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1. Introduction: Hello and welcome friends. Hanging artist and designer here to guide you and help
you out in digital coloring. Right up from a hand-drawn
sketch to a pro artist result. Like this. Guys. It is very simple
and fun process that he will learn with me in this
class in next few minutes. This class we'll be covering three coloring
process in details. And then we will
together work on the sketch using best of all of the three
processes and combine. Not just this, you will
also be getting the, all the tips and tricks
required to create dynamic art pieces
out of your sketches. At end of this class, you will be asked to upload a final JPEG of your work
or the work-in-progress, your class project
while painting to the sketches to
understand if any issues. And I will be more than
happy to help you out. And we'll be glad to
see your results. On your need is
Adobe Photoshop on your device and then tablet. Any pen tablet can
be good for use, or you can just use
a recompense tablet. I'm having one by
Wacom tablet that is perfect for all
of the beginners. All other required resources such as the sketches
and anything, are available in the
project and resources tab. So make sure download it
and use them. Let's begin.
2. Prepare Sketch: Before we begin to that
three coloring process, let's make a quick rough sketch. I'm having a canvas of 1920 by density pixels
open up in Photoshop. And I'm using the
content tablet, one by the com, which is
suitable for any beginners. Selecting Brush Tool. Click B to activate ZBrush. Go to Brush Panel, or use Windows to activate brush panel and select
hard round brush. I'm having 30% opacity
and setting right now. And simple sketch any random
basic object or a scene. To understand how
you could achieve different results using different
coloring processes with the same sketch scattered out. Simply. Keep your brushstrokes clean. Also, you can hold Shift and drag your brush
in a particular side, will make perpendicular
straight lines. Make any spherical shape. You can use the Ellipse tool, shortcut you and make sure
to add a stroke color and redo it so that is
visible as a sketch line. This is just a rough sketch. You can use any sketch who
practice along with me. Make sure to hold shift and select all the particular
layers that you sketched in. And right-click and
select Merge Layers. Watch all of those layer, although sketched Bart
into one single layer. Let's proceed to the
next lesson to learn about coloring
process one by one.
3. One Layer Method: Hey, and welcome back. I'm ready with a sketch that we have prepared
in the last lesson. And let's paint with one layer
of material. Beforehand. I'm using the color panel, suitable colors for the
subject B's and background, and painted in a
separate layer by using hard round brush with the
brush tool like this, so that we will have our quick and handy color
palette on the board. Now let's select a new layer, or you can just rename it to make it easy to
select for you. In. Further. In this method, we will paint everything
in one single layer. Starting from the very base, that is the background color
painted all over like this. As it is the base for
the entire painting. And we will just overlap colors upon it one-by-one as required. I'm using hard round brush
with a 100% opacity. Just a quick edit
to the sketch as didn't remove the color
entirely from the sketch base. So just using the magic
wand selection tool, shortcut W and selecting that particular
area and then just deleting it from the delete
button. Now, good to go. Next to that. I'm using harden brush, pretty much bigger in size. To increase the
size of your brush. Use the settings, or do
it by the brush random. Or you can simply use
the shortcut that is right rectangle
bracket to increase the size and left
one to decrease. Painted as a solid block
of color in place. On the same layer, because we are doing
the one layer method and switch to the next color
using eyedropper tool, shortcut, I paint it back in
place with the brush tool. Make sure you paint in place and do not break
the outer areas. Because if you do that you have to paint
the entire thing. Again, as all of this being
painted in one single layer, you can still undo, like go a few steps back in the process and repainted. Easily. Zoom in and paint closely
to your subject area using the Control Plus as the shortcut for
zooming in the window. Next to this is about adding detail
and sort of shadow and light effect using
different colors from the color panel
to add the shade. Shadow highlights whatever
radius you want. Your subject. Remember to paint everything
in that particular layer. This is very classic
way of painting. This is the most
traditional method and mostly preferred by any traditional
painter or artist. As in this process, you are not bothered
with any features of Photoshop or any software. All you are doing is
just taking your brush, your favorite or
preferred color, and just painting as you bring on our paper
with your brush. But there is a big, big lag of this process. And that is what you need to recolor it or rearrange
your subject. There is no rescue, do it. All you have to do is just
completely repaint every day. So this was all about the basic one layer
method of painting. Next lesson I will be
explaining and showing you about how to do
lazy multiply method. So let's meet in next lesson.
