[SOLVED] Cell Shading

[Jaye]

So I'm actually attempting to draw/colour my own characters. I've decided on cellshading cause I figured it suited the medium more. I already have rough designs of my main characters and little pixel designs of my characters so I know what they look like and how they're coloured.

New question:

Has anyone got any idea about cell shading waffle pants?

Um, waffle pants are like checkered pants except all the 'lines' between the squares are raised (making a checkerboard of indented squares over the pants). The pants are one base colour.

Anyone?


THE FLUFFINESS HAS BEEN SOLVED

Then I get to my fluffy haired character.
Now this character has caused me grief since day one of drawing. I've already had to re-do his 'do with the original designs in front of me (where as I could do the others off-by-heart).
So here's my basic question:
Does anyone know how to cell-shade fluffiness?
(ie. His hair is meant to look a lot like sheep fleace. Also, his jacket is furlined and shows it.)

[Samu-kun]

You could try emulating Nia from Gurren Lagann. Her hair's pretty fluffy and looks a lot like a cloud, but still only uses two colours.

[Jaye]

You could try emulating Nia from Gurren Lagann. Her hair's pretty fluffy and looks a lot like a cloud, but still only uses two colours.

Wow, that's rather fluffy, yep that looks like it'll help a lot. Thanks!


I wonder if that'll work for the jacket...

[Blue Sky]

Three colors, Samu. One extra for the highlight on top. ;P

*Nitpick*

[Jaye]

Ah, but the fluffy bit only has two, Blue Sky.

Thanks so very much! That helped so much. He looks much fluffier now.


A second request (which I'll edit the OP with):

Anyone have any ideas/examples of waffle pants with cell shading?

[Samu-kun]

That's a little bit more tricky... Maybe this might help.....?

[Jaye]

That's a little bit more tricky... Maybe this might help.....?

Looks good, ironically enough it's the tops that I think will help more. (Especially the vest of that guy in the center).

I'll post again after I've tried it.

[IceD]

You can achieve similiar look with photoshop for example, using textures and gradients overlapping them. Similiar like with png for the novel sprites - firstly you apply a texture to the desired area and then transculency on different layers. You may achieve the same effect and achieve it through many ways - applying masks or using/changing layer styles. I don't know what program are you using, but such cg's are the easiest to make in Photoshop, as far as I can remember you can make from version 6.

[Jaye]

Thanks IceD, Photoshop was how I originally made the 'waffle' pattern I wanted to use. But now I am using GIMP. Besides, Photoshop blurs a lot - not so ideal for cell shading. Thanks anyway.

And a big thank you to Samu-kun! That picture helped a lot.