CG COLORING TUTORIAL

Procreate Painter 7

Now is your turn to learn how to color with this amazing coloring software. I recently discovered it, so I may not know all this program's capacity, but I will teach you how to do basic coloring with a realistic touch. This program allows many different types of brush effects, going from the basic soft brush to the watercolor and bristle brushes. Is a whole lot of fun coloring with Painter! XD

To begin with, you will obviously need a finished drawing and then proceed to scan it. It can be just a very clean sketch or a more sophisticated inked drawing. But in this tutorial, I will use a sketch, then proceed to ink it directly in Painter 7. You can also do this, but it takes a little more time and precision.

YOU NEED:
- Procreate Painter 7
- Scanned drawing
- A digital tablet, a must! I recommend Wacom.

First, a little introduction to Painter 7. In the pic below you will see the most important windows you will be using most of the time. I had to make the image a little bit smaller, but I guess you can see all the tools and options these windows have ^_^

1. Brush Controls
GENERAL. Very important window, since you will control your brushes here and how they may respond when you apply them. You can change the dab type, stroke type, method, subcategory, source, opacity and grain, depending on what type of brush you choose.

SIZE. Another part of the Brush controls window is the size section. You will be able to change the size of the brush/pen/pencil/airbrush here. It also allows other minimum adjustments like the Min Size, Size step and Feature (texture) controls. If you scroll down the window you will find more options for the brushes, but believe me, knowing these basics you will have enough ^_^

2. Objects
LAYERS. Also a really important window, because here is where you decide how many layers your drawing will have and how you will use each one of them. Is pretty much like Photoshop, but don't get fooled, Painter's layers are way more complicated ^_^. But you still have those little options that make it look 'photoshopesc', like the Preserve Transparency option and the many layer modes and opacity control.

3. Tools
This window isn't actually very useful, because you will only use in the strangest ocassions all of them. Your main tools will be the Brush, Zoom, Eyedropper and Hand. Not much to say about the others, since I think Photoshop has better tools to make more complicated editions to the drawing.

4. Brushes
Now this is a super important window. Here is where you choose the type of brush you want to use to color, ink or erase. Painter lets you have 5 brush choices when the window is minimized, but when you maximize it, you will find 17 different types of brushes, each one of them with their own sub-brushes and properties. Sounds complicated, but this program has a lot to offer when you get tired of the usual soft and hard brushes.

5. Art Materials
COLORS. The color picker! As you can see in the pic, Painter uses this chromatic circle instead of the usual palette dividing the colors. You may think this is difficult to use, but in fact is better than the palette, because you get to chose your color more freely. You can see below Colors are other options, like Papers, Gradients, etc, which you may find useful later.

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