Hello! I really love your artstyle and the way youโre able to seamlessly blend bold lineart with color. I favor heavier lineart with my own art as well, but every time I color in a piece, it just doesnโt look cohesive or balanced, as if the lineart and color are fighting with each other.
Can I ask what types of brushes you use to color your pieces and how to get such a good balance of lineart and color?
Hi!! Sure!! I don't know, if I'm the perfect candidate for art tutorials, cause I'm nowhere near professional, but I'll share the foundation of what I'm doing most of the time.
I work in Procreate, so I can only recommend brushes from that app. I use the HB pencil for details and the face mostly, while 6B is for the outline and some bolder lines. Lineart colour is very important, I think. I love doing it with darker shades of red, and recolour it as the drawing progresses (adding a layer above the lineart with clipping mask mode). I use the Old Beach brush for colouring and shading as well. I either do the darker colour and dark layer modes route for shading or just paint the shades/lights with colours I choose. (I'm doing this nowadays, bc I'm lazy for all that layering.) I also shade sometimes with pencils, like on real paper. It very much feels like doing water based painting on paper.
I add the background then, and a darker layer for either just the figure or the whole drawing. Then, I draw some sharper lights with the pencils, I mentioned and add a light airbrush layer that follows the lines. I also use the airbrush for some additional lights and shades and play with layer modes. Finally, I give it a noise filter and book it done. I also try out a bunch of patterned brushes just to give some more artistic touch to the whole thing.
I always almost paint over things in every step, so no layer stays untouched, and becomes a big mess at later stages. Xd
That's it basically, hope it can help you!! :)
I also recommend watching comic book artists and coloring artists on youtube, they have some cool tutorials. I loved comics, when I was a teen, and they were a really big influence on my style. :D
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