Did you know .... Emotication (https://www.deviantart.com/emotication) offers a wide selection of shading tutorials?
Shading an emote base is one of the first and most important steps to becoming an emoticonists. There are many different shading styles which can be found throughout the community and it can be quite difficult for a new emoticonist to develop their own. To help them on their way, numerous emoticonists have made shading tutorials covering all elements of emoticon shading.
For easy navigation, all of the tutorials have been added to Emotication (https://www.deviantart.com/emotication)'s favourites folder to allow you to view each tutorial's thumbnail image. In addition, to help people find the most