Art Some Random Dragonball Guy....

[ssj3borjan]

Well, here's my third attempt at colouring in something in photoshop. Hope you lot like it, and I could say something like:

"Man, I drew this a long time ago when I was really bad at drawing, just found it now and uploaded it, it's really bad though...."

or

"Yeah, did this really quicky and rough, just thought I'd post it, but really it's not that god, and I wish that I'd never done it, but for some reason or other, I still decided to post it....."

BUT NO!!!

That would all be a lie (which in case your are really slow, is what I think many people do and am poking fun at them with a 12 foot long clown pole), the truth? I did this recently, when I saw DBZ on Toonami, and yeah, I spent 30 mins on it, and well, here it is.... none of that other crap above.... :p

A little help on how to shade stuff properly would be much appreciated as will comments, good or bad :)

Peace out ppl!

[PiroMunkie]

[size=1]Aside from the lack of shading, I am fairly impressed; having never seeing any of your artwork before ... at least to my recollection.

The lines are nice and smooth. They could be a little darker, but they work. The fill color is nice and smooth as well. The background is a bit 'iffy,' but that was just a filler idea I am guessing, heh. ^_^;

As for shading, considering this is an anime drawing, I would go with cell shading, which is just hard-edge. I cannot really explain it very well so I shall just give you an example of my own (click the link below and notice the shading on the characters).

[url]http://www.otakuboards.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=471211[/url]

When I did that drawing, I used the Polygonal Lasso tool. However, if I were doing it today, then I would probably use the Pen Tool.

If you are not at all familiar with the Pen Tool, by all means use the Lasso. You can get the same results, I just find it easier to use the Pen (once I understood how it works, anyway).

And of course, do your shading on a separate layer so you can go back and change things easily if you end up not liking something. =)[/size]