Chapter#38

HEADACHEEEE....~

Just realised my feedback from Lesson 1+2 gets sent to a different area on the website, 

instead of actually into my inbox...2 weeks of waiting for nothing =_=" Anyway!...Urgh.

So from the last part of the last chapter, he got us to shade the background in grey...

I was hoping he'd explain how to get rid of it in the next lesson but he did not...Lovely.

So I went on ahead and did it myself. Looked pretty cool actually! The procedure.

Just cropped out the grey afterwards with the lasso tool. Anyway, when he opened up 

his file, it looked so refined compared to his previous lesson! I was like eh? Did I skip

something??? And yeah, he took the time to clean his up and states that he should've:

"Noted that you be careful with your tonal values (how dark each part is) cause it is 

'critical' that you get it right in this lesson." I was like ok...How bad could mine be? 

IT WAS SO BADDD...I was like...

 

My piece looked like this after it was colored.

The colors were all wrong! So to color it, we had to put all the layers we created

for the drawing into a single folder. Then, you trace the whole picture with the lasso tool.

While the folder you created is highlighted, right click and select create layer mask

so that when u draw over it, it auto-erases everything that goes out of the lines; neat, a?

And to color, all you gotta do is select a new layer, set the blend mode to COLOR,

paint bucket the layer the skin color you want, then you lasso tool the part of the 

object you want changed, then paint bucket~

 Do that with all the parts of the image and you'll get what I got as I previously shown.

Finally, as the same process as before, to change the tonal values, we select the areas

we want darker with the lasso, and on a new layer; change the blend mode to Multiply, or

Overlay~ One of the two will do. By the end, it will have looked like this!

 

Yeah, he went through some serious color editing, lol. Still not happy with the color 

scheme but. After that, all the was left to do was create a new layer on top of 

everything, set the blend mode to Overlay again, and with a HUGE ass brush, 

brush in some prettyful shades in brighter areas, and more dull shades in darker 

areas to really push the image out~ The end result looks something like this.

Doneeee~ For this class.
I'm gonna touch up on this later in the future for professional stake. Give it a b/g and all.

Till then, look forward to our next class! Lesson 4! (Yay! Headaches gone!)

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Oh, and I got my review back from Lesson 1...Got a 3/5!!! Lols!

Will try to do better in the future -_-"