Bonus page 2:

Shading and Coloring.

Above you see three different types of coloring that I use. The first one is simple single tone colors. The next is three tone. It uses a base color and two other colors. One color is lighter than the base color and is used for hi-lites. The other color is darker and is used for shadows. The third type of shading is the same as the second except it softens the shading, instead of having a sharp edge between the colors.

You can figure out how to do the first two shadings. You just do it. But for the third type a little help wouldn't hurt.

The first thing you need to do is copy(for copy and paste function) your finished black and white. Always make sure your B&W is finished as changing after coloring will be more difficult. OK. Once you have your B&W in the clipboard you can start to color the cartoon. In the image above you can see that you just color it as desribed for type 2 shading.

Now take your color replace tool and erase all of the black. Then use soften to soften the image. Make sure that you have soften set to ignore the mask color. In this case white. Finally, paste the B&W back over the coloring.

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