Make a comic book style look more painterly - Photoshop tutorial

[@JustSomeGuy]

A fast trick I use for color holds on lines is to set the line art color to about 70-75% gray, then change it from 'normal' to 'soft light'. Then I copy the layer, place it above the original, and set that one to 'multiply' at 30%. As long as you don't color outside the lines, it's an instant color hold.

[@FMVega]

Bro your vids are awesome informative funny and well thought out just saying...

[@IshikaShanai]

The Naruto fan in me can't unsee how the headband makes it look like that this character belongs to the hidden moon village. v.v

[@Lie_Nal]

I literally thought about the same!

[@charlestoefield2659]

Lol, you won't believe this but I've been looking for an answer for this for a long time. I really appreciate you doing this video. From time to time, I would attempt to make that transition from being line dominate to being more value dominate but it would only be sporadically. Thank you. :D

[@varflock9777]

Nobody talks about the color dodge? Ross Tran does it all the time. Literally, he even made "every day is the color dodge day" his motto. Thank you for this video.

[@TrentKaniuga]

It was a joke. People have been freaking out about color dodge since 2003. In 2 months it'll be someone new.

[@pezorama]

one simple way to do those color hold lines that you did is the following: 1. duplicate your flats, 2. hit it with a gaussian blur, 3. then select your line art>convert to quick mask 4.darken with hue/saturation. boom. Then you can go back in and adjust the details, but it'll do a pretty good job for most of it

[@ripples1072]

I wouldn't suggest doing that.

[@pezorama]

@@ripples1072 cool. What would you suggest?

[@krzysztofmathews738]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you!

[@AndrewMaksym]

More shading/shadow tutorials like this PLEASE! This is always useful information.

[@zayndesign]

I forgot about the color dodge! Aha thank you, Ive been just concentrating on getting the shadows and lights for each and every assignment, I never really messed with thosee. Awesome videos as always

[@940351579]

I know I've been watching to many Jobby toy review videos because that background music makes me want to.... *SWIVLE* here

[@apfelninja]

I'm gonna watch this over and over again.

[@dregnoff9361]

Stuck half way through a piece, do believe this is exactly what i needed.

[@artdistrict8004]

That actually was very instructional great job trent

[@Juanaponymous]

I missed the Wednesday 10am schedule! It gives me something to look forward to in the morning at my day job

[@TrentKaniuga]

It's never changed! I just do bonus videos some weeks.

[@Juanaponymous]

Trent Kaniuga it’s very possible that my sense of space and time has warped in these past 6 months hehe..

[@BruceCarbonLakeriver]

@@TrentKaniuga And a great one I had to add here :D - thanks Trent!

[@shadowgoethe]

I can always learn from this dude. Awesome!

[@Antman537]

One of your best videos so far; looking forward to applying some of these pointers.

[@themannydraws]

Dude, I'll be doing this to beef up some page spreads for sure. Thanks for sharing, always good getting some new tips from you.

[@NushaKaoru]

Instead of using selection and then hiding it, try using the ''Lock Alpha'' button. You won't get the jagged edge and it will select any semi-transparent pixels too.

[@Sakaidoesart]

That's the kind of videos i love, thanks trent for giving us so good and free tutorials 💪🔥

[@marcaugustus]

Perfect, I was just about to make the transition from lineart to lineless art!

[@allansantoscaires8638]

Amazing man! I really appreciate the time spent!

[@rotblush]

wa, thank you Trent! Awesome to see your process in this speed! Just when I was thinking about transitioning from lineart/comic art style to this style of painting

[@ceilingfan3986]

Very nice

[@alkorngrigA41]

Maaan... Mr. Kaniuga, it's hacking awesome and right on time as well! Huge kudos!

[@chuckgibson3973]

I have an XP Pen Innovator 16 arriving today based upon your video recommendation. I'm excited.

[@michaelmoyo7250]

I ordered an Artist 12 Pro only to have them come out with the Innovator 16 at like the exact same time...

[@dinadinesh6613]

I Am a big fan of your art works sir. I am a bignner & very much interested in environment concept art.I am ready to join! if you teaching any courses or classes. You are my inspiration sir☺️.

[@432hecnsketch]

nice music!!! just waiting for the beat drop !!!

[@cesarrivera8626]

Really nice video. You explained everything in such a clear and concise way I loved it.

[@takirahjk]

Hi Trent.! I have a couple questions. I’m 13 and I wanna get into this art high school next year. They want me to put a drawing of my bedroom and outside my window in my portfolio. I’ve never done environments so I was wondering if you can tell me where to start and the most efficient way to get quality environments before applications close. Also after high school what next? I watched your video on different types of job in the game industry and the ones that perked my interest were Illustrator, 3D artist, 2d mobile artist character skin concept artist, environment concept artist and UI artist. I really wanna be an illustrator working for studios like riot games or something like that. Probably freelance at some point too. So should I start with freelance and then start applying for jobs at studios? How should I go about freelance and studio jobs? Can I work at a studio and have other things on the side too? If you have any tips for me right now or things I can do once I get in high school please tell me.! I really love your work and you helped me to much. :) EDIT: Turns out my mom can’t afford the school I wanted to go to but I’m still applying for others. So if you can just answer my other questions that would be great :).

