Coloring Technique Sharing

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:36 am

Since people are asking "How?" and my fumbling efforts have been refered to, I guess it's polite I show some sources.

This was posted by some guy on Polycount a few years back, print it out, stick it up:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y87/LA ... n/misc.jpg

These pages and onwards are good from Loomis
http://d538518.u320.bigcrawler.com/FigureDrawing/76.htm

Spicey Curry Brush tutorial - just got it so haven't given it a try, looks good though.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/24105181/

Other than that, forget line as anything real when you study. All line is is human video compressed shapes. Real shapes are differences in value and tone, focus on studying that. It helps if you can think of the shape from every angle too, I imagine "what can this light see from up here?" It needs practice.

And finally, some good stylistic reference for computer colour:
http://-seed-.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://jayaxer.deviantart.com/gallery/

Bluebug · Post by **Bluebug** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:17 pm

Levi, you make my day

Did a quick sketch for a friend's bday. Free for the coloring! It's Link.

BTW, LAG, awesome links. ...There's an unintended pun in there.

Wp · Post by Wp » Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:34 pm

I did this as fanart for Levi. It's an alternate universe where his characters run into each other in a more anime-ish situation. I really don't have the time to do it justice with color though. Here is the ink:

Here's what I did with it:

If I had more time, I'd color it better.

Townie · Post by **Townie** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:15 pm

Here ya go, wp -

Wp · Post by Wp » Fri Nov 11, 2005 9:34 pm

Wow! I was thinking about the whole "girl slipping in the shower and falling on the guy" situation they have in anime, but Mikey's really lucky in your drawing! Right into the bed!

Legendoftrinity · Post by **Legendoftrinity** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:14 am

Here's my version of mine:

Nutcracker · Post by **Nutcracker** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:47 pm

LAG, most of these links aren't in the web pages you could use thread, why don't you post them there

Bluebug · Post by **Bluebug** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 9:39 pm

This one's for Phalanx.

I tried to go for a low light source in this one.

Townie · Post by **Townie** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 4:24 am

wp wrote:Wow! I was thinking about the whole "girl slipping in the shower and falling on the guy" situation they have in anime, but Mikey's really lucky in your drawing! Right into the bed!

I just didn't like the idea of lighting it as an upshot so I went with a downshot look. I thought the bed background was sorta cute, personally. I find it amusing that I don't particularly watch anime or read manga, yet I've been coloring it in the thread

Psyanide · Post by **Psyanide** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:26 pm

an old image for everyone to shiny up

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:26 am

bluebug wrote:This one's for Phalanx.

I tried to go for a low light source in this one.

Holy wow! That fantastically cool. She looks almost ethereal!

Bluebug · Post by **Bluebug** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:48 pm

Glad you like it! She has really interesting features, which lend themselves well to looking ethereal

Bluebug · Post by **Bluebug** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:39 am

Here's my version of Link.

Colored Link.

Nicotine · Post by **Nicotine** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:16 pm

Bumping this up, I guess. Some lines:

Townie · Post by **Townie** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 5:03 am

RISE, THREAD! RISE! Mwahahaha! (Sorry, bit of Egor slippin' out there) Anyway, here's some color thrown on Hawk's Bunisher from http://www.applegeeks.com.

Bgstratt · Post by **Bgstratt** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:07 pm

But I thought I'd give it a try, besides, I'd hate to post some line art without having first contributed some color. This has been a really great post to see some crazy and totally different coloring techniques, they've all come out great though

Bgstratt · Post by **Bgstratt** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:24 pm

This is some line art of the wife, well, kinda...I didn't have a chance to draw in the hands though.

Amazon King · Post by **Amazon King** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:51 pm

Thought I'd try my hand at this, since coloring's not my strong suit ("But I believe in me!") Using Eunice_P's lineart for this experiment.

Didn't turn out too badly, though I ended up have to Dodge-Burn highlights and shadows because of some obnoxious kink that messes with layer masking (I'm using Photoshop 4.0).

Comments, tips, send them this way.

Mr. Caravaggio · Post by **Mr. Caravaggio** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:56 pm

Nicotine wrote:Bumping this up, I guess. Some lines:

It's been a while but could we get a high res of this one? please?

Snackbot · Post by **Snackbot** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:24 pm

I just looked through this thread and I just wanted to say that you are all amazingly awesome at digital coloring and I envy you all immensely. I usually get flustered at Photoshop for being so "complex" and go color my comics in Flash. So, thumbs up!

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