Falling art:- Digital anime art tutorial

Right so in my previous post I said I was going to be posting a digital art tutorial for my latest art piece, 'Falling Apart'.
The program I used to make this was only Photoshop CS2. Tools I used was a Wacom Bamboo fun tablet and pen.
*The techniques I show here are what I find best, you can try and find your own way, by using these techniques.
*I am using a tablet so, things will be different for  people that do not have one!
*Please click on the images to enlarge, for more explaination!

*I would say this style is a combination of realism and anime.

So lets begin this digital anime art tutorial!

Aoi Portrait: Complete

Well, a few days ago I posted on my Tumblr that I was drawing 'Someone' now I can say its Aoi from the Gazette, with his new Pink hair!

So here are the steps I went to makingmy Aoi digital drawing.
I wanted in this piece to have his hair the main focus, to I made the rest black and white....well black and grey....
Any way lets begin!

Brush Tool Tutorial

Well, my friend asked me about brush tools the other day,
as in my college work I had little butterflies and roses and she didn’t know how to do it.
So I thought I would give you this so I can hopefully help other people too.
*All of these brushes in the tutorial/examples can be resized in anyway, to your preference.
*I am using Photoshop CS2, so things may vary in different versions of the program.
*All examples are below their explainations.
*More detailed look into the brushes are in the images, so please click the pictures to enlarge.

How to make an animated GIF

Well Im back with another basic tutorial for how to make a simple animated GIF.



*Im only using Photoshop Cs2, so icon and selection maybe different on other versions of Photoshop. The same basic properties are the same though.

*The exact same things can be done on 'Image Ready', but again there maybe slight differences.
Using only screen shots or your own images. Im just using Photoshop as it comes as more of a convience to me.

Anime digital art tutorial

Well I shall be telling you how I make a digital anime art painting using a scanner, Photoshop and a cheap graphics tablet, which is a Wacom Bamboo fun.
Please visit my more recent anime digital art tutorial here 'Falling Apart' -Digital anime art tutorial.

*Most/all the parts I made on all separate layers.

*All this is from what I know to do easiest, I am not the best and there will probably be much better ways of doing this, mine just comes as an example for techniques.

*I am only using Photoshop CS2, things may varies of different versions.
*More in depth examplainations on all the images, so please click to enlarge them. :).
*All images are above the examplanation of that section.
*This painting can be found on my deviantART page ->http://mayonakasun.deviantart.com/art/Pirate-Girl-126031671

How to make a basic banner

Well ok so this is a tutorial on how to make basic banners for your own blogs and websites.

First thing you need is Photoshop and hopefully saved pictures on your PC or MAC.

All I used was pictures I had saved on my PC.

First thing I did was open the pictures I wanted to use.

I will be using these for my tutorial. Simply click all the images to enlarge them the main image you will be looking at is the smaller sideways one.

Photoshop Small Explainations/Tutorials....

Well I thought I'd make make a small tutorial/ explanation thing for Photoshop for editing pictures and Photos and things . Ok so I’m not saying I’m the best, in any way as I am still learning myself even though I’ve had it for ages now haha~xD
But still maybe it’ll help some of you too, so I thought I’d post it here.
For my examples or models I should say I will be using a picture of the Tidus from Final Fantasy X and Kyo from Dir en grey ‘cause their cool ‘n all :)
Right so for some effects I sometimes like to use first: