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so a few people have been asking for some sort of coloring tutorial...and since I fail don't know how to make a bona fide tutorial (or do any text-editing for that matter), I said I'd just post some screenshots of my coloring progress. LOL orz

yeah....so I guess a little explanation for each step?

1) scanned sketch
- clean up your sketch with the eraser tool and tweak until you have your desired lines. usually with scanned sketches, I don't reline much cause I'm lazy and I kinda prefer way the real graphite lines look as opposed to the digital pencil tool. however, it is up to you! (if you don't make a separate line-work layer, set your line layer to "shade" so your colors will show underneath)

2) main base color
On the bottom-most layer, I usually lay down a main base color first. Think about what kind of scene/setting you want to portray. The main base color is important b/c it helps set the overall mood of the pic. Also, you want all the rest of your color choices (ie skin, clothing, etc.) to "jive" with this dominant color.

3) rough base colors
Basically I just roughly fill in all the main colors that I want in the picture to see how all of them fit together, adding the major highlights and such. I will refine these later. Keep messing around until you're satisfied. Remember to make use of layers...usually things more in the foreground of the pic will be on the layers on top (ie characters, etc.) Don't be afraid to experiment with colors!!

*note about choosing colors: I typically don't use "gray" tones too much...when I do shadows/shading, I like to go for more saturated tones, because when you do color altering in the last step, it makes for a nice contrast. but that's just my personal preference

4) refining
Gradually start to zoom in and fix the smaller details, adding more hues and highlights as you see fit.

5) refining (cont.)
lol basically just continuing the process from step 4. Once you think you're about done....

6) color alteration (er...not sure what else to call it)
this is why I love having SAI!! lool. fun part for me.
yeah so...all your main color layers are going to be on the layers below. above those layers, you can see that I added another layer set to "overlay" --> this setting sort of washes over the whole pic with whatever tint you want to without altering the bottom color layers. (when I color on this layer, I usually lower the opacity of the brush quite a bit). I use it to deepen and saturate my hues as opposed to using the "saturate/deepen" option, I suppose. so compared to the #5 pic above, you can see that #6 pic gains a deeper blue color. In this pic, I also created a "luminosity" layer to make the fireworks more...luminous lol. basically this part is about bringing out more contrast from the colors and stuff to make the colors/lighting appear more "vivid."

And...tada! you're done. LOL gosh this was such fail. sorry if it didn't really help much~ ahah

Done using SAI paint tool.

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will move this to scraps very soon x); sorry for the inbox flooding lol

Description
so a few people have been asking for some sort of coloring tutorial...and since I fail don't know how to make a bona fide tutorial (or do any text-editing for that matter), I said I'd just post some screenshots of my coloring progress. LOL orz

yeah....so I guess a little explanation for each step?

1) scanned sketch
- clean up your sketch with the eraser tool and tweak until you have your desired lines. usually with scanned sketches, I don't reline much cause I'm lazy and I kinda prefer way the real graphite lines look as opposed to the digital pencil tool. however, it is up to you! (if you don't make a separate line-work layer, set your line layer to "shade" so your colors will show underneath)

2) main base color
On the bottom-most layer, I usually lay down a main base color first. Think about what kind of scene/setting you want to portray. The main base color is important b/c it helps set the overall mood of the pic. Also, you want all the rest of your color choices (ie skin, clothing, etc.) to "jive" with this dominant color.

3) rough base colors
Basically I just roughly fill in all the main colors that I want in the picture to see how all of them fit together, adding the major highlights and such. I will refine these later. Keep messing around until you're satisfied. Remember to make use of layers...usually things more in the foreground of the pic will be on the layers on top (ie characters, etc.) Don't be afraid to experiment with colors!!

*note about choosing colors: I typically don't use "gray" tones too much...when I do shadows/shading, I like to go for more saturated tones, because when you do color altering in the last step, it makes for a nice contrast. but that's just my personal preference

4) refining
Gradually start to zoom in and fix the smaller details, adding more hues and highlights as you see fit.

5) refining (cont.)
lol basically just continuing the process from step 4. Once you think you're about done....

6) color alteration (er...not sure what else to call it)
this is why I love having SAI!! lool. fun part for me.
yeah so...all your main color layers are going to be on the layers below. above those layers, you can see that I added another layer set to "overlay" --> this setting sort of washes over the whole pic with whatever tint you want to without altering the bottom color layers. (when I color on this layer, I usually lower the opacity of the brush quite a bit). I use it to deepen and saturate my hues as opposed to using the "saturate/deepen" option, I suppose. so compared to the #5 pic above, you can see that #6 pic gains a deeper blue color. In this pic, I also created a "luminosity" layer to make the fireworks more...luminous lol. basically this part is about bringing out more contrast from the colors and stuff to make the colors/lighting appear more "vivid."

And...tada! you're done. LOL gosh this was such fail. sorry if it didn't really help much~ ahah

Done using SAI paint tool.

-

will move this to scraps very soon x); sorry for the inbox flooding lol