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Mastering Manga Studio 5

You're reading from   Mastering Manga Studio 5 An extensive, fun, and practical guide to streamlining your comic-making workflow using Manga Studio 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849697682
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Liz Staley Liz Staley
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Familiar with the Story Features FREE CHAPTER 2. The Right Tools for the Job 3. Palettes of a Different Color 4. Setting up Your Space 5. Living in a Material World 6. It's Only a (3D) Model 7. Ready! Set! Action! 8. Rulers and Speech Balloons 9. Putting It All Together! Drawing and Inking 10. Finishing Touches A. Recommended Reading Index

Special effects

When you're making your comics, you may come across coloring situations that I usually call special effects. Things such as shiny/reflective objects, magic or special powers, and using photographic patterns require special effects. We'll see how I handle these special instances, and then you can develop your own technique if mine doesn't work for you!

Shine

Let's start with a circle drawn on a transparent canvas. We're going to take this circle and turn it in to a ball bearing. On a new layer under the line for the circle, fill with a flat medium gray color as shown in the following screenshot:

Shine

Lock the transparent pixel for this layer and take your soft shading brush. Using a dark gray, add a shadow to the right side of the sphere, but do not add it all the way to the edge of it! Leave some of the base color between the shadow and the line. Then use the Lasso selection tool and the Multiply gradient to add some darker shadows. The end result will be...

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