Can I know how you coloured your webtoon?

[choilyriel]

I see in some YouTube tutorial that they colored their drawing with the grey colour palette and did the shadowing with it, then continue colored using the real palette... Why do they did it? Also, how do you coloured your webtoon...?

[Lunar-Turtle]

I draw the sketch of the page on the paper, scan it and make digital lineart. After that, I just put inbasic color an then add muliply shade and lighting. I know people work with some gray areas for coloring, but I never used it. I just put in the basic colors immidiately, lol.

You can check it out here

Synastry

Synastry | Tapas

This is how it looks before I add shadows or anything, just flat color.

[Humbug]

People colour in greyscale first to make sure the values of light and shadow are correct. Also the colours might not yet be finalized so it is easier to change them that way. It's how I colour my art as well. This is generally only for art with a painterly style or detailed shadows, not really necessary with cell-shading.

For my comic I do more detailed shadows, so I shade in grey first, and because I use multiple colours for the shadows, its easier to start with 1 colour first to get the shadows right, and when that's done I can experiment with different colours after.

[J.Lovelace]

I put base (flat) color first, then shade, then add highlights.

[droidmonkey1]

They paint with grey scale because this way they only need to worry about how the light effects the character, they can create a volume to a shape and make it "3d".
then they put a layer of color and adjust it.

[Eightfish]

I color my comic... normally? I mean I just choose colors manually and paint them underneath my lineart. Though I do try to choose colors that complement each other, and will often roughly color a page several different ways until I find something that looks acceptable.

And it works well for me, I mean I like the look and others seem to as well considering I get more comments on my colors than almost anything else.

Puppeteer :: Page 39 | Tapas

Puppeteer :: Page 36 | Tapas

Used a yellow overlay layer here to make the characters stand out.

Puppeteer :: Page 28 | Tapas

The people who do grayscale first are trying to get a good light and shadow balance to the whole piece, and to be able to focus on light and shadow alone instead of being distracted by colors.

Personally I don't like that technique. I think it makes the page look flatter, because your brush strokes get hidden, and it makes color a bit of an afterthought instead of including it in your whole coloring process. It's also more work because you're essentially coloring twice.

But also, I use a lot of bright colors with my brush strokes clearly visible. Someone going for a softer, smoother, more rendered look might be able to benefit from it greatly.

If you're doing cell shading don't bother though

[a_shirouto]

I guess I just color it like usual? First add base color, and create a layer with opacity 60% multiply blending and that's it, also overlay layer blending on top of all layers to give rich colors.

Here's the result

SENSE | Tapas

[ZatchZ]

Flat colors, hard shading, soft shading, lighting, and then color outlines if necessary.

Zeta Bits | Tapas

But if I want it to look good, then I do a mask layer, shade it using a grayscale, then do flat colors, then make necessary adjustments.

[Vitrivius]

Grayscale is usually for illustrations. That is to properly distribute light and shade. It depends on your style so you don't have to do it, too.

In webtoon, first I do a base color(anycolor/usually hair so that you dont have to worry if there's any gap) so that it'll be easier to put flats.
Then in separate layer I input flats (skin and clothes in separate flat layers).
Add a layer clipped to clothes for shade.
It's up to you if you want a separate clipped layer to skin layer for shade.
Last, a layer for glow/light effect.

For background, I just add shade and light/glow layer over the base layer.

This is the basic for me. If I want to make it more dramatic, I make sure to add separate layer to make it easier for me to edit later on.

[walterbl]

I colored it with clipstudio, in different layers. Using mostly watercolor and the shading tool

Anime fights :: Hisoka vs Kite | Tapas

[snailienz]

My comic is semi lineless, so i draw the picture in little pieces like im making paper cutouts, then detail them to fit the desired look. I usually just layer colors from dark to light and throw in shading if i need an intense light source, which i do but making an overlay layer once I'm done with the flat colors. I also will take an overlay layer and throw in gradients to make the general lighting apparent for less detailed panels, just to give them interest. I did that for all of the intro panels.

