This is a step-by-step tutorial video which takes you through my technique for shading pictures in Corel PaintShop Photo Pro (X3). This follows on from my Colour Preparation Tutorial which shows how to take your picture from a pencil drawing to the flat colour image shown at the start of this video.

The whole process takes me many hours, but I have trimmed this video down to around 15 minutes of the essentials. While large chunks of the sequence have been cut out, each section of the demonstration runs in real-time, unlike my previous time-lapse demonstration video.

This tutorial takes you through setting up layers, what different brush options do, how to apply shading/lighting and carry out blending, and how to tidy up your work at the end. As mentioned within the clip, these are just my methods - I cannot claim that these are by any means the most efficient ways to achieve these effects or indeed whether they will be suitable for anyone else, but hopefully this can give you some ideas if you're not sure how to proceed. Ultimately, you just need to experiment and find out what works for you.

Note that this video has no sound. The instructions are delivered via text on screen. I have attempted to pace them suitably for watching in one go, but you may wish to pause and repeat various sections as you go through.

The example image used in this tutorial is Party Dude Pounce, featuring Michelangelo in his cartoon form from the 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.