Comic Colouring: People Pt. 01

A tutorial and speedpainting video about my comic colouring technique. You need a reasonably good knowledge of Photoshop to follow what I'm doing. Otherwise it's just a fun watch.

There *is* an audio crapout half-way through the video - it's not your computer. But I've already produced this video about ten times and I'm *not* doing it again! LOL! The missing quote by Bob Ross is "There are no mistakes, just happy accidents." I was talking about putting the wrong colour down. OH! And the audio is about ten seconds out of sync. What I'm describing happens before I say it. I don't know if that's me or YouTube. Who knows! I'll try to make sure it doesn't happen next time!

Music from the computer game Interstate '76.

ETA: People keep asking what brush preset I use in this tutorial. I basically use a 19 pixel round brush. But I have a Wacom Tablet, which means that I have the option to go into the brush presets in the brush palette and switch the opacity controls to pressure and the flow controls to pressure. (These options can be found under the "Brushes" tab in the top right hand corner of the Photoshop screen. Then go to "Other Dynamics" in the menu that pops down when you hit that tab.)

If you don't have a Wacom Tablet (or any sort of drawing tablet) then you won't get the sensitivity I have in this tutorial. The closest thing I can recommend for mouse users is to bring the flow controls of your brush right down to about 5-10 percent, and use the brush like watercolours. Also, softening the edges of your brush might help as well. Good luck!

ETA2: Oh! And I accidentally deleted someone's comment! I'm so sorry! I just use the smudge tool, I don't use blur as it lacks the control I prefer. With the Wacom Tablet the intensity of the smudge is controllable with pressure. I find that very helpful.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• art
• tutorial
• speedpainting
• comic

[xlxsavagexlx]

if i gave u a picture cud u do this for me cuz i wudnt be able to do this?

[napalmnacey]

Sorry, I only take paid commissions and I'm full up presently. All it takes to do what I do is a lot of hard work and practice. Good luck!

[greyfox1926]

When can we expect part 2?

[davidrey444]

Part 2?

[Gamerportalconsole]

can that be you

if so

:D

me likey

[PiikaShields]

Aweeeeesome

[olahusilku]

awesome,... thanks for sharing

[WolfeyWolf]

sweet music you listen to :) :) and great vid, i don't own photoshop or anything like this yet but after watching a few of these vids i'm a bit interested :)

[mdanyjam]

You must be so Beautiful... I love u not for ur Artistic Techniques but bcoz u r really so beautiful..

[hedz95]

Wow.. You are the best Computer Artist i've ever seen in my life.

[PEDROSERO]

check que rallada joder busca empleo gringa de mierda.....

[missymoonmie]

Question, do you use a tablet? :]. What kind?

[YTbEaTZz]

can u make me one too ?