Also what are your tips and tricks to manga coloring you did? I’ve been working on it and feel stuck.
Here’s how I render a manga page:
After you get you page, just add flat colours in M mode. This puts them behind the lines.
Then, create mask layers, and just render as you usually would. Making the layers masks of the M flat colours will make sure all your rendering stays behind the lines.
Berserk is literally my coloring book at uni lessons
You can also add some polish of your own, like coloring over some lines, or darkening some points where the linework is confusing
hansooyung's coloring tutorial & ctiys: alma time! 🍒
hello everyone! though i've been meaning to for a while, i've finally gotten around to making my first manga coloring tutorial! i'll be going over cleaning panels and screentones, choosing base colors, and finally shading and lighting.
this will also be a color this in your style challenge, so if you're willing, feel free to post your colored panel and tag me in it!! i'd love to see all the results :)
find details under the cut! 🦋
DISCLAIMERS:
this is just how i personally color! i know for a fact that some of my other friends follow other methods and have such beautiful colorings <33
for colors specifically, i play around a LOT. if you don't like your color scheme for the time being, mess around with it! i don't use psds since i like to mess around by hand with color palettes, but maybe i'll look into it for the future.
i explain a lot just bear with me gang 🙏
TECHNICAL STUFF:
software: ibis paint x (on iphone). i use ibis since it is FREE for all phones and it worked on my chromebook as well.
while this tutorial is made for ibis paint x, everything works on other softwares except the brushes, which i've provided alternatives for below.
brushes: i will be using dip pen (hard) which is automatically included with ibis, and two other brushes i made myself which you can find here and here. for more brushes, @/bkdkdh was incredibly helpful and posted her awesome set here!
for other softwares, you can use similar brushes. dip pen (hard) can just be the default brush, while wet edges is just the default brush on lowered opacity (and more of a rectangle/marker shape?). watercolor pencil is a watercolor brush in the rectangle/marker shape as well. if you can't get the shape, you can always smudge your lines into shape as well, so don't fret too much! a bunch of people only use one brush for coloring everything (which is insane to me, personally, they are so talented!)
fun fact: the first brush listed that i made was originally called "aki tao watercolor smooth" 👍
ok here we go guys!!
STEP ONE: CLEANING THE PANEL
i think of this part as setting up the panel for coloring! usually it's pretty exhausting cuz it's all b&w but it's all worth it i swear. the panel i'll be coloring is this beautiful one of alma from chapter 2:
imgur link here (x)
a lot of people redraw their lines to avoid screentones, which is extremely helpful. however, i work on a phone and my fingers are not steady even with the stabilizer turned all the way up T~T. i do it this way, but a different (possibly easier) way may work for you!!!
your first step will be to remove all the white, giving us a transparent background to work with. THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE REASON WHY I USE IBIS PAINT X.
when you upload the image to ibis, a popup comes asking if you would like to "extract line drawing". this creates a lineart of your image. click yes, and your work is like 90% done.
if you're not on ibis, you can redraw your panel, put lineart layer on screen, etc. or you can just extract line drawing from ibis and upload to software of your choice
for those of you not on ibis, i've included the line drawing here (x) if it looks black, don't worry and set your background to white.
omg i was not kidding when i said i explained a lot. ok now onto the three main steps of cleaning the panel:
cleaning background
removing screentones
repainting black lines
for cleaning the background, we're going to clear off all the extraneous stuff. this includes the text in the speech bubble, the gradient screentones behind alma, and the panel line on the left side. just use your eraser tool and go crazy! (i forgot to save the panel at this point of the coloring OTL)
for removing screentones, we're going to remove all those "dots" that mangakas use for shading. these are used to show value for b&w art, but since we're coloring we don't need them—a lot of people have really cool ways of incorporating screentones in their colorings though, and it looks amazing! i used it on nana's hand in my bnha coloring.
remove the screentones from alma's hair and jacket with your eraser tool. this will take time, but it's worth it in the end!
for portions with a bunch of lines, you can create A NEW LAYER and redraw some of the lines. that way, you can erase indiscriminately from the original layer but the lines you drew are still there. again, like i said, my hand is really shaky so i don't do it a lot, but it's extremely helpful for smaller parts where i have control! i used this on alma's jacket, and here's a screenshot of the process:
(i made his jacket purple so i could distinguish between layers easily).
it should look like this when you're done:
for the final step of cleaning, i like to erase all the things colored black (the collar and strings of the jacket, along with the back part of his hair). that way, i can color them in with dark colors and it adds to the whole look of the coloring.
i've circled the parts i'm going to erase below:
and it should look like this when you're done!
ok everyone cheer we're ready to color now!!!!
