🤔 How to THINK when coloring comics

In this video, I'll show you what my digital coloring thought process is before ever starting to put color on the page in Photoshop and Procreate. I'll also go through five complete pages start to finish on my Wacom Intuos and iPad Pro with Apple Pencil.
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[@fabimarques6898]

Just yesterday I submitted my portfolio for review, and the editor told me that I had to improve my planes separations, this is spot on! Thanks man

[@VCA12]

its been 3 years, how did it eventually go? got the gig?

[@Angel-Otk]

@@VCA12bro didn’t💀

[@VCA12]

@@Angel-Otk it would seem that way

[@mattsartstory2379]

Wow Michael, I'm kinda upset that I didn't see this video until now! This video is amazing! This is how tutorials should be - lots of artists just show what they do without showing why or their thought process behind their decision making. This is so insightful! One of the best comics-related tutorials I've ever seen! My only recommendation would be to split it up into smaller parts next time - I don't mind how long it is - but you would get more views by having more shorter videos :) Great job!

[@Truther_comic]

this is the best HOW TO COLOR COMICS I've seen on youtube. Thank you!

[@artbysabien]

Thankyou for sharing this information. It was very helpful

[@cbrown6508]

Thank you for all of your videos. I graduated a year and a half ago and didn't realize that coloring comics was what I wanted to do until my very last quarter. I'm trying to keep in touch with my professors and peers from school for feedback while I work on my portfolio but felt really overwhelmed and lost until I found your videos. They help so much. Thank you!!

[@santostory]

I like the way you explained the thought process. You get excellent results. Thank you for sharing!

[@beepb00p78]

Love how he keeps saying "yeah sorry for going a bit fast" and I'm here, studying graphic design at art school, where the teachers explain things in a way nobody frickin understands and then leave the room after 5 minutes. You're going slow enough, honey.

[@ChanceDraws]

This was seriously so helpful! I blank when it comes to actually doing the things I learned in art school. Love watching your workflow.

[@anyaarcane3809]

Thank you for this! Learning about comic coloring has helped my tattooing significantly

[@colorwithkurt]

That's so cool! Glad to hear it's helping. :)

[@oxhornsupporter985]

How do you do that thing where you have stuff selected and then you check your selection by making the non-selected areas turn red? EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out. There's a tool called "Edit in Quick Mask Mode." For me it's just under the foreground/background color tool. It looks like a little box with a ant-track circle inside, like a grayscale version of the flag of Japan. On my version of Photoshop you toggle it with Q.

[@OneHandMedia]

Thank you !!! :)

[@haven_art]

this comment is goated

[@crownedoll]

I know this is old but it’s still so great and useful! Thanks for sharing :)

[@BrucePatnaude]

I was wondering if you have a video of the workflow pipeline for coloring in Procreate? I have hired a colorist for my project who uses Procreate exclusively so I was wondering what file format is best to send to him and if Procreate can export a layered file to send back to me for lettering. Any light you can shed on the subject would be much appreciated.

[@BrucePatnaude]

K Michael Russell thanks for the reply

[@drawtheword7590]

lol he says "may the 4th be with you" and im watching this on may 4th lol though this was uploaded in june ?

[@starblack6745]

still pretty hard for me to understand all the things in the video since I'm newly starting to learn about digital coloring, thank you for your great video.

[@homesteadinghedgewitchery9014]

I wish this had more information about highlights etc. The information about plane separation is great but I wish it was better about the focused lighting. Edit; turns out that your other videos have it. Haha!

[@neynahnehnah1485]

After 5 years I am rewatching this...❤ Is there any tip that you would change?

[@rosgana-yoyo]

nice art and video... I also love to saw comic"s line style in your videos.

[@AfenyiArhin]

Wow... your channel was introduced to me by a friend on IG... and am soo happy he did cause your videos are soo great and amazing... thanks soo much for sharing your knowledge❤️❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤗

[@colorwithkurt]

Thanks so much!

