Secrets of Tooling - Part 2

For those of us who have never done anything like this, this tutorial makes the process far less intimidating. Showing us how to use stock to create the sketch of the body is very helpful. I also appreciate that you took the time to explain to those of us who never know where to put the highlights and shadows exactly where they should be.

I could wish that you showed the process you used for creating your own palette since you mentioned that it's best to create your own. By that I mean showing new artists how to best determine how to choose the lighter and darker shades of the main base color, and then how to choose those shades in between. That is an area where I get overwhelmed and flustered every time. I just can never figure out how to choose those colors. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/f/f…" width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="380" title=" (Sad)"/>

The only other thing lacking would be screenshots of your tools as you went, but you have inspired me to try, and that's something in and of itself. <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt="" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="391" title=" (Smile)"/>