I am an artist, and I work with Corel9 to CG and color my work. I am new to the
whole CGing thing, and I would apreciate any helpful tips on the matter. I'll
post a link to my gallery, and a list of my procedure that I currently use. This
is so that you can better understand how I get my results, and maybe help me
find a better way:
My process:
I draw, and ink, then scan the picture.
Then, I change the color mode to 1 bit black and white, to make it easier to
fill in with color,
Then, I change it back to RGB true color mode, and fill in the apropriate
colors.
Once done, I Use color masks to creat proper shading and effects, with the
airbrush paint tool.
When I am done with this, I then make a black colormask to fix up the
linework, so it blends better with the pictures colors in the apropriate areas
(Just learned this).
After all of this, I add a slight blend to remove the jaggy lines.
My gallery: http://ronindude.minitokyo.net/gallery/
If you have any suggestions, or techniques, I would apreciate them. For one,
I would like to skip the inking stage, because it makes my lines too bold. But
if I do, the lines fade away when I change the color mode to 1 bit black and
white. I dont know any other way to do this.
Thanks, in advance!
Though I doubt my method is very sophisticated (I only colored 5 drawings till
now):
First: I use Paint Shop Pro 9 (though all colored drawings were done in PSP8)
After getting the lineart into the program (not vectorized, since I ain't able
to do that) I create a layer for the base colors, which usually (though not
always) I fill in with the lasso tool. Then I create a new layer for the shades,
which I just add with the lasso tool as well, just varying the feathering and
opacity.
Even the final touches are just added by lasso-created areas and shapes.
That lasso-ing is what takes time... if I had vectorized lineart, I might be
able to just select whole areas with other tools... but that's not the case.
See, in Corel9, color masks are helpful, because it masks off everything but the
selected color, so you can only effect that color with your paint tools. Since I
start off by filling in with base colors, the actual coloring process takes a
very short time. I really don't have any experience with any programs, except
Corel9, and I'm new to that as well!
How's the lasso work? never used it...
It's also called the polygonal selection tool. You just click on some spots and
this defines the borders of a polygon that remains as a selected area, and only
it will be affected by the ongoing work.
About that color mask: I know a way to achieve that in PSP, but I dunno if it's
the same. I can, for example, tell the fill bucket (which is pretty much the
only thing I use for coloring; no airbrushes and the like) to only affect areas
of a specific colors, and so on.
Eventually I think that all higher graphic programs are equal in their
abilities, they just differ in the easiness to handle... and at least PSP has
always seemed easier to me than at least Photoshop. (And by now PSP has all
functions of Photoshop as well)
I am an artist, and I work with Corel9 to CG and color my work. I am new to the whole CGing thing, and I would apreciate any helpful tips on the matter. I'll post a link to my gallery, and a list of my procedure that I currently use. This is so that you can better understand how I get my results, and maybe help me find a better way:
My process:
I draw, and ink, then scan the picture.
Then, I change the color mode to 1 bit black and white, to make it easier to fill in with color,
Then, I change it back to RGB true color mode, and fill in the apropriate colors.
Once done, I Use color masks to creat proper shading and effects, with the airbrush paint tool.
When I am done with this, I then make a black colormask to fix up the linework, so it blends better with the pictures colors in the apropriate areas (Just learned this).
After all of this, I add a slight blend to remove the jaggy lines.
My gallery: http://ronindude.minitokyo.net/gallery/
If you have any suggestions, or techniques, I would apreciate them. For one, I would like to skip the inking stage, because it makes my lines too bold. But if I do, the lines fade away when I change the color mode to 1 bit black and white. I dont know any other way to do this.
Thanks, in advance!
Though I doubt my method is very sophisticated (I only colored 5 drawings till now):
First: I use Paint Shop Pro 9 (though all colored drawings were done in PSP8)
After getting the lineart into the program (not vectorized, since I ain't able to do that) I create a layer for the base colors, which usually (though not always) I fill in with the lasso tool. Then I create a new layer for the shades, which I just add with the lasso tool as well, just varying the feathering and opacity.
Even the final touches are just added by lasso-created areas and shapes.
That lasso-ing is what takes time... if I had vectorized lineart, I might be able to just select whole areas with other tools... but that's not the case.
See, in Corel9, color masks are helpful, because it masks off everything but the selected color, so you can only effect that color with your paint tools. Since I start off by filling in with base colors, the actual coloring process takes a very short time. I really don't have any experience with any programs, except Corel9, and I'm new to that as well!
How's the lasso work? never used it...
It's also called the polygonal selection tool. You just click on some spots and this defines the borders of a polygon that remains as a selected area, and only it will be affected by the ongoing work.
About that color mask: I know a way to achieve that in PSP, but I dunno if it's the same. I can, for example, tell the fill bucket (which is pretty much the only thing I use for coloring; no airbrushes and the like) to only affect areas of a specific colors, and so on.
Eventually I think that all higher graphic programs are equal in their abilities, they just differ in the easiness to handle... and at least PSP has always seemed easier to me than at least Photoshop. (And by now PSP has all functions of Photoshop as well)