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J-Estacado β€” How to color tutorial

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I was asked several times for a tutorial, so here we go !


/!\ I'm not colorist, this is not my job or whatsoever, It's just one of the methods I use.

Basically it's more a stuff to find tricks and the main direction.
so for example,If you take the basic lineart and try to color it using this method, you'll not ba able to have the same result !

I'm french and work on a french PS; I add screenshots to help in case my translation wouldn't be correct

I hope it will help some of you however
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Comments: 41

pkumr411 [2013-11-16 16:18:53 +0000 UTC]

greatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

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saltasetas [2013-05-18 16:19:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Marvsamune [2012-05-14 17:11:47 +0000 UTC]

trop petit pour Γͺtre lu! mais j'aime

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J-Estacado In reply to Marvsamune [2012-05-14 19:51:56 +0000 UTC]

Il faut cliquer sur "download" pour le voir en taille rΓ©elle *ahem*

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Marvsamune [2012-01-18 22:20:41 +0000 UTC]

Very hard to read!!!!>.<

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J-Estacado In reply to Marvsamune [2012-01-18 22:24:30 +0000 UTC]

HINT before complaining : "download button"
cheers

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roknese [2011-10-06 11:59:18 +0000 UTC]

its difficult to read the text :C do you have a larger version?

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J-Estacado In reply to roknese [2011-10-06 12:00:32 +0000 UTC]

did you hit the "download button" before commenting ?

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roknese In reply to J-Estacado [2011-10-06 12:27:44 +0000 UTC]

...

i am not a very cleaver man.

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Barbarella234 [2011-06-05 02:24:23 +0000 UTC]

FABULOUS!

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Operaghost1881 [2011-05-28 06:46:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for these amazing tutorials. I'm learning a lot just by reading them I can't wait to try them out .

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MulkenPower [2011-03-16 11:21:27 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! Ty for posting this! rly helpful and easy to follow! Keep up the good work! ^^

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andrew-henry [2011-03-11 03:15:46 +0000 UTC]

again to soften it ...in details plz...??

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houkin [2010-10-17 20:53:18 +0000 UTC]

dude, you OWN! xD I don't usually like this type of comic style (it's what I call american style, not sure if I'm right xD) but I love your pictures! Even tho you draw mostly women, not hot men as I like xD I still think you rock (sry- my english suckz xD)

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J-Estacado In reply to houkin [2010-10-17 20:56:16 +0000 UTC]

Hey I'm french so I'm not complaining about eventual wrong english :lol

And Yes, I belong to US comic style indeed, but I do use a very traditionnal approach in colors, even when it's digital

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vAmPiBaT [2010-08-21 13:03:40 +0000 UTC]

merci , ok could i get a larger version so i can try it myself?, plus what program do you use?

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J-Estacado In reply to vAmPiBaT [2010-08-21 19:08:18 +0000 UTC]

you have to click the download button to have it bigger; and has it says in the description, it's photoshop

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TN-Studio [2009-10-31 01:25:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks lots for spending time making this tutorial XD!!
That was very helpful for me!!

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J-Estacado In reply to TN-Studio [2009-11-02 20:11:21 +0000 UTC]

then that's fine to me too

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DominicHautmann [2009-08-12 10:34:07 +0000 UTC]

thx so much for this tutorial!
it will help me a lot!

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J-Estacado In reply to DominicHautmann [2009-08-12 11:02:12 +0000 UTC]

I hope my english will be easily readable however

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DominicHautmann In reply to J-Estacado [2009-08-13 11:01:54 +0000 UTC]

it is^^

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Lucius-Ferguson [2009-02-18 23:45:32 +0000 UTC]

Snif c'trop p'tit j'arrive pas Γ  lire.

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J-Estacado In reply to Lucius-Ferguson [2009-02-19 12:50:07 +0000 UTC]

faut cliquer sur le bouton de download en haut a gauche de l'image. la tout de suite Γ§a marche mieux....

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Lucius-Ferguson In reply to J-Estacado [2009-02-21 11:56:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh! merci bien ^^... on n'arrΓͺte pas la boulet's touch.

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J-Estacado In reply to Lucius-Ferguson [2009-02-21 12:23:23 +0000 UTC]

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cocodesbois [2008-11-22 10:25:02 +0000 UTC]

vraiment classe ...
bon, la qualitΓ© du dessin y fait beaucoup aussi !

Alain

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Caluchan13 [2008-09-05 14:49:39 +0000 UTC]

crap xD i cant read it... my screen (well the one I have assinged at work) has a bigger resolution ill have to check it out at home...

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J-Estacado In reply to Caluchan13 [2008-09-05 18:58:43 +0000 UTC]


ok so I guess that's make it a nice blur FX isn't it ?

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Caluchan13 In reply to J-Estacado [2008-09-09 05:08:21 +0000 UTC]

more like needing a magnifying glass but now i've read it cool tips ill try to paint something now

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J-Estacado In reply to Caluchan13 [2008-09-09 11:39:59 +0000 UTC]


hope it could be usefull, and hope my english wasn't too bad on that one !

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phusion [2008-09-01 07:45:01 +0000 UTC]

not bad

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ang3ll [2008-08-30 00:09:32 +0000 UTC]

oh my god!O_O
Finally! T____T
Thank you, J-Estacado-sama! It is so cool to see how great artists do their things

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J-Estacado In reply to ang3ll [2008-08-30 12:12:48 +0000 UTC]

yeah;
in fact I've done one or two tutorial before, but as they were made on unfinished product, they are not finished -_-'
Besides, yes It's jut that I tend to forget about doing those ones; Or I think about it once the pic is over...arf !

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RSMRonda [2008-08-29 22:07:59 +0000 UTC]

That was really cool to see your method and see that artwork come together.
Thanks a bunch for sharing!

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J-Estacado In reply to RSMRonda [2008-08-30 12:11:06 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome.
This thing seems to interest some people around, so that's cool, now i' waiting for feedbacks, to see if it helped unless a bit

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RSMRonda In reply to J-Estacado [2008-08-31 21:32:48 +0000 UTC]

I'm sure it has helped a lot of people... and will continue to as people find it
I even love how you designed the tutorial page. The text styles and everything is beautifully put together

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J-Estacado In reply to RSMRonda [2008-08-31 21:44:46 +0000 UTC]

it's the trained graphic designer in me who took the place, because he was fed up with the actual drawer

well, the few tutorials I saw around here were really well designed, SO I think I couldn't just drop that on a white page, Beside I like when stuff are well done , so...

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RSMRonda In reply to J-Estacado [2008-09-13 03:24:41 +0000 UTC]

I didn't know you were trained as a graphic designer too! Geez, no wonder you put things together so well. That's awesome.

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J-Estacado In reply to RSMRonda [2008-09-14 19:28:40 +0000 UTC]

art school baby !
so:
comics, illustration, graphic design, advertising, sculpture, animation, and so.....

But I wasn't friend with all of them, trust me

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RSMRonda In reply to J-Estacado [2008-09-16 15:59:02 +0000 UTC]

That's a lot of art school I haven't done any comics or animation classes.

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