How to Digitally Color Comics

Pro comic colorist Alex Sinclair shares his digital coloring process and gives you tips on how to make your portfolio. Alex is taking the lineart digitally inked and drawn by Ryan Benjamin in previous episodes link in the description!

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Instructional How to Draw videos for artists. My drawing lessons are approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.


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Publishing - John Birchall, Alex Otis, Ellie Polk

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Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra

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[taraishot]

Colourist and inkers don’t get enough love in the public eye so it’s awesome to see Alex give us his expertise

[whittledraws]

I’m a professional flatter so hearing him talk about how important it is I’m like “haha, I do that”

[jeaf]

He nailed it when he said that alot of great artist decide not to be colorist. I did it for a while and the tight timelines was way to stressful and took the fun out it. If I'm not having fun then I don't want to do it. If I ever started doing colors again it would be just be for covers or pinups.

[RarebitFiends]

Wow, Awesome! He's one of my favorite colorists, he REALLY knows how to focus a page using color. Thank you for posting this, and thank you Alex for taking the time and sharing your knowledge!

[jamespiodos]

I'm a cartoonist and learning from a master is a gold find.

[restoras]

I rewatched this and still don't know how he do it using so few layers! 👏

[benedictusbriaan]

woahh, this really open my eyes how to coloring a comic! i've been little bit struggling with my own style of coloring, but this helped me a lot to see another persepective! thank you, Alex!

[Jayjee]

This is such an incredible video. Really shows how vital colours and colourists are to comics

[aitoralvarez]

This practice example and all the details showed in the process make this video a master class.

[mad_hatt]

Him saying he doesn’t use layers confuses me on a deep level as someone who adds a new layer every two seconds when working digitally😂 but everyone has their own process. It’s cool to see his!

[brianng]

Love his stuff on Instagram. Great to see a "live" coloring process here as well as background to how he got into the business. Beautiful coloring.

[venomtang]

Sinclair is a LEGEND. My favorite superman work has Sinclair colors

[Kobaford]

I just finished watching "Super Techniques for Aspiring Comic Artists" and I didn't expect the Batman pencil sketch to return in another Proko video, let alone one uploaded exactly a year after it was first sketched. Really cool to see it fully coloured

[vandals]

Fantastic episode I want to see more of this

[gauthierguillard]

It's so much cleaner than working with paint and smear yourself all over. It's the next step for me. Thank you for opening my eyes and have a glimpse of the future of painting.

[robinvaauli]

WOW! The information I didn’t know I needed. Thank you

[crystalidk]

that load selection thing just shook my worldview bro

[WifeWantsAWizard]

(1:11) For those of you who were wondering, the first version of Photoshop to have layers was 3.0 in 1994.

[doug]

Thank you for your time in doing this tutorial.
Very interesting.
Very informative.
Very well done.
👍🏼👍🏼

[KayLead]

Im trying to make my own comic books so being able to learn from the not only pros but goats as well at a young age is very helpful,
thanks Proko