Because I always forget to make a tutorial about Procreate’s Colour Drop feature I’ve literally stopped myself in the middle of a fanart of Macbat64 (super cute game with positive bat representation- if you like bats or N64 style games you should play it) to take screencaps and make this!
Okay so here’s the line art - please be kind to yourself and mind the gaps - Colour Drop works best if there is very little or no gaps in the lines, otherwise the colour leaks all over (there’s a way around this by using the lasso and only Colour Dropping into that lasso’d area but let’s be kind to ourselves and make our art lives a little bit easier)
Just find your line art that you want to colour (I forgot to turn off the Monocle layers for this):
Tap and hold on the layer to open this side bar and select “Reference”. You’ll see Reference under your layer’s name:
From here select another BLANK layer. Under the Line layer will look the best but play around with what works for you:
Grab your colour. If it’s coming from the Reference Image press and hold until the top of the circle is the colour you want (the bottom colour is the current colour):
Hop back to the top right and press and hold the colour blob (this was very tricky to do while screengrabbing):
Now keeping that hold, move the colour blob to where you want to fill with colour. See that blue progress bar in the left? I’ll talk about that in a moment:
Hold the colour on the area and POOF off she goes and fills in the area for you like magic! ColourDrop works by attacking the lines, you can adjust the intensity when you are holding a colour blob by keeping your stylus on the screen and moving it to the right to increase the strength or move it to the left to decrease the strength. You’ll see the “ColorDrop Thesehold” number go up or down accordingly:
Continue working around the art. The layer will look at little funny, well I think it looks funny:
OOOOOOH SPOOPY!!!:
The only real pitfall with using ColourDrop is that it works best if the line art has no gaps, otherwise colour leaks everywhere.
It’s fun and I really like it so I wanted to share the process with those new to Procreate or those getting used to Procreate. I don’t know what other art programs can do this or what it’s called in them…I mostly use Procreate and pen and ink these days 😅
