FINALLY! I've learned how to easily add color to a grayscale painting!
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- My lovely amigos!
I'm so excited!! :D I've tried to color a black and white sketch before, but haven't quite figured out how to do it properly. I think that I'm finally getting the hang of it. Thanks for the clues, Artgerm!
Hope you enjoy the time lapse, and feel free to ask questions if you have any :)
Thanks for watching!
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Software: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Tool: Wacom Cintiq 13hd
Music:
Mesmerize by Kevin MacLeod licensed under Creative Commons Attributions (creativecommon...)
Source: incompetech.com...
Artist: incompetech.com/
Guys, I have no idea why this video spiked all of a sudden, but THANK YOU for watching!!
hmm jazza or Aaron Blaise got me here :-)
my front page got me here. Saw a gorgeously 3d looking adorable chibi-like tiger, with high contrast and color.
I love this, the tiger is so cute! the way you refined the outlines and details are so good, i love your style
It was in my recommended videos xD
very nice workflow and great art! May I ask which layer mode did you used on 4:50 to adding light? I guess it's color dodge right? anyway thanks a lot :)
Conclusion - Layer setup (blending mode):
L06] Screen (bounce light) - redirected light bouncing from the surrounding
L05] Multiply (shadows)
L04] Overlay (light)
L03] Color layer (colors)
L02] Gradient Map - setting base colors
L01] Grayscale drawing with shading
Thanks! :D
Thank
Did I? hmm which layer was it - I'll edit the main comments then.
one before color layer
thanks lad!
I thought this was a pretty nice digital painting at first, but then I was blown away when you started refining the chest. The hair there, looks so fluffy and believable. Made me think twice about how to do stuff like that.
Braderick Smith That were exactly my thoughts. I've never thought about to just darken an area with a layer and then partly removing it via mask. That's probably the way how big artists do it
Fur brushes?
now i got it the color layer only has the base colors and you use multiply for shadows and overlay for light to add contrast and depth thank you i cant believe no one explained so clearly before.
Thank you for making it simple!
Omg thank you, I didn't understand that too
Thanks! That was helpful!
i know there's no narration or anything but honestly this is one of the best digital painting tutorials on the internet. SUPER easy to follow. thank you so much for this - going to go check out the rest of your channel/website now :p
Holy shit.
Bloody hell it's the real deal
Xabio Arts omgggg
Thank you so much, super glad you liked it!
Ikr
this is where I'm at too... I can draw really well, but still slowly grasping digital painting, and the grayscale method recently has helped a lot.. well done!
I was struggling for ages with Photoshop, trying to add color to an image without losing detail and have the colors be over saturated or under saturated.. After a lot of experimenting I found what works best for me.
1. Make new "Hard Light" layer above the image you're trying to color. (You can rename this layer "Color Layer")
2. In this new color layer's "Blending Options" choose the "Color Overlay" style.
3. After the "Color Overlay" is checked and it's options appear on the right, to go "Blend Modes" and choose "Saturation" and make the color box a pure gray to remove all color.
4. Also under the "Blend Mode" change the "Opacity" to around 40%. I sometimes use 30% as well.
5. If you want the image you're coloring to be more dominate and your colors to be more subtle then you can change the "Hard Light" to "Overlay" or even "Soft Light"
Doing this will let you add color over an image without losing detail and you can control the blown out saturation that "Hard Light" usually causes. I added all these steps into an "Action," so when I press F6 I'll quickly have a new "Add Color" layer.
Hope this is somewhat useful for an alternate way to add color. Love your work, BTW! :)
"Refining some more!" for nearly half the video is a great representation of what a majority of the art process goes to
I love when people include bounce lighting and ambient occlusion in their paintings. Plus you used tone mapping in a way I never seen anyone do! You're really good this, understanding lighting and your tools.
This is one of the most beautiful grayscale to color paintings in timelapse I have ever seen!
You really made it so good even if it is so simple looking video!
Love it
Oh wow thank you so much, this made my day :D
idk why, but the mix of music and the fact that you are drwaing something beatifull bring me to tears.
Thank for the video, and keep doing this, drwaing is love and life :)
THANK YOU. Working in grayscale is so much easier for me, but I haven't had a reliable method of adding color. You're a lifesaver.
I dont think you've realised how long ive been looking for a decent way to add colour to greyscale. Ah thank you for this precious upload.
Not sure how I got here from unreal engine videos, but this was extremely pleasant and satisfying to watch.
Often times these blend modes are misused by amateur artists who perhaps can not paint with real media, but it always shows.
It's really great to see the benefits of these digital tools used well. Truly exemplary work, with finesse.
