fsldklkfds im soooo so sorry kiyo stans i dontttt like himmmm ///// dsdsjn there’s like always a chara i really dislike in all the games, and kiyo is the one for v3. i totally get that he was written poorly which is not his fault as a chara, but like even before the chapter 3 plot twist (which made me super uncomfortable) i didn’t really like his character or design that much,,, was literally begging him to die in my initial playthrough skfdkfdsk, im sorrryyy i know there are lots of diehard kiyo fans, ive met plenty of them at cons, i just dont vibe w/ himmmm,,, also he would look better in a long skirt i think that’s like my only headcanon 4 him
hey!!! I was watching your despair expressions vid and saw that when you selected Mikan's hair, it was outside the lineart!! but when you colored it, none of it was outside the lines!!! I was wondering how you did that!!
oh, sure!! it’s actually a pretty simple process! i’ll put it under the cut~
I’m gonna be explaining using sai’s features, but if you’re familiar with a different program i’m sure you can figure how sai’s functions would translate over!in order to get to the point where i can color without having to worry about the lines too much, i first have to create a base! i do this by selecting outside the entire lineart layer. however, if you’re like me and pretty much just use a cleaner sketch for lines you might have a lot of holes in your lineart. in this case i just take the selection brush and cover those holes up!
once all the holes are filled, i’m able to select around the full lineart using the magic wand tool:
make sure your magic wand is on the right settings! it should be on Transparency (Strict) for the crispest selection! You can also play around with the bar on the bottom, it really depends on how clean your lines are, but it basically just controls the sensitivity of the selection (whether it picks up as many holes in your lines or not).
if you do your lines on separate layers, its helpful to put them into a layer group so you can select around them all at once:
i then go to the selection settings and invert the whole thing!
that leaves me with the entirety of the inside lines selected! you can also just straight up select inside the lines, but i find this is the cleanest way for me since i have a lot of overlapping and fine lines that would disrupt the selection otherwise.
I create a base layer underneath the lineart layers like so:
after that, i just Ctrl + F (or paint bucket tool) to fill in the space and then clear the selection w/ Ctrl + D and our base is finished!!
i make a layer folder above my base layer and clip it to the base by making it a clipping group. there are plenty of tutorials out there about how a clipping layer works so i won’t go into it too much, but basically when a layer is clipped it allows you to color anywhere on the layer below it. so any layers that i make in this clipping group will act as if they are clipped to the base layer without me having to individually clip all of them.
now i can color as i please without having to worry about going outside the lines!
any new color layer i make will be inside this folder:
though this helps make it so you don’t have to worry about messiness outside the drawing, within the drawing colors can still overlap! what i do to color the rest of the image (since the skin is usually my bottom most layer) is select around the edges of the area i’m coloring first! remember those holes in my lines from the beginning? this is to cover those up so the selection doesnt leave the inside of the drawing, but i don’t need to be as precise about it because ive already ensured that the color will stay clipped to the base layer:
i then select inside the area that i want to color (in this case the hair) with the magic wand tool, but i have to be cleaner about this to ensure that it doesnt go outside the lines of the hair:
and that last part was basically what you were seeing me do with mikan in the speedpaint! if i go into her file and unclip her colors from her base layer you can see that its actually a mess under there lol:
i hope that helps you out a little anon, it seems a bit convoluted when its typed out like this but once you get the hang of it, it comes as a natural next step when laying down base colors! good luck with your art!!and for anyone wondering, here is the speedpaint in question!
