Would be better if this was an actual tutorial and not a tease

Listen here, you dirty little  

what has magic done

@Starfall spark  
Flat image  
Shading layer  
Flat image
 
Erase flat image on top, pull shading layer off.
 
I’m not gonna believe you until you share this magitech. Science is about reproducibility.
 
Or, you could livestream, I can plop you some flat image I make, then you can brush over it and we can see this in real time, and if that makes a shaded layer I’ll believe.
 
I could believe Neural Nets have gotten this far. But I’d like to see proof before I do when it’s such an easy trick to fake it.

I wish I could arts like that… :’(

@Starfall spark  
That may not be the way you did it (as you kept all the lighting effects for everything separate that you just masked or whatever), but the method I stated works for [literally any method of shading that starts with flats, no matter how intertwined and under/overlapping the layers are]

@Starfall spark  
Where do you find it, I could use it.

@infinita est lux Solis  
brush with neural network

@Background Pony #610F  
That brush is also pretty useful for animation.

Wha…but…well…how?? Σ(っ °Д °;)っ

@Starfall spark  
Wow… What did you do? I’ve never seen a brush like that.

@ZippySqrl  
nope  

Fine art lies in the shadows playing with the light.

step 1: make version that’s fully shaded  
step 2: copy and flatten that version to a new image/layer  
step 3: go back to the fully shaded version and remove all the shading/lighting layers so you just have the flats  
step 4: flatten those and put the flattened layer of the fully shaded version on top  
step 5: start recording program  
step 6: erase fully shaded version, showing the flat version underneath.  
step 7: stop recording.

@Background Pony #282D  
That would make sense, I was guessing that they somehow manipulated the layers, but I have minimal experience with these sorts of programs.

This is the best shading I’ve ever done
 

 
I really need to learn how to shade

@Marvelous TK  
@infinita est lux Solis  
I’m guessing they put a layer above the shading layer and erased it or something

It surprises me that more people don’t know about the “Beautiful-shading-and-highlights” brush. Did they honestly think this fandom was full of amazing talented artists?

What did you just do?

what sort of dark magic