I'VE BEEN A MENACE FOR THE LONGEST
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Post by WILLOW on Apr 21, 2013 15:44:24 GMT -8
i didn't know where to stick this, so i took a chance. i'm sure there are least a few people around here who colour manga so perhaps i'll get some answers.
recently i've gotten more active as a manga colourer, but i'm still having some trouble tackling dark hair. i hate just colouring in the white parts and leaving it because it seems very flat to me. does anyone have any advice/tips to help me tackle it? perhaps a tutorial or two they could send my way to help me in the right direction? it would be greatly appreciated.
haha, no one saw anything if you ask me
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Post by GARDEN on Apr 22, 2013 2:31:55 GMT -8
So I have a potentially dumb question but do you know how to use the masking stuff to basically delete all the white and only leave black outlines? If not, I can whip up a fast tutorial or find an old one to show you how. This is important because it'll make you life 100x easier when coloring black hair. You can basically color it like you would any other hair color then. Personally, I would focus more on highlights than shadows since... you are pretty much given shadows.
I'll try to whip up a quick photo process later if any of that doesn't help!
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I'VE BEEN A MENACE FOR THE LONGEST
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Post by WILLOW on Apr 22, 2013 3:27:05 GMT -8
yeah, i've already gotten rid of the white so all i have left is the black. i've gotten everything coloured, it's just the hair that's bothering me. while focusing on highlights seems rad, the hair itself still feels rather flat to me, but that could be the way i'm colouring...?
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Post by GARDEN on Apr 22, 2013 6:29:56 GMT -8
Hmmmm do you have an example you could show me?
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Post by meg on Apr 22, 2013 6:33:54 GMT -8
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I'VE BEEN A MENACE FOR THE LONGEST
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Post by WILLOW on Apr 22, 2013 9:06:59 GMT -8
i'll definitely check out the tutorial later, but for now i'll post some examples of what i sort of want to accomplish. a b c d; hope these help out a bit
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Post by konya on Apr 22, 2013 21:13:10 GMT -8
a ha ha ha B is one of my colourings!
For that one in particular what I did was colour ABOVE the lineart. Like Meg I also have a quick tutorial that is posted uh elsewhere that I can dig up if you want??? What I tend to do is work on several layers - larger brushes to get the shades right, then progressively thinner until finally a 2px brush set to overlay to do the little fiddly bits.
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Post by meg on Apr 22, 2013 22:09:13 GMT -8
You can accomplish the same effect using the coloring the line-art too. (;
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Post by konya on Apr 22, 2013 22:11:38 GMT -8
You can accomplish the same effect using the coloring the line-art too. (; But for dark hair (which is what OP said they had trouble with) it's easier to work on top, unless you want to cut out every bit of black and make your own lines.
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Post by irene on Apr 23, 2013 9:08:20 GMT -8
Like what Meg has stated before, I usually color dark hair (or any other hair) with the lineart layer locked. With locking the layer, you're able to color the black lines, and in this case, the hair because that is where the black lines are thickest. I also have a hair layer underneath the lineart layer in order to fill in the white areas.
Here is my example: x x
and here is another for non-black/brown hair: x x
I do sometimes color hair above the lineart layer, but that is only when I want highlights to the hair. I hope this helps!
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Post by WILLOW on Apr 23, 2013 11:59:51 GMT -8
have to say, i got a lot more feedback than i thought i'd get and it's really rad. i'm definitely going to try the things you guys have suggested to me while i colour, thank-you very much guys.
it's a rather small world isn't it rois? hope you don't mind me linking it as an example. and it'd be rad is you could dig up that old tutorial, but you really don't have to.
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Post by konya on Apr 23, 2013 17:13:09 GMT -8
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Post by meg on Apr 23, 2013 17:54:12 GMT -8
You can accomplish the same effect using the coloring the line-art too. (; But for dark hair (which is what OP said they had trouble with) it's easier to work on top, unless you want to cut out every bit of black and make your own lines. Not really? Because my way of getting rid of all the white and locking the pixels means you only effect the layer blocked in. Here, I show you: See? Basically the same thing. And under the lines you can color in whatever you want for the shines (or you can add another over the top of that one, like what Irene said - very good for highlights with this style of coloring). and now they have two ways to do that instead of one.
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Post by konya on Apr 23, 2013 18:04:59 GMT -8
ah. that doesn't work for me because i don't bother with transparency. i know how to lock pixels/transparency but it's still easier/less time consuming imo to just leave the white.
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Post by meg on Apr 23, 2013 19:05:22 GMT -8
i always like to color the lines and then put textures behind the images when i turn them into icons. plus, making it transparent is easy peasy.
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