hows my shading?

a old design from ages ago, aint done anything with it. decided to use it to do my first ever bit of shading and highlighting (and also my first ever time of actually using my wacom since I bought it).....just wondered how everyone thinks the shading and highlighting looks?

any tips for better success?

BEFORE / Unshaded:

AFTER / Shaded:

Any Suggestions to better my shading / highlighting?

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   quakerninja said 2 months ago

   looks good, sub it somewhere, Snorg would love this, or Threadless, or woot. This kind of simple cute, is as popular as zombies and skulls. I think you will do really well as you continue to develop.

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   make planes not waste said 2 months ago

   quakerninja said: I think you will do really well as you continue to develop.

   thanks I appreciate it - your getting a lot better yourself too....I love the Vomit Waterfall one of yours....sweet as pie!

   I still think this one would be missing something before thinking of subbing it anywhere...

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   CH Designs said 2 months ago

   The very subtle shading on this makes it a LOT better!

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   make planes not waste said 2 months ago

   CrisHoweDesigns said: The very subtle shading on this makes it a LOT better!

   really? i wasnt sure if it needed more as its quite subtle....

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   MykeCatastrophic said 2 months ago

   CrisHoweDesigns said: The very subtle shading on this makes it a LOT better!

   Absolutely!

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   sockmonkee said 2 months ago

   this looks very castle crasher’ish. that’s not a bad thing though

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   make planes not waste said 2 months ago

   sockmonkee said: this looks very castle crasher’ish. that’s not a bad thing though

   castle crasher?

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   sittingduck said 2 months ago

   i think the main problem a lot of people have with shading is that it gets used too much. I’m guilty of this myself alot of the time. this looks ace with the subtle shading. keep at it dude. :D

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   hideouscarwreck said 2 months ago

   that is the cutest octopus i have seen in a while.

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    mitchbones said 2 months ago

    make planes not waste said:

    sockmonkee said: this looks very castle crasher’ish. that’s not a bad thing though

    castle crasher?

    You haven’t lived.

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    Universitee Apparel said 2 months ago

    how do you print with shading? is it considered another color? or do they just darken the color?

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    edgillustrator said 2 months ago

    to me, the shading, and lighting MAKES the design, not having any sort of shading or lighting makes the image look REALLY flat and im not really a fan of that sort of design unless greg abbott made it.

    this is good though, definitely sub it on threadless :]

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    Randomentity said 2 months ago

    mitchbones said:

    make planes not waste said:

    sockmonkee said: this looks very castle crasher’ish. that’s not a bad thing though

    castle crasher?

    You haven’t lived.

    you don’t even know.

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    sittingduck said 2 months ago

    Universitee Apparel said: how do you print with shading? is it considered another color? or do they just darken the color?

    no, you don’t darken the color. What you do is use the colors you already have ... the black could be used as a halftone for the shading, and a creme halftone for the highlights. He didn’t even technically add a color to this.

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    Superfex said 2 months ago

    thats well cool
    i’d wear it

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    make planes not waste said 2 months ago

    sittingduck said: no, you don’t darken the color. What you do is use the colors you already have ... the black could be used as a halftone for the shading, and a creme halftone for the highlights. He didn’t even technically add a color to this.

    no actually for this i did use darker and lighter hues of the same colour. How would I make the halftones for shading and highlighting to keep the colours down....anyone?

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    kyleisez said 2 months ago

    this is great! i did something like this for chiodos... stupid octopi!

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    make planes not waste said 2 months ago

    kyleisez said: this is great!

    thanks - i really appreciate that as I am a big fan of your work, so thank you :)

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    make planes not waste said 2 months ago

    If you liked it please go vote at Threadless for me and if you like it give me some love ;) the link is on this page: http://emptees.com/tees/8206-cute-is-what-i-aimed-for

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