STEP TWO: BASE COLORS
CROWD CHEERS ok lets go!
this part is the most important to me, because it sets the tone for the whole coloring. i like to use three-four main colors in my colorings, and it's usually background, skintone, hair, and the secret fourth color. the secret fourth color is usually whatever color fits the character's vibe, or if the character's color is the bg, it'll be an accent color.
for example, with my nagi coloring, i used white for the hair, i had my skintone, i had blue as the main coloring vibe (as nagi's color), and black as the accent color.
for alma, i chose his main color to be red! it's the color of his hair and his jacket, so i wanted it to be vibrant and stand out. since blue contrasts red, i went for a greyish-blue shade for the background. (i went for grey rather than solely blue because then it would clash rather than complement).
disclaimer please please please take your device off night mode warm mode f.lux whatever you have. this has screwed me over more times than you may think :(
i like to make my vibrant colors closer to the right end of the color square. for alma's hair, i chose this color:
i dragged it down from the corner a bit but kept the saturation since his hair is kind of dark. we can use vibrant colors to shade it though, so don't worry!
here's his hair and the background together:
now from here, play around with skintones until you find one that matches the hair!
i usually drag around the wheel to the orange-red intersection, and have it on the lighter, more saturated side. here's the color i chose for alma's skintone.
i thought his original skintone looked a bit too orange, so i pulled the saturation back a little bit (moved closer to the left side of the square).
after that, color in his jacket with a bit darker red than hair, choose a gold color for the accents on his jacket, and color in the black parts with a grey-ish color (we will change that later).
here's the base colors!
if it looks a bit bright, don't worry! we can change that with shading. or you might just have to. accept the light.
STEP THREE: SHADING AND LIGHTING
wooo we made it!!!!!!! ok now i lied, we have a bit more of base colors to go. on a layer above the skin, color in your teeth and tongue. for pieces that have a more red feel (like this one), i like to make the teeth and the shading a more vibrant blue color. (for blue pieces, i make it a purple!).
IMPORTANT NOTE: ALL SHADING AND ALL COLORS SHOULD BE DONE ON NEW, CLIPPED LAYER.
i'll then go in and do some light shading with my wet edges brush. i'll use a darker color for hard shadows and then a lighter, more vibrant color to accentuate it.
next up we have blush! a lot of people do this in very different ways but i like to do it directly under the eyes, in a vibrant red shade. make a new layer above the skin and clip it on. color pick alma's hair and drag it to the most saturated shade (red corner). then using the watercolor pencil brush, lower the opacity of the brush and drag a line under the eyes on both sides.
make sure to erase the portion of blush that goes above the eyeline. i also added some lips for alma as you can see, and then added a red line under the eyes! this was back to the regular dip pen (hard) brush on 100% opacity. it may take a few tries to get your blush to the way you want it, so don't worry too much.
now we can start our actual shading!
i break this part up into three steps: skin shading, blue shading, and light shading (highlights?)
for all of them, think about where the light is falling and how it will look on alma.
quick interlude about brushes: i use the watercolor pencil brush for softer, bouncy looks (like blush and noses) and i use the wet edges brush for more hard lines in shading.
again, make a new layer above the skin and clip it on. (i like to have it below the blush, so it doesn't cover it). for skin shading, i take the vibrant red and lower the opacity of the wet edges brush by a significant amount (specifics don't really matter, as long as you're happy with it). i'll trace his neck, from the shadow of his face, shadows of his hair falling on his face, ears, and nose. (for the nose i used the watercolor pencil brush for a softer look).
this is what i have once i'm done!
next we have skin shading part two, where we basically make a new layer on top of our first shading, lower the opacity further, and trace outside whatever we just did to blend it in more.
i used the watercolor pencil brush since it's more softer shading meant for blending! i also added it around the eyebrows for depth.
next up we have our blue shading! this is a technique that i learned from @/bkdkdh's colorings, but adding blue as a shadow really adds to the whole coloring. using the watercolor pencil brush, select a light-ish blue shade (a bit more saturated than background color) and use it to shadow a few more areas than your skin shading. i always make sure to hit the underside of the nose, cuz i think it adds depth!