OK. This is digital painting that appeals to me and your steps seem enough for me to transfer your process onto my working. I look forward to trying it out.
This has to be one of the most amazing art videos out there... It needed no commentary, or anything of the sort. The text at the bottom showed how you turned an already great sketch into a realistic, stunning masterpiece. Also, I really enjoyed the music.
This cured my depression, seriously, I can sense how much love you put in this drawing and I start smiling along with the tiger just by looking at it. Thank you so much!
I like how you captured the tiger's expression - half being surprised, half being fascinated. In my mind I have developed this picture into a scene from an animated movie about a young tiger when he (because the tiger has a name ;)) is seeing snow flakes for the first time. The music also goes well with this scene.
*while watching the video*
STOP. YOU NEED TO STOP, YOURE MIND BLOWING ME WITH EVERY BRUSH STROKE BECAUSE I WASNT ABLE TO BELIEVE IT COULD GET BETTER AND YOU JUST KEPT ON PROVING ME WRONG.
You're art was so good, I literally had to pause half way and stop watching it because my heart couldn't take it anymore. I need to- *walks away* I needa catch my breath, and then come back to it in a year or something. I'm not ready for your awesomeness just yet.
Its a gorgeous piece of art
This was if not the best way of doing a greyscale painting I have ever seen. I've been wanting to try painting but I just never knew where to start. Thank you so much for this I must try it out sometime!!!
I'm amazed at how much depth you added to the flat artwork at first, well done!
Wow I need to use more details like you so awesome
could you imagine an entire short film made up of thousands of frames of just super detailed paintings? like imagine spending hours and hours painting just one out of thousands of frames?
My painting teacher always talks about seeing colour first or seeing greys first. I never understood it because I see colour first so I thought everyone was like me. This is a really interesting video!
I'm amazed by how well your process was explained without talking! The text was to the point and not intrusive, which I applaud you for, that's not an easy thing to do (imo). I really enjoyed the nice music as well, it felt very calming.
I'm looking forward to trying out your technique! I struggle a lot with making my artworks pop, because I'm not to good with values just yet. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos
I'm SOOOOOO excited to try this out! I've tried color over grayscale in the past, but it never worked out for me. I NEVER could find a video that adequately showed the process behind it with a result that wasn't muddy either! Thanks for the video, I will most definitely pick your brain on this matter if I get stuck trying it out!
I learned so much just from this simple video. painting like the way you do has always left me scratching my head. Thanks
Omg I love your art style so much.. It's like there's a bunch of artists out there with ok, fine stuff but your style is simply amaizing, so gentle, happy, kind, you can see like.. the gracefullness and goodness in every work you do!!! Totaly sub!
Absolutely beautiful. That was a joy to watch. So much life in your work!
wow, thanks for sharing your process and adding a short explanation in the beginning.
Really great video... I love your art and your style! Very nice and hope to see more!
Ahhh....another video worthy of my time.
I finally understand what to do now. Thank you!
Some paw prints in the snow would be cute. Fantastic artwork
I have been trying to learn this forever, and always had such a hard time doing it. I use Clip Studio Paint so there is a little communication error but walking through your video helped a ton. For Clip studio Paint, for any that need this, just change the blending mode to overlay when you make a new layer.
Awwww. Big pretty kitty. Hahaha. I liked the way you copied the head, refined it, and then put it back on the main sketch. I wouldn't have thought to do that. That's neat. :)
Very nice artwork!
and thanks for sharing your method of coloring. It seems really helpful, I need to try!
This is super easy to follow! Not saying it's easy to do, it's just that your method is very doable. Thank you so much for this great guide. :)
Just... WOW!!! I'm very impressed, the tiger looks so awesome and alive!
This is such a wonderful piece, both finishes and seeing the step-by-step. Thank you for sharing!
What a beautiful tiger! This was really cool to watch, and very informative!
excellent work. i feel like Aaron Blaise would appreciate this drawing. i especially like the highlights in the corners of the mouth & the bunched fur on the chest :) thank you for posting
Oh I love this!
He looks soooooo fluffy!
You did that realy well and it will be fun to try this workflow out by myself. :)
This is so stunning. And your music choice was great. I'm going to try my hand at adding color this way. I always lose something between the greyscale and color versions.
I found the music kind of sad actually :(
what a gorgeous tiger! I've never done that colour overlay thing before, I'll have to find a tutorial and try it! I've always worked better in greys calendar, myself. probably from my years of graphite sketching. Always had trouble with colour. thanks for the inspiration! :)
I tried coloring from greyscale in the past, ending with an awfull result of saturated colors and didn't quite understood... But, seeing what you did made me think what i did wrong, thank you...
