Your art/craftwork - show it here!

Thanks for the kind words!

Tanya: Nothing more than a copy of Photoshop and a lot of patience!

Oh yeah, definitely digital. I do dabble with markers every now and then (the Bomberman pic being an example of a quick colouring job using said tools) but, for the most part, my colours are fully digital.

Tanya:

Nope.

What you see there are the original inks, with no digital touching-up (besides a little tinkering to make sure the blacks are jet black and the whites are Daz white).

The way I go about preparing the lines is I make it so that all the white areas in the pic become invisible, leaving only the linework intact. I can then add colour on seperate layers placed underneath the linework layer, meaning that my inks remain untouched throughout (until I decide to give the lines a hint of colour towards the end).

I'm not very good at explaining things so I'll let the following tutorial do all the dirty work! Granted, this tute's ancient by now (I followed this very tutorial nearly 10 years ago!) but everything there is still relevant to this day. I hope that helps!

Preparing lines in Photoshop

EDIT: Oh, here's one of my newest pieces. It's for a contest over at Gaijin. If you're at all talented, I suggest you check it out!


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I suppose it could be seen that way, Tanya. However, it's not like you have to pin-point every single line in your pic -- just a general selection that takes in the areas you want coloured will do the trick, so long as the colours don't spread out past the lines. Still, as you get more and more used to it, you discover little tricks and shortcuts along the way that will make your life much easier.

That last pic I posted took me a few hours (that's including the time spent figuring out the text and the placement/composition of everything). The easy part is laying out the flats, that doesn't take too long once you know what you're doing. The hard part (at least for me) is figuring out the shading/lighting and making sure it all fits together.

As I said, the more you do, the quicker you'll get. I've been colouring this way for roughly 10 years now and I am much, much better (not to mention, quicker) now than when I first started out.

Also, yeah, there's a fill tool in Photoshop -- if you look on the tools taskbar, it takes the form of a paintbucket. Even easier is if you do what I do and just use a keyboard shortcut -- Alt+Backspace (CMD+Backspace on a Mac) will fill in whatever area you have selected with whatever colour you have chosen as a foreground colour. Easy-peasy.

EDIT:

To give you an example of how far along I've come, here are some of my first tries at CGing --







As you can see, I was very fond of using reds, blues and yellows in my pics back then!