Coloring Lineart – Part 1, Hand Flatting | Illustration Tutorials and Tips for the Traditional and Digital Artist

Coloring Lineart – Part 1, Hand Flatting

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at 1:05 pm by Jamie

In this series, we’ll learn how to color black and white lineart. The first step is to flat your piece. Flatting separates the objects in your composition by color making it easier to select specific areas to color.

The flatting process can be a bit meticulous and slightly boring, but proper flatting is essential for coloring line art. In this first part, we demonstrate how to flat an illustration by hand. Next time, we’ll look at a very helpful plugin that will automate much of this process.

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Filed under: Basics 101, Digital, Photoshop, Tutorial Comment (1) Article tags: color, coloring lineart, flatting, video

One Response to “Coloring Lineart – Part 1, Hand Flatting”

Mikey D
January 20th, 2010 - 1:45 pm

YAY! New Tutorial! One of these days I’m going to sit though these like I did for the one when I drew Peabody!

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