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crumblygumbly — Crispy's Process: Part 3 - Flats
Published: 2012-03-14 09:19:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 21668; Favourites: 806; Downloads: 262
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How I prepare my lines and how I flat. BIG BUTT FILE. AUGH.Also I've been chipping away at this for a few days, so forgive me. I didn't do a complete step by step on the flats because I didn't think there was much to say. But I might've skipped over something you guys might need.
So if there are any questions about flatting or anything else in this tut, feel free to ask! I just hope it's being at least a little helpful.
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haha it's unlikely to arrive anytime soon, sadly :c It's been started, but the laptop I was working on died so...it's lost to the ages. Maybe I'll catch up on it some other time.
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Kinda cool to see how much you've changed/improved your process since the last time you did a tut. Thanks for doing this!!
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Love seeing peoples process. I used to do a version of this but it never came out looking smooth or clear...honestly you just made my life a million times easier.
Thankee kindly
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Wonderful once again! You have now deserved a big round of faving; Thank you!
I'll keep an eye out for the next part
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This is so helpful and fun to follow! Thanks so much for sharing, Gypsy! I'm looking forward to the next one. :3
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I am having a hard time making my lines color holders. I cannot find the linear burn tool?
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It's not a tool, it's a layer mode. Check the layers window, and there should be a box that says "normal." You click on it, and a drop down menu should appear with a list of different choices (Normal, dissolve, darken, multiply, etc), you find "linear burn" and you set the layer onto that. I hope that makes sense!
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I have never thought of doing the lines in a mask. That's something I"ll definitely try! I always find it hard to decide whether or not to keep the black lines in some places, and color in others. IDK,maybe it just has to do with how dark the outline is?
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Man, I definitely have troubles with that too. I think that's partly why I do the color holds, just to make it easier for me to not have to make a choice, but even then... I guess it comes down to whether or not something looks too light! feel it out, right?
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When did you start doing this instead of using more of the Black? (If I'm not mistaken there was a bit of a shift in your style, but some of the MT stuff is still with the heavy black). Or is that just because you want a different feel from it?
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In Magic Train i don't use color holds, you're right. But that's mostly out of laziness XDDD I don't know if I could do an entire comic page that way because it would be very time consuming and ask for a bit better precision. The Magic Train lines are all just on a multiply layer after levelling as opposed to the mask and burn method here.
And hmmm... I think that I actually started doing the method with color holds a couple years ago, actually. I mean, since then, my process with it has DEFINITELY changed, and even now, even though it's the process I use most, I change my coloring process depending on the feel or the way that I want it to look. Which is the annoying part of art, isn't it? DO WHAT FEELS RIGHT or whatever, when sometimes you just want a process you don't have to think too much about. ANYONE WHO SAYS ART ISN'T HARD SHOULD SHUT UP.
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I'm grateful to your experimenting! I don't really know what any of the different layer styles do, probably because I've been using them in wrong instances. (I still to Normal, Multiply, and recently, Color).
Yes, all about the feeeeel! Haha. Thanks again for the helpful hints! <3
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The part about color holds was something I've been trying to figure out for a while. Great tut!
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Sorry ;o; But the way I see it is that programs are unimportant in the end, it's getting your art to look good. Just keep drawing. That's more important than coloring pretty anyway.
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FUCK YEAH JEFF BRIDGES!
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Really useful! Thanks for putting up the tutorial, and the picture's really looking great!
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Thanks, it's no prob. As long as it's helping a couple of people.
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Wow! this looks usefull! Now I can do an expert way of coloring in my line art. Before I just made a layer on top of the line art and put on multiply so that black lines pop through and colored it in. XD
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XD I used to do that too, but it ended up not allowing me to color in multiple layers, so I stopped after a while. I'm glad I helped a little anyway!
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Yeah I know what you mean. I tried it out at school (when I was supposed to be working) And it works great! Thanks so much! A tip from my teacher who caught me. Treat the layers like a pencils and a blend marker and you should get a better result. I don't know what he means by that. Hopefully I can crack the meaning.
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what program are you using ? and this fill tool, do you mean paint bucket?
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Photoshop, and yes, the paintbucket.
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hum, i have to hide the layers before colorizing or the colors will be limited by the linearts o.O kinda annoying but practical
do you have any good ways to darken the lines from gray to black with out using the burn tool and spam that all over?
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I don't use the burn tool at all. I'm actually quite confused over what you are saying D:
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its not important thanks anyhow 8D
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always been a little usure as t o the actual technique of "flatts" as it were, however it is what it is. Fill the stencil so that isolation of that area can be selected easily for more overlaying shading, highlights and details. i guess I was looking for a more realistic explanation of what it was, but your tut here just says it all IN BLACKNWHITE!
I also appreciate your way of quickmask mode in separating the lineart. Ive experimented with this in Painter sai and Photoshop cs3 and always get different results, but its better than splitting channels n stuff.
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This was so amazing and helpful, wonderful work!
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This is amazingly helpful. And I like the word "niggly"
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This is very useful! (As was the last one!) It's pretty different from how I do it, but I like how you do the background colors and shading first. I usually hate coloring background and put it off to the end, but I think I'll try it that way next time and see how it goes...
My method of getting the lines on a separate layer is to temporarily change the image type to grayscale, right click on the Gray channel to select it, select inverse, and then fill on a new layer with black.
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I feel that these tutorials were very well thought out and I hope to someday look back on them and learn even more :]
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There's an easier way to do this if working in CMYK. Once you have your clean black linework, duplicate your black channel. Then clear your CMYK channels and keep your new Black Copy channel visible. Then you can work in color without touching your linework at all. When finished coloring, load the selection "Black Copy" back into your black channel and fill with 100% black, and then just delete the extra 'black copy' channel.
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Thanks, I'll try that out!
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wow this is really helpful
and thanks to the Allspark it's not pony tutorial
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