[@cinematticanimations5029]

Love your stuff dude! Keep it coming! 👊

[@AndreLuis-gw5ox]

Nice, thanks for the tips! I have been wanting to try to move from more simple cell shading to more complex rendering

[@octaviososa5108]

Hey Trent, I was wondering if you could share with us about "time management". When it comes to drawing I feel like I'm on autopilot, but doing design..oh man, it is a whole different world.

[@mariwong77]

"Color dodge! Crazy right? I wonder why no one talk about that!" Trent, not going to make you dissapointed or something but there is certain someone who talks about that A LOT hahahahah gotta love you and Ross Tran yall awesomeee

[@TrentKaniuga]

Every few years theres a new person that talks about that a lot. lol.

[@jullcepts8780]

Dude... You... Are... THE BEST.

[@search880]

wow thanks

[@christiankind]

Thank you for this video Trent, it's REALLY REALLY useful! :)

[@cavalieredaniel]

Niceee! Amazing Tuto!

[@PolyCrafted]

If you want cleaner color lines, without going through the trouble of cleaning the jagged edges do the following: -Create New Layer above your line art -Right-click and press Create Clipping Mask -Color on your new Clipping Mask Layer Another easier and faster way to do it and gives you more control with Color Balance -Duplicate your line art -Press "/" key next to right shift on your keyboard That locks your layer pixels and you can't draw outside of that layer's pixels

[@st-hugs]

This really helps, especially since I have a somewhat slightly painterly style for colouring sometimes but never really know how to balance the colours or what to do with the linework (as I absolutely rely on it way too much and am afraid of getting rid of it haha) I seem to use a lot of saturated colours, I think desaturating will help a lot.. Thank you for the informative tutorial! :>

[@WOLFSPARTAN117]

Wow I saw this on my recommend it love it nice job.

[@FMVega]

@Trentk your advice is priceless... Do you have a starting point for those of us who do not ever color for lack of skill, and fear to be honest... I don't want to ruin some of my art so should I go back to crayons and color pencil, or just jump into digital as that's the goal? Thank you for always being strait with us its a tough world, and no one benefits from candy coating just saying... Ps: I have some experience painting "Some" but its marginally better then the my color pencil work Not really sure how I passed digital imaging class :(

[@esserge7473]

I haven't Fully watch the video yet, but I know i'll already love it ^^!

[@rickardcarlsson4525]

You probably already know this... but if you click the little checkered icon "Lock transparant pixels" in the upper part of the layers panel you can colour the lines without having to use select and hide the selection.

[@TrentKaniuga]

That only works if your line art is drawn digitally. it doesn't work if you have scanned line art with white, set to black. Thats why I covered it the way that I did.

[@gainchimesee9258]

Ohh I see I always used glow dodge instead of colour dodge tho cause always used to over use it which lead to a color change I didn't like

[@MrPeterheather]

Very valuable. But Trent what do you say at the and? Ciao baby and....?

[@bellbelle331]

i am yor faaaaaannnnnnnnnnnn

[@saifuddinagha8711]

Hi trent! Can you please make a video for people starting to get into concept art. (Rendering skin)

[@TrentKaniuga]

That's not concept art. That's illustration.

[@rensvandenende887]

Hi Trent, I would love your experienced input on the following question: What do you think is the best way to fail hard, fail big and fail fast in digital art?

[@TrentKaniuga]

The question presupposes that there is a such thing as success. There is not. Every piece is a failure. The question is, what did you learn? With that in mind... the answer to your question is to do as many paintings as possible. But I don't believe in calling it "failure". The intention is to learn with every painting to improve, knowing that it is ultimately futile.

[@burcuterzioglu4778]

You can also try to recrate your favorite artist's pieces and try to to make it as accurate as possible. At the end it probably won't be a exact copy but you will be able to clearly see what your piece lacks and try to improve from that.

[@evolvearte]

Nice work bro, question. What type of tablet you're using and what size and DPI do you recommend to make your artwork?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Watch my video about pixel resolution.

[@kaelthas9970]

There is one question. How can one manage to do a comic with this time consuming style?

[@TrentKaniuga]

yeah... that's the pressure that I live with, and it's the reason I quit making comics. lol. There are a lot of ways to cheat it, which I talk about in many of my photoshop cheat videos, but ultimately you have to find a middle ground where it's rendered, but not so much that it consumes all of your time.

[@kaelthas9970]

I will try to figure out something cool.

[@Jackie_Staar]

Hey Trent I have a question for you. I want to become a concept artist but I don't have the money to pay for classes at school. What software should I be familiar with to be desirable as a concept artist? I want to try and teach myself even if that means hours of youtube tutorial videos!

[@ArtwithAmarBrisco]

How about comic style paining Frazetta style that seems like more of a challenge?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Its going to take more than layer effects to do what Frazetta did.

[@apfelninja]

If you scan in your initial drawing, max out the contrast, and raise the brightness, then go to select color group, select all of the white, hit shift+control+i, and then delete, you don't have to spend all that time tracing your line work.

