In part one of this tutorial set, we created a simple anime character bust line art ready to color. Now its time to move on to the coloring stage, and really bring those characters to life using the cel shade method, a popular technique within the anime style. Step 1 First thing you’ll need is that wonderful line art you prepared in the previous tutorial . Alternatively, if you didn’t join us for part one and are just here to learn how to color using the popular cell shade technique, then you will need a line art, on a separate layer to a white background, which you have permission to color. Cel shading is popular with the anime style and is the shading style most frequently seen, both in anime films and TV shows, but also in artwork created by fans of the anime style. It is, essentially, creating bold blocks of color to show shaded areas. Naturally, this suits the vector media very well as we can create nice smooth, crisp edges to our blocks of shading. We’ll also be using gradients to soften the bold blocks. So – ready? Step 2 You’ll need to change your white background to vector so that we’ll have a full vector piece at the end rather than the background being raster. The simplest way to do this would be to make a white square using the Shape Tool (U) over your background and naming it “white,…
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Creating a Vector Anime Character in Adobe Photoshop – Part 2: Coloring
