From Grayscale to Colour

Hey! In this Short video, I'm gonna share with you a tip o how to paint your character from grayscale or black and white to color . Hope you like it and that it is useful for you also.

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My name is Lucas Peinador, I’m a concept artist and illustrator. I am originally from Costa Rica, now living in Slovenia.
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[thaddeusgigachaddeus]

Now if only I could figure out how to shade well

[discountfunnyman]

One of the most painful feelings is adding color to a greyscale and having it still “feel” B&W

[ray-eepb]

This is good advice for coloring/rendering in general. Hue shifting is great! Shadow and highlight colors usually aren’t the same hue as the base color. Usually the light is warm (orangey/yellowish), which makes the shadows cool (blueish). Simple yet hard to spot and so, so effective!

[lucva]

me who's only ever used overlay and add: 🗿

no but srsly where was this video when i needed it most

[boaring_art]

You can also use gradient maps that are available in almost any program and they pretty much work the same you just need to learn to use them

[taki]

„It looks a bit radioactive“ 😂
Thanks for the video, I always struggle with grayscale to color

[Skieeeeeeey]

I always use the other layer effects and ignored the color layer... I never knew it could be this powerful especially on grayscales..

[hiiloveu]

Great advice, now I just gotta learn how to draw

[crazybobby]

Not only this method is more manageable to work with, but very useful when the client would like it with a different color and you can change it with no problem.

Where if you shaded directly with colors and you need to make any big changes, it will be a headache to do so.

[AbbyTomboi]

The rendering looks so perfect wth 👁👄👁

[CrossbredManiac]

Very helpful! Never thought about balancing shadows and lights separately on color layers! You're a life saver, mate!

[runeOO]

oh rad! for the skin for some colored shadow variation i would even add some cool-to-grey tones around em to emphasize the shadows :o

[dissonanceparadiddle]

That's fantastic! I wonder what the clip studio equivalent is.

[deltateamchannel]

This video opened my eyes somehow. Recently I started to struggle with shading method and colouring, I'm still studying as an artist but this very helpful! Now I wish to try a grayscale shading method.

[GamerOut]

Grayscale eyes slide from black to white

[justeliott]

Finally, something for my black and white drawing bum

[Ihartraccoons]

that little paper guy was so cute :>

[sleeplessmorax]

okay i do this coloring method as well and yea its kinda look fine yet it's missing something which i fix by overpaint above the color layer...guess i'll try the adjustments too pretty neat

[TCAoldarchive]

Oh my god!you're really talented!thanks for making this kind of tutorials and content, it's helpful for improving my art style ^^

[anonnymous_ghost]

I've been searching for this video for YEARS!!!