The colours were done in Krita on top of traditional lineart I drew with fine-liners (A4 paper)
Be sure to check out the video demonstrating how the character sounds! It’s for an anniversary of his, actually. https://youtu.be/MFg1hk4v7Ww?si=95Re8mogmVc9ITnY
The character isn’t mine but the art is. One can even download the voice and use it for synthesizing songs of their own.
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This is so pretty I love the colours, how’d you get the lineart to look so clean??
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Thank you! As for your question, well- this is traditional line art so there is nothing particularly special about it in terms of processing. The process went thusly:
I drew the lines very slowly on top of a pencil sketch, which was already cleaned up. The key here is that the sketch has every line exactly where it should be. If I hadn’t cleaned up the pencil lines, I would have made a lot of mistakes and wouldn’t be able to slowly follow the lines because I’d be going by feel.
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Ohh yeah I honestly meant how you got them too look so clean when transferring into krita, like with the colour over it? mine always end up looking very off. I rlly get the clean sketch part, I mess up way too much bcs of impatience hahaha
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Ah, in that case you should, first of all, make sure the lineart itself is properly captured (that is to say, preferably scanned or the picture of it is taken in an evenly-lit lighting setup). Once that is taken care of, the trick is to make use of the blending modes. The multiply blending mode, in particular, is useful for anything which is black and white, like lineart. Obviously, if the page isn’t white, it won’t work as well (since everything will be tinted by the pages colour). In the case of multiplication, order of operations isn’t important which means you can put it either on the colour layer or on the lineart layer, it doesn’t matter (just don’t put it on both colours and lines and it’ll work).
If your page isn’t lit perfectly you would best remove anything that isn’t lines (so, make the page transparent) You can do that with a levels adjustment followed by: Filter > Colours > Colour to Alpha (blow out everything that is not the lines themselves, so that it’s 100% white on the page except for the lines. You can fiddle with the midtones (the middle point handle of the levels adjustment) to retain the lineart’s value or darkness).
Another trick I recommend is slightly blurring everything that is entirely digital as a last step in the process - it helps the line art fit in better with the digital work.
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ahh thank you sm!! Imma try it
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