I'm not very good at drawing, but I've doodled enough in my life that I at least have something of a style to work with, and with access to Photoshop I can do a fairly decent job working within my own limitations (at least as far as drawing goofy comics goes).
For the past few years every now and then I get it into my head that I'm going to teach myself how to incorporate shading/highlights/whatever you call it when you deal with light into my quiver of photoshop arrows. Since I'm entirely self "taught" I inevitably turn to photoshop tutorials online.
While I've had really good luck with photoshop tutorials for anything else I may want to do, I've never been able to find anything I can work with in terms of shading and what have you. I can find them, but they always speak way over my head. I have no formal art training so I understand why this is the case, but I'm hoping somewhere out there there's a basic tutorial understandable to the lay person. All the ones I find are like "Step 1) select this tool Step 2) apply these settings Step 3) Shade with it."
So I'm asking if any of the very talented people here know of a good tutorial or website where I might find a tutorial that I'm actually going to be able to work with. Or maybe something that could get me up to speed so that I could understand the more advanced shading tutorials floating around.
I'm really only looking for the most basic basic stuff. I have zero experience making anything resembling shading look good, so I have a lot of work ahead of me to even start with the fundamentals.
Thanks in advance for any help.
For the past few years every now and then I get it into my head that I'm going to teach myself how to incorporate shading/highlights/whatever you call it when you deal with light into my quiver of photoshop arrows. Since I'm entirely self "taught" I inevitably turn to photoshop tutorials online.
While I've had really good luck with photoshop tutorials for anything else I may want to do, I've never been able to find anything I can work with in terms of shading and what have you. I can find them, but they always speak way over my head. I have no formal art training so I understand why this is the case, but I'm hoping somewhere out there there's a basic tutorial understandable to the lay person. All the ones I find are like "Step 1) select this tool Step 2) apply these settings Step 3) Shade with it."
So I'm asking if any of the very talented people here know of a good tutorial or website where I might find a tutorial that I'm actually going to be able to work with. Or maybe something that could get me up to speed so that I could understand the more advanced shading tutorials floating around.
I'm really only looking for the most basic basic stuff. I have zero experience making anything resembling shading look good, so I have a lot of work ahead of me to even start with the fundamentals.
Thanks in advance for any help.