4. Lazy Multiply: I'm back with the
basic rough sketch, and now in a new layer, I'm going to paint this object. This time I'm using
certain tools, like rectangular marquee tool or polygonal lasso tool to
make selection and paint, particularly two
different layers. I'm having four things
to my subject here. So particularly
for layers for it. Use the Fill Color
Fill Bucket tool. Shortcut G will fill up the selected area and hit control D to deselect
the selection. Now, once done with
the base layer, Let's add a new blank layer
above all of the layers. Or you can just group those painted base color layer
by selecting all of them. Hold Shift and select all the
layers in the layer panel. Hit Control G to group them. Now, select the newly
changed the layer mode to the blending mode, to the multiply, and right-click and create
a clipping mask. So by doing this, everything that I will
be painting will be restricted to the earlier
painted surfaces only. And in this, I'm going to
paint using the same brush. And just select a darker color. And lower the opacity
of the brush. And paint the required shadows. Like this. You can easily switch between
the different colors and paint the entire thing. One important thing is
I'm using the brush in one and not in
any stroke form. I will use it in this form. It will keep darkening
the overlapping areas. If you want it, then only do it. Otherwise, it's okay
to go in the home. This is a very easy way to add the lighting shadow kind of effect with the base color layer without hampering anything that can be easily
erased or edited or recreated as it is done in a
very, very separate layer. So let's get to the next coloring process in
the next lesson.
5. Masking Method: Hello and welcome back for this lesson is all
about masking method. This particular color process. Let's make different layers
or different subjects, like one phobias, four sides, one for the ball and
one for the background. Keeping everything
in separate layers. I just make a new layer and rename it that
particular thing. Now, use polygonal
lasso tool and select the particular area
on the canvas like this. And use the icon below
in the layer panel. Here. Make a mask on the layer mask. Repeat it with all
the required layers. Mask for all of them on
the particular layers. Once done. Now we
can easily select the color of your choice from the color palette
and switch to that required new fill the layer
with that particular color. Here you can see that it is not going beyond the mask area. Now, make a newly added
to the army earlier as the clipping mask
required VB and shut it, you can use any color, particularly or use
different brush opacity and just experiment
how it is coming up. By doing this, we are using a very editable method and not remembering any of
the base color layer. Everything can be edited. Even on a later stage. You can anytime get creative and explore different
brushes to use. Highlights and shadows will give a tip for painting shadows off a particular
direction of light. And then paint the shadows
on the opposite direction. And paint the
shadows that will be created with the introduction
of two different surfaces. So this is all about the
three coloring process. Let's proceed to our sketch
and character coloring.
6. Prepare Sketch to Lineart: Hey friends, I'm
having my sketch image drag-and-drop with
the Photoshop Canvas, selecting the
particular sketch area. The polygon lasso
tool like this, because I'm having a few
excessive elements that I do not want we use. So just select the
control G for the duplicating this
particular selected area. Who are new layer? Delete the earlier image
you use right now. Let's work on this new layer. Go to Select menu, choose the color range, and select your wider
space of the sketch. In the pop-up window, you can see the
selected area as white. And hold Shift and keep
adding your color from background until you are happy with the white
color in the bubble. Something like this
is good enough. Once you're done, hit Okay. Hit Control D and go to the image because we
didn't change the mall. Who raised skin, just change
them all to gray scale. And choose flatten if you
haven't done it earlier. That's why we did the
control selection. Otherwise, once you are done, then select that
particular thing with the color range. No worries. You can simply get
back to the selection quickly by going to Select
menu and select reselect. So here is our
earlier selection. Now go to the Image
adjustments and choose levels. Here in the ballpark. Bring the right
corner point towards the center and see how the background
is getting brighter. And to make it all work right, evenly shifted the
center point for the extreme left and see the required reserves
is quite perfect. If you are happy, hit OK. Control D to de-select, change the sketch
blending mode to multiply and change
the image mode, RGB, so that we can paint
in the color format. Now we are ready to
paint our character. So let's proceed to
the next lesson.
