

That’s the “Lock Transparent Pixels” tool Then, just above the list of layers, click on the button that looks like a checkerboard pattern with a lock in front of it. The colors you’re about to lay down will happen on the original lineart.īe sure you have the lineart layer selected that you want to color in. This is a simpler version of the above, but it also works on the same layer. Now you’ll be wanting to hold those lines, too. I didn’t do it here so I didn’t distract from the tutorial, but I have used brighter and darker colors in the hold to help approximate the lighting situation.īonus Exercise: After you hold the hair, the black lines around the face are going to stick out. It’ll paint over ANY marks made on the layer directly below it.Įxtra tip: You can use more than one color on your hold. If you also colored stuff inside the lines on that same layer, your “Holds” layer will paint over those colors, too. Warning: It’s important that you isolate your line work in its own layer for this to work. If you turn off the Clip At Layer Below button, you can see all the lines you made that the “Clip” button hid away on you. The lines you’re making are still happening, but unless they appear over the marks on the previous layer, you won’t see them. Now you can color in your lines and not worry about about those new colors landing anywhere else. In this case, it’ll only draw over the linework. What does that do? It makes it so that this layer will only draw on things that are on the layer below it, basically. If you hold your cursor over it, the tool tip will show you “Clip At Layer Below.” So long as your new layer is selected, click the little icon at the top that looks like two foreshortened circles on top of each other. Click on the text in there and type your new name. For later sanity’s sake, you might want to give that layer a name now before we get ahead of ourselves. That’ll create a new layer just above the inks. With this method, you’ll be able to change the line art to all the colors you can imagine.Ĭlick on your inks layer where the black lines you want to knock out reside.Ĭlick the NEW Layer button, or make a claw shape with your right hand and mash down on SHIFT-CMD-N. The first tool is called “Clip At Layer Below.” It’s a mouthful, but it’s very handy. Clip Studio Paint has three tools that can help you automate this process. You could zoom way far into your line and pick a very small brush and painstakingly fill in the black areas with a new color of your choice.īut that would be silly. How do they get the black lines to be in color? Do they use different colored pens to ink the lines? You’ve seen this in action since Disney movies thirty years ago. Basically, you want the easiest way to color in the black lines so they look like another color other than the black you originally drew them with.

What you want to do here is change the lineart color.
