Post by CaptainMakSparrow on Mar 19, 2016 6:08:50 GMT -5
ORIGINALLY CREATED BY haybenny (with a bit of formatting by me 
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Hello everyone!
Here is Haybenny's shading and highlighting tutorial. This is just my PERSONAL preference and I am in no way suggesting that it must be done this way! In fact, I encourage other users to show their own techniques.
This tutorial is only on shading and highlighting, since this is about all I do to my horses when I am showing them in the In-Hand shows.
I will be going over how to shade and highlight, including the tools to use.
I will also be going over where to place the shading and highlights.
*I USE PHOTOSHOP, I AM NOT SURE HOW THESE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES WILL TRANSLATE TO OTHER PROGRAMS, BUT I CAN TRY AND HELP YOU IF YOU NEED*
OK HERE WE GO!! FASTEN YOUR ARTSY SEAT BELTS GUYS !
Part A - How to shade and highlight, setting up your editing program
1. General: Know your tools
2. Shading: Burn tool
When using your burn tool, you will need to adjust some of the settings before you start to use it on your horse
This is the tool bar you will use to adjust your settings. As you can see here, there are a few different options.
First, you want to select your brush size and hardness. I usually leave the hardness at 0, and put the size somewhere between 10 and 15 depending on the area I am shading and the size of the horse I'm working with. It is a good idea to start with a smaller brush, you can always add more!
The next part to look at is the Range. This also depends on the horse you are working with. If you are shading a white horse, you will select the "Highlights" option. If you are shading a black horse, select the "Shadows" option. These two settings should ONLY be used on the specific colors mentioned.
If you are working with ANY other color, use the "Midtones" setting.
Last but not least, the Exposure. Like the brush size, you want this to be set somewhere between 10 and 15. Again, I strongly suggest starting at 10 and adding as you go. The darkness of your shading is up to personal preference.
3. Highlighting: Dodge tool
All of the same settings that go with the burn tool can also apply to the dodge tool.
OK HERE COMES THE FUN PART I HOPE Y'ALL ARE READY!
Part B - Your horse, where to shade and highlight
1. First, if you aren't familiar with the anatomy of the horse, it may help you to find a good conformation picture of a real horse.
We will use one here, and his name will be Cool-J.
Hey Cool-J, it was so nice of you to come and help us
Ok, so I know this horse is not facing the correct way that we like here on SS BUT I picked him because you can see the muscular structure and his natural highlighted areas pretty well. He's also super pretty!
Obviously, there are a looottt of different spots on this horse that you could shade and highlight on your own horse. However, trying to add all of these different details may "over do" it (in my opinion). This does not mean that it can't be done and still look nice!
2. Decide what parts to shade
Now, we can take the picture of Cool-J and decide what parts we want to shade on our own horse. Here, I will outline the parts that I like to do, however you can choose to do less or more.
The yellow lines represent where I will shade using the burn tool:
Ok! Now that we have decided where we want to place our shading, lets bring in a horse we want to show. Here I will use my main man Declan!
First, I have added the yellow lines to show where to shade. DO NOT do this, it is just to show you placement!
A lot of this is left up to imagination. Obviously your petz horse will not have defined muscluar areas i.e. the shoulders. Use your best judgement to decide where these features would lie on your horse.
3. Decide what parts to highlight
As you can see, our friend Cool-J is SUPER shiny. This makes it really easy to see where we might want to put our highlights with the dodge tool. Again, you can decide exactly how much highlighting you wish to add.
Poor Cool-J. Now, the yellow lines still represent the parts you have decided to shade, and the "mint" color represents where you want to apply highlights.
Declan time! Again, do not add these colored lines to your horse as this is only done for a reference! Like the shading, highlighting needs some imagination! Do your best to determine where the highlighted features would be.
GOOD JOB GUYS! YOU HAVE NOW SHADED AND HIGHLIGHTED YOUR HORSE!
Part C - Just add tack!
The finished product
I hope you guys liked my tutorial and I hope it helps! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask me!
)Hello everyone!
