Hello :3 may I very humbly ask how u did ur most recent Party Poison art? Esp how u coloured it/ what aftereffects u used? its so crunchy and old comic-esque I love it
okay so! this dot matrix/old comics style coloring i did with True Grit Texture Supply's Kraft Tones
I say dot matrix & old comic books because if you want to learn more about that style or find other digital art tools that help you create it that's what to search.
the Kraft tone brushes are 40 USD though I got them for half of that or less during their black Friday sale; they come with the paper texture I used (+some others) that's also a premade clip studio document with all the layers set up, a guide on how to do the tones, a color palette set to work off of & a pdf of how the colors will turn out using the tones, and some inking brushes tho this specific brush I used for this piece was from uhh true grit rusty nib set.
I bought that set because I'd been using my own evils to copy this comics style for a long time & the brush set makes it much easier & looks better cos someone did the work of offsetting the dots and creating the textures & setting up the color palette for me. but like, you Can do it on your own without spending money. also afaik Kraft tone isn't the only dot matrix set out there it's just the one I used.
the paper texture is just a texture set to multiply with a separate copy of the layer set to screen so you can choose whether or not to use the highlights. specifically this paper texture has color; the yellowish tint to it helps harmonize the colors and make them look how they do
more about how to get that coloring effect under the cut.
while we're at it here are some examples of stuff I did in this coloring style without the brush pack-- as you can see they look fine but not quite As good.
btw this process is basically the same any brush sets like these will use-- this one tiktoker I see does it a lot.
It works like any printer- you're putting down layers for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to get any color. however, when doing comics until the early 90s, the way comics were printed meant that they couldn't just combine colors in any old combination, they could only work with 100%, 50%, 25% or nothing. in the 80s they got 75% added, which gave them a lot more colors to work with-- I used to only use the first 3 cos it was hard to set up all those colors, but now I use all 4 because my brush set makes it easy.
here's party poisons layers with the inking
the limited colors along with the paper they were printed on gives comic coloring that unique look-- it's why reprints of old comics using their original colors look universally shitty; because the colorists were working with their limitations in mind- particularly that the printed colors would be duller and muddied by the newsprint
here's the colors as they look on paper vs how they look with a proper printer.
anyways. how you do this is you need screen tones that serve as your 100%, (75%), 50% and 25% of each color. I did that by using CSP's already built in halftones feature, see layers here
make sure each color folder itself is set to multiply (no need to set each individual level to multiply) so the colors mix properly. uhh if anyone wants this document with all the stuff already set up I can put a google drive link for it somewhere.
anyways once you have your layers & whatever you wanna color you'll have to plan what colors you want to put where. that's why it's handy to have a palette on hand of how they'll look finished, because it's a bit different than how they're gonna look when you're putting them down basic style.
as you can see here, I then go in and label every single color with it's code. after that I fill in the colors manually, so put in all the cyans at their noted opacities, the same for yellow and magenta, etc.
the good thing w doing that without the proper brush set is that I could just select my already done colors & use the fill tool; since the levels are by brush w the brush set you gotta color everything manually. good podcast listening time.
the last thing I'd do is offset them to get that vibe -- you can see that the true grit brushes come are already offset so that you can See the blue yellow and magenta dots whenever you look at it, with the way I used to do it the dots would all be in the same place and the only way to shift them would be rasterizing the layers and moving them a bit individually.
I still do that with my newer stuff because it gives that misprinted messy look, but ymmv. hope this was helpful, there r better tutorials for it online somewhere else probably, and I'm sorry if you were expecting something not insanely time consuming and complicated. I just really like this style of art so I'm committed. thanks for asking though I love talking about it :)
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