How does everyone color their comics?

[Diabolo]

thanks very much! ;___;

[elixiadragmire]

mines in PS with Kyle T Webster brushes

(pages maybe spoilery)

[mangapingvinen]

My manga MAGUNETU is colored with Photoshop! ^^

[Spinester]

@tomlintern That is a gorgeous page. How are you getting that gritty texture, is that an overlay?

[mjmassey]

Beautiful! Your watercolor work is gorgeous!

[Diabolo]

thanks so much!! ;___; I'm very glad you like it!

[ippotsk]

I use Paint Tool SAI for my comics; from lines to coloring. I draw all the lines, fill in the base colors like one would usually do, and then slap on some mad shading with Clipping on a Multiply layer. Then I create a bajillion more layers for backgrounds, effects, like smoke, ambient lighting, subtle shades, overlays, etc.

Sometimes I lose track of the stuff I dish out, so I group them. A LOT. I sometimes end up with over 100 layers in my workfile, but I feel like the end result is worth it!

[Diabolo]

woah, so cool ! ___ can you add the link to your comic please? I don't see it in your profile.

[ippotsk]

Whoops, my bad! It's Trash Talk, hehe.^^;

[purrlpankras]

Both with Likho and Two Faced coloured in photoshop with 1 layer with the default round hard brush at about 30 opacity...

[SethJH]

My whole process usually takes place inside photoshop. Sometimes I might draw a sketch pass on paper and scan it but since I'm on summer break from school I don't have a scanner. For my comic, I've been using a method I like to call "Storyboard" shading. I use very stark values with minimal gradation. I draw the final ink lines, make a new layer under it, block in the shape with a base value, clean up the blocked out shape to fit the lines, lock the transparency, and then paint in my shading. For color, I make a color layer above the grayscale shading layer and set it to Multiply.

It's a somewhat quick method for me... but that might be because I previously spent an entire month solid doing storyboards until I was absolutely sick of drawing for like 3 months after that.

I might actually try a new method for the next part of my comic because I'm starting to feel this doesn't look as "clean" as other peoples' comic coloring techniques look.

I used to draw on paper then scan it. Now I do everything in Photoshop with an Intuos.

I'm really interested in learning more about your method.

[mjmassey]

I use maybe 2 layers before the text and speech bubbles are laid down. I can't imagine using 100!

I try to do as much of my process by hand as I can. I pencil in blue lead, ink with various brush pens and outliners, paint in black hair with a brush pen, scan in, then finish off everything in photoshop. At that point, it's the large black areas and grey tones, plus and effects I want to do. After cleaning up the scan, I duplicate the layer and set the new layer to multiply, then fill in with the colors I want. I'll sometimes do an additional layer on top of that for white lines I need to paint back in on black clothing or to separate black areas with a white line. Mostly, these are clothing folds that get lost when the area is filled with black.

[DoodleDamage]

This is a page I did or my comic Llucid ovo (tbh I wing it most of the time. I'm being pretty experimental with it)

[danitasibert]

i do black and when i find it much more faster for me, even thought it takes me a while to finished the comics XD
i use micron inking pens and a black prismacolor marker!

with my short comics i use the normal prisamcolor markers! they are shorter comics that can be colored unlike my main series.

check them out here: http://tapastic.com/danitasibert/series

[apurviance]

I use Photoshop and the lasso tool set to line mode. Then fill in with flat colors.
One excellent time saver is to add textures to your plain colors: paper textures, watercolor washes, or printer dots like I do. For special pages I'll throw in some highlights and shadows.

[Lkn]

lucky those who knows how to color so well. for me, I only color when i have to because it takes too much time.
I only do comic in black and whites with tones by the way.

[scythe]

That's really nice. What comic is that from?

[apurviance]

Thank you, scythe!
It's the cover for volume 2 of "I, Mummy" here on Tapastic.

An impulsive teenager turned mummy investigates her own murder with the assistance of a cantankerous ghost.

[mjmassey]

I always love seeing your process art, Andy!

[abigailkbacilla]

I'm so glad this thread took off, so many rad coloring processes!!! .