finally, to wrap up our skin shading we have our lights. i use an orange-ish yellow color, which i set pretty light to not blend into the skin. using the watercolor pencil brush, i'll basically highlight any areas opposite to where the blue was, and highlight different parts. i always highlight one side of the nose as well.
i erased the line around the nose since we now have shading there, and added a darker shade to the teeth since i felt it wasn't shaded enough.
now onto the hair!!! (guys we're almost done bear with me, skin and hair are the two main things and then you can half-ass the clothes)
color pick alma's hair color, then drag the red a bit further down to get a darker yet still saturated color. here's mine:
then, using the wet edges brush, draw lines of shadow wherever clumps of his hair fall or overlap with each other. you can have the opacity set to whatever level you want, i just went with around 90. just try to follow the natural lines and patterns of the original line drawing, and everything should work out fine.
here's how mine looks! then, just like we did for skin shading, place a layer on top and lower the opacity to around 50%. place some more shading to blend it in. you can also shade more parts with this shade for some softer shading. i actually forgot to take a screenshot of this step but you'll see it in the next one!
for our (almost) last part of hair shading, take a layer and place it below both of your shading layers. this is going to be our highlight layer! you can see it below, labeled 49%.
remember how we set alma's hair a bit darker from the corner color? now select that corner color and draw highlights in the center of each hair clump.
lightly visible but it's there!
now here i skipped around a bit bc i was having fun and forgot i was doing a tutorial, but repeat the shading (not highlighting) steps with darker colors for alma's jacket. you should have your base layer, a dark shading, and a softer shading for blending.
we're almost there guys!!!
for the pretty much final step of shading, select a light blue color and do some blue shading with the watercolor pencil brush opposite to wherever your darker shading falls (just like we did on the face). make sure to do it to both your hair and your jacket! here's mine:
now for the black portions, we're going to color the whole thing in a dark blue color. just alpha lock your layer and make a big stroke of dark blue, almost black. for our black shading, we're actually going to go lighter.
select a lighter (but still dark) color and place highlights on the base layer, then take an even more vibrant, lighter blue and place it on the very outside for highlights. a better example of this would be nagi's legs in his blue lock uniform here. then, choose a shade to apply shading to the gold accents on alma's jacket and we're done!
CROWD CHEERS!!!!!
STEP FOUR: FINISHING TOUCHES
we made it guys!!!! for finishing touches, i'll usually do background effects or text or that kind of stuff.
step one is coloring your lines. you can add a new layer and clip it to your lineart, or simply alpha lock your lineart and color directly on top. for hair i like to add vibrant blue/purple lines, along with a few red ones. for skin lines i try to do dark brownish purples, but leaving some black is good too bc it adds flavor!
i colored in the text boxes and added shadows using the wet edge feature, then added some text. for the glitch effect, i duplicated the lineart, dragged the layer below all of my colors (including speech bubbles) and then used the glitch effect with height full from ibis. if you don't have ibis, you can look into features on your software, or you can also just drag your lineart layer a bit to either side and color it in. i also applied just the tiniest bit of noise on top of everything
and there we go!!!!! we made it to the end :)
if you've read all the way til here, thank you so much! if you decide to color this panel of alma (or any other panels!) don't be afraid to post them and tag me for a color this in your style type of thing! (you can also put it in my tracked tag, #user.roy) i'd love to see everyone's works :)
here's the full timelapse: (it stalls for a bit at some times but hey we can't have everything)
Edit: I originally posted this on Amino, but this will be here for anyone that needs it.
Hello, everyone. Today I’m going to talk about the basics of manga coloring. The app I’m using is Ibis Paint, but this can work for almost every drawing app. (More below the line.)
First, you gotta set the manga panel layer to multiply, because that will allow you to color over the WHITE parts. See below.
ㅤAfter doing that, make a layer under the manga panel layer. That will be the layer you’ll color on.
See? The green didn’t cover the black at all, ONLY the white.
If you want to color the BLACK parts of a panel, make a layer above the manga panel layer and set the new layer to “Lighten”
The color is lighter than black, so that’s why you use lighten.
Thats basically all you need to know, but I’ll include an extra part.
Say you colored the hair of a character, but wanted to shade it as well. If you shade on the same layer as the color, that could cause a problem if you want to erase part of it in the future. Instead, do this:
Make a layer ABOVE the hair color layer and set the new layer to clipping (the blue down arrow beside the lock).
As you can see, the purple only appeared in the blonde part.
