Another way you can color your lineart: Make two layers: One lineart, and one paint-layer. Put the paint-layer in a group, but keep the lineart outside the group. Fill all the bounds in the paint-layer inside the lineart with one single color. This paint-layer will be your "base layer". Now, make a new layer above the base-layer, and there should be an option called "inherit Alpha" on it. Enable it. Now paint whatever color you want, and it shouldn't paint outside the bounds. It's a very convenient option. XD
+Tushant Mirchandani (Cyan Los) Hi, could you explain what you mean by "Fill all the bounds in the paint-layer inside the lineart with one single color." I'm not sure if I understand it.
Katarzyna Oleska Okay, here's what I mean basically. imgur.com/mIdufBx Paint your flats as you normally would (as you demonstrated in the video), but keep the layer structure in mind as shown in that image. Then, just besides the "Lock" and "visibility" icon in those layers, and just before "Lock Transparency", there's also "Inherit Alpha" that you can enable for all the layers above the base-layer in the group. What it does is that it borrows the alpha of the base-layer (and all the layers below that don't have "Inherit Alpha" enabled) and uses it as a quick clipping mask. That way, you can keep painting and shading without having to worry about spillage and edges. :)
@@caseyco3026 I have been! Lol it's very hit or miss so far. I'm trying to trace old paper and pencil stuff to being digital but I just cant make it feel the same.
@@woahdude446 I still haven't colored anything I like D: I am however getting better with the line art finally! I was trying to use much too small a brush. I was treating it like a real pencil where you want the lines as light and thin as possible. I feel like the reverse is true in digital. Big soft brushes for pose work. Then I've been using a thicker pen for line and its really helped. Hopefully it just gets better ^_^
Same 😩 learning the basics is where I'm at sooo many features idk where and how to start...currently trying to figure out the layers and how they work...🙄😭
As a method for blocking in the lineart it looks easier. For now I am still using photoshop but a mixture of methods will certainly speed things up. Thanks for covering another area I also haven't tried yet.
do you mean the G'mic method? Watch the video again and look at what I choose for the output. You need to select "lines and color" (2layers). Then at the end you'll have both lineart and color layers. Though color layer will be over linear layer for some reason.
I know this is old and you probably figured it out already but for anyone else its called "Shapes fill" and the image looks like a little chemistry bottle. A quick way to get to it in the brush presets is to use the drop down menu and select digital.
Hi kate, this tutorial is superb....I wanted to ask you what brush you used for painting the skin in the first mwthod you explained??? Thanks....really nice drawings there....
I think she used two brushes. The first was probably airbrush, although watercolor looks similar. The second one she said has some texture, so I don't know which one she used...
12:47 The brush name is called a **'Shapes Fill Brush'**, the image is a green, cone shaped, skinny neck flask. You can search for the brush name as 't)_Shapes_Fill'. If you type in the word shape , it will also come up.
Thank you SOOOO much for this tutorial. It was beyond helpful. I just began digital art and recently bought my very first Wacom. Kept telling myself THERE HAS TO BE AN EASIER WAY lol and then I come across your video and it’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again.
@@davidmaftei9145 Shapes Fill Brush, the image is a green, cone shaped, skinny neck flask. You can search for the brush name as 't)_Shapes_Fill'. If you type in shape, it will also come up.
شكرا جزيلا لك ... thank you very much . The lesson was very useful. I used the program for the first time, to compare it with Photoshop and Illustrator. Thanks again and excuse me for my English
Hi, For the first option, what kind of brush did you use? When I paint, the color is over lap on each other and created black shadows when I brush the second layer on it. It's not smooth as your painting. For the second options, when I select the area to fill in the color, it block all my drawing lines. Please help. Thanks.
Thank you for your video. It could be help though if you were actually showing which brushes/ tools you are actually using by zooming in on them prior to using them. Otherwise, we see the end result if your work, without knowing how you got there, and won’t be able to do it independently
I dunno if you're still active but I was wondering if you could help out. Im having an issue with my line art when I set it to multiply. Basically when I set it, the line art color turns into a much lighter color and I can barely see it up against the background. How do I keep the line art black like yours? Also did you scan your line art and set some mask over that layer or did you draw straight onto the canvas with your tablet? Thank you!
But what If I want to use G'MIC filter but still want to have some colors on different layers?(it's necessary If I want to use color mask tool) Is there an option for that?
