All language subtitles for 3. Flat Colors

Alright, now we're ready to fill the

base colors for our panel.

What I'll do first of all is I'll

select all the line art layers and drag

them towards the folder icon to put

them inside one folder.

Or I can also go to Layer, Create

Folder and Insert Layer.

Or I can also do that by right-clicking

and selecting Create Folder and Insert Layer.

this way all of my line art is inside

one group so to quickly fill in the

base colors I'm gonna hit this button

over here set as reference layer for

the whole group a reference layer is

basically the layer that my tools will

refer to when I use them.

Now I'll create a new layer and go to

the fill tool.

There's this amazing tool that I

downloaded from the clip studio assets

Which you can find over here.

I'll put the link for you in the class

notes So once you download this tool

choose any color that you want I

usually go for gray color and what I

will do is I will surround the

character To fill its silhouette So

once I did this my whole character is

filled I found this method to be the

easiest in order to separate characters

and know how much space exactly they're

occupying Especially when you have a

background Filling the silhouette of

the character really allows you to fill

in the flat colors with ease, unlike if

you fill them one by one through the

normal bucket tool.

So once you have filled in the

silhouette of your character, you'll

notice that there are some parts that

need to be filled and some parts that

need to be erased.

So let's start by erasing the extra parts.

I'll go for the auto-select tool or

magic wand tool, and you'll find three

subtools over here, But we need to use

this one, refer other layers to select,

so that we can make our selection while

still being on the silhouette layer itself.

So this tool, I kept it on its default

settings except the area scaling, I put

it to 8.

So I'm gonna select this extra part

that I want to delete.

By clicking on it I selected it, and I

can click this button to delete, or hit

the delete button from the keyboard, or

go to edit, delete.

Once I'm done, I'll hit this button to deselect.

And I can also use the eraser to erase

certain parts that I don't want.

Now this part was not selected with the

silhouette, and the reason is that

because there is an opening.

So you can either close the line art

itself, or you can close it with the

brush tool.

I'm gonna use the same crisp webtoon

pen that I told you about earlier.

and I close the gap and now I can go

back to my fill tool and select it once

more and now it's filled.

When zooming in I might find some areas

that don't look okay so I'm gonna just

erase those parts and fix what I can

but again don't fret too much about

those small details because most people

are not gonna be able to see them anyway.

So with this we have easily filled the

layer and clip it to the silhouette layer.

When a layer is clipped, basically

anything on that layer will be inside

our base layer.

So for example, this layer is clipped

so it's not crossing the area defined

by my silhouette layer.

But if I remove the clipping, then I

can see the full layer.

So that's why clipping the layer really

helps coloring within the boundaries.

And now start filling in the colors.

I first of all fill in the skin because

it comes beneath everything.

For filling the skin I just use the

crisp webtoon pen to fill them in.

Now I'll create a new clip layer and I

want to color the hair this time so

I'll go back to the same fill tool and

choose the hair color and then now use

the full tool again while selecting

only the hair to color it.

now if we zoom in it did a great job

except that we need to fix some parts

so I'm gonna color this part with the

crisp webtoon pen and I'll use the

magic wand tool to select any areas

that should not be colored to erase

them and now I hit delete if I remove

the line art you can see that the tool

also colored the eyes so I'm just gonna

enable the line art again and erase

whatever can be visible because I don't

care about the rest and also erase

those corners that were caught up

through the tool and fix anything extra

that has been erased.

So I most of the time keep the hair as

the top layer of all the flat color layers.

That's why I'll create a new layer

beneath it and on this layer I'll color

the eyes and the mouth.

I color them both on the layer to make

it easy for me to know where everything

is because it's like a system I follow

for all of the characters.

Usually when I do illustrations I would

rename every layer for example I would

call this layer as hair and then this

layer as face and this layer as skin

but ever since I started drawing

webtoons because there are so many

layers involved in each panel I just

naming them all together and started

following this system so that I can

quickly recognize what my layers are.

Now let's go back to the face layer.

I want to color the teeth and the back

side of the mouth so I'm gonna go back

again to the fill layer but I'll choose

the Prefer Other Layers tool which

comes by default with Eclipse Studio

Paint and I'll choose the color for

example for the back side of the mouth

and I'll fill in to color it.

Now before we talking I just want to

talk a little bit about the fill tool I

also left all the settings as they are

in their default except the area

scaling the area scaling for the fill

tool I put it up to 20 % which is the

maximum value and I put it up to

darkest pixel I don't remember which

one was the default but these are my

settings and I want to show you the

difference if I turn off the area

scaling and fill this area again then

you can see when we zoom in that fill

color did not really color beneath our

line art and that's why there are some

transparent pixels.

