Photoshop tutorials for 'cartoon' colouring?

[sunlitsix]

basically im looking for some more tutorials that produce effects like this :
http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-face.html

also what sort of objects would be worth doing to start with?
maybe shapes or something?

edit : so ive decided to draw what he did, here it is so far :

im not a very good drawer but still
just need to finish the shading then its all down to photoshop

any comments are welcome btw

 

[sunlitsix]

anyone got any links? i cant find anymore

 

[sunlitsix]

awesome, those links are a big help

thanks!
what do you think of the drawing btw?

 

[sunlitsix]

thanks for those links raikiri, shall check them out tomorrow

nice drawing youve done there too
heres another ive just started :



edit : i dont think i can do those tut's, there isnt a 'channel' tab on elements 4

 

[sunlitsix]

ok ive done one, havent followed those tut's because most of the settings are missing in elements 4

the pencil drawing :



finished colouring:




any comments on it?

 

[sunlitsix]

shading at the drawing stage or colouring stage?

 

[sunlitsix]

ill start on this one now :



think it needs any shading first?

 

[sunlitsix]

I'd say do the shading at the colouring stage. Play around with blending gradients into the blocks of colour etc. Have you tried doing any vector art? As it would be very easy to block the colour in with these sort of drawings, using something like Adobe Illustrator or the pen tool in photoshop.

i haven't tryed any vector art yet, got any good examples?

Homer simpson probably is not the best thing to do shading with due to using blocks of colours/cell shading and rarely has any shadows

meh, its still practice though

 

[sunlitsix]

does the book show stuff like different techinques to do and that?
ill look into it anyway

heres homer so far :

ive got to go over the lines now, make them stand out more