Anyway, I accidentally saved the image before adding lipstick. If you make the same mistake as me one day, just make a layer above the image you accidentally saved and set it to darken.
(I only set it to darken because the lips were darker than the skin color).
Notice how the black line didn’t get colored since no color is darker than black.
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Heres a pop quiz, if the background is white and I want to change the color of it, what should I do?
If you said make a new layer and set it to “Darken”, then you’re right. Every color is darker than white so that’s why.
Alright, if you somehow made it to the end of this scroll-fest then I challenge you to make a manga coloring of your own. Bye!
hello everyone (੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ̀ˋ i’m back with another coloring tutorial to share some tips on how i personally color mangas! you can check out my first tutorial here where i go over the basics of coloring. in here i’ll go a little more in depth about shading and lighting, and the areas that i like to focus!
so without further ado here we go !! ♡
before we start
all of my colorings are done in photoshop
i have a psd that i personally made for my colorings, so the tutorial will already have the psd on top. i personally like to color with a psd on and then make adjustments as i go along.
these are tips on how i personally like to color. the process is different for everyone, so take it with a grain of salt ^^
#1 - Base Colors
self explanatory, just fill in the base color of your character
ooo la la
#2 - Tips for Shading
my shading is broken up into two major parts
1. soft shading
2. hard shading
Soft shading
i like to do soft shading whenever i want my coloring to look slightly more realistic and for the base color to look less flat. other times i skip it altogether if i’m coloring something cute or chibi-like. If you’re like me who has difficulty sometimes imagining where the shadows/light should be, i highly suggest looking at references to get a general idea! here is just one example.
❗reminder that each step requires new layers! color everything on different layers so you can make changes in the future if you need to!! ❗
Hard shading
next, I like to add hard shadows to my colorings for more details. these are the shadows where i don’t blend into the skin. the areas where i almost always focus are
Under the hair
Neck
Ears
Under the eyebrows
but again, the hard shadows can also heavily depend on the angle that the character is in. like always, if you struggle with that, references will be your best friend!! i’ll show you a reference that i used for this coloring! :)
Tip: set your shading layer to multiply and then adjust the opacity to your liking. mine is set to 80% here
#3 - Tips for Blush
not everyone includes blushes in their colorings, but i personally like to add it because i feel like it adds a lot of life to the characters (and i find it cute 🥰)
#4 - Lighting/Color Details
another tip to make your coloring stand out is to add lighting! this is one of my favorite process as i really enjoy experimenting with different colors and seeing which one works best. you can use as much layers as you want until you get a result that you’re satisfied with.
here is my result after i add more colors to the shadows and Aki’s face. i also colored in the eyes and added some pale colors to his lips because i know aki uses his chapstick 👑💅💁♀️
#5 - Brightening the Line Art
right now, the lines that we have are black, but i would prefer to brighten it up a little more. here, i will set a new layer above my manga cap, and choose a red or orange shade to add some colors to it
if you want a more vibrant effect, use a more vibrant version of those colors, or vice versa. you can also adjust the colors using your selective coloring tool
#6 - Finishing Touches
now that i’m nearing the finished product, i will begin to add some final details to it. are there areas that should be brighter or colors that should be less saturated? are there any areas where i should add highlights to? here is where i fix minor things until i’m satisfied with the outcome. i will also adjust my psd as well if i need to!
hey everyone! as asked by some people, here's a tutorial and how i colour manga! thank you to anyone who's ever liked my creations, i really appreciate it ♡
1. BACKGROUND
i use adobe photoshop and my laptop's trackpad
i was initially inspired to start colouring manga by other creators on here! some tutorials i used when getting started were angie's (@sugawaras) colouring tutorial here, and ana's (@aizawashoutta) tutorial here!
this is just how i colour manga personally (and i haven't been colouring for long), and i am still improving! remember to have fun and be proud of what you make!
