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Basic Coloring Tutorial by Loleia

Posted on 25. Apr, 2009 by admin in 2D GRAPHICS, Photoshop

Lola Rodrigues aka Loleia, is an awesome Illustrator from Spain and decided to share with us her ticks to a basic painting in photoshop, the tutorial is very simple and well explained so you can learn to paint your own drawings, check it out.

Make sure you check out the gallery of works of Loleia here loleia.deviantart.com and thank her for the tutorial.

So, the first think I need is a line art. This nice girl here volunteered, so we’re going to be coloring her.

The first thing I always do is name the layers, because I am kind of a neat freak and I need everything to have a name and be in its proper place. I call the line art layer –wait for it- Lineart.

Next, I create a layer underneath the Lineart and choose a background color to fil it with. I call the layer Background (tadaaa!)

Having a colored background is very useful when it comes choosing the color palette for the drawing itself because it makes you use a range of colors that are all similar, giving the final piece a consistent look color-wise.

I tend to choose pastels tones. Here I have picked yellowish ochre.

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