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TracyWong — Color Holds Tutorial
Published: 2013-11-11 06:59:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 2780; Favourites: 52; Downloads: 178
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I was asked how to do color holds (coloring the black lines) so I thought I'd do a quick tutorial. There are quite a few different ways to do color holds, this is just how I do it.
If anything is unclear let me know and I'll try and clarify.
Credits:
Original drawing used in this tutorial is by =GreenAsDay
Original drawing can be seen here:
Inks and Colors by me *StacyRaven
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Is there a trick to picking what color to use as the line color? Do you use the base color and then make it 20% darker, etc. or is it just whatever looks good to you? I understand the technique (and I've done it before), but I have a hard time trying to choose how dark/contrast the lines from the interior colors. Thanks.
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Yeah, it's pretty much just that. Picking the darkest shadow color of each area after you're doing coloring it and using that - or even going a little bit darker than that - and using that as your color holds color.
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Thanks for this. Us novice photoshop fumblers truly appreciate it!
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hahah No problem, hun. It's important to pass on the art tips and tricks! 
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Great! I hope it's helpful!
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wonderful! thanks for showing us that little secret! strange how artists want to just keep secrets these days.. it is like their lives were depending on such things.
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Yeah, sadly there are a lot of artists who are afraid to share their secrets. Or some kind of with the mentality of "well this is my technique that I had to discover myself, why should I share it with others", but I think it's important to share these techniques with other artists. I've had a lot of artists over the years have the kindness to share their secrets, so I'd be really selfish, imo, to not share mine.
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o.O;.. Well then, who knew lol. This is an amazing help, and you made it really quite simple to follow 
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Cool. Let me know how it goes!
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