2. CLEANING AND REDRAWING
i'll be using this panel from haikyuu!! chapter 210 that i posted here
first, i'll delete the background using the eraser tool
as you can see from the panel, hinata's arm has been cut off, so i'll redraw anything that seems to be out of the frame
the shadows in the panel are too dark for me, so i make a grey fill layer on top of the panel and set it to divide
this makes the lines (and the shadows) lighter, and i save this as a .png and insert it back into the .psd file
when the .png is inserted back into the file, i erase the white background off the picture using the background eraser tool, so the image above should now be transparent, with the exception of the lines
3. COLOURS AND SHADING
i work in parts, where i'll colour the base layer for one part (eg. hair) and shade that part completely before moving on to the next part
normally, i start with the skin colour base layer:
i use three shade types on the skin base: (1) blush, (2) soft brush shading, (3) hard brush shading
all shade layers are set to "clipping mask" on top of it's base colour
i'll do the above for the rest of the panel (eg. hair, clothes, items, etc.), with the exception of the blush layer
if there's already some shading on the original panel, i'll just do a base colour and no shading!
i'll also normally add some sort of texture on top of my colouring here, and i'll set that layer mode to soft light, and change the opacity to low (15%–30%)
i put the texture layer on top of everything, including the outline
this is how it looks like after all the base colour/shading + texture:
4. LIGHT EFFECTS (LIGHTEN, SCREEN, ETC.)
as you can see from above, the outline is all black
on top of the outline layer, i'll add light effect layers (i don't know the actual name of these layers sorry)
an example how one of these layers look like before making the layer mode lighten
this is how it looks like after i change the layer mode to lighten:
i'll add lighten/screen layers where i see fit: normally these layers are in the hues of red/orange, but if a character has black hair i might add some lighten/screen layers with some blue tones instead
this is how it looks like with all those layers added:
this is the final order of my layer/groups:
the hue group is any adjustment layers i will add (eg. hue/saturation, selective colour) to adjust the colours of my colouring if need be!
5. NOISE AND BACKGROUND
i'll normally add noise to the finished coloured panel (around 2%-5%)
this is when i'll add a background/any other effects i want
and this is the final look!
and that's it! thank you if you got this far, and i hope this was somewhat helpful! ♡
hello !!! i admire your colorings so much, would it be alright if u film a speedpaint on the process of your colorings? im really intrigued and fascinated by them, they look perfect! (i completely understand if u dont want to ) have a good dayyyy !!!! love u
hello dear anon!! thank you soooo much! ♡ don't worry! i don't mind at all, here's the timelapse you've requested! ^^
PROGRAMS USED:
- photoshop cs6 (cleaning manga + final touches)
- clip studio paint (coloring)
also, i use a pen tablet for my colorings!
MANGA COLORING PROCESS
CSP's brushes and tools really help me speed up the coloring process! i also mostly use the watercolor brushes and some other brushes i've downloaded from clip studio assets.
and that's it! here's the finished mitsuya coloring from chapter 117 after some final touches, textures + psd!
i'm not that good with these things but i do hope this was somehow helpful to you anon! and maybe for others too (?) ^^
i prefer coloring in this style now since it's quicker to do than my previous style! ;;
As has been requested by people here is a tutorial of how I colour mangas!!
A quick disclaimer that I am really bad at explaining things so I’m sorry if anything is confusing. Also just because I colour this way doesn’t mean it’s the right way to colour and do things. As long as you’re having fun then however you colour is the right way!! This is just my process and style of colouring.
Tutorial under the cut:
Going to start with what programs and brushes I use.
So I do all of my beginning editing and finishing editing in photoshop. Then I do the actual colouring in Firealpaca.
Considering this is a tutorial for my basic colouring style I’ll only be using four brushes/tools: a pen brush whilst cleaning line art, a watercolour brush for all of my main colouring (any kind of soft easily blendable brush will work), a textured watercolour brush for blush (any kind of easily blendable textured brush will work) and the eraser tool.
Step 1) I size my chosen panels to the dimensions I have picked in photoshop.
