Part 3 - How to color Manga a Comics the Pro way - Sexy Lara Croft from Tomb Raider

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To easily follow this series on painting manga and comics, go to the site, and then go to Digital Painting, and scroll down. I will be updating as I put the new parts up. To see my artwork, go to the gallery. Visit the forums to ask me questions, or to post your own art, or tutorials. Thanks.

This new, free series is all about coloring manga and comics, but the techniques can be used for painting as well. I teach techniques in this series that I haven't shown on any of my other videos, so that is exciting.

I show how to clean your scanned line work and remove the white so that the lines stay crisp. I show how to color the lines without coloring anything else but the lines. I also show other techniques for changing line color, but the lock transparency pixels is the best, I think. I will be showing how to get that nice cell shaded look that is so often seen in comics, especially manga. In the end, you'll be able to apply this knowledge and create great colored works of art. 

If you want to color this Lara Croft drawing I did, you can go to www.ipaintgirls.com and then go to gallery. Be sure to download the full sized version. If you do color it, link back to me, and let me know so I can check it out, yanno? Coolness.

Category:

Education

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• Lara
• Croft
• Tomb
• Raider
• color
• manga
• comic
• photoshop
• coloring
• tutorial
• how
• to

[ArturShapiro]

Thank you again for making those wonderful tips... Ctrl+H does come in handy =) Never knew about it before. If its not to hard could you answer the following questions.

Do you always paint in RGB Color & 8 Bits/Channel? You know from like start to the end of the art or do you switch the color & bits/channel at some point in the process?

I don't really get the difference in those things.

Oh yeah one more question, The resolution (pixels/inch) Do you work in 72 or 300 or somewhere in between?

[architectus777]

@ArturShapiro I work at 300. RPG is how I usually print. The results look nice, I think.

But youc an concvert to CMYK if you want to do color processing type printing, but you will not be able to do that from home.

[422537jb]

Can you shorten the videos some how? there way to long

[architectus777]

@422537jb I could try but then I will have to skip talking about some things. LIke you know in a good art book, there is way omre reading than pictures? A lot of learning a new process is the explaination.

I can still try to speed things up.

[iDeveloper77]

Another Great Tutorial!

[BadMohawk]

Instead of going all the way around the hair with the pen tool to fix the edges could you not have selected it with the wand and then clicked expand and fill it again?

[hajar9911]

you have a cintiq ADMIT IT

[1M3ack]

I cant thank you enough for posting this... just from these two videos i've learned so much

[AndySartdesign1]

Thanx for your help. This Tutorial I search a long Time and you give me the right lessons. thanx, thanx, thanx.

[Gendgi]

The video length is great as it is! thank you for this :)

[422537jb]

@architectus777 ok nvm if it means losing out on learning

[20graffiti08]

no dont they gd as they are :)