7. Prepare Character base: Welcome back. So we're
ready to paint it out as the very
basic first step. Make a new layer
for the background and fill it up with
the dark gray color. Now, make a new layer in-between the sketch
in the background. You spend to make different selection for different subject
of your character. You can easily zoom in and
focus on the sketch anytime. Start by using pen
tool shortlist. Here, I will separate the
character into multiple layers, starting from a hairs, because that will
be the below layer of character as here. Start from a point, just click on it there, and click on another. Hold your cursor
there and drag it. Will make any Gov bytes
continue in the similar way. And anywhere you can. If you want to make your point goes straight
further like this, just hold Alt and click
on that particular point. You can see you get the straight starting
point afterwards. Once the selection is done, you can just rename the layer and restaurants the layer
and also hold control. And click on the
layer thumbnail. Who make the area selection. Make a layer mask. Just like we did in
the masking method. Similarly make a
layer mask over here. So here I'm dividing
my character into different layers
as different parts and masking each of them. This is a point that we learned
in masking method to keep our Claire's clean energy
table even on a later stage. Also, that's why I use pen tool to get
clean defined edges. For our character. You can see how the things
are coming up. Or Control Shift. And click on each
layer thumbnail to select it all together. Something like this. Make a new layer below
all of the rest of the layers and fill it up
with a white base color. And musket again
as rest of lives. Now select each of the
subject hears one-by-one. Filling it up with the
color of your choice. This is how the character
has developed so far. You can refer to
the sketch layer to add details to
your character. For adding details,
use brush tool and select a darker tone of the base color from
the Color panel. Using a new layer above
the hairs like this. And just right-click and select, declare, create, clipping mask. Just paint all the details in one layer and the base color in different one so
that we're keeping our layers clean, editable. And the work is also
particularly in poor. If any man or any
editing is needed. We can just do it
on a later stage. You can easily change the
colors and set the opacity to a lower 40 to 50 per cent to add depth and detail
to the character. Repeat the same process
for all of the bars. Hello, so you can keep exploring your brushes from
hard round brush, the soft round brush,
pressure size, or the depression opacity ones, you will get different results. Simply zoom in and keep adding
your details to the base. We're happy with the results. Let's add more detail and light into our character
in the next lesson.
8. Add Character details: I'm back. In this lesson, I
will add the best of the coloring process to add
dynamic lighting and details. Make our character more alive. For this group and dad character layers that we
did earlier in a group. And make a new layer above it. Change it to multiply blending mode and flip it
to the entire group layer. Something like this. You will see on the layer panel. By this, the
environment's lighting and shadow to our character clearly in a very
different layer. Using similar risks
that we did earlier. Quite different in size,
darker, neutral color. It would be darker or lighter. Just painted on the areas. Get better light
and shadow effect. You can erase anything
unwanted and pink it again. See how gradually our character
is getting altogether. Moreover, you can use new
layer to the Color Dodge. Screen mode. Add the bright light
highlights to that character. Giving such little
highlights and some glowing light
elements like this. Just to make our character
more attractive. And Atlas, merging all the layers and
adding fine details above it. We'll give it some final goods. Well, we are just using
the one layer method because we are all
having the base work done and we do not need
anything to be revised. So you can just add the details
until you are satisfied. Now, just skipping to the
final look of your character, you can see how beautifully our main character has emerged. And it is quite alive. So I hope you also got enough out of it and find
it helpful and fun to paint it out
from your sketches into such detail and Greece using
the resale painting method. I would love to see your painted characters
as the class project. Make sure to add them in
your class project here. If you find this class helpful, make sure to share your reviews and share this
class with your friends. If you want to learn in depth
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me here and enroll in my other classes
to get best of it. Any suggestion. So queries are always invited. Feel free to comment in
the discussion step. I will be glad to help you out. Thanks for your time. And we will meet in next class.
Shivangi Dubey, Graphic Designer