Step 2) Using the levels tool I fix the black to white levels of the panel and try to get rid of as much grey as I can without compromising the lineart
Step 3) Then I open the panel in Firealpaca go to ‘Filter’ and select ‘Extracting Lines’ so that I only have the line art to colour under (I use a mid-tone grey background to see colours better)
Step 4) Using the eraser and pen brush I clean up the panel getting rid of what I don’t want and cleaning up/redrawing any lines that need it
Step 5) I always colour (using the watercolour brush) the skin first and start with a base
Step 6) Taking a colour that is darker and warmer then the base I shade the skin around areas such as the eyes, nose, lips, neck and anywhere else shadow would be
Step 7) Using a textured watercolour brush I add blush which is often saturated red, pink or orange
Step 8) Still using the same brush I select the base skin colour and bled the blush out
Step 9) Going back to the watercolour brush I use a highly saturated red, pink or orange to colour the lips and around the eyes
Step 10) Then add whites on eyes and anything else that needs it
Step 11) When I colour eyes I essentially just create a gradient on the eye beginning with a base colour
Step 12) Then add darker tones to the top of the iris
Step 11) And lighter tones to the bottoms
Step 12) Finally I add white highlights
Step 13) After this I colour in the hair (and in this case Ginji’s tails too)
Step 14) And then the clothes or any extra elements in the panel
Step 15) Following this will be shading. I create a new layer which I clip to my colouring, I change the blending to multiply and the opacity to 24%
Step 16) Then using a purple colour I shade the entire colouring
Step 17) By creating a clipping mask above the line art I colour in certain sections of it. Such as using reds on the skin lines
Step 18) Then I just add my background colour and some doodles
Step 19) I make final colour adjustments in photoshop. This can be anything from fixing contrast, increasing the saturation of colours or even changing the hues of some of them. It’s different for every colouring
can you pretty please make a tutorial on how you color 🥺 i really liked ur yutta coloring so much and i wanted to know how you’re able to achieve that smooth finish and airbrushed quality on the finished products and it still looks sharp :<<
hi anon!! tysm!! I'm still very new to manga coloring so I do not yet have a defined style or an exact method, but I'd be happy to explain how I colored this panel:
I’ll walk through roughly what my process was under the cut (i’ve also upl*aded the psd file here, if you want to see what exactly I did on each layer).
I used PS18 to make this but any version should work about the same.
I’m not sure what your level of experience w coloring is so I will just start from the very beginning:
Step 1: Get and Crop Manga Panel
pretty self explanatory lol
Step 2: Remove the whites
With your manga panel layer selected, go into channels and click this button:
& hit delete. The whites should all be gone now. The outlines were a little faint so I made a couple duplicates and set them to multiply. Then I grouped all the outlines together and set their blending mode to color burn.
Step 3: Base coloring
Underneath the outlines, I did my base coloring. I use a separate layer for the face / hand / ring / hair / etc. this makes it much easier to color later.
Step 4: (Very) soft shading:
For panels like this I always do shading on the face first since it takes up 80% of the panel and where the eyes go to first. Usually I’ll start with a very soft shading (hardness: 0%, brush size: as big as possible) and shade the top and bottom parts with a slightly darker color than the skin tone to create a soft gradient:
It’s very subtle
Then, I gradually make the brush smaller (keep hardness @ 0%), and the brush color darker to add a couple more layers of soft shading:
On the last layer I used the blur tool pretty liberally since the brush size was small enough that it didn’t look very smooth.
Step 5: Blush, nose & Under eye circles
Under eye circles are probably not necessary for most other characters but they are yuuta’s defining trait so:
For the under eye circles I used the same color as in the last layer of shading from step 4. For the blush I used a dark red and then set the opacity to 50%. For the nose I also used a darker red and kept the opacity a little higher. For all of them, I used the blur tool to smooth it out
Step 6 & 7: Extra shadows & lighting
To emphasize the under-eye circles, the shadow on yuuta’s neck & to add some depth to the ears I made a new layer & used black to color over these areas, and then set the layer to soft light.
Used a white layer on the jawline, above the eyebrows and eyelids & on the top and bottom parts of the ears. I kept the brush size much smaller for these, and then blurred them to smooth them in.
Step 8: Eyes
Because the eyes are black in the manga panel, when I color the eyes I have to do them above the outlines created in step 2. So I start with just the blue:
I then (on a separate layer), colored over the eyelids using black and white. I use blacks towards the top and in the areas where the pupil would be, and white towards the bottom of the eyes. I set the blending mode of these layers to soft light:
Then I used a white brush (very small, hardness @ 100%), to add a “shine”. I set the blending mode of this layer to overlay.
Step 9: Hand
I honestly mostly repeated the same steps as above (but in much less detail) for the hand.
I also added a layer with black & white shading set to soft light to add some shine to the ring (its very subtle):
Step 10: Clothing and hair
The clothing is already black so it’s very difficult to shade w the method of coloring under the lines. It also does not take up much of the panel so I just did not shade the clothing at all lol. For the hair, I added a layer shading over the top of the hair in black, and set that layer to soft light:
And that’s the final product!!
Again, I’m still discovering my style, so I don’t have an exact set of steps I follow, but this is the rough process. When I first started, I found this yt video to be very very helpful & would highly recommend it. It’s for coloring original art instead of manga coloring but the general ideas still apply.
I hope this was helpful, please let me know if you have any questions!