[@dennis2161]

20K likes, 20 dislikes...amazing

[@colorwithkurt]

I'm just that good! 😜

[@PhenomStudios]

This video was F*CKING INCREDIBLE! Thank you for your hard work in editing and making this video

[@micmacha]

I was a "Just stay in the lines, it's easy" person not that long ago... then I thought about what I was doing. Thanks for the excellent walkthrough!

[@nevabowdown]

Great vid. Going to try to self publish my first comic at an older age and this was very insightful. I'll definitely be checking out your other videos

[@leandropeixoto9043]

I watched this video for the first time a year ago and now, rewatching it and with a little more experience, a lot more things made sense. I can't wait to watch it a third time.

[@vagabondNS]

hi. exelent tutorials! can i send you some pages to see if i'm any good. I make comics because love this. i'm complete amateur.

[@noahgrimes5216]

I love Superhero Action Adventure Sci-fi Comics!

[@thelemonwho]

I really hope he went back and colored all her socks to match... 😅

[@emerlander]

That was incredibly useful! Thank you so much! I didn't even know about these things until now.

[@walkenthedog]

i can't like this enough. i totally get paralyzed when trying to start a page, and then get lost in the details too soon. i like how you broke the approach into phases.

[@magatama_group]

puede alguien subtitular estos vídeos al español?

[@Atomic-toons00]

Name of this comic

[@colorwithkurt]

Hack Slash: Resurrection

[@Atomic-toons00]

@@colorwithkurt i want try to make sum animation about this

[@012hanji]

me watching this because i have to cram a comic for my finals

[@VVelcome2THEVOID]

What brush did you use for your lighting ?

[@izegaegbe]

Hahahaha! "And I don't mean air planes!" That got me 😂😂😂😂. I love your tutorials. Much appreciation.

[@RohitVinay]

you are my new favorite channel on youtube.

[@colorwithkurt]

That's so cool!

[@Chris-Moore501]

This was a great educational motivator! Thanks! What do you listen to while you work?

[@VernorsDoctor]

What comic is this?

[@colorwithkurt]

Hack/Slash Resurrection

[@jas_bataille]

This is a superb tutorial, and both your colors and the art is breathtaking.

[@ginointroini4733]

Helped me a lot! Thanks! love your content

[@mnx285]

hello ! can we use another pencil (not Apple pencil on a ipad ) ? Good video ! :D

[@rkneegordon6316]

Yes. Adonit an Wacom have alternatives that are compatible.

[@skymarshallmarz5573]

Practical outfit? practical outfit? what hot babe, assassin, toughie wears a practical outfit?, lol.

[@hiddenbyfog3084]

Great video! Everything I needed to know, and didn’t know I needed to know! Made a short 2page comic to accompany a character miniature coming to Kickstarter, it’ll be used for promotional purposes too. This video definitely saved me time from trial and error

[@hydrangeyes2170]

Thank you so much! Needed this 😅👌

[@gaelcross]

Hello sir, Excuse me, as i'm French and not at all used to Procreate, maybe i didn't understood, and i was wondering : what is the equivalent of its "add" mode on photoshop ?

[@colorwithkurt]

Linear Dodge. Esquive linéaire! :)

[@gaelcross]

@@colorwithkurt this is not the french name for it, but i know which one it is in the order of the list ! Thanks a lot sir, again. I had a comic project for a long time now (four years) and i was desperately looking for tips and techniques to color without spending hours for each panel. Your videos gave me hope and ideas. I know it won't be perfect at the first page, but i know now how to use each color at the good time. Thank you.

[@colorwithkurt]

Cool. Thanks so much. Google Translate failed me! :)

[@gaelcross]

@@colorwithkurt ^^ I use Linguee, it translates depending on different situation through examples found on the Internet. In fact i didn't paid attention : the french translation of Photoshop wrote "ajout" on the good mode, which means "add" ^^ thanks for your work, again.

