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Frans week is over, I'm really proud of everyone who participated! I thought is would be nice to teach you how my comic pages were done. Here is a veeeery long tutorial for the brave souls who want to improvise their drawing skills.
I wish you all an interesting and inspiring reading!

STEP 1
When drawing a page or a big illustration, I always start with a little sketch. No need to do a big thing, the sketches in Step 1 are very tiny. They can fit in my pocket without bending haha.
They help me to understand the composition, the balance and the perspective before starting. The first version of the text is created here too.

STEP 2
The real sketch! First I draw the boxes, then I create the speech bubbles and fill them. When everything is on place, it's drawing time!
It can easily get confusing to use the same color for the characters and the background... So I use orange and blue! Why not a regular gray pencil? I'll explain it on step 4

STEP 3
Inking is easy to understand but hard to master. Two free tips for you:
1) Avoid filling the black zones if you're a bit messy like me. It's easier and safer to do it on your computer; you'll save some ink and some time.
2) If you're right-handed, always start with the left part of your drawing. That way you won't put your wrist on fresh ink and ruin everything...

STEP 4
First I scan my page in colors, in 300/500 dpi depending on the quality I want. It's very important to keep the orange and the blue for now. PLEASE NEVER ERASE A SKETCH BEHIND AN INKED PAGE IN REAL LIFE. (or use a regular gray pencil and wait for the ink to dry AT LEAST 5 min)
It's now that we become friends with CSP! (It can work on Photoshop too. Not on Paint Tool Sai, sorry guys). In [Selection], you can select by color scale. I choose orange and blue tones, and they magically disappear by pressing the delete button!
Now the sketch is gone, but the line isn't clean yet. I go [Edit] >> [Tonal correction] >> [Binarization] to turn my page into pure black and white. Then I just have to click [Edit] >> [Convert Brightness to opacity]. It removes all the white. Now I have a clean transparent black line!

STEP 5
On a layer underneath the line, I fill every zone with colors, black and white. When I'm not very sure of a tone, I create a new layer just for it, so I can easily change it with [Edit] >> [Tonal correction] >> [Hue/Saturation/Luminosity]

STEP 6
YAY STEP 6, where it gets HARD. I can't explain shading here. Just keep in mind the direction of the light and cross your fingers.
To have this texture, I use a special spray that I made myself by modifying the Tone Scraping Airbrush. Oh, and I don't shade directly on my colors but on a layer above.

STEP 7
The ultimate effect! I put all my layers except the line in a folder. I call this folder "all layers", then I duplicate it two times. Now we have "all layers", "all layers 2" and "all layers 3". I choose "all layers 2" and fuse the folder to a single flat layer: I call it "all layers fusion". I do the same with "all layers 3", and I call it "black and white texture".
You're not lost yet? Ok, let's continue. So, I select "black and white texture" and activate an automatic action made by 聖月. You can find it here . It converts my layer to a raster black and white texture. Pixelate it and remove the white with [Edit] >> [Convert Brightness to opacity].

STEP 8
Now it's time to orders those layers! First, I need a white background below everything: it's called "Paper". "All layers fusion" must be immediately above "black and white texture". While "all layers fusion" is selected, click [Clip at Layer Below].
I put my folder "all layers" above everything and change his opacity to 70% (more or less). In the end, I add the text!

You're done, congratulations ♪ !!!

Frans-Week by Shayromi

~ Undertale by Toby Fox and team

Description
Frans week is over, I'm really proud of everyone who participated! I thought is would be nice to teach you how my comic pages were done. Here is a veeeery long tutorial for the brave souls who want to improvise their drawing skills.
I wish you all an interesting and inspiring reading!

STEP 1
When drawing a page or a big illustration, I always start with a little sketch. No need to do a big thing, the sketches in Step 1 are very tiny. They can fit in my pocket without bending haha.
They help me to understand the composition, the balance and the perspective before starting. The first version of the text is created here too.

STEP 2
The real sketch! First I draw the boxes, then I create the speech bubbles and fill them. When everything is on place, it's drawing time!
It can easily get confusing to use the same color for the characters and the background... So I use orange and blue! Why not a regular gray pencil? I'll explain it on step 4

STEP 3
Inking is easy to understand but hard to master. Two free tips for you:
1) Avoid filling the black zones if you're a bit messy like me. It's easier and safer to do it on your computer; you'll save some ink and some time.
2) If you're right-handed, always start with the left part of your drawing. That way you won't put your wrist on fresh ink and ruin everything...

STEP 4
First I scan my page in colors, in 300/500 dpi depending on the quality I want. It's very important to keep the orange and the blue for now. PLEASE NEVER ERASE A SKETCH BEHIND AN INKED PAGE IN REAL LIFE. (or use a regular gray pencil and wait for the ink to dry AT LEAST 5 min)
It's now that we become friends with CSP! (It can work on Photoshop too. Not on Paint Tool Sai, sorry guys). In [Selection], you can select by color scale. I choose orange and blue tones, and they magically disappear by pressing the delete button!
Now the sketch is gone, but the line isn't clean yet. I go [Edit] >> [Tonal correction] >> [Binarization] to turn my page into pure black and white. Then I just have to click [Edit] >> [Convert Brightness to opacity]. It removes all the white. Now I have a clean transparent black line!

STEP 5
On a layer underneath the line, I fill every zone with colors, black and white. When I'm not very sure of a tone, I create a new layer just for it, so I can easily change it with [Edit] >> [Tonal correction] >> [Hue/Saturation/Luminosity]

STEP 6
YAY STEP 6, where it gets HARD. I can't explain shading here. Just keep in mind the direction of the light and cross your fingers.
To have this texture, I use a special spray that I made myself by modifying the Tone Scraping Airbrush. Oh, and I don't shade directly on my colors but on a layer above.

STEP 7
The ultimate effect! I put all my layers except the line in a folder. I call this folder "all layers", then I duplicate it two times. Now we have "all layers", "all layers 2" and "all layers 3". I choose "all layers 2" and fuse the folder to a single flat layer: I call it "all layers fusion". I do the same with "all layers 3", and I call it "black and white texture".
You're not lost yet? Ok, let's continue. So, I select "black and white texture" and activate an automatic action made by 聖月. You can find it here . It converts my layer to a raster black and white texture. Pixelate it and remove the white with [Edit] >> [Convert Brightness to opacity].

STEP 8
Now it's time to orders those layers! First, I need a white background below everything: it's called "Paper". "All layers fusion" must be immediately above "black and white texture". While "all layers fusion" is selected, click [Clip at Layer Below].
I put my folder "all layers" above everything and change his opacity to 70% (more or less). In the end, I add the text!

You're done, congratulations ♪ !!!

Frans-Week by Shayromi

~ Undertale by Toby Fox and team