Here is my lesson, and i hope this helps! :3
The Basics of Easy Colouring:
◆ To start out, this is my average blank canvas(I usually set it up in this format, but do it in which ever way works best for you.)
◆ Now its time to set your layers. When i started drawing on CS, i completly neglected the layers box, but now its like my best friend :D In this picture, the layers box is on the bottom right hand corner. You can put any kind of layers you want, but i use, and i highly suggest if drawing a simple picture putting at least, Background, Coloring, and Lines layers. You can add a new layer by pressing the + button on the button left hand corner of the layers box.
Shading and Highlighting boxes are optional, but when doing basic layers, they have to be in this order.
Lines
Coloring
Background
If you put the background or coloring layer above the lines, the lines will dissapear.
◆ Now select a color for your background. Choose your color, and click on the layer labeled 'Background', or the one you want to be your background layer, and lay the color evenly over the page, even if you want the background to be white, re-coat the background layer in white. I have used grey for an easy example. Make sure your on the background layer,
◆ Now draw your lines! But this time, make sure your on the 'Lines' layer, not anything else. (Please note i drew these lines very sloppily in about 30 seconds, so their not the best :P)
◆ Now you can pick a color, and making sure to switch over to the color section, pick a color for your base and begin to color inside the lines. For show, i have messed up, but look, even though my color is not inside the lines, it did not mess up the lines at all, it seems to be going under them?! Why is that? Its because of the layers! Remember how we put the color layer, under the lines layer, well now anything we draw in the 'color' layer, will go under the lines! so no more redrawing those lines every time!
◆ I colored the rest of it in(sloppily again for show). But now i want to introduce you to my saviour, the 'Lock Alpha' button. Oh lock alpha how you help me so!!! No more redrawing the color every time you dont like the color you've chosen! Just click onto your color layer, and click the lock alpha button.(more explained below)
◆ Now, with the Lock ALpha butotn clicked, when you color in the coloring layer, it ONLY colors on previously colored sections! So i can add stripes to my wolf, and it will stay inside what i have colored!! It may look like it went outside of the coloring,. but thats only because i originally colored it sloppily :) So unlike me, when you color it, color neatly, and then lock alpha and you can change color and do what ever you would like!
I do hope this helped you! I can answer any questions about this, and i may make more Oekaki tutorials soon! Please let me know if this helped you, so i know if i should keep making more! Reccomend tutorials below. Thanks and again, hope i could help! :P
BEGONE paint bucket that never seems to fully fill my pictures. BEGONE long periods of time spent laboring over redrawing lines i missed up while coloring. :D
