Gradiant?
There's a gradiant tool in Flash. You don't need to put in those lines manually. And most surfaces don't just grade from medium to dark in a straight progression. That technique isn't really describing the shape or material of the subject, it's just filling up the space with something slightly more complicated than flat shading, but with no more visual information. But I like where it says "bitches" and stuff. That makes me laugh.
once again, did prowlies at the river use gradiants? I know what your getting at but this is one of the many styles of shading, pointing out one doesn't really do anything for anybody.
*PS*: Glad those little bored excerpts made you laugh hahaha.
yeah.
if you're gonna make a tutorial about shading, just make it about light shading around the adges. shadows kinda thing. with what you just did, you just took unnecessary steps to achieve an effect almost as good as a gradient.
i know you'll say "you don't get the same effect", but... yeah, you do. and it looks smoother and doesn't take as long as what you just did.
also, too much clicking.
meh
instead of going through all that hasle, why not make your own gradients?
This tutorial could help newer users with color shading. If you added more examples that could be very helpful.
Uhhh, no.
I don't know anything about shading..
But I felt you were wrong in most cases.
The shading was horrible..
You had some parts right but you made the shading too obvious.
It's supposed to be a slight transition but the big shading transitions were very ugly.
It's an alright tutorial for "ultra newbs" but it wasn't that great.