12-11-2015, 02:59 AM
Hi Maggie, really awesome stuff in here. I think your character design stuff has a lot of charm. If you're still interested in cell shading, you could check out some manga to see how they design their shadow shapes and stuff; Prison School, Food Wars and Battle Royale all are good reference for that stuff with a lot of shadows on the characters.
You can set your shadow shapes with the lasso tool like you do already, and fill them with a dark / navy blue, then set the layer to multiply and reduce the opacity until you get a good value. For highlights you can set a layer to screen, or colour dodge and sample the colour of the part you are highlighting and paint on the dodge layer with that. - that's one way to approach it anyway, nice and quick.
You can set your shadow shapes with the lasso tool like you do already, and fill them with a dark / navy blue, then set the layer to multiply and reduce the opacity until you get a good value. For highlights you can set a layer to screen, or colour dodge and sample the colour of the part you are highlighting and paint on the dodge layer with that. - that's one way to approach it anyway, nice and quick.