User:Pearlfeather/Tutorial for Black and White Cats!

Okay, some of the hardest kinds of chararts to make are the black and whtie ones. The colors always drown out the shading and the highlights. Well, there are two ways to do this.

First Step: Fill in your charart
Fill in you black charart with dark grey color, or fill in your white charart with light grey color. Don't forget to fill in those eyes!

The First Way: Pixlr!
What I do is I fill out my charart in MS Paint, then I open it in Pixlr and blur/shade/highlight it. Well, blur any spots, pathes, splotches, or any other thing that might be on your cat's pelt. Now, let's start with the black cat. Step 2 is highlights! Click the dodge tool and set the range to "shadows" and the exposure to "8". Then just tap the same spots you would for another charart. Step 3 is to change the shading tool's range to "shadows" and the exposure to "8". then tap it like normal chararts. Then you're done. And for the white, do the same thing, only instead of "shadows", change the range to "Highlights". Look at the examples below to see what it should look like.

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The Second Way: Manually
The second way, you just use ms paint then blur everything in pixlr. First, you take the base coat color and change it to make it slightly darker, save that as a custom color, then make one that's slightly lighter than the base coat color. Then you just draw on the shadining and highlights, then blur them in pixlr. Look at the examples to figure out how to do this.

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In my opinion, I don't like the second way that much. I hope this helped! If you have any questions, please ask me on the talk page, and I want to see your art! If you made some art with the help of this tutorial, post it below to show it off to everyone who read this page!