Coloring B&W Manga/Linearts
I've seen a few tutorials for coloring B&W (black and white) manga scans, but not very many/none were done by people who color a lot. I decided to make my own, just as another reference.
Go from:
So now that we have our image, put the lineart on a seperate layer. To find out how to do that, go to my other tutorial here.
Now make a new layer under the lines (Layer 1), and name it whatever you're coloring. For me it was skin.
Now zoom in and start filling in the base color.
If you go out of the lines, zoom in and erase.
Once you're done a flat color, it'll look a little like this.
All the flat colors look like this, I also erased the background. You can leave it like this if you want.
Now make a new layer and press Ctrl->G, if that doesn't do anything, go to Layer-> Group with Previous. This makes it so the shading won't go outside the coloring you already did.
Now pick your shading color. Make it over to the right more, and redder for skin tones, and only to the right for everything else.
Take your brush tool the size you want, and set the opacity to around 15%.
And start shading where you think it should be shaded. Where it's darker, put more strokes, and where it's lightest, put one stroke.
Now take a darker (and redder for skin tones) color and shade the even darker spots.
As an extra step, you can add a highlight, I used a really bright purple some places with really dark shadows.
Once you're done with the skin, Merge Group so it's all in one layer again.
Repeat that for all the other areas except the hair. Here's mine.
For the hair, the tips should be darker, with highlights. Done!
Here's just the shading without the lines.
I know that was -really- hard and probably hard to follow, but if you can do it, it'll look great. And also, if anyone wants to use my finished image in an icon, go right ahead, just please credit me for it. ^^
Go from:
So now that we have our image, put the lineart on a seperate layer. To find out how to do that, go to my other tutorial here.
Now make a new layer under the lines (Layer 1), and name it whatever you're coloring. For me it was skin.
Now zoom in and start filling in the base color.
If you go out of the lines, zoom in and erase.
Once you're done a flat color, it'll look a little like this.
All the flat colors look like this, I also erased the background. You can leave it like this if you want.
Now make a new layer and press Ctrl->G, if that doesn't do anything, go to Layer-> Group with Previous. This makes it so the shading won't go outside the coloring you already did.
Now pick your shading color. Make it over to the right more, and redder for skin tones, and only to the right for everything else.
Take your brush tool the size you want, and set the opacity to around 15%.
And start shading where you think it should be shaded. Where it's darker, put more strokes, and where it's lightest, put one stroke.
Now take a darker (and redder for skin tones) color and shade the even darker spots.
As an extra step, you can add a highlight, I used a really bright purple some places with really dark shadows.
Once you're done with the skin, Merge Group so it's all in one layer again.
Repeat that for all the other areas except the hair. Here's mine.
For the hair, the tips should be darker, with highlights. Done!
Here's just the shading without the lines.
I know that was -really- hard and probably hard to follow, but if you can do it, it'll look great. And also, if anyone wants to use my finished image in an icon, go right ahead, just please credit me for it. ^^