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<blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 1429935" data-attributes="member: 7280">Well, the things I was suggesting mostly lend themselves to inked artwork that have clear edges in the first place. It's a comic book sort of process, that's where I learned it (if I made a mistake somewhere it's my fault), watching colorists I know that work on comic books. Variations on it have served me well in coloring certain sorts of a greyscale images though enough that I'm fond of it.Just curious, when you say that the edges don't connect, when you work on individual layers you're still always looking at the whole image right? I tend to put everything and anything on a different layer and keep it that way always until it is time to save it for sharing. That means when it comes time to add in the shadows they're occassionally old school copies of the color layers of the object skewed and blackened and blurred, just because it isn't that hard and sometimes looks ok. Um, another thing I should probably mention in the 'not that hard' category I suppose is that I've got a Wacom and I've blissfully forgotten anything that was really hard with a jerky mouse now. I also recommend Painter if you can get it for watercolors and 'natural' medium feels. Sure, you can do it with Photoshop - but with Painter your brushes are mostly already there and the 'paper' and 'textured board' looks are preprogrammed and fairly convincing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Heard, post: 1429935, member: 7280"] Well, the things I was suggesting mostly lend themselves to inked artwork that have clear edges in the first place. It's a comic book sort of process, that's where I learned it (if I made a mistake somewhere it's my fault), watching colorists I know that work on comic books. Variations on it have served me well in coloring certain sorts of a greyscale images though enough that I'm fond of it. Just curious, when you say that the edges don't connect, when you work on individual layers you're still always looking at the whole image right? I tend to put everything and anything on a different layer and keep it that way always until it is time to save it for sharing. That means when it comes time to add in the shadows they're occassionally old school copies of the color layers of the object skewed and blackened and blurred, just because it isn't that hard and sometimes looks ok. Um, another thing I should probably mention in the 'not that hard' category I suppose is that I've got a Wacom and I've blissfully forgotten anything that was really hard with a jerky mouse now. I also recommend Painter if you can get it for watercolors and 'natural' medium feels. Sure, you can do it with Photoshop - but with Painter your brushes are mostly already there and the 'paper' and 'textured board' looks are preprogrammed and fairly convincing. [/QUOTE]

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