-the phunk tutorial-------------------------------------------------------°°°-- this is meant to be a tutorial for the more advanced ansi-artist. if you  are new in business, check out 14.zip aka 14 steps to worlddomination by  hennifer / lazarus.  no long introduction, this tutorial deals mostly with colorcombinations,  you should be able to handle the shaping already =) and a VERY important note: never try to use too much new things.  first use the basic shading until it's perfect and then move on the next step. that's it. ah well, you have to cope with my english, too. =) most ansi-artists use a very small amount of the available colors. newer artists often only use shadingscales like cyan-bright cyan-white etc. ÛÛ  ²²  ÛÛ ²²they sure look good, but after you've seen dozens of logos ÛÛ  ÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛwith this simple shading, they get extremely boring =) ²²  ²² ²² ²² °°  °° °° °° ÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛ ÛÛ the first possibility to enhance the shading is called pnakotic - after the ice-logo artist (releasing in 94 or something) who invented this :) there are several kinds of pnakotic shading.  1. the f2 method you got a dark area of a certain colour and put a f2-block (±/alt-177) some-  where on it. ÛÛÛ± <- f2 ÛÛÛ± <- f2 ÛÛÛ± <- f2 ÛÛÛ± <- f2 ÛÛÛ± <- f2 ÛÛÛ± <- f2 ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ as you might have noticed, some combinations don't look too good - like  blue, red and brown. just putting a f2block somewhere in the middle of an empty area usually does not look too good, either. ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛ±±Û ßßßßßßß 2. the fading-out method pnakotic is a cool way of fading out into black. °°<-f1°° ÛÛÛÛÛ±±<-f2 ÛÛÛÛ±± ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ<-f4 ÛÛÛ±²² 3.  you can use some pnakotic f3-block in a normal shading scale to add some "diffusion". ÛÛ°°Û you usually do not recognize at the first sight, but it adds some ÛÛ°°Û detail into the ansi, especially if you use it several times (but  ÛÛ²²° never overdo it - like i use to do from time to time =) ÛÛ Û this works with a couple of colours like yellow and brown, cyan, ÛÛ°°Û red etc.  ÛÛ²²° sometimes that little contrast is too strong. then you can smooth ÛÛÛÛÛ it with one grey ° block on the bg-colour. ÛÛ°°Û ÛÛ²²° 4. extended pnakotic in the last time i used to some kind of extended pnakotic. have a look: (appeared in bmbook 16)    k o l O r .. °     Þ  °Û      ÜÜ ÜÜÜÜ   ß ÞÛÛÛ ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜ°   °ß ÜÜ       ÜÝ  ÜÜÜÜÞÛÛÛÛ   ßÝ ÞÛÛÛÛßßÛÛÛÛÛ°  ßÜÜÜÜÜÞ ÛÛÛÜÜÜ ßß  ÛÛÛÛÛÛ   °² ß° ßßÛÛܲÛÛÛ²° ²±²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÜ °²  ²²ÛÛÛ²  ÜÜܱ±Ý ß Û °°²²²²²²²° °° °²²²ßßßÛÛÛ²²²ÛÛÛÛÝ°   °² ±²²²²²°Üܱ±°°°°²²° ÜÜÜÛß ÜÜß²²²°Û ÜÜ°Üß ßÜÜ°²²²² ßßÜß²²²²²²²²° °² ß²²²²ܲ±°°°±±ßßßß ÛÛÛß °²²²Ü ܲ²°°°ÛÜ°°²²²Ü ܲ°Ü°°° °ß °Þ°°°²²²²Û   °²  °°°²°°°°ß Üܲ²  ²°°°°°°°°°ßßÛÛÛÛÛßÛݲ°±±°°°ßÛÛÛÛÛß°°²²² ß °Üܲ²²°°°ß   °ß ±±²²²°° Ý   ß   Û²²²ÜÜ°°±²²ÛÛÛ°°°Ûß ²²ßß°°°ÛÛ°°°°°Ûß²²²ÜÜܲ²²²ßßß °     °²°²²²²°°°°ÛÜÜ°°°°²²²Þ²²²²²°°°ß°²²°ßß °°Üßß²²°²²Ûßß ÞÛ°°²²²ÛÛ²²²Ü °°    ² ÜÜ°°°Ýßß°°±±²²²²°°°²Û²²²²²²² ÜÜÜ°°° °° °°°ßßßÜÜ°°ßßÛÛ°°Ý ÞÝ  ° ° ßß²²ÛÝ  ßßßß±±°²²²Û² Þßß°  ÞÜ ßßßßßß ÜÜ ßß Þ°°°°ÛÝ °   ÜÜ ²²     °²° ßßßß ÜÜ ß ÜÜ ß  °Þ°²²²Ý  °        ßÝ Ü °  Þ²²ßßßß  °°° _avebm ²²²²² let's take this part for example. as you can see i (almost) always ²²²²Ü chose black as background colour for the bright colours (pink/white/  °°°² yellow). ±²²²° i smoothed those hard contrasts with ²²° ²²²²° some f1-block of the same or of a darker|^ ° on Û colour|  `- ² on black "bright squares" dieznyik once released a tutorial about transparency. halaster/fire often uses this, too.    it works fine with grey/white, cyan/bright cyan .. but also with some quite  odd combinations. examples:   ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ    ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ   ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛjust try it yourself. ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ   ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ of course you do not have to choose always squares. it works well with every- thing.  "phunk" colours.  here is some list of colours which blend cool to each other. these are only proposals and the list isn't complete, of course. go wild :) shading on purple areas:    ÛÛ°°  f1 on purplef1 on purple °°°°f1 on Û  Û ±±  f2 on blue f1 on purple °°²²f3 on black f1 on purple °°²²  f3 on purplef1 on purple °°²²f3 on black f1 on purple °°²² f3 on blackf1 on purple °°²²  f3 on black f1 on purple °°²² f3 on blackf1 on purple °°ÛÛÛ f4 on black/f4 on black f1 on purple °°²² f3 on blackßßß f5 on black f1 on purple °°ÛÛÛ f4 on black ßßß shading on red areas:  ÛÛ°° f1 on redÛÛ   ÛÛ±± f2 on redÛ °° f1 on red  ÛÛ°° f1 on redÛÛ    °° f1 on redÛÛ°° f1 on red f1 on red  °°²² f3 on brownÛÛ±± f2 on red f3 on red  °°°° f1 on redÛÛ²² f3 on red f1 on red  °°²² f3 on black f2 on red°°°° f1 on red f1 on red  °°²² f3 on blackf3 on red²²²² f3 on black f3 on black ²²ÛÛ f4 on blackf1 on red°°²² f3 on black  ÛÛ²² f3 on grey f1 on red  °°ÛÛ f4 on black shading on blue areas: ÛÛ°° f1 on blue ÛÛ°° f1 on blue °°²² f3 on black °°ÛÛ f4 on black °°°° f1 on blue ±±°° f1 on black °°²² f2 on black °°²² f3 on black °°²² f3 on black this is when the author got bored. to be continued. SAUCE00shitty tutorial avengerblack maiden199802152P©