I would like to paint this way from grayscale artwork.

[simonabela27]

Hello,
I'm fan of this kind of artwork (Kinu Nishimura)
I try to understand how do paint in the same way.
I think she starts by do some texture to her cleaned artwork using only gray.
Then I think she apply some filter / adjustment to every area (in another layer) to give the colors to the objects.

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I've try to do the color change to her arm after changing it to grayscale.
Then I used a layer in multiply mode then paint with skin color on it.
Final part was hue/saturation editing.

I don't like my version.
It seems very flat. Seems to be the same color with daker variations.
The original was so colorful and shiny with dynamic colors.

Any idea how to have this kind of effect?
I'm pretty sure there is gray texture then color changes, but how??

thanks in advance.

 

[Hoogle]

HI simonabela27I am Sorry I think I have messed up your post could you possibly reupload your image.

I am sorry for any inconvenience as I have appeared to have deleted it by mistake.

 

[simonabela27]

I've re-uploaded it.
I hope someone can understand my request.

 

[Hoogle]

we have some threads that I cant seem to find at the moment based on colouring in black and white photos however it is not quite the same as you want. Artistic side to photoshop is not my strong point. However there are plenty of manga painting tutorials out there. There is even a whole plugin for photoshop called manga studio I believe that makes it easier for manga style art.

 

[Paul]

This may help you along the way MATE

 

[webwize]

Thats a fab site Paul - loads of helpful stuff in there

 

[Paul]

Yeah i love it, i actually like the Manga styled images that site is full of really nice tips, glad you like it.

 

[simonabela27]

Thanks to both of you.
Paul your link is good, particulary the Digital comics tutorial.
Thanks again.

Most of the coloring tutorial uses some childish coloring way (I hope I'm not offensive)
Kinu Nishimura's way of coloring (see my picture in first post) is simple an also more mature with use of textured brushes.

The thing I would like to understand is :
-Is there a way to colorize a grayscale photography or grayscale artwork without having "boring colors" (see my test of the woman's arm in the picture).
-I'm pretty sure this is some kind of color setting / hue saturation / layer mode.

I'll try to look at photogray coloring tutorial.

 

[webwize]

Try looking at a website called i draw girls .com sounds terrible but the digital art you are looking for is much more this style. They also work in monochromatic tones and then color later. good luck

 

[ibclare]

You might find that using vivid light layer blend option with hue/sat changes will get you closer to the color and intensity that you want. I don't do this kind of coloration but it's a thought.

 

[simonabela27]

@ibclare
Thanks I used now the vivid light and it works greatly.
This is almost what I wanted (dynamic colors, not just one.)
Now the only thing is that my color seems too much colorful.
This is what I have now:



I've tried to use again saturation tool, but when I have the right color, the lighter areas become white. Then I try with luminosity but the skin become almost black.

@webwize
This site awesome.
Too much tutorials!! I just can look all of them.
I'm stuck for hours and hours, lol.:lol:

 

[ibclare]

Oh yes, do I know the feeling. As a kid (YEARS ago) look up something in my encyclopedias. Hours later I might have found waht I went looking for, but I would find many other things to sidetrack me! Tutorials and other stuff like that are the same; you just keep going and going and going!

Well, I don't know what to say about you too vivid color and desat problems, but maybe if you make a selection and do a clipped layer adjustment for those selections only, it won't affect your other colors. Just a thought. If you want, post your psd and give us at PSG a chance to look at it and come up with ideas for you. We're always glad to help. We get help ourselves and it's satisfying to give back

 

[webwize]

I had a play with your PSD and in my opinion I don't think the original artist painted over a complete grayscale version as you are trying to do. It feels more like the darker brush strokes were indeed done to start with and then the whole thing was painted over on a overlay blend mode in the final colours probably at a lower opacity so the darker strokes were still visible.

I love the artwork, good luck in trying to replicate the style

 

[simonabela27]

It feels more like the darker brush strokes were indeed done to start with and then the whole thing was painted over on a overlay blend mode in the final colours probably at a lower opacity so the darker strokes were still visible.
I love the artwork, good luck in trying to replicate the style

Thanks!!
About the colors, I'm pretty OK with this aspect, you can see some effect using light blue strokes in the hair and in the armpit area.
But even by zooming in, I can't see any other addition thant this blue effect.
The golden area don't seems to have been with multiple colors.
I'm frustrated, because it seems easy to do, but I can't understand how!