#clothing shading tutorial

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VTUBER LORE: CAP #44 - RENDERING LOWER BODY ASSETS AND FABRIC VOLUMES 👁️🥾

The daily 1-hour live grind continues to shape the main asset of the series. In this episode, the technical focus shifts down to ensure the model looks grounded, structurally balanced, and fully integrated with the ambient mood.

Today's session was dedicated to applying precise volumetric shading to the remaining skin sections, defining the tension points on the socks/thigh-highs, and carving out the heavy directional shadows on the boots. When dealing with complex accessories like footwear, managing a clean hierarchy of layers is what allows the future animation to look fluid without distorting the depth of the illustration.

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Most artists DON'T know how to shade boots... 🥾💀 | VTuber Lore Cap #44

Shading footwear and tight clothing can absolutely make or break a character's stance. 🔥In Chapter #44 of the VTuber Lore series, we are exp

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Hello!! Welcome to my clothing shading tutorial (suggested) hope you get something outta this! (Posting Emma tomorrow)

First of all use an airbrush and spray a peach tone on the shoulders and anywhere else you would like (optional)

Next using the dense watercolour take either a shade of peach, dark peach (or whatever that is LOL) or light purple depending on the vibe of the drawing and place it like you would if you were cell shading but it doesn't have to be as neat

Next you're gonna wanna add all sorts of hues such as: dark pinky oranges, baby blue and a violet colour. This is personal choice though and I would recommend sticking to colours that work well together (remember im not a professional)

You're going to want to take the transparent watercolour brush mentioned in the last tutorial along with the dense watercolour brush and blend! Try to use the dense watercolour brush more

These are the types of brushes I'm talking about! If you don't have them in your application you can probably download something similar from the sites assets page

Remember to stick to light colours on the wheel!

After a bit of time and blending you should end up with something like this! Its not perfect but its colourful! I hope you found this helpful.

Remember you can add new colours at any time throughout the process if it looks strange