Hi everybody, I am new to these boards, but not really to the "art area" if I may call it so :)

Drawing and the like has always been a hobby of mine, and now I am taking it into the computers.
I have been doing some line art that turned out pretty good actually, for my first try atleast. So now I am about to color it, and I have been trying with various methods. I checked out the guide on this site for example. Thanks alot for that one btw, it gave some really nice tips :)

Anyway, below here I include a URL to one of Hyung-Tae Kim's works. I really like his coloring on this one (yeah, and on all his other ones too) but I stand quite clueless on how he did it. Now I am new to this area, so I thought perhaps any of you guys here could give me some hints and tricks as to how you can get "this look" on the coloring.
That image's coloring is done on a computer, right?

I work mainly in Photoshop. I got Painter too but I am not particularly good at it. I also got a Wacom Intuos tablet if that would help.

http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?pos=-289

Thanks (for this really nice forum if nothing else)

Welcome to the board Morticus. :)

This particular style of coloring that you are interested in is know by some as the 'Painted Style' It is quite simple and yet advanced at the same time. It can be achieved in Painter or Photoshop, though with photoshop you need to work a bit with customizing your brushes. In some versions of Painter (older ones especially) the Digital Water color brush is commonly used, and I would guess a camel hair round or smeary round as well. I havent really ever tried this style of coloring on someone elses line art, But I know that one of our resident Pros (EraserX (http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/member.php?u=102)) has done it and could problably enlighten you more on some specifics.

One of the things you need of course is a set of fairly clean pencils (scanned in). You place the line art in a layer above your painting layer and set its blending mode to Multiply.

Here is one of the few good tuts on the subject I know of.

http://membres.lycos.fr/ultimatrix/

I hope this helps.

I checked that tutorial (thanks alot for that one). It is somewhat "short" for me at the moment if you understand what I mean. But still quite helpfull :)
The tutorial seem to assume that you know your way around Painter, which I dont really do, heh. I guess I will have to try and get to know it better. This "Wet mode" that he mentions I dont really grasp. When I paint alittle with the Simple Water that he mentions I get ugly lines at the edges of the area I painted. And if I paint over the area again, it dont blend together like his does ;)

I have Painter 8, does that work? In that tutorial he use Painter 6.

Anyway, I will try alittle harder next time, only had time to sit with it for half an hour or so.

In painter there is a wet and dry canvas mode....when using certain brushes they automatically paint in a wet layer....so the blending acts more like the medium you are using...you have to dry the canvase before you can do other stuff or get different blending results...its one of those things that takes time and practice.