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lestats
Joined: 21 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject: how to begin coloring line art |
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As i talked about before i originaly want to be able to color in my own comic book art.
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Do you guys know any beginers torts on how to color in line art? |
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witam
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
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Location: Belgium
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lestats
Joined: 21 Oct 2004
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What is vector art?
I've heard so much about it but i know nothing?
Um......i want to use a very Spawn-esk color scheme |
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thehermit
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Location: Cheltenham, UK
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Unless you have Illustrator by Adobe, Freehand by Macromedia or Corel Draw(?) (at least one of the Corel package) you cannot make vector graphics.
Without getting into boring and long winded explanations (although I am wiling) Think of bitmaps as a pre-defined grid, in some of those grids (pixels) are dots of colour to make up the complete image. Vector images are made up of mathmatical equations rather than pixels and are therefore scalable to an infinte size.
Photoshop can produce paths and vector objects, but because Photoshop is Bitmap editor it would have to be taken into one of the afformentioned packages to be made truly vector. |
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lestats
Joined: 21 Oct 2004
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so what do the popular comic producers use? |
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BryanDowning
Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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Location: California, USA
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I would imagine they use scanned in artwork.
Check out this gallery of vector art to better understand the limitations and capabilities of the vector technique.
http://digitalart.deviantart.com/vector/
If you notice, most of these images are composed of flat one colored pieces. The most you can really do effect wise is gradients. If you want a lot of color variation, you have to draw all the different colors and shapes. Seems to be a very tedious and time consuming way to go about art, but hey I'm not a vector artist so what do I know?
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thehermit
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BryanDowning
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Wow. Wonderful tutorial. Very educational. Good find hermit.
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suishakai
Joined: 07 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject: Coloring Line Art |
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Hi There,
I posted this to another area to a similar question. Hope this technique is useful.
The easiest and most predictable way that I have found to color line art, is to make the lineart the topmost layer in your Photoshop file with the blending mode set to Multiply. Colors can then be put on separate layers underneath the line art layer.
The cool thing about this is that everything white on the lineart layer is now transparent (so colors show through), and the black elements always appear as black.
This techniques is best used for any application that does not require specific color separations (besides 4-color process). |
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