#might try to clean this up... color it digitally or smth

[thorstday]

low quality pic of the small doodle i made for @bugborgweek

day 5: protect

a basic "nebula WILL fight you if you even think about harming her gf"

[upperranktwo]

hi!! my love ilysm- ive been a ghost follower for so long lmao :( but i was wondering how you do manga colorings? like whats ur process of getting a digital picture to color?? asking bc i might want to do smth like that 🥺🥺 love u bye

Hiya!!! My process takes me forever but it's the one that I find works with me the most! I'll do this under a cut because I'll include some images <333 one thing I can say if you do start doing them is just experiment have fun!!!!

Firstly I use Paint Tool Sai to do my colourings <3 when I want to find an image I might type up something like (character name) manga panels, or I'll look on the image section of their wiki. If I have my manga near me then I'll look through and then when I find something I like I'll type up (series name) (chapter) and then look until I find the image I want! Then I save the image and open it up in Sai and then resize it (my sizing is so inconsistent so it changes almost every image....)

Here we have a picture of Douma that I did in Jan! after I've put the image in I'll lower the opacity of it down to around 30%

Then I reline everything! To me it personally makes things look a little more clean and just easier to work with when it comes to actually colouring! Any messy areas I'll clean up when I zoom in after I've added colours!

Then I add my flat colours! I don't always stick to the canon colours for a character, for example Douma's nails are more of a purple colour but I like to colour them black. And he also has some gold to his colour scheme but I changed it to silver since it matches his hair a lot more!

After that I colour the line art. To do this I just lock the layer (so for example if I'm doing the hair I'll find my hair layer and then click preserve opacity and then go over it with the colour I want!) It's during this stage I'm really able to find any line art errors!

Then I like to shade and add any details! I like doing cell shading because it's just easier personally! and I put it anywhere I think it might go! I'm not an artist so I really just guess this part! I like doing stars in the hair and I like to (try) and make things look a little sparkly

Then I add a background and then put an overlay on the top of all the layers. I normally go for a red overlay but I'll sometimes do purple or blue depending on character and vibe I want. Then I add my URL on the top and then save it!!!

Hopefully that was easy to understand!!! I'm thinking of changing my style ever so slightly but this is how I do thing every single time! It takes me a while (like a few hours in total) but that's also because I get distracted easy lol!!! I hope you do delve into manga colouring! I enjoy it so much! I might not be the greatest but I create for myself and I try my best to have fun and that's what matters <3