I hate coloring I hate coloring I hate coloring (advice/tips/suggestions lol?)

[BoomerZ]

I agree with this other than you should use dark blue, otherwise you will lose the color of the shaded part.

[delladz]

update for anyone who was wondering what the end product was lol

[Krysteena]

I got a lot better doing my art.

1. Don't use art brush in less you really have to!.

2. Solid lines for shading with a darker shade to the area.

3. Try not to use black and white. I know it sound weird but it gives a bit more pop if you get close but no other shades like warm gray so on...

4. Layers have became my friend for like 3 years I hated layers and didn't get it. Trust me it looks cleaner!

5. On clothing it was a (B**** I wont say bad word) I still struggle with shading but you will get better keep going—triangles and XYZ of fabric makes things easier.

6. You don't need that many wrinkles in the clothing or lines in the hair!

- That is all I can think of for now.

This is before and after improvements. Almost 2 years different and I got a better feel of my own style as well!

[drewdoniger]

One thing I do to help me do the flat coloring at least is on the coloring layer, use the magic wand tool to select all of the sections that are gonna be the same base color, expand the selection by three pixels, fill with the bucket tool, and deselect.

And to make that go by easier, I made an action script to do the expansion, filling, deselection, and then create the layers with the blending filters I like to use for shading and highlights.

And then for the shading and highlights, I do still have to find the right colors to use with trial and error, but eventually, usually, after only about 20 seconds, I find them

[Shanny8]

For the people who hate flat coloring: use the lasso tool, customise the lasso tool when you workin clip studio

Pretty much THIS when I'm flatting...since my style [of coloring] tends to be more of a cel-type shading, I continue to use the lasso/bucket process to cover large areas of color & shading(as well as carving out the spots where light effects).

[BoomerZ]

@drewdoniger I'm asking a real question. Why the lasso tool. You can adjust the bucket fill tool to overlap the lines and use a color layer under the line art. Then just fill as fast as you can. Selecting seems an extra step.

[drewdoniger]

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[drewdoniger]

Not with Photoshop, if you just use the bucket fell tool, you still get that bad looking one pixel border regardless on what layer you're using. And you can't adjust the bucket fill tool to bypass it