The first tutorial I found on coloring by
Julie Dillon (who is absolutely amazing):
http://www.cablenet.ne.jp/%7ejapani…ial/cgmain.html
This tutorial has actually been the most helpful for me because it explained the key part of using the pen tool (ctrl) in Photoshop:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21814747/
This is also a really good pen tool tutorial:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53638910/
I already knew most of the stuff in that one except for using the “minimum diameter” feature, VERY helpful to know. I also didn’t know something about clipping masks but haven’t used it or tried it.
Despite being called “basic”, this one was too advanced for me, but I tried it and learned a few things nonetheless:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/22299908/
Again, too advanced for me, but managed to learn a few things on my own while trying to figure it out:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21391378/
A couple of wing tutorials I’ve recently been trying:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20664835/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23056695/
And for fun, here’s one on how to draw:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/27846213/
As for tutorials I’ve written, one was just for using the smudge tool and gradient map to make a Phoenix, written to help a friend. Since she explained she had troubles with Photoshop, I wrote it with very precise instructions, as if a person barely knew anything about Photoshop. There are, of course, other ways to do it, and lots of ways to do even the basic steps outlined, I just did the ones that come most naturally to me.
http://www.animecentral.net/tutoria…torialpg01.html
http://www.animecentral.net/tutoria…torialpg02.html
http://www.animecentral.net/tutoria…torialpg03.html
http://www.animecentral.net/tutoria…torialpg04.html
http://www.animecentral.net/tutoria…torialpg05.html
Later, I wrote another one for the same friend about removing lines from lined paper drawings (it’s my most popular deviation on deviantART):
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35555586/ OR
http://www.animecentral.net/tutoria…torialpg01.html
^That is just a recommended method of how I would approach the problem. I’m well aware there’s a million ways to do things in Photoshop already and that there are alternatives others might take.