[Al Ian]

Never realy tried cell shading. So here is my first attempt. C&C Welcome!

Punk Rocker

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[Al Ian]

I enjoyed doing the first one so much I decided to give it another shot. I attempted to add more variation in the line weight. Thoughts?

Punk 02

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[Al Ian]

I did one more before bed. This one is a little less saturated. More in the sun type then the other two.

Punk 3

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[faeklone]

I like the first one and the last one. THe one in the middle has too much line variation, which starts to deract from the whole thing. I remember doing line drawings in my first year of College, and the instructor said that the thicker a line, the closer we precieve it. I Think that's why the two I picked function so well. Love the cell shading too.

[insane007]

1st and 3rd are excelent.2nd one is not even close to clean enough.
I liked your style for long time

[dfacto]

Thank you for making your characters eyes colored and not those freaky black holes.

I like the 1st and 3rd. I think the 3rd is best because its the cleanest, but the 2nd needs work.
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[Al Ian]

Question? How do you get clean lines in PS without spending hours and hours with an eraser cleaning them up?
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[Doodledorf]

Well, I'm not exactly great at cel shading and all, I do know people in the animation area, and other people in the comic/manga area. As far as I know, the best way is to just get a "one-line" thesis. Only use one line for every shape, and it has to be perfect or near perfect. Then they taper it using some sort of auto-function in photoshop to get clean lines or varied line thickness. Sorry, I'm not quite sure what it is. I'm not exactly knowledgable with photoshop, all I know how to do is use the brush. Otherwise they use different size pens to get the effect.

[Novacaptain]

Al, you could try tetracing the image with vectors perhaps?
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[Al Ian]

Vectors? I know what the term is, how do you do it in Photoshop? Or do I need another program to do that in?
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[Al Ian]

Yet another attempt. This one seems cleaner. I dont have a very steady hand so area's like the gun and ground arnt very clean at all. Its tough.

Punk 4

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[MCnasto]

u have some interesting style going, but if you want clean lines, why bother wasting time drawing them in PS manually?
try using the pen tool to make paths, and then stroke the paths with watever size brush you want...
i personally would suggest using adobe illustrator for cell shading and line work... most cell shading is associated with vector art anyways. kinda redundant to try and recrreate a cell shading effect by hand.

heres a sweet tutorial i believe Eraser X did:
http://www.pensnpixels.com/tutorials/digink.htm

btw... why is there a ball of fur coming out of the gun in the second one?
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[Al Ian]

Thanks for the tutorial, I am reading it now. When it comes to the ball of furr, its supposed to be a human head. Dosent look much like one huh. I'll work on that
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[Al Ian]

I dont have illistrater. So I decided to see if I could do this in Photoshop CS. OK either I'm retarded or you cant do it in PS CS. I'd say its a 50% chance of either right now.
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[insane007]

pen tool.