[@Pepa_Limoncia]

Im very interested i coloring but i always have the same doubts about applying shadows. Which colour should i shadow my characters? I use purple in low opacity but some people uses the base colour of the character and make it darker, which would be the correct way to do it?

[@elishevamillner6870]

When you said that colouring wasn't just colouring in the lines, my mum walked in and suggested being my colourist (it cant be that hard) and i was like if it was easy I wouldn't have to stay up till two in the morning trying to learn how to do it properly...

[@salmonaco3479]

When adding the color filter to a panel what is the blend mode you put it on? “Color”? Can’t seem to refund where you stated it in the video

[@kjbill]

Michael, why don’t you just do everything in Procreate?

[@oneanotherstudios]

There is seriously a Taco Bell banner ad on the screen as I watch this...and I never eat Taco Bell. Clearly they've heard about this issue of the comic, lol

[@gildiachrzaszczy4447]

sub

[@RealRampage]

Do you draw your pages on paper or digitally

[@colorwithkurt]

I didn't draw this but digital.

[@GrinningFeline]

Seriously the best video I've seen on coloring comics. Bookmarked.

[@GrinningFeline]

You earned it.

[@GrinningFeline]

What size/format are you working at vs. what is printed? (For Hack/Slash for example)

[@GrinningFeline]

Just wondering, since I've been working way bigger and always run out of layers, but you always seem to have tons. (I am usually working on larger scale things, like prints but with a workflow like yours.)

[@GrinningFeline]

I've been doing 9x12 at 600 dpi, so I can scale them up pretty big. It's probably overkill, no one buys them anyway.

[@heartajack]

I think your colors completely transform this art, it’s quite stunning to see. Your videos have been inspirational and make me dread the process a lot less.

[@joanmanelrodriguezdelmas9053]

Terrific job, thanks!

[@di3g04]

How many times the channel changed name?

[@VonHexa]

Penciler name? i heard it but cannot find how to write it

[@ZethKeeper]

I noticed I've been doing much of the same work before rendering lately. Of course, mostly thanks to your videos. Thanks! And I have a question: in the end when you returned to Photoshop to make a curve adjustement, I noticed that your rendering layers (shadows, lights and bounce light, that are masked adjustement solid colors) have an icon that looks like intersection mode of selection tools. What is it and what for? Do you know?

[@ZethKeeper]

Hi, Micheal! I've figured that out. Turns out those icons appear when you go to layer style dialog and adjust "Blend If" sliders. BTW, those slider really helpful when you need to introduce some heavy colorized lighting. Try it out =)

[@anagghsvlog]

On page 3 and panel 3, you forgot to add her stocking or something, the one you added on her in panel 2 on the same page.. it’s little but makes a lot of meaning to comic world.. Thankz..

[@anagghsvlog]

Hahhaa i saw that u added that details in procreate.. good one.. m gonna learn alot from you

[@SwenRB]

Thanks for this great tutorial! It reminded me to let storytelling guide my decisions when coloring.

[@andreux7678]

What's the name of this comic??

[@forthezorz]

Thank you so much!

[@ValdemarDeMatos]

Why aren’t there any text bubbles? Wouldn’t it save you some time?

[@hyper4831]

It'd be kinda half assed not to have color under the balloons, you never know what printing errors might reveal, or you may want to move text and such

[@jerartist127]

thanks this is amazing- great tutorial

[@danjaworsky]

This was great, thank you

[@farmandoart5850]

This was SO HELPFUL!

[@nuclear_warrior]

Great tips!

[@Osigot]

20:09 how you do this red effect ?

[@Osigot]

35:16 answer : Q

[@naturesquad9174]

16:00

[@GrinningFeline]

I keep coming back to this video.

[@GrinningFeline]

Who is the Inker/Penciller here?

[@GrinningFeline]

You said it but I was like, C. Lorr?

[@GrinningFeline]

And I didn't read the comments....

[@SubhashKumar-kq2gw]

😍😍😍