush you want instead of being limited to these settings/look.
One would be to make a folder, and make it a multiply folder. Rather then erase, use white, white basically becomes see-through with multiply.

The other is to not use the erase tool, instead there's a button that will turn any pen into the opposite of it, basically turning it into an eraser. You know where you can switch between two colours? Right under it there's a grey box, clicking that makes this happen.

You're a real lifesaver. This was a huge help to get started on shading! Thank you!

9 years and this is still such a huge help uwu Thank~