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My first tutorial! I’ve gotten a lot of requests to explain how I approach coloring the long form comics I’ve done, so I figured this would help explain some things. I do this process entirely in Procreate, but this can really be done in any art program.

One thing about this process is it’s largely flexible based on how much time and effort you want to put into your comic. I’ll often reserve my energy for the most important pages, and keep ‘incidental’ pages simpler, often only applying the gradient map and highlight layer. You can also go further in detail than shown in this tutorial. Maybe you want another shadow layer for deeper darks, or maybe you want to apply a bit of local color to everything- it’s all up to how YOU want to work!