Here is Haybenny's shading and highlighting tutorial. This is just my PERSONAL preference and I am in no way suggesting that it must be done this way! In fact, I encourage other users to show their own techniques.
This tutorial is only on shading and highlighting, since this is about all I do to my horses when I am showing them in the In-Hand shows.
I will be going over how to shade and highlight, including the tools to use.
I will also be going over where to place the shading and highlights.
*I USE PHOTOSHOP, I AM NOT SURE HOW THESE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES WILL TRANSLATE TO OTHER PROGRAMS, BUT I CAN TRY AND HELP YOU IF YOU NEED*
OK HERE WE GO!! FASTEN YOUR ARTSY SEAT BELTS GUYS !
Part A - How to shade and highlight, setting up your editing program
1. General: Know your tools
This step is pretty easy, you will need to use your "burn" (shading) tool, and your "dodge" (highlighting) tool!
Next, find the "dodge" tool which will later be used for highlights. As seen in the picture above, this tool can be found by right clicking and selecting "dodge tool."
2. Shading: Burn tool
When using your burn tool, you will need to adjust some of the settings before you start to use it on your horse
This is the tool bar you will use to adjust your settings. As you can see here, there are a few different options.
First, you want to select your brush size and hardness. I usually leave the hardness at 0, and put the size somewhere between 10 and 15 depending on the area I am shading and the size of the horse I'm working with. It is a good idea to start with a smaller brush, you can always add more!
The next part to look at is the Range. This also depends on the horse you are working with. If you are shading a white horse, you will select the "Highlights" option. If you are shading a black horse, select the "Shadows" option. These two settings should ONLY be used on the specific colors mentioned.
If you are working with ANY other color, use the "Midtones" setting.
Last but not least, the Exposure. Like the brush size, you want this to be set somewhere between 10 and 15. Again, I strongly suggest starting at 10 and adding as you go. The darkness of your shading is up to personal preference.
3. Highlighting: Dodge tool
All of the same settings that go with the burn tool can also apply to the dodge tool.
OK HERE COMES THE FUN PART I HOPE Y'ALL ARE READY!
Part B - Your horse, where to shade and highlight
1. First, if you aren't familiar with the anatomy of the horse, it may help you to find a good conformation picture of a real horse.
We will use one here, and his name will be Cool-J.
Hey Cool-J, it was so nice of you to come and help us
Ok, so I know this horse is not facing the correct way that we like here on SS BUT I picked him because you can see the muscular structure and his natural highlighted areas pretty well. He's also super pretty!
Obviously, there are a looottt of different spots on this horse that you could shade and highlight on your own horse. However, trying to add all of these different details may "over do" it (in my opinion). This does not mean that it can't be done and still look nice!
2. Decide what parts to shade
Now, we can take the picture of Cool-J and decide what parts we want to shade on our own horse. Here, I will outline the parts that I like to do, however you can choose to do less or more.
The yellow lines represent where I will shade using the burn tool:
Ok! Now that we have decided where we want to place our shading, lets bring in a horse we want to show. Here I will use my main man Declan!
First, I have added the yellow lines to show where to shade. DO NOT do this, it is just to show you placement!
A lot of this is left up to imagination. Obviously your petz horse will not have defined muscluar areas i.e. the shoulders. Use your best judgement to decide where these features would lie on your horse.
3. Decide what parts to highlight
As you can see, our friend Cool-J is SUPER shiny. This makes it really easy to see where we might want to put our highlights with the dodge tool. Again, you can decide exactly how much highlighting you wish to add.
Poor Cool-J. Now, the yellow lines still represent the parts you have decided to shade, and the "mint" color represents where you want to apply highlights.
Declan time! Again, do not add these colored lines to your horse as this is only done for a reference! Like the shading, highlighting needs some imagination! Do your best to determine where the highlighted features would be.
GOOD JOB GUYS! YOU HAVE NOW SHADED AND HIGHLIGHTED YOUR HORSE!
Part C - Just add tack!
The finished product
I hope you guys liked my tutorial and I hope it helps! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask me!
