As a completely clueless person who has never taken any art education, colour scheme and the concept was completely alien to me the way you explained just opened so many new options and ideas for me. I always had difficulty understanding what colour to choose for shading you really helped me with this video thankyou so much
"Continuous Pickle" sounds like a good band name 😆 Super informative video! It's also really cool to see how many features are shared with Photoshop. Thanks for the helpful content!
For selecting colors I find it helpful to select a color for each thing I want and I make a swatch that I put at the top of the page on a separate layer called swatches. That way I have consistency. It also helps me see what the over all color harmony will be.
this 11 min video has single-handedly set me on new paths. My process was feeling slow and messy and out of order, and this gives me a clear road map. It also taught me a fair bit that I didn't know about streamlining the process for a comic, as opposed to more loose digital paintings and illustrations- the only thing I knew how to do lol.
I've been using a variation of this method for my panels for the last few months. Got the idea from painting with opaque mediums (acrylics, oils, etc), where I use a base colour to set the tone of the painting and gradually build from there. Relied more on brushes and layer modes rather than selection tools and hue/saturation sliders. Gotta give this one a try!
Wait- this is exactly what i needed!!! For real!!! I always have trouble finding colors that looks good together!! Also Mad respect for Walter for making super helpful videos, while making a webtoon and also working a FULL TIME JOB!!! 👏👏👏🙇
Wow I was about to start coloring my comic and this video came up at the perfect timing. I was having trouble figuring out how to color depending the time of day and I learned a lot! Your videos have really helped me out a lot!
I'm currently trying to figure out a whole new color pallet for my series going foward. I like the current one, but I think it's too "vibrate" for the genre my webtoon is in. This video came right on time!
Finally a quick, intuitive, no-BS method to figure out colors quickly which is something I've always struggled with (even as an arts graduate). Turns out I already did most of these -setting a base color, fiddle around with HSV levels, etc- but not exactly in the way you do here. And the intersect lasso option on Clip Studio knocked my socks off - eager to try your method on some pages I need to deliver soon. Thanks for sharing ☺
Even though I don’t think of writing and drawing webtoons any soon. It interests me and I am researching about the topic for a few days now. I just discovered your channel and I am surprised how you weren’t one of the first people to show up when searched how to draw/write webtoons. After watching this video I was going to subscribe to your channel but then I realise I have already subscribed unconsciouly lol. Anyways great work
What a cool approachable video! I wish my comic was just magically flatted on it's own like having several gremlins who flatted my pages while I slept.
this is great, I'm never happy with my colors, this might be the answer to my problems. Also would you consider making ClipStudio tutorials as well? because a lot of people (including me) use ClipStudio like cave people! there aren't many good tutorials for it on youtube and most of them are very basic
I didn't understand what was going on in this video 😐 and I was so excited because I was thinking about why my colors suck. For some reason, I understand the basic principles of color theory (value, saturation, color wheel placement), but when I sit down to color I hate what I see. No idea if I have an aversion to colors or what, but things end up looking like a mess. This could also be the reason why I prefer making manga style comics because there's no color. However, I still enjoy coloring but I don't know why it doesn't look right 😔
Colors are hard and it really takes time to understand them, I still don't really understand them. They also tend to look like crap until you're done. It's weird. Just stick with it, you got this.
I don’t have any formal art schooling either, so I understand all well that color theory let alone colors in general is so mind numbingly hard. I’m currently doing the flats on a Batman comic that someone did the pencils for and for the first time I’m doing well and that’s only because I have an exact idea, no matter how fuzzy, of what I want the general colors and feeling I want to portray using them to be. Try picking 1 or two colors you want to show most on the page or scene and work around that. They say “limitation is the mother of all creativity” and I find that to be true, so narrowing down your colors and giving yourself in a sort of mental box can help free up your mind. I’m probably sticking my nose in and giving unwanted advice at this point but I hope this helps. And Walter is completely right colors take time to get used to, just keep working that part of your brain and you’ll work it out.
@@brodenmckinney8168 Your advice is helpful and I thank you for it truly; I was going to try testing out color palettes, but the more tutorials I see about how to choose colors the less inspiring it gets me. It sounds very precise; I'm a simple individual and like unsaturated colors. I'm not trying to draw/color realistic characters...they're just...simple if you follow me. It's the same feeling I have if I made a color comic; how would I know what colors to lay down? Should I color the character first, but what if the BG colors clash? What if the character gets lost? I started out just writing stories; drawing everything is new, but I enjoy it very much. I love bringing my stories to life; I just don't understand this part.