Just this isn't an "easy" way... its very detailed and beautifull... its an incredible art piece...
Felicidades!
I actually tried this, it helped a lot I kind of spread out the time of the piece for days than just for a few hours, but this was a great tutorial!
This was very educational! Thank you for adding what you were doing at the bottom!
this is literally the most helpfull painting video and you didnt even speak. simple and efficant... i love it
Seeing an idea come to life like this is pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing! :)
This video was so peaceful and very informative. It was easy to follow even though there was no voice-over. Been trying to grow my own channel, and I think you've inspired me to try new methods of digital art. Thank you so much.
Hello! I really loved this vídeo. I am working now in learning digital painting. I came from de old school, totally analogical.
Thanks for share. Beatiful work!
that is really amazing. I love the outcome. Great job......
What a cute tiger aahhhhh this makes me feel so warm and happy >__
Excellent drawing of a cute little dog :)
I agree that it's nice!
But that's a Tiger...
lol
Mayachi It's a joke
What the fuck? This is clearly a giraffe...
Lol
Great timelapse video. Great inspiration for my next greyscale coloring :) Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
Loved your video and your art! Thank you so much for sharing.
Wow, my English is to bad to tell you, how much I love your artwork - you did a fantastic job !
Big HUGS and lots of LOVE from Germany !
thanks for you video, help so many people to learn more!! Gob job Noukah!
Beautifully done. 👏👏👏👏👏
so clever and cool to watch!!
So beautiful! So adorable! Now I'madding this to my favourites!
YES I've been trying to figure out how to do this for so long. thank you so much! I can finally stop abandoning my digital paintings at the coloring stage haha
Wonderful piece of art!
Thank you for providing these fantastic techniques, I have definitely learnt a lot from this.
Wow! I see a big difference this makes me want to do that with my timelapses. ^^ Thanks very much for this.
Outstanding work, beautiful painting. I just wish I could see your layers and more about the tools you used.
Thanks for sharing your process. He's gorgeous, by the way.
Sweet!!! Cool process!
you have no idea why the video spiked all of sudden?... this is gorgeous... cannot get enough of this beautiful style.
Looks great Noukah, I doing the same thing for game design and textures, Outline, black, white, grayscale, then i pick my colours ontop of that, the shading becomes alot better than way.
Could you please stop being amazing??!!! you're making the rest of us look bad! ;)
Thanks for sharing!!!
Aww you :D
Thanks for the compliment, glad you appreciated it! :)
I think she used the paint bucket once the lines were all connected.
or she paused the video there,but im agree with the paint bucket :))
take care with paint bucket most of softwares leave a tiny space between
Make sure the 'expansion' isn't at 0
Saw that fur detail and thought "This. This is the style I've wished for."
More wonderful video I've seen over and over again
you showed me how to improve in 8 minutes. it's crazy and thanks, many thanks for help us.
So beautiful, he/she looks so happy :)
Beautiful!!! I wish you'd told more about what layer types you were working on during the "refining more" stage, but this is just awesome!! Very beautiful!
OMG! I just fell in love!!!
Awesome time lapse !
Keep up the great work Noukah !
Thank you, glad you liked it :D
As soon as i saw the thumbnail i thought of Noukah from DA. Really unique and beautiful style.
Wow THAT WAS SENSACIONAL congratulations i love the details
this is Beautiful!!! well done!
Adding shadows with multiply and bounce light really did it!👌
So glad you found that helpful!
the best coloring video ive seen yet
that piano just make it even better to watch :3
I really need to learn how to do this. I've almost always worked in greyscale anyway - graphite, charcoal, conte, etc.
doing this would be epic for my art digitally. Yet right now, I'm just happy my sketches are starting to clean up nicely finally digitally. No more squigglies.
also, I found this via my frontpage. Congrats on going "viral" and I shared it to my pinterest and facebook too, so... :D congrats!
Beautiful! Well done
Wow, I want to draw like that! Amazing!
Nice trick with the gradient map! 👍
Now thats some good art,i loved it,thanks for sharing it❤
Amazing work :) Thanks for sharing.
This is so satisfying to watch come together
Thank you fellow artist. I enjoyed observing your technique.
"how to easily add colour to a greyscale painting"
**outlines every individual hair**
How though? I dont really know i want to try this grescale tschnique
He doesn't outline every hair, he erases some clumps first, then he adds detail.
I'll definitely have to try out this method I like how you can keep going back and continuing refinement.
Great painting! And thank you for the calming music. This video made me calmer and happier.
Very useful tool for painting fur! Thanks!
great work! keep it up! loved all your wonderful pieces of artwork!
This was so calming to watch :)