I was looking at te inking tutorial in http://www.dragonadopters.com when I thought I'd experiment with it on one of my pieces (GUess which one X3) This was the result of about 20-30 minutes of fiddling, which I rather like how it turned out :3 If I hadn;t already mrged the white and black together, I'd have fiddled with maybe adding some color underneath the lines too X3
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Western Dragon
Size 516 x 595px
File Size 66.2 kB
Oh, color is easy to add under black and white images.
1. Rename the layer with the lineart in it 'lineart' (if the lineart layer is called 'background' and is locked, double click its icon to make it a normal, unlocked layer)
2. Create a layer under the lineart layer called 'color' http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/.....icture3ih2.png
3. With the lineart layer selected, change its layer mode to 'multiply'. http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/.....icture4rq0.png This will make all the whites in the layer transparent, allowing any color in the layer bellow it to show through. (make sure you're changing the layer mode of the lineart layer, not the color layer)
4. Draw in your color in the 'color' layer http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/.....icture5zj1.png
5. if you ever want to do the reverse, having the whites show, and the blacks be transparent, instead of 'multiply' use 'screen' http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/.....icture6gl1.png
6. ???
7. Profit!
As a side note, this also works wonders when you want to color in a sketch directly that you've scanned in, since this method works with greys too, making the white element of it transparent, only leaving the black element, partially transparent
1. Rename the layer with the lineart in it 'lineart' (if the lineart layer is called 'background' and is locked, double click its icon to make it a normal, unlocked layer)
2. Create a layer under the lineart layer called 'color' http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/.....icture3ih2.png
3. With the lineart layer selected, change its layer mode to 'multiply'. http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/.....icture4rq0.png This will make all the whites in the layer transparent, allowing any color in the layer bellow it to show through. (make sure you're changing the layer mode of the lineart layer, not the color layer)
4. Draw in your color in the 'color' layer http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/.....icture5zj1.png
5. if you ever want to do the reverse, having the whites show, and the blacks be transparent, instead of 'multiply' use 'screen' http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/.....icture6gl1.png
6. ???
7. Profit!
As a side note, this also works wonders when you want to color in a sketch directly that you've scanned in, since this method works with greys too, making the white element of it transparent, only leaving the black element, partially transparent
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