Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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In this video I take you on a 2 hour journey into adding colors to your line art. You can follow along with your own line art or download the line art in this video from my Artstation account right here: artstation.com/artwork/q9gzwL

To see how the line art of this tutorial was drawn and how I colored it with digital watercolors in Procreate, you can check out this video: youtu.be/9v2a-HWw7xA

TIMECODES

0:00 - Intro
3:52 - The flatting process explained
23:19 - How to quickly change the colors of your flats
32:16 - Adding lighting & shadow layers to your drawing
55:24 - Adding textures to your drawing
1:04:58 - Creating color selections for the second art style
1:23:28 - Adding lighting and shadows within the second art style
1:51:05 - Finishing off the lighting process (30x sped up)
1:54:17 - Summary of lighting process of the second art style
2:04:31 - How colors are applied within the third art style

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