What I am curious is how do I change the line art color. The physical line I mean. I am so used to adobe draw just using the basic brush to just press the line to recolor the line to whichever color but that is not the case on krita. Have any way to do that on krita?
how do you do that thing where you make a layer and it's a subset/inside another layer? and how do you do that thing where, when you paint, it wont physically cross over any lines you have? Like you do to color the face at 5min and your lines don't bleed into the hair at all
I sat here so confiused ... i wanted a tut on how to color the lines of the lineart, not how to color it in... it took me legit 20 min to realize that this is not what I'm looking for xD
this video helped me SO MUCH. I have been struggling with krita and coloring for two days now (new to the app) and I'm so happy how my drawing came out!
Yeah... She didn't mention how to deal with that. I might lower the opacity and then after I was done, put the line art on top of the color layer and raise the opacity back up.
When Im coloring, and I move my brush over an area that I've already colored, with the same color, it layers over it making darker little bits that are a huge pain in the ass. How do I fix this?
either keep the color at full opacity, or play around with your blending options, (normal will keep everything the color you put down, but I haven't messed with overlay, multiply, etc. much so I'm not sure what they all do)
Basically when you start drawing you have your background layer and the new layer that you're drawing on. (You should not draw on the background layer unless you are drawing the background, drawing objects that are meant to be in front of the background will get tricky). That new layer should be used for line art. Once you've drawn your line art, go to the layers docker and create a new layer, but move the layer so that it is below the line art layer. Once you've done that you can color on the color layer and it will not cover the line art. I hope this wasn't too confusing..
Which part do you mean. Have you checked your color profile? Go to image>image properties and check it. If it's grayscale and not RGB, then that's the problem.
Super helpful, straightforward, and organized! Lovely time stamps too. I appreciate you don't just jump to the "most useful" methods of coloring, by demonstrating all of the method I can see the pros and cons not to mention the one I would rather go with. G'mic is really neat.
Can you only have one layer be multiplied? Because that is what my krita is doing to me rn. It will only let me have one layer be multiplied so if I have multiple grayscale layers I can only paint with non overlapping overlay on one layer.
Cassandra, not sure if I understand correctly. What do you mean that you "can only paint with non overlapping overlay on one layer."? I use multiple layers on krita without a problem. It is a bit less efficient the more layers you have - unlike a photoshop which in that particular matter performs better - but generally krita allows for multiple layers to be used.
+Anaiah Reyes Hmm... I have no idea what could cause it. You could try to ask pros. Go to Krita.org irc channel. These people created Krita, they might be able to help.
Press the checked box of the linear layer, that locks in the lines only existing. You can't draw anything else but color those previous lines when it's on. Then choose whatever colors you want to color the line art. Just press the checked box again to allow yourself to draw on that layer again freely.
One thing I learned working in Gimp was that you can set tools to go behind. So, on the third method you could set the tool to put down paint behind other paint layers. So you could also do the face, then do the hair and have the hair go behind the other colour without effecting it making the paint seamless.
Katarzyna Oleska Well, Gimp was the first graphics program I ever used, so I'm a bit more used to it than many I suppose. However, its also available in Krita under brush modes. I had to do some hunting with 2.9, but, if you scroll through the different modes, you'll find it. (sorry, I forget where I found it originally) I think it was "Miscl" but, I'm not totally sure. However, I've found this to be very useful as I cant quickly butt colours together with no artefacts left over.
Hi Yasmin. I am using a custom brush that I made. But it really is more important what feels good for you. I like sketching with brushes that have texture and I can build up the line (as opposed to ink brushes where one stroke is 100% opacity). Try experimenting. I keep saying I will make a tutorial on brushes and I will as soon as I find a bit of time!
I'm interested in using the the shape fill tool in the description, but I can't find it anywhere in krita nor can I find it online. Is it a setting, an add on, or is it no longer supported in krita?
That's just direct selections tools. Does Krita not have masks like Photoshop? I legit can't find ANYTHING about masking except a clipping masks. But that's not what I'm looking for.
Hi Kate, Please. How in ways that you use, the paint not hide the line art? I try, but I have difficulty the my paint hides the lines of drawing. My version of Krita is 2.8.5 on Linux distribution. Thanks. Regards. W.R.
