1) Aquire ye lineart.

I made this one for the sake of this tutorial. It sux, but it'll work.

2) Open up the layers dialouge (dialouges>layers). Duplicate your layer and fill the bottom one with white. Then, set the layer blending mode to multiply.


3) Create a transparent layer inbetween the two layers already existing.

4) Use the ink tool to fill in a section with a color of your choice. Only do this for one section.


5) Create a new layer and place it either over or under the layer (To help keep the colors from overlapping). Use it to ink another section of the image. Repeat this untill your entire image is colored. Remember to use a nev layer for every section.


6)Now comes the shading. Select a single layer of the image and go to "layer>transparency>color to alpha".

7)Now, take the image tool and select the airbrush tool. For tablets, set pressure sensitivity to opacity and size. Create a new image and then brush with both white and black untill you have some basic, rough shading.


Go to edit>select>none so that nothing is selected. Then go to filters>blur>gaussian blur and blur to what ever radius seems clean.

9)Click on "Layer>transparency>Color to alpha" again. Then press ctrl+I or "select>invert". Then press ctrl+K or "edit>clear".

10)Do this with the other parts. Merge layers to make it easier. With faces, I tend to just do the hair and the face seperately.


11) You're really done, but you can fool around with your pick or add a background as shown below.








That's the basics, but the bluring/airbrushing method isn't the only way to shade. You can use gradients, transparent flat colors, or the dodge and burn tool.


gradients:


transparent flat colors:

dodge and burn:

and



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Whoa, nice tut Will be useful to me

Cool thank you for sharing

i will do this tomorrow, thanks been loooking for a tut like this

This was really helpful thanks alot.

Thank you, I'll have to try that once I hook up my scanner. whenever I tried coloring linearts in the past they came out badly.

AWESOME! if only i could draw with a paintbrush... :s:

Great tut. BTW you don't have to draw with a paintbrush, an easy alternative is drawing with a path and then stroking the path.

You can also use the lasso/free select tool. It works great. You just drag and drop the color you want into the selected area.


What I did was take a fanart I drew made a new trasparent layer. Then I took the path tool and proceeded to outline the work stoking the path as I went. Then I took the new layer copied it (or cut it your choice) And pasted it on a new image filled with white. From there I proceeded to select regions with the color lasso/free select and dropped color into it. I'm very new to gimp and I'm not a very good artist. However here is the original fanart. The lineart. And the colored image. (note I'm not fully done with it as I haven't done shading at all)
Also sorry that I suck at explaining things




Original fanart done by me

Line art done by me

Current


anywho nice tutorial ^_^

whoaaa! that's weird lol

I can't see the images on your post o.o

Illustration must be replaced.
In the while the tut is hosted on this board