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Hermit-a-day May

Day 12 - Friends of Hermitcraft Lizzie <3

someone asked how to colour a traditional sketch digitally so I'll explain that down below ^ ^

no really much of a tutorial, anyways

I take a picture of my sketch (a scan is actually better because then you don't have to do the next step)

then I edit it so that I get high contrast with the colours, when I got a pencil sketch I simply make it black-and-white and try to get the white as bright as possible without losing my lines

after that I Import it into my drawing app, with ibis you got the option to extract lines so I usually do that but it doesn't always gives you a satisfactory result

if extracting lines doesn't work/isn't an option simply put the layer of your drawing into multiply and keep it above your colour layers

one thing to keep in mind is that if you don't have a pure white where the empty paper is, which is most likely always the case, you always gonna have your colours a bit more muted than you what you actually are putting down

so maybe this little tutorial is of any use, hope I could teach some ppl something new :D