More Coloring Stuff!!

I promise I will explain my crazy coloring tricks soon. I will most likely post something at the Boneville site in a few weeks that will be more complete.

This is my tablet... without which I am nothing. I should get a new one, but I love this old thing, and it works for me just fine!


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Some quick answers to some of you who are interested.. and also have a grasp on Photoshop.

1. I create my documents using very high res line-art. Scanned b&w 'text' @ 600dpi. I convert the line-art to grayscale, Duplicate layer, delete the bottom copy, select the white, delete white on second layer, lock the layer so I do not accidentally color on it.

2. I color on layers beneath the line-art. A layer for each element on the page.. i.e. Fone Bone, Smiley, Sky... all get separate layers.

3. The color guide below is a portion of the one I use. I created it by figuring out each character's colors in daylight. So this color guide only works as a basic reference. I let the scenes dictate the final colors. As you can see in the books, Fone Bone can be blue, orange, white, gray... depending on his surroundings.


4. I use the magic wand to select large closed areas on the line-art layer, then go to the corresponding layer beneath and fill/stroke 4 pixels. Stroking gives you a little bleed under the line so you avoid ghosting.
This only works for areas that are inked with closed lines. I airbrush within the lines by hand for areas that this technique doesn’t work for.

I realize that there are many ways to do all of these steps, some may be easier, but this is the way I taught myself over the years and it works for me. Ha, ha! More to come later on!