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This is my collab with ~tarot020 of my Palomino Thoroughbred, Flight Angel.
I tried a different kind of shading, what do you all think of it? Do you like it less or better than how I usually shade? I tried for over an hour to shade the mane and tail, but you know, nothing looked right. White manes and tails will be the death of me...does anyone have any tips on how to shade them?
Approximate Time: 4 hours
Lines (c) ~tarot020 [link]
Character and coloring (c) Me
I tried a different kind of shading, what do you all think of it? Do you like it less or better than how I usually shade? I tried for over an hour to shade the mane and tail, but you know, nothing looked right. White manes and tails will be the death of me...does anyone have any tips on how to shade them?
Approximate Time: 4 hours
Lines (c) ~tarot020 [link]
Character and coloring (c) Me
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it's amazing! that shading must have cost a lot, there are so many muscles! 
i'm not sure i like this kind of shading, though. it sure looks great on a very muscled lineart like this, but i don't know how it would look on softer pics... i've tried an extremely defined cell shading over a simple body and it looked weird. but maybe it's just me!
anyway, about the mane&tail shading. i know they are always very tricky, and sometimes the lines don't help enough (when they have few or no guides to the hair flow). in the white hair's case, the solution is (similarly to what you seem to have done with the body shading) colouring it with a very very *very* light cream all over it, then make shadows with a slightly darker (and/or warmer) tone, following the hair's flow almost from root to tip. this should help give the mane the hair it lacks, and give more volume and sense of movement.
if you are willing to try a different kind of shading, try the dodge/burn. they aren't as precise with keeping the right tone all over, and a wrong movement of the hand may ruin it all (which you'll have to fix by painting with the base colour again), but the final result is a lot more natural, and has the advantage that you don't have to try different shade tones until you find the right one - the tools do that for you, even over very light tones of cream!
hopw this helped!
awesome job anyway, and great lineart!
ps.: am i writing too much?!
i'm not sure i like this kind of shading, though. it sure looks great on a very muscled lineart like this, but i don't know how it would look on softer pics... i've tried an extremely defined cell shading over a simple body and it looked weird. but maybe it's just me!
anyway, about the mane&tail shading. i know they are always very tricky, and sometimes the lines don't help enough (when they have few or no guides to the hair flow). in the white hair's case, the solution is (similarly to what you seem to have done with the body shading) colouring it with a very very *very* light cream all over it, then make shadows with a slightly darker (and/or warmer) tone, following the hair's flow almost from root to tip. this should help give the mane the hair it lacks, and give more volume and sense of movement.
if you are willing to try a different kind of shading, try the dodge/burn. they aren't as precise with keeping the right tone all over, and a wrong movement of the hand may ruin it all (which you'll have to fix by painting with the base colour again), but the final result is a lot more natural, and has the advantage that you don't have to try different shade tones until you find the right one - the tools do that for you, even over very light tones of cream!
hopw this helped!
awesome job anyway, and great lineart!
ps.: am i writing too much?!