Coloring in the Lines
A
few years ago I roughly followed one of merekat's
tutorials and
learned how to
add some pretty good looking colorization to existing line-art.
I came up with this little gem, and it was (and is) the most popular thing I ever posted on deviantart.
Recently I've been reading and extremely impressed with Colleen's friend Kilo's 10,000 Drawings project, and decided to get my old skills out of tool-shed and see if they'd gone rusty. She's re-teaching herself how to draw by doing 10,000 drawings (as a series of slice-of-life and fantasy comics) and she's not even 1/20th of the way through and they're already amazing.
After finishing up the color-job on one of her recent comics, I'm really really happy with the result, especially the clouds and ocean in the "reveal" shot of the second to last pane.
I also got a lot more familiar with the free and open source Gimp working on this project, and I feel like I can do just about anything I do with Paint Shop Pro with it, although I'm still looking for the "lighten" and "darken" brush.