@@Sammy_47 I understand completely. It is a lot of effort and playing around. I like the more muted colors too but just so you know and this is coming from Alex Sinclair one of the top colorist in the comic industry, and that’s to stay on the upper half of the color graph. If you go on the lower half where it gets darker it will be more muddy in print and you won’t get the same look you want. Also don’t have any lights behind you while you color, if you can help it. And always have your screen lighting somewhere between 50% and 20% since the brightness of the screen can give you false colors. I’m pretty simple too so I get it. Limiting your color palette will help you immensely. Oh, and to help with the contrasting problem of your characters and backgrounds. Decide on an over all feeling you want to portray, I mean the temperature of the page/panel. A cool white is a bland feeling and an intense red I a feeling of danger. So tying together what colors give off what feelings can help you with picking colors. I found the panel with Alex Sinclair on Wacom comic week, last year, to be extremely helpful with this. You can find it on UA-cam I’ve watched it several times and since he’s one of the industry’s leading colorists I’m sure it will be helpful. He goes over an example of him picking out the colors and over all feel for the page in the video. The panel is like an hour long but it’s a good watch if you have the time to pay attention to it.
I learned to choose the colors for my comic with this alternate method: ua-cam.com/video/9kQllLy_X4I/v-deo.html It's similar because both methods are based on a "main color", but this one gives a tip to create a palette you can pick colors from without having to guess a color that fits. I highly recommend it too!
Okay, I might need to watch this again😅 After doing this process for one page or slice (webtoon), how do you use the sliders to get the same colors for the next page (or slice) so that the final colors are consistent throughout the story?
Oh yeah. So once I get the colors right for a scene I just open both pages. New and old. Then i use paint bucket to pick colors from old page and fill in the parts on the new page.
@@walterostlie Do you start new with every different comic you make, or do you carry over between them? do you make sure the characters always have the same base colour? Hope my question makes sense, i am having trouble navigating colour, great video!
Walter is really out here pointing out my problems and giving me solutions before I even realize I needed them. 🥺
same girl
I had the same epiphany:
"Oh... this is actually a lot less time consuming but... oh ... he explained how to avoid my assumed future problem as well"
Don’t worry, I struggle with continuous pickles too
"...so if you're colourblind this might not work perfectly for you" :'(
As a completely clueless person who has never taken any art education, colour scheme and the concept was completely alien to me
the way you explained just opened so many new options and ideas for me.
I always had difficulty understanding what colour to choose for shading
you really helped me with this video
thankyou so much
"Continuous Pickle" sounds like a good band name 😆 Super informative video! It's also really cool to see how many features are shared with Photoshop. Thanks for the helpful content!
For selecting colors I find it helpful to select a color for each thing I want and I make a swatch that I put at the top of the page on a separate layer called swatches. That way I have consistency. It also helps me see what the over all color harmony will be.
this 11 min video has single-handedly set me on new paths. My process was feeling slow and messy and out of order, and this gives me a clear road map. It also taught me a fair bit that I didn't know about streamlining the process for a comic, as opposed to more loose digital paintings and illustrations- the only thing I knew how to do lol.
I use alot of the same concepts, but you've shown me a couple little wrinkles that will help for sure!!
I've been using a variation of this method for my panels for the last few months. Got the idea from painting with opaque mediums (acrylics, oils, etc), where I use a base colour to set the tone of the painting and gradually build from there. Relied more on brushes and layer modes rather than selection tools and hue/saturation sliders. Gotta give this one a try!
Nice, Thanks for this advice! I always struggle with choosing colors for my backgrounds that feel cohesive, can’t wait to try this method out!!
Wait- this is exactly what i needed!!! For real!!! I always have trouble finding colors that looks good together!!
Also Mad respect for Walter for making super helpful videos, while making a webtoon and also working a FULL TIME JOB!!! 👏👏👏🙇
Wow I was about to start coloring my comic and this video came up at the perfect timing. I was having trouble figuring out how to color depending the time of day and I learned a lot! Your videos have really helped me out a lot!
*Screams in monochrome webtoon creator*
I had no idea I could select every instance of a color.......like..what? That's a big brain move for sure.
I'm currently trying to figure out a whole new color pallet for my series going foward. I like the current one, but I think it's too "vibrate" for the genre my webtoon is in. This video came right on time!
yeah its better just using I base color, and use hue and saturation to add color and shadow. great idea! faster too!
Finally a quick, intuitive, no-BS method to figure out colors quickly which is something I've always struggled with (even as an arts graduate). Turns out I already did most of these -setting a base color, fiddle around with HSV levels, etc- but not exactly in the way you do here. And the intersect lasso option on Clip Studio knocked my socks off - eager to try your method on some pages I need to deliver soon. Thanks for sharing ☺
Awesome techniques. Thank you! :D
It's nuts how simple you made this. Thanks so much, man!
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The coolest of beans good sir.
Thank you
No thank you
Thank you for sharing Walter! 🥰
I really enjoy the topics of your videos.
Even though I don’t think of writing and drawing webtoons any soon. It interests me and I am researching about the topic for a few days now. I just discovered your channel and I am surprised how you weren’t one of the first people to show up when searched how to draw/write webtoons. After watching this video I was going to subscribe to your channel but then I realise I have already subscribed unconsciouly lol. Anyways great work
dayyyuuum your a good teacher, super useful and quick video!
