Comment 86037

I've seen alot of people colour in that style and it's good for getting a result fast, but colour isn't as simple as recolouring grey scale stuff. If you're bad at colour choice (like me) in the first place then no method will really work well. That, and tablet pens are weird to draw with. Have you used one? It's... strange. There's no texture, and the responses a pencil has are so varied while a table pen is so linear. It's not a medium I've grown to enjoy using yet So far my digital art is either colour between the lines [thumb29090] , Screentone , colourisation (where I let my pencils do all the shading and just ad colour underneath the pencil layer) [thumb27664] , or vector [thumb27320]. My least favourite is colouring between the lines cause it requires too much tablet work XD Screentone is tolerable, and vector is more about what the vectors do than colour variation. I've tried grey scale to colour gradients like Yuni does via gradient maps (like your friend does, but with gradient maps so if you make changes, you don't have to repick colours http://yuni.deviantart.com/gallery/23677136#/d10lhdf but I find myself losing interest really fast and it comes up with really weird colours sometimes.

Thanks for the suggestion though It's a technique which makes it easier, but my biggest issue is disliking the medium in the first place, and my lack of colour understanding T.T I'm much happier with traditional media in my hand TBH I just wish they scanned better XD