Whoa! You've got skills! That...that art is godly! :0

Thanks for the complement, though I'm still learning everyday, and the way I do things always changes. I always strive to improve :)

still read cat to me but who cares... cuz it's cute !

EDIT : you never do anything else besides soft cell shading ? =3

x3 If that be true, then it shall stare with my mouth gaping as you strive to improve and learn. :P

OMG! You're such a good drawer, I wish I could draw like you, I mean, you can do different styles, and they're all awesome looking! :D:D:D:D:D

At some point I will need to commission you for one of my characters - a wolf character, to be precise.

-rolls- your art is amazing <3

Would you do a wolf drawing in the style of that nixi for sylestia gold/items?

wow so cute

Well, damn lol. I kinda see it now that I've stared at it forever. I think the issue may be the positioning of the eye. The fact that it's so close to the top of the muzzle, I think that may be what's throwing it off.

Either way, I'm glad you still enjoy the drawing.

And as for the shading, as far as my understanding of it, and talking to my bf who's more familiar with the topic since he's an animator, what I've done is not technically called soft cell shading.

DISCLAIMER: None of the art/turtorials below are mine. Just using them to show as an example.





This is soft cell vs cell shading. Cell shading, or toon shading as my bf calls it (there's literally a tool in the program he uses that's called that), is a harsh line informing the viewer where the light is coming from and where the shadow is being cast. Sometimes people will add a gradient in the shadow to had more depth or just add another solid block of shadow to it.

Soft shading is almost like cell shading, except you're blurring the line ever so slightly. Some people may blend it a little further out than in the first example, or they may go into more of detail, slowly adding slightly darker shadows and blending to get more depth like in the second example.



This is more akin to what my last two drawings have been. While I may have started out with a solid block of color, I blended it out far more than with soft cell shading.

And I'm not blaming you. Many people are just unaware of what the actual terms mean (even I didn't know fully until I talked to my bf and looked it up). They then use the terms without fully understanding what it means, and then other people who have never heard of the term then use it the only way they've been taught how. The other day I read a comment of someone using the term 'complementary colors' wrong saying that blue and yellow were complementary. They're primary colors, and primaries work well together, but they're not complementary. In art terms, complementary colors are directly across from each other on the color wheel. A very common example is blue and orange. They're across each other on the color wheel, therefore, they are complementary. Same thing with green and red, and so on and so forth. It was driving me crazy reading that, when it technically was not right.

Anyway, enough of that. I just thought I'd give you as much knowledge on the subject that I had. And if I've done things other than full color, then yes, I have. Here's some examples

DISCLAIMER OVER

Cell Shading







Soft Cell Shading


^{Even though this is traditional and its very subtle, there's slight blending.}

Mix Between Cell and Soft







Ok, I'll stop right there. The post is a lot longer than I expected lol Hopefully you at least learned something from it :P

Just make sure you don't let any bugs fly in there while you're doing that lol