comments and tutorials are welcome..

[behemot5]

a picture which is better here...
http://images.deviantart.com/large/indyart/freehand/lovemymouse.jpg
comments are welcome.... i did this with photoshp 7 and my mouse... i know nothing about colors.. if anyone can ewplain me it should be very usefull
thanks a lot

[Wilson]

Well here's something you can try:

Tint: adding white to a color

Make some gradients by adding white to any given color. Go from the base color to 12 dabs of white lighter.

Tone: adding grey to a color.

Same idea but add medium grey instead.

Shade: adding black to a color.

Again same thing but add black (even less than when you did the white).

Shadows do of corse get darker but they also change there color (usually get cooler). Use a contrasting color to your lightsource. One of my teachers suggested using a medium grey (by mixing burnt umber and ultramarine blue) to tone skin colors that are in shadow. Generally I believe the idea is to take some of the halftone color of a shape and add a little of the contrasting color to the light source while mixing in dark grey and black for shadows. The light source is usually more of a warm color and of course the tint increases.

I would suggest doing some tonal drawings with charcoal with halftone storm grey paper and some white color pencil. Draw objects in different lighting sources. Try to observe the changes in tone first and then do some color pencil drawings where you observe the change of hue from light to shadow of different color objects.