Dr. Aeyze
29-12-2006, 11:47
I was chatting with Mirae last night on FFXI and got into an I-want-to-do-something-arty mood and so I coloured in an old picture real quick and decided to make it into some kind of short lazy tutorial xD
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_intro.jpg
Step 1.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_1.jpg
Take your image and open it up in photoshop, if you've got nice neat lineart then thats fine, if not then you might want to toggle around with the contast until you end up with your lines being nice and dark (depending on what you drew it in) and the white bits being, well... white.
Switch your layer to Multiply - this allows you to colour in underneath your lineart.
Step 2.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_2.jpg
Add in a new layer underneath your lineart and colour in your base colour, as you can see (hopefully) mine's a sort of in the middle shade of grey, since I like doing highlights and shadows, if you don't like doing one or the other you can always make a lighter or darker base colour and just do highlights (if it's dark) or shadow (if it's light).
Don't worry too much about colouring in the lines, thats what the eraser tool is for, you don't even have to clean it up after you do it, you can leave cleaning up your colours until the end if you really want.
Step 3.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_3.jpg
New layer over the top of your lineart and put a pallette in, this makes it a lot easier (for me at least!) make sure the layer is over the top of your lineart, that way you can use the pipette tool to colour match from your pallette without getting any interference from your lineart layer.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_intro.jpg
Step 1.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_1.jpg
Take your image and open it up in photoshop, if you've got nice neat lineart then thats fine, if not then you might want to toggle around with the contast until you end up with your lines being nice and dark (depending on what you drew it in) and the white bits being, well... white.
Switch your layer to Multiply - this allows you to colour in underneath your lineart.
Step 2.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_2.jpg
Add in a new layer underneath your lineart and colour in your base colour, as you can see (hopefully) mine's a sort of in the middle shade of grey, since I like doing highlights and shadows, if you don't like doing one or the other you can always make a lighter or darker base colour and just do highlights (if it's dark) or shadow (if it's light).
Don't worry too much about colouring in the lines, thats what the eraser tool is for, you don't even have to clean it up after you do it, you can leave cleaning up your colours until the end if you really want.
Step 3.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/omgaeyze/Others/Practice_3.jpg
New layer over the top of your lineart and put a pallette in, this makes it a lot easier (for me at least!) make sure the layer is over the top of your lineart, that way you can use the pipette tool to colour match from your pallette without getting any interference from your lineart layer.