#misc asks

I've got a question on how you color the comic pages. It must be tedious to color each turtle and background, and more time might be spent thinking what color to use, so a full-color comic like HTB is incredible.

I sometimes struggle in coloring lineart with gaps :"D Fill buckets sometimes leave tacky unfilled areas, so I wonder how you color your comic arts?

Thank you and have a nice day!!

(Here is a pretty old draft that I never got posted. This is like... maybe a part 1 of 3 answers about colour. This one is just about Flats. Reminder i am not a teacher or a tutorial guy, just a person who makes art.)

Alrighty here we go. I have prepared probably way too long of an answer to this one. Once again, I use ClipStudio, this is based on that program, but other programs probably have similar tools.

To start a quick overview.

Flats

There are lots of ways to do this and many that are easier or more efficient, but these are just the methods that I use frequently with this comic. There are multiple because I change it up depending on my mood and how much time I have.

Method 0 - Fill Tool

The fill tool is great if you have art with smooth lines and no gaps. I do not! But here is a tutorial for fill tool anyway < youtube tutorial by someone else! yay! > and < another one >

The Select Tool (also known as the Magic Wand) is super efficient, but it becomes a waste of time if you have to constantly go in and fix things because your lineart is swiss cheese. I just fix the missing sections quickly with the lasso tool.

Check out < this youtube video > and < This One > if you want better tutorials on these methods/tools.

Bless the person who made this eraser fr. Here is the link to download it > https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1800143 < the creator has an extremely detailed and comprehensive guide.

it's simple, it's easy, it's free: just filling it in by hand

Flat Colours

My illustrations get a lot more layers and brushwork, but comics require more efficiency and speed. I keep the colouring pretty basic; usually just a Multiply layer for shadows and an Overlay for the lights.

Backgrounds still follow this, but with more gradients and brushwork.

Anyway, super long post is done! The answer to how I colour my comics is "Make Flats! Clip or Mask layers to the Flats! Add Flat Colours! Add Shadows/Light! Make adjustments! Done!"

Hope this helps!

The lighting is so good! You can really feel the warm-colored-stagelights-in-a-dim-bar kinda vibe, and the atmosphere in the other drawings that doesn't take place in the bar is also super on point! :>

anyways yeah love your art bye :>

THANK YOU SM <33 I love sinner's bar a lot !! I'm so happy you like the colors too 🥹

heres a little drawing of that evil bird for you because... i love when hes the antagonist hes such a freak

✦ Which one of the LIs would wear a maid outfit for us and how hard would it be to convince them?

✦ Would easily be convinced:

Xal

Gael

Ara

✦ Needs a bit of convincing

Raeya

Father Pride

✦ Needs A LOT of convincing

Amon (he just thinks he won't look good in it and needs a lot of reassurance)

Envy

Lázaro

✦ You better hit him unconscious with a bat, put the maid outfit on him and tie him to a chair after:

Hm, I don't think there's really any top quite like Lan Wangji, but here's a list of stories I know that come close, with the caveat that most of these don't have explicit sex, so the top isn't necessarily always clear:

Little Mushroom (danmei)

This Damned Thirst for Survival (danmei)

The Beauty's Blade (baihe)

She is the Protagonist (baihe)

What’s Wrong With a Snake That Just Wants to Cultivate and Transform? (baihe)

Mistakenly Saving the Villain (danmei)

The Villain Has Something to Say (danmei)

Transmigrating Into The Heartthrob's Cannon Fodder Childhood Friend (danmei)

Copper Coins (danmei)

First-Class Lawyer (danmei)

Unseen Immortal of Three Hundred Years (danmei)

The Dragon (baihe)

-🎃🐈‍⬛

Thank you for reading it!

Being the headliners, the 1st gumi crew have the strongest stories, but I think Jirou's and Hifumi's are exceptionally well done as well. Juushi is also an interesting case in that he arrives to main canon with a completed character arc, so most of his subsequent story fulfills two purposes: assisting in telling Kuukou and Hitoya's stories, and rewarding the reader with cathartic moments/celebrations of Juushi's growth as a character a la an epilogue.

#524.