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Published: 2007-05-16 16:20:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 374168; Favourites: 7777; Downloads: 12232
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This is a thankyou to all my watchers. After 3 years being asked to make a tutorial, it's finally here lol. Yeah a bit late and everyone has probably advanced past this tutorial level, but i hope it helps some artists nevertheless.I don't enjoy lineart so I'm using this recent one [link] and re-coloring it different from the original.
This is my full process of coloring lineart. I don't always use this process, but these were the same steps i used when coloring the original which can be seen here: [link]
It didn't turn out as well as the original, but i rushed it as much as possible cause i just wanted to focus on the process and it's the 2nd time to color the same thing. This took me about 6 hrs straight to fully write up and color so i apologize for spelling, grammar or just not understandable cause i haven't double-checked.
Feel free to ask questions!
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What kind of resolution and dimension are you using generally for your arts? You zoomed pretty close and it still looked neat! Also, do you do you lineart traditionally with a pen or do you ''ink'' it with photoshop also?
Sorry if you answered those questions already or if you explained it somewhere else, I didn't saw it.
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Usually 1400-2000px and up to 6000 for stuff i want to put extra hours of work into. I practically only draw digitally but in rare cases, such as this one, i drew in pencil and cleaned up the lines in PS.
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Great tutorial. You explain so good it sounds simple 
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Awesome tutorial!!.
thanks to you im now able to color some of my drawings
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wow this has helped me a lot ^_^ amazing tutorial
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This is EXTREMELY helpful! Thank you so much for this tutorial! Hey, even if there are tutorials past this level already, everyone has to start somewhere, and this is still quite useful.
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Thankies! I'm trying to improve my coloring. This will be useful.
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Wow this is fabulous-great job & thank you! >^.^<
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So I suppose with lines as well it's all about light source...I'm one of those that do a real thick comic book type line (because I have more confidence in my b/w work) so I'm trying to find a nice middle ground to work with, especially with lines. I did one recently and the background characters looks real good (I think ) but the middle character just had a lot of bulk and while it added eye weight to the middle of the picture I still think it could have been better.
Why did I explain all this?
I'll have to try your way and see if this adds some balance.
Thanks so much!
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thanks this really helps i'm not that good in coloring so this really helped me
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this is perfect tutorial. Thanks so much for posting it
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great tut, what is the point of mulitply option, i just dont get it
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When you scan in lineart from paper the white is not transparent, with multiply you can add color without getting rid of any lineart.
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This is seriously helpful!!! I love seeing how you go from the basic colors to the texturized final piece. Very nice work ^^
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thanks for the tutorial. i'll be sure to try it.
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how do you save/make/add the selected portions of details onto a new layer? (I'm still learning how to use photoshop)
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Very good tutorial! It's detailed and I love all those little lighting steps that you put in. Very helpful~ I like how it's more in depth than some others.
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this is one of the best tutorials ive seen awesome!
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Thank you so much! This is super helpful!
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Fantastic artwork! 
This tutorial helps a bunchles.
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I love tutorials, I love this one, very well done!
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love love love! thank you so much. I've been messing around in photoshop, but nothing has come out quite right. i think this tutorial will help.
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Ooh, I can't wait to try this! My tablet is on its way to me, and I'm very excited!
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great tutorial im going to try it when i get some line art i have into digital format from my sketchbook
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This clarifies a lot of things for me, thanks!
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what do you mean with block in color for each section with a hard brush ?
how to do that ?
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It's just coloring in without any pen pressure with 100% flow/opacity.
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Nice ... it's pretty vast, but very well done ... this is gonna be HUGE HELP ...
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I got a question! ^_^
How do you know how bright or dim when choosing lights and shadows?
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