Virtual Pet Planet | Tapas

[Iris-Grimoire]

I only use grayscale when the picture looks unbalanced, and even then it's a black layer set to Color - multiply with flats gives me headaches. I usually flat all the characters by using the magic wand trick on Photoshop and then slooooowly get all of their base colors in, then any adjustments and rendering afterwards. Being a comic, I can't afford to be too fancy.

[JeanGuillet]

I've learned a lot from PBR shader techniques and have developed a system of layers that can be adjusted to fit the colors from my 2d characters into my 3d backgrounds. It's all about the adjustments. So I keep standard palettes and only for a few of the layers do I have to pick colors, again, because they're separate I can easily match the background with a quick hsv adjustment. I do use a (mapped) grayscale layer. Among other things...many other things...

Chateau Grief | Tapas

Chateau Grief

[PabloRomero]

I only use flat colors, to give my comic that classic comic book look. I use this palette: https://www.deviantart.com/j-skipper/art/Official-DC-Comics-375-Color-Palette-454936613

After that i do a printing effect on photoshop. During my first chapter i used Permanent Press by Mister Retro, but i found out how to something similar on my own. I made a tutorial that i uploaded to youtube (it needs an update since i learn how to do some new stuff)

This is my comic

Maneater | Tapas

Maneater

[rajillustration]

Like other's have mentioned, grayscale bases act as a contrast study--to see if the page still flows based just on black and white alone. Later, you can add color, but since grayscale can make your colors seem gray, sometimes I just leave the grayscale study to the side, Other times I usually smother it in filter layers or add a "gradient map" layer.

So I actually really hate the typical comic pipeline, although I can do it if I'm bothered enough to do it. It just feels really redundant of a process and takes 5 years and feels like an absolute waste of time. Though if you love it, keep on doing it and power to you, there's nothing wrong with the typical ink process. Since my joy is in painting, I do fully painted pages without lineart at all. So my method looks like this in Photoshop or in Clip Studio (though Clip Studio is better for linework than painting) this is an older comic since my current one is entirely black and white.

start with an underdrawing--this was eons ago so it's scanned pencil with some digital fixes

Then I start doing grayscale to make a path where I want the reader's eye to go. Their eye will follow the paths of light and shadow, and any super contrasting areas.

Then I add filter layers to change the grayscale to color. It takes kind of a few filter layers since grayscale just eats up bright colors

Then, I paint, adding any brighter colors as I need and matching the colors of the character designs to fit within the lighting of the scene. (Excuse the scewy perspective, I figured it would be a fun stylistic twist at the time since every character in this scene is a roly poly cat but indeed just looks like bad perspective, haha. At least I can see how far I've improved since I painted this page.)

But even though my process is mostly different, the grayscale method is just indispensable in both methods for coloring a comic page in how it helps unify a page so you're thinking about the power of the page as a whole and not just frame to frame.

[Zemoore]

I pick out really really saturated colors because the brushes I color with all are like at 20% setting. I pick brushes that you layer color so its feels very paintery to me but I dont know if it comes off that way in my comic for its is also a bit cartoony.

I then do environment shading in a purple shade.

not much from there bit im still learning

[faisalhussein394]

Wanna know how I color my comics in Photoshop?

The answer is layers, SO MANY LAYERS!

[N1ghtm4r3]

i have done a few diffrent mediums my first comic and second( arrival and dominance) were done with water soluble graphite pencils with inked lines, and shaded with black colored pencil, the 3rd(birth) were again done with water soluble graphite pencils but began to leave out the black colored pencil and at the end started using water color pencils , #4 and 5 (to protect and broken trust) while still having inked lines used only watre color pencils for all color and shading, now with #6 (promise) i started to use marker to put the base color and used black colored pencils to shade , and even that way is changing once again as i am using the markers and cross hatching when i ink a page to shade

[ble]

Also, how do you coloured your webtoon...?

For my webtoon:

Baphomet's Sheep V2 (GL)

I put base color of each part in different layer (one layer for skin, other for hair, clothes, etc) For blending the shadows/light i use photoshop mixer brush.