[@TrentKaniuga]

Why would you trace your line work? You could just make that layer a "multiply" layer.

[@apfelninja]

@@TrentKaniuga and that is why you are the king lol I thought you said to trace the line work in your video.

[@hellball5]

I'm not sure if this has been asked already, but at 2:03 when you say you hit "command U" and it opens up that hue/saturation window for the lineart, would you happen to know if Clip Studio Paint has a similar feature? And if so how would one access it on Windows? Thank you for your time I love your videos!!

[@DarkVisionAfterMidnight]

Take a look at Menu > Layer > New Correction Layer. There are similar options to what Photoshop offers. If you want a correction to only affect one layer, just clip it to it (with the "Clip to layer below" button in the Layers window).

[@hellball5]

@@DarkVisionAfterMidnight Awesome, thank you!!!

[@dubois666xxx]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[@KalponicGames]

hi, Trent was wondering if there is any tutorial of how you made the platforms for your game Ikeda?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Any basic platforming tutorial would be great. I started out with tutorials by a guy named HeartBeast here on youtube. Ikeda was made in Game Maker studio.

[@KalponicGames]

@@TrentKaniugabut isn't the technique used in pixel art and regular software different? I have seen pixel art software have better tools package to make game art. Problem is making seamless tiles in vector/raater based softwares.Quite easy in pixel art form. Thanks for replying. I will take a look.

[@zeusarts_illustration]

What about your intro music :O????? What happened? I was not able to shake my booty to this piece today :P

[@direwoofles9857]

catch ya monyondabon, space cowboy ;)

[@halidramzan2803]

What do you mean when you say "animated look"?

[@apolloisnotashirt]

Is it an Dwarf Shinobi of the Hidden Moon village?

[@harrisonsnatt901]

is it okay to colour pick when doing material studies? or am i better off trying to create the colour myself? (:

[@TrentKaniuga]

It depends on your level of challenge. If you're beginner, just color pick. But as you develop your skills, you should try to mix your own colors to understand their relationship.

[@hassanattia1933]

Hi! Please I have a question.. If I want to be specialized in vehicles and mechs design as a concept artist what should I exactly study?? I'm not talking about art fundamentals.. As I'M now on my way to master perspective. Thanks in advance :)

[@TrentKaniuga]

Usually you don’t get hired to just do 1 type of task like that. But for mechanical design, you should do studies of and have a fascination with engine parts, existing and emerging robotics, and learn to communicate function through your sketches.

[@hassanattia1933]

@@TrentKaniuga okay thank you sir.. Have a nice day :)

[@domenicopentangelo4549]

Magic Man

[@dominiquejaruczek8774]

yeeeee

[@beewell1600]

question... i dont know if you covered this or not, i remember you mentioned that an artist shouldnt be thinking about making money in this industry, BUT... How much is the reasonable amount that we should charge our clients? concept artinst, commitions, illustrations etc...

[@TrentKaniuga]

I made a video about how much money concept artists make. You should watch that one. The short answer is that Artists should expect to make money. A reasonable salary for starting is 35-50 thousand dollars per year if you are just getting started. That's also assuming that you're working 10 hours per day 5-6 days per week.

[@beewell1600]

@@TrentKaniuga and i did, i just forgot to delete this comment, thanks again, imagine that where i live, the "expecting" salary is 500 to 600 euros per month :'(

[@Spamkromite]

Any reason why one shouldn't blur their lineart on top of the regular sharper one?

[@animationstation5802]

i get the feeling trent hasnt seen rossdraws

[@janice4910]

hey what’s the name of music in the intro?

[@PurpleHandkerchief]

Don’t wanna be the party pooper but I actually prefer the colouring style before all the adjustments.

[@sorafune76]

Hello, master, I have purchased “Box Set of Tutorials Vol 6” on Gumroad, but the videos in it can only be watched, can't I download them?

[@TrentKaniuga]

I had to disable downloads to prevent piracy. It's in the description of the product.

[@paulashin5133]

Notification gang

[@ahocap4351]

Looks like bandage from naruto

[@TrentKaniuga]

Rin is a ninja, and I think that when Steve Crowe did his take on the character, he wanted to add the Naruto style headband. Yeah.

[@zamis769]

When you said this piece "wouldn't be used for concept art" did you mean even after you painted over the original? I'm trying to get into the industry and most studios in my area are asking for "non-realistic, mass appeal style" and their projects are games like Dauntless or Luigi's Mansion, which definitely have a cartoony element. I'm getting rejections or crickets still in trying to apply so far (creature and character concept as the positions prop up) and it's a bit frustrating though I'm willing to put in the effort to improve if only I knew what my problem area were! You suggested I study artists like Brom, which is a good start though I've been told it's still too much "realism," oof! You've seen my portfolio before but I'll include it for reference: www.artstation.com/samuska Hope you have a good weekend, and thanks for all the incredibly valuable content! I have a number of your gumroad works that I'm working with now as well. :)

[@silverblue73]

I disagree, the blur was working