Shading The Pokemon Bulbasaur Tutorial

Introduction

In this tutorial you will learn how to color the pokemon bulbasaur. This is the third part of the how to draw the pokemon bulbasaur tutorial. And directly follows the color the pokemon bulbasaur tutorial. We will focus mainly on shading in the character to make it appear to be more releastic. You can follow along in any vector program such as corel Idraw Adobe illustrator any other program that you like.

Needed Materials
Graphic Creating Software
Basic Computer Skills
Color Palettes

Step One

As I said above this tutorial will teach you how to color in the adorable grass pokemon bulbasuar. But as usualy before web begin, we must make sure we have planned for the colors we are going to use. The colors below are perfect for creating bulbasaur.

If you don't want to use these color palletes, you can browse our Color library to choose your own.

Aqua	Maroon	Dark Teal	Green	White

And of couse we are going to need the colored linart for shading.

Step Two:

For this step we will begin adding shading to bulbasaurs tounge. Choose then next darkest color of the Maroon color palette.

Step Three:

In this step use the seventh color of the maroon color palttte the shade in the top part of the eyeballs. Be sure to leave the pupils alone as we won't be shading those.

Step Four:

You guessed it! Now we are going to shade in the bulb that rests on bulbasaurs back. You can shade the by choosing the 5th Green color, and darken the back half of the bulb, as it's the furthest away.

Step Five:

This step is going to seem a bit remedial, but I need for you to choose a shade a dark teal that is ligher than the base color, as it will serve as highlight, and shade in part of the decorative pattern, that is on the front legs.

Step Six:

Use the lightest color the Dark Teal color palelte to add in the highlights, they are a bit random but they are closest to the edge of the outline. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed learning how to draw, color, and shade the pokemon bulbasaur.