Colouring Art

[madquest8]

What do you use to colour in your art?

I mean,I can draw a black and white picture fine... but then I have two options I guess

1= colour it in with pens and scan it in (But this doesn't look as good)
2= use some program to colour it in... but I have no experience in this area , so could use a point in the right direction...

Thanks..

[JQuartz]

I think this thread is relevent to your question:
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... 85&start=0

Basically you'll need some sort of graphic editor (eg.adobe photoshop) and preferably a tablet (and of course the ability to color/lineart)

[Jake]

2= use some program to colour it in... but I have no experience in this area , so could use a point in the right direction...

Personally, I'm increasingly a fan of OpenCanvas.

Ren's signature links to this translation of Paint Tool Sai, which a lot of people seem to like.

Photoshop Elements is a pretty readily-available cheap cut-down version of Photoshop, which is a benefit 'cause a large number of colouring tutorials on the web are geared towards Photoshop users.

Free Software people tend to like The GIMP. (I don't know why.)

There are dozens of other paint/graphics programs that you might use - each has its own quirks and its own method. Generally speaking, a decent approach for making sprites out of line art is to move your line art to a new layer and set it to 'multiply', then create a layer below that for putting your colours in. But how you do that is down to which package you're using.

[madquest8]

Thanks.... I can see that this would be more time consuming than I first anticipated......

[Mikan]

I typically do all of my line work on paper at double or triple the required size using a thin pen -- 0.2mm for anything smaller than letter size and narrow tip sharpies (1mm?) for bigger works. Doing line work on the computer's fine and dandy but it always takes an incredibly long time. Plus I can't exactly turn the canvas in photoshop... and I'm too used to photoshop to use other image editing software with rotate that doesn't destroy the lines.

As for coloring, I just use the magic wand and fill/gradient it... haha.
That's only possible because I ink with the coloring process in consideration.
Otherwise I'd have so many leaks and gaps that I'd just have to trace over the lines with the magnet lasso for an extra half an hour =_=

[Samu-kun]

Mmm... Also, as an added note, I generally use Paint.net and Pixia. They come in handy sometimes. :3

http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/

http://www.getpaint.net/

[Twar3Draconis]

Personally, I prefer using Copic and Prismacolor Markers, however much like the others SAI Paint Tool and Pixia are also items I use. Photoshop Elements, I'd say would only be advisable once you have digital line art, due to the lack of the pen/path tool.

[yvanc]

I use gimp2.4.2 to do colors, ahehehhehe its cool ^_^

[Praktikal]

Im new to this whole, "Art" thing, but what i do is i sketch my drawing in pencil, and then bring it into Photoshop (CS2) for the inking, and then i begin coloring once my Lineart is set to multiply.

I always have trouble with shadows though...

[lordcloudx]

I think all of us do things slightly differently, but Deji's tutorials should put you on the right track if you're new to digital art.

[Kaihaku]

Inkscape here... Awesome for lineart, far better than Illustrator CS2 which was what I used last. Unfortunately, not so good for coloring. Other programs work decently for adding color but in my experience...shading sucks no matter what program you do it in.

[Guest]

pen tablet are so expensive *sniff*

CG is a pain, but with practice it gets easier. Photoshop is a widely used one

[rioka]

I tend to CG my works using Photoshop (though I have used some other graphic programs like GIMP and so forth). Otherwise, I use colored pencils - Prismacolor - and (though not recently) watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, conte crayon, etc etc.

[sake-bento]

I use Photoshop Elements for all of my non-pixel-art coloring needs. This is a super short, super simplified summary of how I do it.

[Cybeat]

I line my art with Paint Tool Sai and CG with photoshop CS3.