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#Painting in manga studio 4 how to
When i color my cartoon style, i just slap on some colors, but when i color my anime style, i use the airbrush tool and the gradient tool to make it look "shiny", as for the skin, i use HSV, and i usually just remove 20 for the V and adding 5-10 for the S, idk if im doing it right, im still learning how to properly color and to shade properly.
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The text "test" is size 9 on different resolutions.ģ.I use the "the lines looks the same" because it matches pretty well with my style, but almost all of the users use the pen pressure, so yeah, pen pressure.Ĥ.Sketching first, and a -wild imagination-ĥ.I'm not the guy for this question because sometimes i pick the colors semi-randomly, but i guess experiment yourself with coloring and stuff. (btw, the resolution is used for printing quality, 600-1200 resolution or dpi are used for printing purposes, tho on the program itself the resolution affects the text size and the lower the resolution is, the smaller the text gets, and for importing images inside the canvas, the higher the resolution is, the smaller the image you imported inside the canvas. I also adjusted my pen pressure like this, since it's more easier for me to ink with that settings. Just experiment a lot and try to find a method that works for you.ġ.Well you can use photoshop if you don't find coloring on Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio comfortable, but to be honest stick with Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio since it's also a decent coloring program.Ģ.I made my lineart settings look like vector-ish, and no the resolution and the size of the canvas doesn't affect the lineart.
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When colouring Grassblades, I go with a method where I do most of my shading on a separate layer set to "multiply", which goes on top of the layer with my flat colours, and I also adjust the overall tone of the lighting with layers set to "overlay", and push extra highlights with a "glow-dodge" layer, because that's quicker than individually painting each and every thing. If the scene takes place in a forest, the overall tone is more likely to be green, which will reflect on skintones and such. If the light in the scene is more orange/yellow, I'll pick shadow-colours in the blue/purple range, since they are complimentary colours. Using cooler colours (blue, green, certain shades of yellow and purple) for the shadows results in a certain look, while using warmer colours (red, orange, most yellows and some purples) in another. Photo-references are you very best friend - use them as much as you need.Īgain, practise and reference - and colour theory. If I'm going to draw, say, a really big and complicated building, I go look up photos that look similar to what I want, and then use those for reference. Lots and lots of sketching before I start inking, and lots and lots of references. When I ink on real paper, I tend to use brush-pens or even real brushes. Pen-pressure makes the lines look more organic and natural, and helps keep my inking from looking too stiff. Pen-pressure is a must, unless I intentionally want to keep the lines uniform and mechanical-looking (such as, for example, when I want to draw something mechanical). The rule of thumb is to draw bigger than you intend to post. Grassblades is drawn at 3307x4677, at 300 dpi or higher, and is then downsized to 800 pixels wide when I post it online (though Tapastic's limit is 940). I work at 300 dpi as a minimum, and rarely work smaller than 1000 pixels wide/tall. I ink mostly with the G-pen in Manga Studio, with these settings:Īnd yes, resolution and canvas-size will make a difference to how your lines look in the final product. Sai is the most limited of them, AFAIK, so you might not want to make Sai your main tool. I recommend trying all the programs, and then deciding which one you're most comfortable with. I use both Manga Studio and Sai, because I feel more comfortable sketching in Sai, but everything else - panels, speechbubbles, inking, colours, etc., - are all done in Manga Studio (which is basically the same as Clip Studio it's just the names that are different).