Might not look so apparent but

sometimes it can really ruin the

quality of your artwork when you zoom

out or size it down.

That's why enabling area scaling for me

is really important in the fill tools

and made my overall experience of

coloring in Clip Studio Paint much better.

So I'm gonna fill in the mouth and now

you can see that I don't have white or

uncolored pixels.

Now I'll just use my pen to color that

extra part and I'll color the teeth as

well in the same way by filling and

fixing with the pen in case anything

needs fixing.

Now I'll create a new layer beneath the

face and using a white color I'll add

the eye whites or the white part of the

eye Firstly I just draw a circumference

and once that is decided then I go back

to the same fill tool and select it and

fill, select and fill and erase any

extra parts that were colored.

Next I'll color his shirt so I'll

create a new layer and also color the

shirt in the same way and color any

missing parts and erase any extras and

I'll create another layer beneath his

shirt because he has another shirt

underneath with a yellow color so I'll

fill that on another layer I'll go back

to the green shirt layer and use the

refer other layers bucket tool and fill

this part of his shirt but the pendant

of the sword is coming in the way not

allowing me to color this properly so

I'll go back to my reference folder and

I'll disable the sword and disable the

necklace and I'll color it again so now

I could color it easily but as you can

see there are some green parts here

underneath the necklace because it was

also in the reference layer when I

colored the shirt so I can just erase

them even though they're not really

visible but sometimes it's good to

clean everything up.

I forgot this other part of the yellow

shirt and I'll fix the shirt from here.

Finally I'll create a new layer beneath

everything but above the skin and color

the pants and also on the same layer

I'll color the watch.

Now all the flat colors of the

character have been filled but I want

to tell you about this part so it was

very quick for me to fill the base

colors of the or my color set and I

also highly advise you make such a list

for your characters because it will

save you so much time and you don't

have to go back to your character sheet

or other panels to refer to the colors

so the way to do this is usually color

sets come with this preview the

standard color set and are set here

with all the other color windows so

find this color window and drag it for

me I dragged it and put it under the

navigator on this side here for easy

access and if you can't find it

anywhere then go to window color set

anyway so to create a new color set for

yourself click on the wrench icon and

then click on create a new set and call

it anything you like I'll call it

webtoon just for the sake of this

lesson and then click OK So you'll see

that now you have a new color set with

your Dropbox.

The new color set will come by default

with transparent colors.

So all of those are transparent colors.

And by the way, transparent colors are

basically like an eraser, which is also

over here if you see.

I have the foreground color and

background color and I have this

transparent color selected.

So if I have this selected and I use it

on the hair for example, it worked

exactly like an eraser.

So this transparent color is very

convenient because it converts any

brush into an eraser but anyway, so the

new set will come with transparent

colors and to add your colors just

right-click and You can either add

color which will add a new color and

push everything forward you can

right-click the color to delete it or

Instead of adding color you can also

right-click and replace color so that

nothing gets pushed So the way I

constructed my color set is I added for

each character the skin color, the skin

shading color, then the hair color and

the hair shading colors, the hair

highlight colors, then the colors of

the eyes, the colors of the mouth, the

colors of their shirt and so on.

And I put a separator of a transparent

color between each character just to

make it easier to tell apart between

the colors or I can also select the

transparent color and Add more colors

So this way I can Separate my

characters by lines.

So these colors are for one character

and these colors are for another and

add more transparent colors To separate

the other characters and so on.

It's totally up to you to arrange the

colors however you see possible.

By the way there is also one thing I

want to talk about.

Let's say my character had the striped

shirt and I want to draw the stripes on

his shirt without crossing the boundaries.

The easy and simple way to do this is

by going to the shirt layer which is

this one and clicking on this button,

locked transparent pixels.

Now the layer is locked so anything I

draw on top of it will stay inside its boundaries.

It's very similar to how clipped layers

work, except that you can draw on the

layer itself without crossing the boundary.

So this is the quick way to add detail

to your character's clothes.

Lastly I want to talk about group panels.

If you have multiple characters in one

panel, then you can separate their

silhouettes, each on their own, but to

be honest I found that that takes more

time to fill the flat colors.

So what I started doing is, I fill all

the character's silhouettes on one

layer, and then color their skins on

one layer and color all the other

details as much as possible on one layer.

I found that this method saves much

more time when it comes to group

panels, so it's a good thing to keep in mind.

So now that we're done filling the base

colors, in the next lesson we'll talk

about coloring the hair and eyes and

how to prepare everything else for

shading the character.