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Kjara-draws β Greyscale to color mini tutorial
Published: 2014-01-09 22:09:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 4260; Favourites: 94; Downloads: 77
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I just thought to show this new trick I discovered via tumblr on how to make greyscale pictures have colors. What's great about this trick I think it's that it can help make pictures look more consistent with the colors and not so weird/muddy since it's something that I tend to make happen before. Of course I still need to learn to make better use of this techinique, but it's definitely one trick I'm gonna be using more often.Single picture used here fav.me/d71j37x
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Wow! Thank you for the tip! I tried this on some old photo scan and I liked the effects!
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Not always, only if I want to experiment Β painting in such ways, I usually start with colors.
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Is there a tutorial on how to do a grey scale drawing first?
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You mean one made by me? No, but I could make one.
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I just can't wrap my head around which part of the picture you have to draw a shade of grey for.
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Well it's no so hard, basically you start the sketch with only pure black, and using a brush that's either have the opacity set very low, like at least 40%, or the brush has the opacity jitter turned to pen pressure, thus allowing you to paint in many different tones of black.Β
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It would be a shame, that you don't use photoshop for doing your pictures...
I bet it can be easly translated, though.
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Sai is still overrated and full of elitists, and i am sure the new betas ( if they don't take any other 5 years to release them ) might include changes to EVEN MORE easly allow such things to happen, i know you can do that tutorial on SAI with some trickery, but i've never used it so...
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I've never really messed around that much on Sai's Canvas options and such, so I don't think I'll be able to tackle it so easily. Also, my Sai version is some kind of weird Spanish/English mix, so it's harder for me to understand, so... Yeah
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Fan translation i see. At least you don't get the japanese version ( though the japanese version is MUCH MORE RECENT than the english one, we are speaking of 5 years of difference between versions )
still it'd work pretty much finely on SaI
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Cool! I've read about greyscale maps/under-paintings, but I wasn't quite sure how to do it. I'll have to experiment with this.
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Not quite understanding the purpose of mapping the greyscale?
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Well adding the gradient map instantly adds some colors to the grayscale picture.
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Hmmm... I just use the color filters on the side. Is this method different? Like does Photoshop calculate it differently? I'm attempting to try this right now
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gradient maps are handy when coloring, since they can help add variation of tone without you needing to do extra blending, and that sort of thing. Many colorists use this in their digital technique. It's all a matter of preference of course
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