Line Art (C) Rooen
Coloring & Tutorial (C) me
Medium: Photoshop

This is part one of the coloring tutorial.
Part two can be found here
Final result can be found here

View High Resolution to see everything clearly! ;P As you can see, there are numbers in the corner, indicating the step. Here is some explanation of what I have done:

1.

• Open the line art

• Create a new layer and set it to 'linear burn'
• Roughly paint the area in a flat color with a brush of a hardness of 100% (on the new layer)
• Select the painted area with the magic wand
• Save the selection by right clicking --> save selection --> save as or by menu --> select --> save selection --> save as. You can open the selection by menu --> select --> load selection. This enables you to load your selection any time you want. I do this because it saves a lot of erasing work because of all the edges of the colored area.
• Note: I usually do not use 'save selection', I just used it this time because of the many edges :P
• Note: I have experimented with the coloring in the left top corner, to see if it would work out

  2.

  • Keep the area selected throughout the rest of the tutorial - until your finished with coloring.

  • Keep working on the same layer.
  • Use an opacity sensitive brush (Airbrush Hard Round/Airbrush Pen Opacity Flow) and pick a darker color and start shading.
  • Vary your brush sizes where needed - for example: I used a smaller brush at the bottom.

  3.

  • Pick a darker color and start shading the same brush - the opacity sensitive brush.

  4.

  • Repeat step 3 but use a smaller brush size - otherwise you will overlap too much of the previous shades.

  5.

  • Use a lighter color than the flat color you used in the beginning and start coloring the lighter areas. I used yellow in my drawing.

  • Note: I also colored the eyes yellow.