by - Lisa Rye
5. Shading
Now for shading... Here's a quick step-by-step method I used to shade an area:
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| 1. Here I just put in a soft shadow the same hue as the right side of the post. | 2. I added a soft yellow highlight. |
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| 3. Darkening shadows on the left side. | 4. Now I'm zooming in a little more to add details like wood grain and reflections of the sky. |
 5. More details and contrast for shadows and highlights. |
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Here's the pic with the shading finished. The lines don't look natural, so it's time to blend them in with the rest of the picture. |
I went back to the 'background inking' layer, and set this to 'lock opacity' (if you don't know what I'm talking about, go through the Lineart Editing Tutorial). From there I just selected colours closer to the surrounding colours of the lines and brushed them over with that colour.
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And here's the picture with the lines blended in. I smoothed out the sky a little too. Now we're almost done; just the clouds and a few more effects to go... |