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Tutorials and techniquesQuite a lot of people keep asking me for tutorials and to be honest I see no point in creating yet another strip on how to paint skin/clothes/light/carrots/whatever. There are so many of them out there that it would be simply a waste of time to sit and basically copy what's already been told.Tutorials and techniques by =tanathe
Instead, I've decided to make a compilation of different tutorials and charts that I personally use to learn how to paint.
The most important thing you need to learn even before starting to read a tutorial is that all walk-throughs are meant for you to understand how things work. My point is that after reading and later practicing a tutorial called 'how to paint a glass duck' you should be able to paint not only a glass duck but also anything else made of glass. You should concentrate on understanding the rules and patterns instead of trying to copy what you see on the image. Otherwise you'll end up knowing how to paint only a few things from only one perspective and one lightning pattern.
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This way the fine lines behave much more like those from natural pens and pencils. If you are a PC user, you can also use Sketchbook Pro of course, and in addition, there is SAI which is just fantastic (auto-smoothing, a vector tool, and a line editor). Manga Studio 5 Mac or PC also has all of this as well (I need to upgrade my system before I can install this one). Anyhow, you may know that already... But yah, I actually never do line work in PS. Heh heh 
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