John Welding ~ Drawing

When digitally colouring comics I find myself making lists of mental notes of what to do. If you colour your comics digitally you may find this interesting.   The example page is from as yet unpublished episode of Chuffin' Billy. Preparing Line work Affinity 3.0 has an ‘ Erase white paper ’ function which creates line work on a transparent layer. Photoshop and Krita can do this but I can never remember how to make it work without research, so a one click method is ace. Monotonous Flats Creating ‘Flats’ helps isolate colours so you can select areas to work over. Colour in figures and anything important in the panel. Apply the general base colours beneath the line work. Apply colours on separate subsequent layers below, this gives you edges that you don’t have to be careful with, making it a little bit quicker to colour. Use the Lasso Tool + Ctrl to select areas to fill with Flat Colour. It’s quicker than picking at corners with a brush after missing pixels with the freehand versi...