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mldoxy — Colour Fill Toot
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Published: 2014-12-03 02:07:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 41218; Favourites: 813; Downloads: 1315
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Hey guys!
After this Tutorial I will be changing the weekly tutorial format to be a bit different. I’ll be doing a complete review of my own art and skills and building a weekly study guide.
I will be posting what my process is and giving you the same instructions. This will allow you to follow along as a take a deep look at my own art. Review my weaknesses and build up a series of artist and anatomy studies to bulk up my skill. In this way the tutorials will be more a series of studies and artistic introspection and less a “Tutorial on a thing”.
I feel for those who are artistically inclined. Following my process of personal improvement will give a unique perspective on improving as an artist!
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I think I need a bit more elaboration on the last part with coloring behind. Does that mean the layer above with be transparent in some way? Or does this happen with folders. Sorry if this sounds stupid.
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Thanks a ton, spent all night messing with this
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Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I do, but now I have more technical knowledge on the options
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*heavy sigh* this is only SAI version... never mind. nice tutorial
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Oh man! I gonna try this out in my Sai 
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A lot of what she mentioned is not specifically in SAI, but can be done even faster. Setting your selection tool properly and preparing your lineart layer ahead of time, you can simply create a new layer, go back to the lineart layer with the selection tool, click the area you want to flood fill, go back to the colouring layer and fill it in. Makes for much faster colouring than in Photoshop honestly.
Since I never tweaked many of my settings in Photoshop (and the paint bucket wasn't the best), I tended to have a different method. First, I'd clean up my lines in Illustrator, turning the entire lineart layer transparent and pasting it back over to Photoshop (made the lines pretty crisp). After, I'd select all of the negative space around the image (though I adjusted the selection afterwards to bleed over the line slightly so the colours wouldn't bleed into the negative space later). After inverting the selection, I made the colour layer(s), pulled out my brush and just went over the sections. The first run of colours, I'd just use a huge brush size to run over the picture once, putting the colours where I wanted. Then using a more normal-sized brush, I'd get in close and clean the "boundaries" between colours. Finally, for smaller sections of colour, I'd get a small brush out and pop them in. Never really took that long, but the Sai method is probably half the time... plus you don't have to merge layers. It's much more intuitive than Photoshop.
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Thanks for the tips.
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No problem. I might not be as skilled as doxy, but if there's one thing I do know is how to flood fill colours quickly
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I love your tutorials, I hope you will keep sharing more
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I really like your art and your tutorials are great. Do you do all your line art and coloring in Sai? I was thinking about trying it.
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