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Published: 2011-06-01 01:53:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 20336; Favourites: 323; Downloads: 340
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Hrmm, sorry guys, it's almost 4a.m and I know that I have something like two more hours to go if I wanna finish this. It's a pretty good part to stop at, like is says, then comes the shadows and lights.You can see the finished page already of course, it's on www.chloe-art.com/kigocomic (page 23)
Know that I don't consider myself a pro at this. I still have much to learn, and there are countless of ways to draw and color of photoshop. This is my way, but please don't think it's the only way
Any questions, or something not clear? Please ask :3
Part 2=> [link]
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You are my hero!!! I have been trying to figure out an easier way to work the outlines and coloring in my digital art and this tutorial had the answer I needed. Now if only my scanner would work....guess I just have to stick with taking photos of my sketches and uploading to photoshop for now.
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cool tutorial
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Thanks for the lesson! I shall use it well!
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Question: When I scan my picture into photoshop and try to use the channels to get rid of the blue sketch, all that happens when I click on the Blue layer is that the whole picture turns yellow and the blue lines are still there. Am I doing something wrong?
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Are you sure you're clicking ON the layer itself, and not the eye thingy on its left? Basically when you click on the layer, it makes the other channels invisible (eye thingy off).
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Omg, that was it! Thank you so much, I feel so silly for click on the eye thing. Thanks again!
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No problem, I'm sure I did the same mistake more than once
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Just wondering, but what kind of photoshop do you use???
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Photoshop CS4, but I think any photoshop can do these things.
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I hope so, too.
Thank you.
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Haha, great to see your rough sketching progress. I love seeing rough sketches becoming the real deal
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Is it possible to do this without layers? Because layers hate me!
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I guess you could do everything in just one layer, sure.
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Ooooh, thanks for breaking down the artistic process like this. Neato.
Random things I love in these images:
o Shego's body in this, especially in the lineart stages for some reason
o Kim's face starting at the photoshopping stage
o How Kim and Shego are...um...laid over each other...um...3-dimensionally?...lol no clue how to properly express that in non-suggestive/artist terms...
o everything about your "fancomic of Kim Possible being hopelessly gay for her arch-enemy, Shego." XD
Oh and I totally giggled @ "PART 1 - I swear it's a P"
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Haha, glad you liked it
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Just realized why I liked Shego's body best in the lineart. It's much easier to see the distinction between adjacent black segments (e.g. her hair/suit). The end product is still awesome of course!
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Do you know how to get rid of black/gray sketch lines?
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While keeping the inks you mean?
It would be harder to clean, but playing with the levels can help a bit.
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i couldn't help but think, "goddamn, that's so fuckin hot," when i saw that panel in the comic. :b
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Really really! Or at least for somebody like me who is technically challenged (to put it nicely) and has little to no idea of how to work with photoshop.
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I'd offer some kind of helpful and witty remark, but I actually know less about this stuff than you do.
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...I'm learning!
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If you want to share witty remarks, please go ahead
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I think you forgot to mention how should the fill-in colouring should be done. Or at least, how you do it. Do you just take your pen and start colouring as if it were a normal piece of paper?
I personally go back to the line-art layer, do a lasso selection (select nearby regions) to select "most" of the area to be coloured, then grow the selection by a few pixels (so it includes the delimiting lines), go back to the layer where the colours belong and bucket-fill it up. Then I have to zoom into the image and manually "fix" the colouring for the edges the lasso tool didn't get right. Also I find that it is easier to work on an image at a size much larger than the intended target (that way the pixel-level errors go poof after resizing).
Anyway, your process is very similar to how I do things, except I have no blue pencil (never though of that before, it looks really practical and I should totally try it), instead, I scan my messy sketch and then vectorize on top of it (I don't recommend this method unless you absolutely love mathematically perfect curves and are a masochistperfectionist of high calibre).
I am curious to see how the shading gets done. Hopefully you don't end up with hundreds of layers as I often do xD' Thanks for the data~
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Nope, you won't end up with hundreds of layers
Yeah, I didn't mention how to fill in 'cause everyone has their own way. There's the lasso way, or the painting every damn spot way, or (what I do, since most of my lines are "closed"), I just use the bucket fill (then manually fix edges and all)
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Since you did mention "this isn't the ONE way, but the way I do things", I kinda expected to learn of your approach 
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*stares* ......... e_e miss Chloe....I'm gonna download this and save it forevah in my pc, just in case....
but still you do it better ;_; I hope I can do it so clean and beautiful when I reach your age (in 3 years) xD
thanks for doing it, really!
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I bet you'll get even better than me in 3 years
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^-^ you're so kind!
humm another thing.. between the cleaning and the background color step, when you scan the drawing you have the lines and the white of the paper, how do you do to make the white dissappear? @-@
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Set the lineart on "multiply" like it says in the tut. (That way you can color over the white, but not over the lines)
Or were you talking about something else?
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Ahhh!! I got it now! 
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Haha, I do things very similarily these days! Though something I've been doing because I'm paranoid is doing the pencil or ink part over a printed copy of my blue pencil sketch. That way if I mess things up horribly I can go back to the blue pencil page again! Perhaps I'll get past that fear one day but for now, it keeps me able to ink freely without worry~ I've been experimenting with a brush and ink lately, and its been fun but scary, so I've been glad to have to original to fall back on! XD
Today's Kigo comic was neat by the way c:
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Thank you c:
I can understand that fear, and your way of doing is great, I think!
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*gives beer and Roomie to help the sleeps* G'night!
Nice tut.
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