Thank you Walter!
Thank you for tutorial
Good video as always.I like how you go about your tutorials in a less technical way than most others do (the perspective one, too) :)
What a cool approachable video! I wish my comic was just magically flatted on it's own like having several gremlins who flatted my pages while I slept.
Thank you!! Needed advice on this!
This video is so helpful ❤️
wow I use very similar methods for making my webcomic
thank you for this, Walter. 🥰
this is great, I'm never happy with my colors, this might be the answer to my problems.
Also would you consider making ClipStudio tutorials as well? because a lot of people (including me) use ClipStudio like cave people! there aren't many good tutorials for it on youtube and most of them are very basic
Thanks for u ,this Vidio really help to me for learning 👍
Search ofenquick mask on clip studio. Its shwo what selection you make. You can use fill tool as well
This will save me so much time hhhh thank youu
:0 I never thought about using hue shift for shadows, I always stick to the lasso fill tool in csp lol
Important Information 2:30
I didn't understand what was going on in this video 😐 and I was so excited because I was thinking about why my colors suck.
For some reason, I understand the basic principles of color theory (value, saturation, color wheel placement), but when I sit down to color I hate what I see. No idea if I have an aversion to colors or what, but things end up looking like a mess. This could also be the reason why I prefer making manga style comics because there's no color.
However, I still enjoy coloring but I don't know why it doesn't look right 😔
Colors are hard and it really takes time to understand them, I still don't really understand them. They also tend to look like crap until you're done. It's weird. Just stick with it, you got this.
@@walterostlie I'll try, but it gets discouraging. Makes me feel dumb that I can't get it 😕
I don’t have any formal art schooling either, so I understand all well that color theory let alone colors in general is so mind numbingly hard. I’m currently doing the flats on a Batman comic that someone did the pencils for and for the first time I’m doing well and that’s only because I have an exact idea, no matter how fuzzy, of what I want the general colors and feeling I want to portray using them to be. Try picking 1 or two colors you want to show most on the page or scene and work around that. They say “limitation is the mother of all creativity” and I find that to be true, so narrowing down your colors and giving yourself in a sort of mental box can help free up your mind. I’m probably sticking my nose in and giving unwanted advice at this point but I hope this helps. And Walter is completely right colors take time to get used to, just keep working that part of your brain and you’ll work it out.
@@brodenmckinney8168 Your advice is helpful and I thank you for it truly; I was going to try testing out color palettes, but the more tutorials I see about how to choose colors the less inspiring it gets me. It sounds very precise; I'm a simple individual and like unsaturated colors. I'm not trying to draw/color realistic characters...they're just...simple if you follow me.
It's the same feeling I have if I made a color comic; how would I know what colors to lay down? Should I color the character first, but what if the BG colors clash? What if the character gets lost? I started out just writing stories; drawing everything is new, but I enjoy it very much. I love bringing my stories to life; I just don't understand this part.
@@Sammy_47 I understand completely. It is a lot of effort and playing around. I like the more muted colors too but just so you know and this is coming from Alex Sinclair one of the top colorist in the comic industry, and that’s to stay on the upper half of the color graph. If you go on the lower half where it gets darker it will be more muddy in print and you won’t get the same look you want. Also don’t have any lights behind you while you color, if you can help it. And always have your screen lighting somewhere between 50% and 20% since the brightness of the screen can give you false colors. I’m pretty simple too so I get it. Limiting your color palette will help you immensely. Oh, and to help with the contrasting problem of your characters and backgrounds. Decide on an over all feeling you want to portray, I mean the temperature of the page/panel. A cool white is a bland feeling and an intense red I a feeling of danger. So tying together what colors give off what feelings can help you with picking colors. I found the panel with Alex Sinclair on Wacom comic week, last year, to be extremely helpful with this. You can find it on UA-cam I’ve watched it several times and since he’s one of the industry’s leading colorists I’m sure it will be helpful. He goes over an example of him picking out the colors and over all feel for the page in the video. The panel is like an hour long but it’s a good watch if you have the time to pay attention to it.
Good method
Yes continuous pickles
I learned to choose the colors for my comic with this alternate method: ua-cam.com/video/9kQllLy_X4I/v-deo.html
It's similar because both methods are based on a "main color", but this one gives a tip to create a palette you can pick colors from without having to guess a color that fits. I highly recommend it too!
Okay, I might need to watch this again😅 After doing this process for one page or slice (webtoon), how do you use the sliders to get the same colors for the next page (or slice) so that the final colors are consistent throughout the story?
Oh yeah. So once I get the colors right for a scene I just open both pages. New and old. Then i use paint bucket to pick colors from old page and fill in the parts on the new page.
@@walterostlie Do you start new with every different comic you make, or do you carry over between them? do you make sure the characters always have the same base colour? Hope my question makes sense, i am having trouble navigating colour, great video!
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