Evil Genius

Yup yup yup, I just finished my History final and my Anthropology final today. One more (Government) and i will be done for the summa!!

w00t, photos of my new figure. I'm just posting my favorites now, and I took serious liberties with photoshop cause it looked like my pictures were really lacking color. Am I going colorblind, or does this look better?

<--favorite
<-- love the way the shadow changes angle where his sword hits it
<--more subtle color, glaring eye

-Sarah of Borg

The first was is fantastic. I love how the light and shadow are playing off of guts. I also like the third one quite a bit as well. Nice

Question to Ogar_555,
how are you able to colour those image's with out removing any of the lineart?
I've tried but I cant seem to make the empy space become transparent to colour.
What are your methods?

Fatal_CobraX wrote:Question to Ogar_555,
how are you able to colour those image's with out removing any of the lineart?
I've tried but I cant seem to make the empy space become transparent to colour.
What are your methods?

bwahaha... allow me to divulge what i learnt in this very thread:
using photoshop,
set the mode of the layer in question to multiply.
create a new layer under it and colour this layer.
voila!
its so simple!

=P

There's another way, but it's more difficult and probably not as good. It's just the way I've always done it.
I just use the magic wand to select the white, and delete it. Then I paint the a new layer underneath.
I don't think I'll be pursuing a career in comic art coloring anytime soon anyway.

Quest wrote:

Fatal_CobraX wrote:Question to Ogar_555,
how are you able to colour those image's with out removing any of the lineart?
I've tried but I cant seem to make the empy space become transparent to colour.
What are your methods?

bwahaha... allow me to divulge what i learnt in this very thread:
using photoshop,
set the mode of the layer in question to multiply.
create a new layer under it and colour this layer.
voila!
its so simple!

=P

Thanks, I knew there was an easy way that had something to do with making the white transparent..

SarahofBorg wrote:There's another way, but it's more difficult and probably not as good. It's just the way I've always done it.
I just use the magic wand to select the white, and delete it. Then I paint the a new layer underneath.
I don't think I'll be pursuing a career in comic art coloring anytime soon anyway.

Yeah that's what I attempted once, although I found it too time consuming and ofcourse, with the kind of artwork in Berserk, the lineart would take too much time to clear out with the wand&erase combo.

If you set the tolerance level of the wand right it should take two secounds. Also, you want to uncheck "contiguous." Contiguous means it'll only select the pixels that are next to each other, like white next to white, but not white that's on the other side of the image. For coloring manga, I'd also check off "anti-alias."
And you don't need the eraser. When you have all the white selected, just hit delete.
But I don't have a lot of experiance coloring, just experiance with photoshop.

SarahofBorg wrote:If you set the tolerance level of the wand right it should take two secounds. Also, you want to uncheck "contiguous." Contiguous means it'll only select the pixels that are next to each other, like white next to white, but not white that's on the other side of the image. For coloring manga, I'd also check off "anti-alias."
And you don't need the eraser. When you have all the white selected, just hit delete.
But I don't have a lot of experiance coloring, just experiance with photoshop.

what you described reminds me of the "magic eraser" tool (not "magic wand") in PS CS.
that does what you said.

Magic wand is a difficult thing to do however, because it ALWAYS misses areas, or goes too deep into areas. Using layer properties is the way I've done my crappy colorings and it's quite easy honestly.

This only took me like 10 minutes because I was doing it as a step by step, but you get the idea.

Step 1

Step 2

Finished:



No Lines since Femdo always asks for it (it looks crappy without all the nice layer effects on .

No Lines

Very nice, that's nice to see the evolution of this colouring. It also shows how far I am of being a good colourist. Now I'll stick with typesettings and cloning straight black lines .

Love the color burn there newbified, I think that is my favorite tool for the line art... try do it more than once in the same selection and see what you think

No Color Burn. Just Overlay and a Hard Light .

I could have sworn it was a color burn, huh... did you try a color burn?? I bet it would come out about the same.

Interesting, I might have to have to try that out.

Im not great at photoshop but i have an understanding on how it works.

I am going to start editing and coloring in Photoshop, then add effects in corel... lets see if I can make a come back

newbified wrote: No Lines since Femdo always asks for it (it looks crappy without all the nice layer effects on .

No Lines

lol

I learned how to color by following this tutorial. I usually still do follow it.

http://www.digital-industry.net/forum/i ... owtopic=25

Any oppinions?

huh, that's a good tutorial. I think I'll follow that method from now on.
There's clearly many differant ways, but that seems best.

Buzkashi wrote:I learned how to color by following this tutorial. I usually still do follow it.

http://www.digital-industry.net/forum/i ... owtopic=25

Any oppinions?

hey thanks for sharing that, buz!
=)

thats good if you are a real purist about the black outline.

Hm... I still dont think thats the way Ogar_555 colours his art..
Thats for crisp, clean lineart not highly detailed/sketched works like in Berserk.
I've tried the "multiply" method and the grey shading in Berserk dulls the colour..

Well the thing is. Ogar uses a completely different program. And a wacom at that. So its gona be different.

Fatal_CobraX wrote:Hm... I still dont think thats the way Ogar_555 colours his art..
Thats for crisp, clean lineart not highly detailed/sketched works like in Berserk.
I've tried the "multiply" method and the grey shading in Berserk dulls the colour..

i think the grey areas were meant to be dull then.
how else do you expect to translate the grey areas into?

you can mess with the other degrees of multiply like darken, colour dodge and linear dodge.

I have a Wacom Tablet aswell,
If Ogar_555 just post's what his methods are I could learn from that.
Also the grey Dull's the colour not letting me colour the image properly.
It turns greyish no matter what the colour is.

you could pm him if you want to know his secret techniques that badly.
=P