[Bubonic]

i am working on a painting of a girl i drew, i am doing here in a gray scale first.. But how do i go about from turning that grayscale into color? Do i have to setup a special pallete?

[Tinusch]

You could either paint right over it, or create a new layer and set it to Multiply or Color.

[Bubonic]

thanks tin,

so for example if i wanted to color the face brown, i would just put a new layer with multiply or color, and then just use regular red and diffrent shades of it.. because so far i got all my grays from the Swatch panel.. Do you choose your colors from there?

[Tinusch]

I don't use swatches, I just manually choose the colors as I go along... I can't really predict what kind of colors I'm going to want...

About the layer thing, yeah, you just make the layer, set it to Multiply or Color (not sure which one would work best for you) and paint the colors right on top.

[Tweeder]

One way that's worked fairly well for me is using the Adjust Colors until you get a basic color for the skin that you want, and then you can go in and add highlights and shadows etc .. the only problem with this is that it does the entire image, so if you just want the skin to be brown, it will also add a brownish tint to everything else.

Just an idea.

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[pierre]

Hi bubonic,

Even though the following explanation is not how I usually paint in digital, this is almost always my process whenever I paint in oils.

in this thread, both the pics started out as bw drawings.

http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/007318.html

First a line, then solid black areas defining the main dark areas.

Over the dark and whites I then went over them with middle grays, very rough.

I did that until I had pretty much worked out most of the shading involved in the pic.

When the shading was done I went over the pic with color, roughly, with transparancy on, letting the "underpainting" show through. Say if I wanted a brownish area on the guy's skin, i went over that area with roughly the color I intended to use.

When that was done, I started to put in more saturated colors and darker and brighter areas.

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now, I can only speak for myself here, but this kind of process is derived from my traditional way of working, since when I paint in oils, I must do this approximately this way inorder to get my colors working, however, that is not always the process, even with oils.

I do this too when I do quick sketches, but again, you can do quick sketches in many ways, and I do, this is only one way to do it.

Feel free to ask anything more about that

Pierre

[Bubonic]

thanks everyone for helping me out.. i just found out from someone that i should not use my brush at 100%, but at about 30-40% for opacity, that way i can blend in colors.. I made a mistake by doing it all at 100%, and this is what my girl looks like..



I will do it again, but this time, i will use a lower opacity in hopes that it will help make the transition from a dark area to a lighter area much more subtle and gradual..