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One of the advantages of using Pen Tool is that we have full control the process of selection, especially with complicated object. When mistake occurs, we can easily adjust it and that means that we don’t have to start all over again. I use Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 ® software.

(I use my previus drawing, and you can find the tutorial: Drawing Hand)

1.  Choose Pen Tool, click Path mode

2. Select/draw the area with pen tool

3. Click Path on palette, or window>path

4. Right Click, choose Make Selection

5. Filter Radius: 0, click Ok

6. Here comes the selection

7. Make a new layer, name it base color under the outline layer (see Coloring Manga Character Tutorial)
8. Fill with Paint Bucket Tool (Keyboard Shortcut: Alt+Backspace)

9. Finish

10. With effect

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There are some ways of drawing hand. For me, the easiest way is using straight lines (or box form) as guide line. 
1. Imagine the hand that you want to draw, or you can use your own hand as model, you can use a mirror if necessary.
2. Draw simple hand shape with lines.

3. Create the shape of the space between fingers.

4. Determine the joints

5. Refine the shape of the hand

6. Finish

You can find my hand drawing in color in my other tutorial: Selection Using Pen Tool

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This is simple steps of coloring manga character that I made it 2 days ago. I was inspired by lady warrior from Indonesian old fairy tale named Srikandi. She is a princess but also a warrior with bow and arrow as her main weapon. I use Adobe^® Photoshop^® CS3 ^® software.

1. I do the sketching with pencil

2. Inking and scanning.

3. I clean the scanned material with level tool (image>adjustment>level)

4. To extract the outline, I use magic wand tool and select the white area, invert selection using invert tool (image>adjustment>invert), copy and paste, deselect.

5. Make a new layer, named it base color then I determine which color that I will use (base color, shadow).

6. Using pen tool, select the area that will be filled with color (see Selection Using Pen Tool tutorial). Fill the selection area with Paint Bucket Tool. Do it until all area cover with base color.