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cakwe — How do I color and my FireAlpaca brushes settings
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Just after uploading this I realized that the title 'Coloring Tips' isn't really... tips on how to color.... so yeah the title of the deviation is more accurate.
Q & A sectionQ. On what opacity do you use your brushes to paint/blend colors?
A. I usually use the watercolor brushes around 10-40% opacity. Otherwise, the colors becomes either too weak or too strong. For the water brush, I recommend 10% opacity, and for the paint brush, I recommend going 100% because it's not meant for blending anyways.
Q. How to set the brush opacity?
A. Please take a look at this. sta.sh/214ufkvzwech
Q. What if I don't want to color at the same layer? What if I want to do the shading / highlights at a different layer? How to blend at different layer?
A. Please take a look at this set of tutorial. sta.sh/22a53jygighf
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welp i tried to do this but i think firealpaca just hates me.Anyway, my pen (Fade In/Out) works perfectly!(MAybe at you would work, too.)
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This might sounds dumb but when blending what colour do you set it to?
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Whatever colour you need to use
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Ah, I'm quite new to FireAlpaca.
How do you "blend" the colors? Do you take one color and go over it? I don't get it
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I'm new too it too, anyone can help?? 😅
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no worries. everybody starts somewhere
ah, yeah! you just take one color, and go over it, and maybe mix another color in the process. It's almost like how people do oil painting in real life, but since it's on computer, you don't have to worry about making the painting look muddy and you have more control over how you want the painting to look like. it sounds tedious, but that's art and you gotta put some effort in to make it look great.
good luck with your art endeavors!!
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may you please tell me the settings on water?
also im watching you you're extremely helpful omg
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it's the same settings as firealpaca / medibangpaint's original watercolor brush settings, but set the load color to zero and the ease of mixing colors to maximum. it's also recommended to use the brush on 10~30% opacity, but it depends on each person's drawing / coloring style.
thank you for the watch! i'm not as active / helpful as i used to be, but glad that i can be of help! ^q^)9
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ahh okay--i just realized it explained it in the tutorial i cant read im sorry omg
you're totally welcome! <3
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but i didnt see a watercolor option on the drop down :c
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you might have clicked on the wrong icon.
please click this one, that says "add brush"
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How do you do the base coloring? Is it done stroke by stroke? bucket tool? those kinds? I see a lot of coloring that goes out of the drawing itself.. (like for example.. suddenly coloring the whole character with its skin color, etc) but the next thing I see.. only the skin color was being shown >.< So I am not sure how did that happened..
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depends?
sometimes bucket tool isn't clean enough, so some artists i know (including myself) use several methods to achieve the result that we want -- many paths to rome.
some of the most general methods are:
> selection (magic wand, lasso tool, quick-masking, expand/shrink/inverse selection, etc...)
> bucket tool (quickest way, but sometimes colors don't get into small gaps and spaces)
> brush tool (takes longer but sometimes it's the best way to get transparency effects)
maybe you can ask that particular artist on how they did their coloring?
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Oh gosh. Stupid me. Lol.. (I should prolly already know this one) lol.. I recently used Medibang coming from Adobe CS - since I don't have SAI - so.. I was suddenly confused since I was using iPAD - it totally slipped my mind that there is a magic wand, etc haha! Sorry! I usually go with the brush and bucket tool - but it takes so long so I was thinking.. is it me that is taking long or am I doing something wrong, lol! I did ask a few artist.. but they never responded - just shared a link on speed painting which made me clueless lol.. thank you for responding back. Lol. Sorry for being so silly. I was too fixated in using brush tool and clipping mask that I totally forgot about the others @_@
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to open an existing file, ctrl+O
to make a new canvas, ctrl+N
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Yes, I know X3 thank you anyway!
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Go to file in the top left and click new
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Already figured it out but thanks anyway!
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OH MY GOD IVE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR THIS THANK YOU
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Those are very helpful brushes! Thanks for the tips.
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no problem! glad it was helpful.
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Thanks a lot for this! I'm just getting started with FireAlpaca and these are some great brushes!
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Ah, glad to know this was helpful for you! Good luck with your art!!
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Thank you thank you thank you! I'm just moving to a Mac and since Paint Tool SAI doesn't work on a Mac, FireAlpaca is the closest thing to it that I could find. This tutorial was super helpful and makes me happy cause now I'm not going to have to change my entire way of drawing.
Thank You again!
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same T_T i used photoshop for the longest time but i've always wanted the ease of blending on sai.... i'm just so happy firealpaca exists ////////
I'm happy to hear that this was helpful for you!! Good luck with your art!!
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Thanks for these brushes! They worked wonderful for my blending c: Im still new to Fire Alpaca, and my brain is rigged for PS CC
And good explanation too!
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You're welcome! Me too, I've gotten very used to photoshop that sometimes i would wonder why don't my shortcut work lol;;;
Glad it was clear enough and helpful for you!
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How can you use bases on this thing..? no one seems to know how
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um, what do you mean by bases?
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My FireAlpaca was was working fine about two days ago, but, well, now it isn't... Instead of the normal toolbar, like the one in this tutorial, there's a much slimmer toolbar, & you can't change the thickness of your brush, the color or even the type of brush; it's stuck in pen. I don't know if this has happen to anyone else, but if it HAS... I would definitely appreciate it! I need to find this out, since I'm trying to work on my new nuzlocke... If no one can fix this, I could probably work on it in DA Mural...
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hmm, sounded like the previous update that they made, with them changing the UI and stuff....
I think you should try to download FA now and see if it helps, since they have updated it again?
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Thank you so much for making this! 
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ah, glad it helped! yeah, there aren't as many people that uses firealpaca as sai / photoshop, so there aren't really many tutorials about it but i am glad that this one is helpful to you! ^q^)/
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