Delicious shading is delicious, I like this and am now going to scuffle off to find said tutorials.

Dude I really hate ridiculous hair colors but you actually manage to make them awesome. ALSO, thank you for not being a douchebag and shading her hair with white highlights. Why the balls do people do that?
I am now tempted to make a blue-haired something.

As for critique all I can say is that her right shoulder (our left) seems a bit far away from her body, like her armpit is way high.

Also before I go screw you for being able to outline in Gimp, I have yet to figure that out.

Haha, I hate having to color from a ref. But I think it was the combination of colors that make the hair work. C;

I know someone who can make it look good. ;'D Although it is rather strange, now that you mention it. Hair is not that shiny and should never be shaded with white unless it's light blond, then you can use white/light light yellow.

Urgh, I suck at armpits and chests and hips and shoulders and um... lots of things. Thanks though, I'm a bit blind after I've stared at something for a while. I need to pay attention to these things while I'm drawing them.

PATH TOOL! Or pen tool, or whatever you want to call it. It lets you make lines, then curve them and move them around, so you can fit it exactly to your drawing. Then you just stroke it. It's also much easier than in photoshop, thank god.

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The thing about men is, they have sex first, and ask questions later.

I've only drawn from ref, not colored, sooo..

Yeah, augh. I hate little kawaii desu anime fans who always shade hair with white, regardless of color. Even black. Dx

Oh shush. But I know how it is, after staring at something for godknowshowlong, I'm doooone. Dx Which is why Elias looks asian in his ref sheet.

URGH PATH TOOL SCARES ME THOUGH D: It's crazy hard in photoshop, though. As long as it's easier....

I dunno if you remember that pic I did with the girl with the blond hair and all of the crazy colors? There's no way in hell i would have colored it like that if someone hadn't given me a colored ref. Dx

I was wondering why he had narrow eyes. xD

It's way easier, trust me. xD The only difficult thing is that you have to switch to 'edit' mode to curve or close a path, but you can get around that by clicking and dragging when you make points.

I can't do it in photoshop either. Dx I used to be able to do it in AI, but GIMP is easier than even that.

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The thing about men is, they have sex first, and ask questions later.

Urr... vaguely yes. O; Sweet.

Well, he's also sorta pissed off, but. Mainly asian-looking. Dx. He's not supposed to look asian.

Urgh k fine I'll try it. I BLAME YOU IF THINGS CATCH FIRE.

Here's a path tool tutorial that does it the way I do: [link]

(there are like 5 of these, but most of them tell you to switch to the edit option to curve the line, which I think is stupid and slow. Dx If you click and drag for every point, you can change the curve without having to press ctrl)

And here's a shading tutorial I used: [link]

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The thing about men is, they have sex first, and ask questions later.

SWEET ACTION I will go suck less now.

And I will go draw for you~

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The thing about men is, they have sex first, and ask questions later.

I gasp at your new skillz. in a good way. O:

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