How to color your drawings - (Anime Cel-Shading method)
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This video demonstrates a five-step cell shading coloring technique used by Japanese artists to color anime drawings, starting from line art and base colors to shadows, highlights, gradients, and line art coloring.
From the video
Answers: How do Japanese artists color anime using cell shading?
- Cell shading
- Anime coloring technique
- Digital art
- Clipping masks
- Photoshop
What it concludes
- Base colors should stay within the brightest 20 percent of colors on the color wheel.
- Shadows should be around 20 to 30 percent darker than base colors.
- Clipping masks limit the painted area to the first normal layer underneath.
- Color gradients can be added to break up flat colors and create contrast.
- Line art color can be adjusted to match nearby colors instead of staying pure black.
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