User:Cherryfur123/Charart tutorial

Introduction
Heya! This is my Charart Tutorial :D.

Well, I use Pixlr to use my Chararts. If you just started making Chararts and you are using Pixlr, here's a chart for the tools and stuff:

Blur tool- Looks like a raindrop

Smudge tool- Is a hand with a smudgy line

Dodge tool, for adding highlights- I don't know how to explain it, but its under the smudge tool

Burn tool, for adding shading- It's a hand making an 'O' shape

'''Pencil tool, for drawing things like tabby stripes, patches, etc... - Looks like... well... a pencil XD'''

Eraser tool- Looks like an eraser XD XD

Brush tool, kinda like a pencil- Is right under the pencil

Paint Bucket Tool, used to fill in the blank- Looks like a bucket with paint tipping out

Well, here are some other ones that come in handy:

Wand Tool, if you click on a part of the blank, it outlines it in dotted lines and if you want to draw stripes of stuff, the color wont get out of the blank- Is above the pencil tool

Color picker tool, say if your doing a two colored cat and you switch from one color to the other, and you want to use the other color again, you click on anywhere with the color you want and it will replace your other color- Is near the bottom, next to that big 'A'

How to color a warrior
First, let's start off with a warrior.

I'm using the color gray so, first you fill in the blank:



Next, you get the dodge tool and dodge the shoulder three times, the tail and the haunch three times. Then, set the dodge tool to size thirty and dodge the muzzle three times also so you get:



Next, get the burn tool and set it to size nine and shade underneath the tail and belly. Run the burn tool over the left paws. Then, blur the shading so you get:



Finally, add ear pink and fill in the nose. To make the ear pink, get pink and draw two small triangles on the ears with the pencil set to size one. Then blur the ear pink. And color in the eyes and you're done!



How to color a black cat
Okay, next is the black cat. When you color one, make sure you color it in with a very very very dark gray, not pure black, so it wont blend in with the lineart.

So, to start out choose a very very very dark gray and fill in your blank to get this:



Next, add highlights. I do black cats a little differently than when I do regular warriors. I get the dodge tool and change the range from midtones to highlights and just dodge the tail, haunch, and shoulder ONCE. Then, I switch the size to thirty and dodge the muzzle once as well. It'll turn out like this:



Next add shading regularly and blur.



Then, add ear pink, fill in the nose, and color the eye in and your finished.



How to color a white cat
For white cats, choose a very very pale gray instead of pure white.



Next add highlights like you would for black cats. Change the range to highlights and dodge the tail, haunch, shoulder, and muzzle once.



Next add the shading. Like the highlights, change the range to highlights. Then, change the exposure to 6 and shade regularly.



Add ear pink, color in the nose, and fill in the eye color and your done :)



How to color two colored cat
Two colored cats are very simple. Fill in the blank with your base color:



Then, with your second color, draw patches on the blank, with the pencil tool set to size five. Blur those patches two times:



Next, add the highlighs regularly. I like to shade brown cats like I would with white cats, so it'll turn out like this:



And add the finishing touches- ear pink, nose color, and eye color- and voila! Done!



How to color tortoiseshell cats
Many people think that torties are hard to do, but they're really quite simple, if you know the right way to do them ;)

Well, there are three kinds of torties that I'll show you today: the tortoiseshell and white, the regular tortie, and the dark tortie.

Let's start with the tortie and white.

Tortoiseshell and white cats
First, start by drawing shapes into the blank with the colors ginger and dark gray.



Next, fill in the blank with the paint bucket tool:



Now, take the smudge tool and make zig zag shapes onto the patches.



Blur the patches



Now, just add highlights and shading regularly:



Next, just add the finishing touches :)