Making your lineart into…well lines and art!
So there’s a couple different ways that you can do lineart for digital art
1) Outline everything you’ve sketched out with a brush on the computer
2) Draw vector lines around everything you’ve done
3) Or do your lineart by hand and then make it into digital lineart
For this tutorial we are going to focus on the 3rd method
So let’s start with our scanned art
So here’s what happens if we try using the paintbucket tool to color without
doing any changes to the image
It can’t read the individual parts so will color the WHOLE image
First things first you’ll want to change the layer setting from normal to multiply
What this does is tell the picture that white pixels should be read as
transparent so now none of those are showing through.
Next go to filter---adjust---levels
Here is the filters tab!
This box represents how much black,
grey and white is present in a picture.
You want to adjust the arrows till
now more grey appears in the image.
Keep adjusting till you get something like this (to the point where the grey is
gone)
Now here’s where we can color---its best to get large areas of color down
before we focus on details---you can do that by just applying the paint bucket
to the piece or by selecting with the magic wand or lasso.
(A magic wand was used with the magic wand tool)
Once you have the big areas of color put in you can start refining shapes and adding more details with
your brushes and adding nice effects.
Paint bucket
Magic wand
lasso
And voila! Even a quick coloring job starts to give some nice results! For an
even better looking piece add lots of details and take your time!
And then you could have something like this to display on your website!
If you would like to learn how to color like
this Check out my coloring techniques
tutorial!
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