All right and this lecture we're going to talk about another really cool little effect you can do which
is how to color your line art.
Normally if you drank Additionally you kind of have to start out with color line art.
But when you work digitally you can go back and change the color of your line whenever you want.
So let's say that we want this line art to be a different color entirely.
Cabe does a couple of ways we can do it.
The first one is to if you're an pro-create you can just color drop for the whole layer.
So let's say we want the liner to be red we can come over here and drop it onto the liner layer.
But sometimes that can be tricky and it takes a couple of goes and for some reason sometimes it only
does one section and sometimes it will do the whole layer and I haven't yet figured out why that is
so not the most reliable way.
Sometimes I'll do it.
Usually I'll just do this method which I'm about to say instead.
But before we do that I do want to show you that once we get to this point once your liner is colored
we can see here that my liner is on a separate layer all by itself.
You can just go to your hue saturation and brightness sliders and kind of change that to whatever you
want it to be which is a pretty nifty tool to be able to change stuff you want.
So maybe we want it to be c I want it to be blue.
OK.
And I want the background to also be like a light blue.
And very quick very quickly we're able to get that effect.
OK.
And you can change it everyone.
So that's one way.
OK let's just bring it back to where it was before the other way is to.
Let's say we want each part of the line art to be a different color.
So we have these flat colors that we did and say we want it for the liner to kind of coincide with one
of these colors.
Right.
So what we can do is make a new layer right.
Our liner layer.
We're going to go ahead and select.
So we have that layer selected.
Now we can go to our new layer and on that new layer with our line are still selected we can paint right
onto only where the liner is just like this green color.
I want to get it a little bit darker from my liner and then I'm going to paint over all the areas where
the liner is black.
You could see it's pretty subtle but it's turning it green right.
But it's only painting where the line art is.
OK.
So do this for all the green area all the way down his neck here Fan.
OK.
And then this part as well.
OK.
So now let's do his neck.
Let's say we want his neck to be.
We're going to do a fade.
We're just going to go darker with what's already there on each one of these.
So nothing complex.
And I will do the same thing for his neck area everywhere on his neck that we want to be that color.
We're just going to paint over the liner there.
OK.
And then if you need to go back to another color you can do color pick the line that you've already
covered.
So like right on his lip I need to fix it a little bit.
Ok cool.
Let's do this up here.
That's going to be a dark red.
OK.
I can get my green back to touch up some of these areas like this antenna back here that we got red
on XM.
We're going to want to make that green again right.
This area right here and then appears head
so that there do is armor for his armor I'm actually going to do like a dark blue for the whole thing
like that and distill all that in
for this background the sunset partners are going to go the deep.
Let's get a little bit more surgery.
You know I like that.
Right.
So that finishes that and I can turn it off and turn off the Blakley underneath.
We'd like to as well.
And that will give us you can leave it on if you want.
If you like a darker it's just up to you if you want you can take this layer that you just created and
duplicate it just to make sure the colors are really vivid enough.
And then after that you can just look at the opacity if you need to.
So that's how you can color your liner.
Those are the two ways to do it.
Now if what I would recommend not doing when you're coloring your line art is unless you're really specifically
going for this look I do not recommend making your liner lighter than the background colors.
It just it does not look that good.
It seems like a kind of cool effect but it's really not the eye catching of art and it's it makes it
difficult to read the image right.
Because you drew this making it so that the heavier lines kind of represent shadows and the lighter
lines represent the light.
But when you reverse it it kind of negates that effect.
So I recommend not making your line are lighter than the them.
You know whatever colors or whatever your background is because it's kind of like kind of weird.
But besides that go at it go crazy you know.
Do you want but anyway so that's how we can change our color.
And I'll see you guys in the next lecture.