Okay I'll bite

[Cayen1234]

anyone know how to do the shading that's now famous in comic art?

[Sergei]

The famous sort of shading, as opposed to the kind of shading that was never really appreciated in its lifetime?

[ANTTyro]

Soft highlight shading, or what?

[Odd1]

I feel so uncool... I don't even know what the totaly hip-cool-in popular COMIC SHADING is. Cayen1234, if you could be a bit more specific, I might be able to send you to a good tutorial

- Liz

[ANTTyro]

It's either soft, or hard shading...prolly highlighting, at that...

[STrRedWolf]

There's a few ways to do it, including using the airbrush tool on a layer in Photoshop/Gimp/PSP to apply light/dark areas in each area. I myself have printed out two copies of a sketch, darkened up one, and rescanned them and tried to match 'em up as close as I can. Results can be mixed.

[ZOMBIE USER 9264]

For reference, the style is called 'Cel-Shading' and has been around for ages. Personally, I've always prefered it to actual progressive shading. I do mine extra simple. After I scan and colour something I just take a shade of my colour, maybe 30 points less on all RGB sliders (or whatever is appropriate depending on the colour of the light source) and just draw a line where I want shading to be. Then I fill in the rest with Anti-Aliasing off and tollerence at zero. I hope this helps at all.

[Magusferox]

I'd like to know what is screentone and how it is used. I know its mostly used for a greyscale in japanese comics, but otherwise I know nothing more. Any enlightenment?