I will have to try this! It definitely has a lot more charm than just changing the blending mode on the lineart layer. Thanks for sharing your technique. :D

If you're like me and hate anything that will add another two hours onto your work -- and since I work very slowly, any embellishments feel like a prison sentence no matter how nice I know it'll look -- it's definitely worth trying. The great thing about this method is that it doesn't require you to actually paint the lineart by hand again, changing the lightness or darkness of your colors as you paint and possibly making it look weird, which was always my problem.


Because this goes from the colors, the darkness and lightness of the final lines evens out along with the other highlights and shadows. It matches and it's less work. I always found that picking one dark color for each bit of the picture and coloring the lines just made them stand out way too much in lighter places. It didn't look right. So any method that is both a time saver and gets the best result is all right by me.

I'm sure I'm not the first to figure it out, but I'm really glad that the idea struck me today.

Thank you for encouraging me to go ahead and share it! <3

Thanks so much for this tutorial. I'll have to try it :3

well of COURSE :D let me know. i want to see if anyone else tries it out.

gonna test on random blobs first XD then the next lined work I do.. whammo :D

the cool thing is that if you have any .psd files laying around with the color and lineart still separate, you can practice with those! :D

>________________> ... sadly, not at the moment T-T

Ah, well XD

Maybe the people in the TV are actually called "Teevee"s.

hopefully it doesn't turn into a Poltergeist situation.