GRAYSCALE TO COLOR 🗝 My secret technique 🤫

Summary by Krater

The creator demonstrates a fast and efficient method for coloring black-and-white digital drawings in Photoshop using gradient maps. By breaking down the illustration into flat color selections and applying custom gradient maps to value ranges, artists can quickly color-block and refine character illustrations.

From the video

Answers: How do you color a black and white drawing in Photoshop using gradient maps?

• gradient maps in Photoshop
• digital drawing coloring technique
• black and white to color workflow
• flat color layer setup
• color theory for digital art

What it concludes

• Gradient maps provide a significantly faster workflow for coloring black and white digital drawings compared to other methods.
• Using gradient maps makes it much harder to fail or mess up your coloring.
• Breaking down your illustration into flat color selections allows you to apply gradient maps to specific character areas accurately.
• Gradient map coloring is easiest when your underlying black and white drawing uses the full range of values from black to white.