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Published: 2014-07-31 21:47:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 207537; Favourites: 7338; Downloads: 2787
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Watch the Full Free Video Tutorial HEREIn this quick tip tutorial, Tim Von Rueden goes over coloring over your lineart. This has been requested multiple times and I would like to show you one way of going about coloring over your lineart. This can be very intimidating for some, especially those who feel very confident with their line art but feel when they add color, it ruins the concept altogether. So below is a quick step by step that goes along with the video tutorial.
My BIGGEST advice is to be confident. You may have strong lineart so compliment that with even stronger shading techniques. The more comfortable you become with this process, the more versatile artist you will become! Just remember to keep the lineart separate on it’s own layer so that you can lay the base colors UNDER the lineart layer and then create layers ABOVE the lineart layer for coloring!
Citizen members can download the HD video along with the .PSD file from the tutorial!
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super helpful and easy to understand - thanks a bunch for making this!
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Omg I saw your video of this before I saw the deviantart post and i was looking in google images and saw it and was like WHAT I KNOW THAT PIC AND ARTIST XD
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Say i'm curious; how do u color over the lines when it's already on the background? (like I scanned something that's been inked)
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I'm not cg cookie but you can adjust the contrast (filter->adjust->levels) then errase the white colour
-cheers
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So I attempted and got frustrated.
So if you'd kindly tell me where I went wrong that'd be great. lol
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Just the standard round brushes, but soft-edged and normal. You can grab them here cgcookie.com/resource/2d-digit…
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omigosh, I've been having trouble with shading and I instantly remembered this tutorial from long ago.. YES I FOUND IT <3 so helpful~
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Very useful I used to color under the lines and not above... So I wasnt really satisfied of my result because it didn't look realistic with the black lines, thank you ill try this next time
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Thank you for this resourceful tutorial and keep up the good work!
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Good tutorial. Quick tips and it makes sense. Thanks!
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Thank you - I used the basic idea of it here: kassiec.deviantart.com/art/Zah…
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This really helpful. Thank you very much for this tutorial. ^ ^
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Wow, this was really helpful. Thank you. Here's a drawing I did from the help of your tutorial. bro0017.deviantart.com/art/OC-…
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Thank you so much for the tutorial! It helped out tremendously.
I used this tutorial to help me color this piece:
jikuro.deviantart.com/art/Sedn…
It's not quite to your final product, but compared to the garbage I was puking out, it is downright phenomenal improvement. I can't wait to practice the method to perfection!
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Thanks a lot for posting this !!! 
I always felt comfortable with the hard black lines and I couldn't make a drawing without them.
I achieve the goal with this drawing and that all because of you :3 <3
mawiiee228.deviantart.com/art/…
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I've been needing a good way to color and shade- this is a good ref and hopefully it will help!
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This is kind of an eye opener to someone like me who is trying to learn art. Thanks for the tutorial!
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Where was this years ago when I really needed it?! Awesome! And so simple.
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