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Hey, looks awesome! You're getting better with this coloring style too! ^^

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i like the farmer look, very....ummm i can't think....rustive!

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oooo smexy x3

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wow....it looks even BETTEr in color...*drools* Incredibley great work mister Furret

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Lovely coloring :3

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How did you create the shadows? I'm learning how to use Adobe Photoshop in school.....

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what a hot, sexy, stud of a horse!~

For the shadows on the horse? Kinda like this:

First, I put up a new layer over my flat colors (and below the lineart).
Set the layer to 'multiply', 'color dodge' or 'linear dodge' depending on the kinda of shadows you want, for this one I used multiply ( for multiply, all colors underneath darken the same amount compared to the color you use--or something like that)
I filled in shadows with a hard brush first, using a single dark color. Cel-shaded it, basically, so I had very basic shadows. Make sure the color you use is still lighter (or will end up lighter) than the lineart (unless you want to do something like shade the lineart, which I don't prefer as it's tricky)
Set the layer's trancparency/fill down low, and duplicate it. On the duplicated layer, turn the transparency/fill up until you like how dark it is. Then use a soft brush of the same color, and soften out the edges to account for the roundness of the body. That's the tricky part; make sure you don't overdo it, and make sure you don't underlap the hard shadows you have if you erase.
To make sure everything's inside the lines, you have to have a selection of the outermost of the subject--if your lineart is solid, all you need to do is select the negative space around the figure on that layer (failing that, you can probably do this with the flat colors layer) then you select the layer that overlapped the lineart boundary and press delete.

I think some people can do this all and better on one layer, but I'm not very good with coloring myself.

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