Q-tea's guide to grayscales and gradient maps

[Q-tea]

For anyone curious of how it's done. Hope it comes in handy, if you decide to work with color, it's pretty much same concept. Except instead of gray shades you'll use colors.

I work in Paint Tool Sai, but you can do this in any program. Just find the lock tool for layers.

[Maro]

Ooooh this is going to be super helpful o3o danke!

[Turtle Sensei]

This is really neat!! Thank you!!

[Q-tea]

maro turtlesensei

I'm glad to hear guys!
I can't wait to see your creations. ^^

[Turtle Sensei]

Q-tea!!! Is there anyway that I can persuade you to draw me?

[Ryvvi]

ooooh so thas how
thank you so much for the tutorial!

[Blue Jay]

Thank You Q-Tea now I know how to do it. XD

[Q-tea]

Interested, if anyone's tried this

[ShiroGEM]

BLESS. I didn't even know this was here. ; u ; I'll definitely be trying it!!

[Q-tea]

ShiroGEM

You should!! And post the results > V <

[murmurlade]

ooohh any chance you'll be sharing your gradient maps ? @w@

[Q-tea]

murmurlade

Maybe eventually. Right now they are rather a mess ^^;;;
I've been dropping gradients in for a year now and some are duplicates that I didn't realize I had, ect.

[murmurlade]

owob gotcha! looking forward to that as well, then!
i feel u about the duplicate thing omggg but for me its brush packs-- i accidentally loaded 3 of the same packs because i edit the names when i put them in /o\

[ShiroGEM]

Will do! I really want to help make more items and recolouring is kind of annoying. I still might do it manually but for simple gradients this method seems cool. ouob

omg same for me, especially when Kyle updates his brush packs. ;;

[murmurlade]

every time you try out kyle's new brushes i scream, shir ><;; makes me want to draw

same same as shir! i wanna make items *_* )b