#line art tutorial

[nimbusclan]

Froggie! I was watching Foxy do the styles challenge and she brought up your colored linework that you do. It's very subtle but I think it adds so much to your style! How do you go about that? Mainly choosing what color to make the interior lines for readability but also how you decide which lines to color

-Direclan

WHAT A FANTASTICALLY FUN QUESTION!! I made a video, because I blabber on for a bit about it

I don't think Tumblr has a captions option (?) so the transcript is under the cut!

"First, you're gonna need lineart. I do my lineart in all black first, and I section it into different layers. I find it's easier to add color to the lineart later, when it is sectioned into different layers like this. I keep the lineart colors here in the ref, for ease of access, and we will go over selecting those colors in just a bit.

When it comes to coloring the interior lines, I color almost every line that falls within the overall outline. So, for example, we'll go ahead and color Harekit's head, here. There are easier ways of coloring your lineart, but I prefer to do it by hand.

Now, we'll move onto Harekit's ears, which are on a separate layer. His ears have two colors: one for the ear flap itself, and another for his bunny floofs.

We now have Harekit's lines almost all colored, except for his mouth. To color the lineart, I lock the opacity of the lineart folder. You can also lock the opacity for individual layers, if you prefer.

With the opacity lock off, you're just going to color over your artwork. You have to lock your lineart layers in order to color the lineart specifically. For lineart inside of open mouths, I color match to the tongue and teeth. I just like the look of it more.

When you have your lineart on separate layers like this, it makes coloring it faster, because you can just swipe your pen over the whole thing without coloring lines you don't intend to. If you prefer to keep your lineart all on one layer, you could still color it this way, you'd just have to be more careful with your penstrokes.

When it comes to selecting the color of the lineart, I tend to eye drop from the darkest color (usually) of the cat's palette. So, Harekit's dark orange stripes, in this case. Once I have my color selected, I'm going to go up into my colorwheel.

This is where I start winging it.

Yellow wouldn't show up very well on his orange coat, so we're gonna go for red! I tend to stick with analogous colors, but I may experiment with different colors if the vibe is right. From here, I slide the value down a couple notches, and slide the saturation up! As you can see, the color I ended up with is quite close to the lineart color from his reference.

My rules change a bit when it comes to facial features. The outline of the eyes and mouth remain black, for a classically cartoony look; features like the eyebrows and muzzle lines keep the red lineart color, and his nose outline has a darker shade of the nose color itself. So, again, we slide the value down, and the saturation up.

Harekit has a secondary lineart color, which is this orange. I feel that it helps lighten up the lighter parts of his color palette--the cream colored fur of his neck and paws--this is, again, just me winging it, as I simply don't like the look of all-red lineart for him.

I switch up my own rules from time to time, like with Alpinepaw's eyebrows. His eyebrows match his nose color, instead of the rest of his lineart, so that they stand out better against the marking on his forehead.

Fogfreckle actually had his lineart color updated to a far more saturated blue somewhere around Moon 9, as I thought it looked much better and stood out more.

I break my own rules all the time, so everything here is liable to change if I happen to think that something would look cooler on a whim, or I decide I wanna play around. But, essentially, this is how I color my lineart!"

[turtle-brownie]

Short thread on how to do minimal work on shading and line art that makes your art 1000 times better

sorry if this is confusing, ask and I'll try to clarify

[art-tnt]

Line Art Tutorial by Artsytsaa

“Hey Artlings! 🧋here’s my beginners lineart tutorial in which I teach you how to draw Perfect line art in procreate and any other program with streamline. I show you the secrets to do smooth clean lines and get rid of that chicken scratch and how to actually make your line art look like your sketch! While it can be as simple as using the classic line technique, there are a lot of things that can help you have the best lineart experience ever! These are all the things that I wish I knew when I was making manga style commissions and trying to get clean lines as a not so clean artist. As this is a #beginnersarttutorial I will be going into some depth of some settings that might be, and while my lineart is technically not perfect, this information in the right hands (aka someone dedicated to line art) will definitely be able to make their lines perfect.” - Artsytsaa

[hawkfurze]

New Video is out! I talk about what you can do to make your line art look as clean as you want it to look. I also go into brush settings, canvas settings, and where and how to download brushes! Go check it out!

[blueboxbeagle]

[woelfin-sheeps-clothing]

My line art tutorial is now up on Patreon for download!

Disclaimer: This is how I do my line art, but it's not necessarily how you should do line art. It's simply what I love to do stylistically.

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[shannanigansart]

Some lineart tips! 🌸

[stupiddinosaur]

The most in depth line art tutorial I can make! I tried to include everything I could think of. Please ask questions if you have them, and let me know what other tutorials you would want to see!

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