I need tips from digital artists

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2007-06-01 10:37pm

I've recently picked up my WACOM's stylus and decided I needed to learn how to do digital art. My problem is that when I add color, I lose the lines. And considering the fact that I'm not using line art, I can't use Overlay or a similar function to make them show throught. Here's the example. It's not great, but it illustrates my problem.

So, any advice on how to make the lines pop?

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2007-06-01 10:42pm

Draw your lines on the topmost layer and set the layer mode to "Multiply".

Paint on the layer(s) underneath and peace shall reign on earth.

Edited for sucky sentence construction

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2007-06-01 11:07pm

The Multiply layer is your friend. Change the opacity as detail increases.

Alternatively, you can just paint on the same layer as your lineart. I do that a lot nowdays.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2007-06-02 12:01am

I actually did something like that. I did the basic body sketch as the base layer and then added a new layer for each portion of detail, like hood, mask shirt, etc. Problem is, they're all really sketchy.