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OT: Coloring help [message #210561] Sun, 30 July 2006 23:34 Go to next message
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http://www.deviantart.com/view/37132512/

I need help coloring this. I attempted once... and it wasn't pretty. I was hoping that maybe I could find someone here that could help me out.


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210564 is a reply to message #210561] Sun, 30 July 2006 23:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That's really good inking. I'm sorry I don't have any coloring experience though. Huh
Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210565 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 00:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210566 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 00:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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DarkDemin wrote on Mon, 31 July 2006 02:34

http://www.deviantart.com/view/37132512/

I need help coloring this. I attempted once... and it wasn't pretty. I was hoping that maybe I could find someone here that could help me out.


Could ask my girlfriend, I'd probably have to translate everything she says, though.


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210614 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 09:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210616 is a reply to message #210614] Mon, 31 July 2006 09:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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SuperFlyingEngi wrote on Mon, 31 July 2006 12:27

Just stay inside the lines and you'll be fine.

Who let you out of your cage? Bad liberal, bad.


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210626 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 11:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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lmfao, Jake. Thumbs Up
Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210643 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 12:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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lol, Screech
Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210652 is a reply to message #210643] Mon, 31 July 2006 12:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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DrasticDR wrote on Mon, 31 July 2006 15:26

lol, Screech


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210672 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 14:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Nice work,

Are you using photoshop, illustrator maybe for the colouring?

I personally have never done any anime stuff but from looking at the anime style here...

http://www.animecubed.com/titlepics/Anime.jpg

The girls leg in the bottom left it only has 3 colours dependant on the light levels there are also either smooth curves or jagged lines between the colour changes.

Personally if it was my first time colouring this sort of thing I'd find some work that was very simalar to what I was doing so I could see how light and colour is represented in a simalar scene.

good luck with the colouring, Have fun!


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210680 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 14:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Your link doesn't work.
Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210771 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 22:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'm not going to color it for you, since that defeats the purpose of you learning how to do it yourself... But some general advice is to have each color on its own layer. Just about everything you add should be its own layer. Make liberal use of masks to section off areas to paint without worrying about painting within the lines... An example would be to use a path and trace the lineart into sections so that you could make a selection, mask that layer, and paint only that specific spot without fear of overlapping onto another area.

The style itself is very basic and easy to master, so you shouldn't have much troubles once you have the basics I just described down. The cell shading should be easy, too, using selections (or simply painting sharp edged black areas and multiplying the layer over the area to be shaded) to burn the shading into the layer. Personally, I would use layers to add shading, as it's easier to fix mistakes than it is otherwise.
Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210772 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 22:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Shut the fuck up Jonathan Holmes.

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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210773 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 23:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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He gave some good advice on how to do the coloring. Why SHOULD he "Shut the fuck up"?

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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210774 is a reply to message #210561] Mon, 31 July 2006 23:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Doitle is right, as for my girlfriend, she wasn't home today long enough for me to tell her, we'll see whenever she comes here... Unless you'd like to do it yourself, of course.

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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210792 is a reply to message #210772] Tue, 01 August 2006 06:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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ViolentOrgy wrote on Tue, 01 August 2006 01:59

Shut the fuck up Jonathan Holmes.

He gave good advice. If you don't like him, tell him in PM or something. Don't blast him in a topic, especially when he assists. GTFO. I didn't miss you while you were gone, so could you please disappear again?


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210826 is a reply to message #210771] Tue, 01 August 2006 11:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Aircraftkiller wrote on Tue, 01 August 2006 01:41

I'm not going to color it for you, since that defeats the purpose of you learning how to do it yourself... But some general advice is to have each color on its own layer. Just about everything you add should be its own layer. Make liberal use of masks to section off areas to paint without worrying about painting within the lines... An example would be to use a path and trace the lineart into sections so that you could make a selection, mask that layer, and paint only that specific spot without fear of overlapping onto another area.

The style itself is very basic and easy to master, so you shouldn't have much troubles once you have the basics I just described down. The cell shading should be easy, too, using selections (or simply painting sharp edged black areas and multiplying the layer over the area to be shaded) to burn the shading into the layer. Personally, I would use layers to add shading, as it's easier to fix mistakes than it is otherwise.



Thanks, that was actually helpful.


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210829 is a reply to message #210826] Tue, 01 August 2006 12:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Pretty much what AK said.

Set the image you linked to multiply, and color on layers under it. Use the magic wand to quickly select large areas that should be colored and use fill, and then go through with a smaller brush and make the lines look nice. Use dodge and burn for shading... or gradients. If the guy who made it used vectors, ask for the source file and color that sucker in like 5 minutes Thumbs Up

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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210831 is a reply to message #210829] Tue, 01 August 2006 12:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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mjfabian wrote on Tue, 01 August 2006 15:01

If the guy who made it used vectors, ask for the source file and color that sucker in like 5 minutes Thumbs Up

HE made it... and he doesn't have Illustrator on his PC, else it would be vector.


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210919 is a reply to message #210561] Tue, 01 August 2006 21:40 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I figured I would show my progress with so far with your help and some more tutorials.

btw: New Art.
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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210928 is a reply to message #210919] Tue, 01 August 2006 22:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Looking good, Denim.
Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210929 is a reply to message #210561] Tue, 01 August 2006 22:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Try not to mix soft shading into it, while you're at it... Soft shading and cell shading look terrible in the same image. Things like eyes make sense, but having clothes cell-shaded while skin is soft shaded makes absolutely no sense and displays a sense of detachment from the image, as if it was two separate pieces pasted together.

Just as a rule of thumb!

When you get into the eyes, don't be afraid to have a little color variation such as moving from lighter to darker shades.
Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210930 is a reply to message #210561] Tue, 01 August 2006 22:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I like these actually. Man, I wish I could draw like that...

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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210931 is a reply to message #210561] Tue, 01 August 2006 22:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Aircraftkiller I'm still working on it just showing you my progress before I call it a night.

EDIT: I realized what you are talking about. I missed a section of hair coloring that I didn't erase from the cloths.


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Re: OT: Coloring help [message #210934 is a reply to message #210561] Tue, 01 August 2006 23:20 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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I wasn't talking about what you were doing... I was just saying that it's a good idea not to mix shading types in an image unless you have no other way of representing an object.
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