Welcome to a new lesson, in which I will explain a method that will make it easy for you to color the web very quickly, and through it you will save time and effort during the workflow, so let's get started
We start selecting the frames with the selection tool, which I indicated in the picture. We select all the frames of the webtoon, from top to bottom.
Then we add a "mask", which makes the drawings never go outside the frame. We press the right mouse button, then this menu will appear in front of us, and then we choose the "Layer Mask" option, then we choose "Mask Outside Selection"
And this is how the "mask" will be formed.
We add a layer, and we will fill it completely with black, using the fill tool, and it is necessary for this layer to be below all the layers.
Notice in picture 1, how the background looks white, and how the background has become black in picture 2.
In order for the drawing to appear more clearly, we reduce the transparency of the layer, through the option shown in the image.
This is how all the frames will look, with the black background color that we have lightened, and this step is important, because it will hide the drawing and coloring defects.
At this point, it is necessary to get rid of the background color inside the frame, and confine it only inside the characters, and in order to do that, we use the fill tool, and choose the transparency option available in the left menu, near the color ring.
We go near the borders of the characters, and empty the frame of the black color, and thus the color will be inside the characters only
Now we start coloring the skin, after adding a dedicated layer to it, and it will be dedicated to coloring the skin of all characters, in order to color the webtoon easily.
Webtoon Coloring: I will show you an easy and simple trick, in order to color any part of the drawing in the fastest time
While inking, we leave a space at the line, whether it is for hair, body or clothes, and thus we will be able to color the required part with the push of a button, without the need to go through each part separately.
And look here how we left a space at the palate, and when we color, the face and neck color with us at once, the same thing with the hands, we leave some spaces between the hands
Now we move to the shading stage. We add a layer dedicated to the basic shading of the skin only, and we add a “mask” dedicated to it, so that the shading does not go beyond the borders of the skin layer.
In order to get consistent shading for all the different characters' skin tones, we need to add the "Multiply" effect, and the color used for shading is the same for all skin tones, which is pale purple, so that we don't have to change the shading color for each character, which saves us time.
As for the additional or second shading, we add a new layer, above the basic shading layer, and choose the same effect, and a darker shade of purple, and we do not use the second shading, except in a few places only, at the inner corners of each part that we color.
And thus we have finished learning the methods of coloring webtoons in the fastest possible ways. As we know, webtoons consume a lot of time, especially for those who publish periodically, and it is necessary to find methods that save us work. Follow this method, and you will find it useful. I leave you now and I will meet you next time, God willing.
Comments