{"id":670,"date":"2011-08-13T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T09:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2011-08-11T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:05:45","slug":"how-to-make-comics-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2011\/08\/how-to-make-comics-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Comics Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to Make Comics Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CT-beforeandafter-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-671\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"CT beforeandafter copy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CT-beforeandafter-copy-300x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CT-beforeandafter-copy-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CT-beforeandafter-copy-1024x547.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CT-beforeandafter-copy.png 1562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Using Photoshop or another piece of image manipulation software to colour or letter your comics is an entirely optional step.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, you will probably benefit from getting your drawings into a digital format if you want to reproduce them at some point, but this can be a straight forward case of scanning them in and sending them on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve met plenty of comic creators who still use inks and paints to colour their comics and they produce some beautiful work.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;m a digital junkie and also use my cartoons on this site, so I need mine uploaded to a web-publishable format and so it makes sense for me to colour them in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, I am going to take you through the steps that I go through to get my tortoises coloured in.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First of all, it&#8217;s worth noting what you need in order to do this.\u00a0 Unlike part 1, where I said you don&#8217;t really need anything special in order to draw comics, this time you do.\u00a0 You will need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A computer<\/li>\n<li>A scanner<\/li>\n<li>A copy of Photoshop (I have the CS3 version)<\/li>\n<li>Patience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have Photoshop, there are other alternatives.\u00a0 For a very long time I used Paint Shop Pro, and I also used GIMP for a short period of time, which is free and incredibly powerful once you get used to it.\u00a0 Almost everything you can do in Photoshop you can do in GIMP, so it is a good alternative, just not one that I&#8217;m any good at using.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also note that you need a lot less patience once you get used to the process. \u00a0I am now very much able to operate on auto pilot in colouring my images, but when I first went through the method I made frequent mistakes and it took me the better part of an afternoon to do even a very small image.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting at this point that I am not a Photoshop expert.\u00a0 A lot of what I do, I don&#8217;t fully understand, but I know it works.\u00a0 I have botched together my method by following other more in-depth free online tutorials of which there are literally thousands of out there.\u00a0 If you have a specific question about something I might have glossed over, feel free to drop me a comment and I might be able to\u00a0answer it or refer you to somewhere else that can.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_687\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Scanned-Tortoise.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-687\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-687\" title=\"Scanned Tortoise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Scanned-Tortoise-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Scanned-Tortoise-266x300.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Scanned-Tortoise-910x1024.jpg 910w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Scanned-Tortoise.jpg 1198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tortoise fresh from the scanner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once you have scanned in your image and opened it up into Photoshop, there are a series of steps you need to take to prepare it for colouring.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. \u00a0Make sure the lines are black and the background is white.\u00a0 Do this by adjusting levels and dragging the little arrow on the far left to the centre as demonstrated in the images.\u00a0 Dropping your image into two colours will make for cleaner lines and allow you to easily select large areas which will make your life easier in the long run.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Levels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-674\" title=\"Levels2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels2.png 771w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels2-300x255.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-675 aligncenter\" title=\"Levels3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels3.png 892w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Levels3-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">2. \u00a0Convert the background to a layer by right clicking and selecting &#8220;create layer from background&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/LFB.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-676\" title=\"LFB\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/LFB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"668\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/LFB.png 668w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/LFB-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">3. \u00a0On the channels tab, near the layers box, with all the channels selected, click the little dotted circle icon and all of the white background will be selected.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-680\" title=\"Select Channels\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels.png 1155w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels-1024x805.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">4. \u00a0Hit delete to get rid of this.\u00a0 This will give you a layer with just your line art on.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-681\" title=\"Select Channels2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels2.png 1155w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels2-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Select-Channels2-1024x805.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">5. \u00a0Select the layer tab again and create a new layer (I always use Ctrl+Alt+N to the point that I can&#8217;t remember where the non-shortcut way of doing it is but there is one).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve called mine background, but this is the layer that will have all your colours on it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">6. \u00a0Drag the layer underneath the layer with the outline on, select the whole layer and fill it with a background colour, in this case white.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/White-Background.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-686\" title=\"White Background\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/White-Background.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/White-Background.png 1155w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/White-Background-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/White-Background-1024x805.