-- - well this was a tutorail for some guy in pursuit the pic was done by him and i did the rest hope you can learn something from this shading tutorial by burnt (pursuit) by the way i didn t shade this side ) welps i guess since shading is really confusing and i have no h w tonight i ll be nice and make you a tutorial =) well here my toturial it only works if the base picture is light colored though light colored picture -- first you add white squares in the general are were you want the light to hit like that then how do you fade white to a light color you have to use grey with the white then use grey with the light color ( ) and you can get some good light exposer like so but if you think that looks to bland and ya like that wacky look people go for now just add some vertical or horizontal bars of color like this aha there ya go wacko and you ll wanto add some dark shading like this it s easy just mix the light color with the dark color like ( ) there ya go a nice little tutorial on shading a little pink blob i hope you understand it and for backgrounds well their pretty hard to explain just look at the one i did up at the top and practice you wanna include lots of pluses and fades like ( ) and i guess thats all i have tought myself about shading in the past 3 years hope this helps also if you want the picture to look really freaky replace the white when you do the light exposure with another light color like i did in this ansi -- woo freaky well this is the end 117 lines you better like this ) you can give it to other people if you like i don t mind