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Published: 2012-10-27 09:57:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 183153; Favourites: 8481; Downloads: 4795
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after a lot of inquiries about my colouring technique i have finally put together this walkthrough. sadly the file i prepared was too big for dA to support, but i hope this is still readable. i also hope this will answer at least part of your questions regarding my colouring process.some of the changes between the steps shown here are not easy to spot, which is why i included miniatures of how each new layer look like in normal mode (at least where i thought it necessary).
good look trying out this (very fun and effective) technique^^
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software used: photoshop cs5e
final version of this picture can be found here:
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tumblr link here: [link]
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decorative brushes from ~tiffcali06
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(c) `len-yan
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Thank you very much! I've been wanting to pick up on grayscale coloring, and this is by far the easiest to understand.Β
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This tutorial changed my life! You are genious 
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Thank you so much for this comprehensive and more importantly CLEAR tutorial. I've been looking for some reliable guides on coloring grayscale images but usually I just get something in the manner of 'slap some color on it with blending modes' and you can barely see what the artist has done. You explain things very clearly. I have trouble doing any real digital art since it hurts my eyes so I'm planning to color graphite drawings digitally. This tutorial will be a great help!
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Thank you very much for this ^^ I've been experimenting with Glazing for a while and never really could get it quite right, but I'll give this way a shot and see how it goes :3
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That's interesting. Although I have some resistance in using the grayscale to colour technique, as I usually find it has a poor variety of hue between highlights and shadows, or sometimes colours are not enough saturated to my liking. But that's just my opinion, and I'm a bit new to digital painting, so I'm still not sure of my preferences ^^
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what kind of a layer is that you put colors on? A transparent one with 100% opacity?
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Thank you sooooo MUCH for your great explaining!!!
it is always stuck in my mind when I need to convert from greyscale to color!!
I am always wondering when the color does not right TT^TT (something like, I tried to shade dark orange but it turn yellow?!?)
but when you show the picture comparing between normal mode and overlay/soft light/multiple mode, it become clear!!!!
(Arggg, so I could not apply color directly then)
Anyway, Thanks a lotttttt! (>__<)//
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Thank you so much for making this, now I need to try these techniques
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I found this SO helpful, glazing was never one of my strong suits, now I hope I can be better at it!
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This really helps. I'm getting used to "glazing" Thank you!
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Do oyu think it would work on Photoshop CS3?
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yes, i think it would work just as well even on Photoshop7
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thank you so much!!!! i love you :"* it's so useful <3
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Just wanted to say thanks for this awesome tutorial. Probably the best I have found out there!
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Gosh dangit. I won't stop pushing myself and learning until I'm as good as you hehe 
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So helpful - thanks for the effort in making this tutorial!
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NO EXCUSES! Character Concept Art: From Grayscale to Full Color Illustration." If you enroll with the link , the class is $10! Enjoy your Β class with len-yan!skl.sh/1aBlnAe
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NO EXCUSES! Character Concept Art: From Grayscale to Full Color Illustration." If you enroll with the link , the class is $10! Enjoy your Β class with len-yan!skl.sh/1aBlnAe
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This is incredibly useful, thank you very much.
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wow! Amazing! Thank you for the tutorial! =]
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thanks so much for this tutorial.
used it here: fav.me/d6sn2y2
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thank you so much! I was so confused before!
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Very helpful, thank you! Do you work with a greyscale image first for all your pieces?
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this is the first time i understood the use of grayscaling the pic before coloring it......but i am really curious of what brushes do you use?(pls. answer)....i wanted to create something like this in the future well thank you again
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hello and thank you for your comment. for 95% of what you see in my pictures i use the basic photoshop brush with size, opacity and flow jitter set to pen pressure (i made a post about the brushes i mainly use on tumblr:Β len-yan.tumblr.com/post/288795β¦ ). hope this helps a bit. good luck~
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Wow! This is the first time I've seen this technique and it blew me away
I might try this.. I think this technique gives the work the chance to have a better light/dark contrast for more depth, something that my own work lacks haha...
Thanks for sharing this!
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This is a very clear and I had never understood the technique before. thank you for taking the time to share this with us!
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It's one of the most accurated and clear tutorial I've read so far. Eternal gratitude for this :unworthy:
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Interesting technique. Definitely looking forward to giving it a try sometime.
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I regret that I can only favorite this piece once.
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Can you please post a screen shot of what your grayscale layers look like? Do you work on one layer or several for the base grayscale layer? thanks in advanced!
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i answered to that in the 'grayscale' part of the tut (that is to say, i mostly work on a single layer). sorry if this isn't very helpful;;
there are some step-by-step posts on my tumblr if you'd like to take a look, maybe they'll be more of a help: [link]
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Ah, sorry about that. Thanks so much for responding! I'm so impressed that you can keep your lines so clean all while working on one layer. I like to use airbrushes so my lines blur into each other a lot if I work on one layer. Good tutorial, by the way!
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Thanks for the very well-thought-out tutorial! I am looking forward to giving this a try.
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This is really useful, thanks for sharing your technique! I'll definitely try it and I learned a lot too.
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This is exquisite! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your technique.
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thank you for sharing
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Thank you so freaking incredibly much! I've been wanting to give greyscale to color a try for a while now, but couldn't seem to find a straight forward, easy, yet detailed explanation before. Thank you so!
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Thanks, Len-Yan! Fascinating process - gonna try it out, myself.
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