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">7. \u00a0Make sure that both layers have the &#8220;Multiply&#8221; option selected from the drop down.\u00a0 Without this, your outline layer might leave ugly looking marks over your colour when you come to adding it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Multiply.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-678\" title=\"Multiply\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Multiply.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">8. \u00a0Finally, have a look on your outline layer and see if there&#8217;s anything you want to tidy up.\u00a0 As you can see in this original tortoise, I messed up the nose when I was drawing him, so I&#8217;m going to remove a chunk using the lasso tool and the delete button.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nose-surgery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-679\" title=\"Nose surgery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nose-surgery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nose-surgery.png 1144w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nose-surgery-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Nose-surgery-1024x701.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Now you are ready to start with the colouring.\u00a0 What you&#8217;ve done is created a clean image with separate layers that will make the colouring process much easier.\u00a0 I used to do everything on one layer when I started trying to colour comics, but with multiple layers, you have many more options relating to tweaking your work so that it looks tidier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To colour, take the following steps.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Ensure you have the background layer selected.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Select the magic wand tool and set the attributes to 25 tolerance, Contiguous and Sample All Layers.\u00a0 I also select Anti-alias but I&#8217;m not 100% sure this is necessary.\u00a0 Use this tool to select an area that needs to be coloured.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectexpand1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-683\" title=\"Selectexpand1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectexpand1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectexpand1.png 1148w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectexpand1-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectexpand1-1024x693.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3. \u00a0Along the menu bar, go to Select, Modify and Expand, expanding the selection by three pixels (Alt, S, M, E if you want to be fancy using shortcuts).\u00a0 This will mean that some of the colour will actually be going under the lines, giving an overall cleaner look when you&#8217;re finished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Expand-Selection.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-672\" title=\"Expand Selection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Expand-Selection.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Expand-Selection.png 688w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Expand-Selection-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4. \u00a0Use the fill bucket tool, select the colour that you want and fill in the selected areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectandcolour.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-682\" title=\"Selectandcolour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectandcolour-e1313074572554.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectandcolour-e1313074572554.png 1143w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectandcolour-e1313074572554-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Selectandcolour-e1313074572554-1024x695.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0That is the basic method to follow.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to do it for the whole tortoise but you get the idea.\u00a0 If you want to polish the image a little more, you can add lighting and shade by doing the following.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Make another layer for the shadows and make sure it&#8217;s between the background and the outline.\u00a0 Set this to 25% opacity.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Select an area you want to add shadow to using the magic wand tool.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Use the brush tool with a black or dark colour selected and manually draw in the area you want to shade.\u00a0 You can experiment with the size and hardness of brush that you find works best.\u00a0 For my tortoises I use a 39 pixel brush with 14% hardness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Shadow1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-685\" title=\"Shadow1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Shadow1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Shadow1.png 1154w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Shadow1-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Shadow1-1024x708.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4. Repeat the previous three steps for any lighting, but substitute the black for a white.\u00a0 I tend to use much less lighting than shade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Light.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-677\" title=\"Light\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Light.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Light.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Light-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Light-1024x708.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve finished the whole thing you&#8217;ll end up with something that looks fairly decent.\u00a0 You will definitely find there are better methods that work for you and once you get better at the process, you&#8217;ll find extra touches that you can add to your cartoons to make it look better.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to have a look at a couple of really good Photoshop tutorials to see just how far you can take this sort of thing, I would really recommend the following from some real digital art pros.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PSDFan Advanced Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/psd.fanextra.com\/tutorials\/drawing\/digital-painting-lesson-monkey-island-2-lechuck%E2%80%99s-revenge-special-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Painting Lesson: \u00a0Monkey Island&#8217;s LeChuck<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Absolutely staggering step by step guide 0n how really really elaborate and effective digital painting is done. \u00a0&#8220;Not for beginners&#8221; is quite an understatement, but this is still an inspirational example of exactly what you can do.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Anime Artwork Photoshop Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/photoshoptutorials.ws\/photoshop-tutorials\/drawing\/how-to-create-an-anime-artwork-in-photoshop.html\" target=\"_blank\">How to Create an Anime Artwork in Photoshop<\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; Very similar to the method used above because this is the first tutorial I found that made sense, with a few extra neat tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully that might give you an idea of what is possible with your computers.\u00a0 Chalk this one up to the amazing technology at our fingertips that we take for granted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Make Comics Part 2 \u00a0Using Photoshop or another piece of image manipulation software to colour or letter your comics is an entirely optional step. 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