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Line work to coloured image.

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Oct 18, 2024 Oct 18, 2024

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I am new to Fresco and digital art as a whole and I was wondering if there was a technique people use to turn their line work into a coloured/painted image.

 

The example I will use is an image drawn with black lines and then filled in with colour using the fill tool. Now I have a coloured image with black lines separating each section of my drawn image. I want to expand these colours so that instead of having black lines separating sections there will be a clean line where two colours meet on the centreline of the black line work. I have attached 2 images with a rough visual example of what I am trying to achieve, they are taken on iPhone but I usually use Fresco on iPad. I very roughly went over half of the black line in 1 colour using a hard round pixel brush. I then used the colour in the adjacent section to cover the other half of the black line in an attempt to make the 2 colours meet in a clean straight line. As you can see this isn't perfect at all and it takes a lot of work to try to expand each coloured area halfway into each black line. Is there an easier way to achieve what I am setting out to do? Or am I going to have to very carefully go through my entire drawing freehand to make colours meet in a nice clean way? Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

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Oct 18, 2024 Oct 18, 2024

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Hi @A_Drunk_Wallaby,

 

Thanks for reaching out. I'd be happy to assist you with your Fresco project. It sounds like you're trying to create a smooth transition between colored sections in your line drawing.

Create a mask layer and paint on it with black and white to control the visibility of the colors. This allows you to gradually fade one color into another, achieving a smoother transition. Here is a YouTube tutorial video about masking techniques in Fresco: https://adobe.ly/40sCKRl.

I hope it helps!

 

Best,

Anshul Saini

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Hi Anshul, thank you very much for your reply.

 

I have seen this video before and it works great for gradually fading colours into one another. What I am trying to achieve seems a little different from this technique. I am imagining my black lines split into halves along the length of the line and want the colours to meet along the centreline of my black lines to create a clean break between 1 colour and another. The end result I am trying to achieve is flat-coloured sections without any lines separating them. I will then use a white or black soft round pixel brush with low opacity to create highlight lines for raised edges and shadow lines where the black lines used to be.

 

One thing I toyed around with last night was using the "paint inside" function with my line work layer as a reference. Then when applying colour I would start on one of my lines and essentially fill the line with colour using a pixel brush tool. This was okay but seemed to take quite a bit of work to make these different coloured sections match up with each other size-wise because I am essentially replacing the thickness of the black lines with colour.

 

This is quite a difficult thing to explain so if you have any other methods that I could use to colour my drawing then I would be happy to give it a go. As I said before my goal is to have a flat-coloured image with no black lines separating each coloured section. I have attached some images of my work in an attempt to give some clarity. 

 

Image - 01 = Line work Layer.

Image - 02 = Colour-filled layer with line layer visible.

Image - 03 = Colour-filled layer with line layer hidden.

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