does any one know any good online tutorials on the above topic, im looking for the really slick mange style effect like that featured in dreamwave comics. Aother way to put it would trying to produce images that look like stills from an anime.

cheers!

Brooke

On the Elfwood FARP (tutorial section) they have a couple or so on cel-shading that I found useful. They might not be top-notch but they're free and they're a place to start :)

FARP link: http://www.elfwood.com/farp/index.html

Some direct links:
Chroma-Cell Coloring Effect in Photoshop 5.5+
Cel-style digital coloring 1
Cel-style digital coloring 2

They also have tutorials on anime/manga which might cover coloring as well, plus a whole bunch of other tutorials. I hope you find something to help you, there!

Evil...: of course i forget to check the magazine...brainfail for me...

 Voluspa: thanks for the links, very usefull!

I used to do manga style cel shading, and the way I did it looks similar to what those tutorials do. I'd do a layer with all the flat colours, then make a new layer for the shading. Then I'd use the polygon lasso tool (but you can use any selection tool, just whatever you prefer), then fill the selection with my shadow or highlight colour. I've seen some pretty cool cel shading done with gradients too, but never been able to reproduce them myself. Unless it wasn't gradients after all.

Can I ask a similar question here? I've been wanting to recreate the the style of colouring in the pic below for a while now, but I've never managed to get it right on the occasions I've tried. Does anyone know how it's achieved, or at least how they would do it?

I miss Witchblade actually, must try and get myself some more.

I don't know much about different colouring techniques (I knew the above about cel-shading from using the tutorials to do one image so far) but the witchblade style seems like it's somewhere half-way between cel-shading and more realistic colouring. Maybe try celshading as a base and then soften it up in places but not everywhere? I think there's a workshop here on imaginefx as well (or was it just in a magazine maybe?), about painting skin and there they didn't do it "super-smooth" either, so maybe that would help get a similar result. (Something about using the eyedropper to get successively lighter or darker colours to blend...)

(I tried finding it under workshops but it was probably in the mag a couple or so issues back... The end result was a kind of Salome with a head in her hands... if that sparks a memory )

philby:

Can I ask a similar question here? I've been wanting to recreate the the style of colouring in the pic below for a while now, but I've never managed to get it right on the occasions I've tried. Does anyone know how it's achieved, or at least how they would do it?