Friday Archive Dive: The Danger of Coloring on the Edge

Today's Archive Dive is from July 19, 2012, and it's a guest post by Mary Cagle in which she shares a greattutorial on the coloring process.

Something that drives me crazy about a lot of cel shading is that the artist only lines the edge of their figures with shadow.

As a demonstration, here's a recent panel of my comic shaded in such a way:

While cel shading is about simplifying forms and quickly adding depth to an image, doing it in this way completely ruins the point of shading.

Read the entire post and comment there.