So like the traditional artist, the computer will first draw the images that are behind everything, and layer the subject and foreground on top of it. This is referred to as the “drawing order”. Switch the commands around, and you will not see the yellow circle at all: it was drawn before the red circle and thus ‘behind’ it. In programming, if you tell a computer to draw a red circle, and then afterwards tell it to draw a smaller yellow circle, you will see the small yellow circle overlap the red circle. Or to first draw a line art and then colour it in.
#Krita fill tool full
In Traditional art, it was not uncommon to first draw the full background before drawing the subject. Most image manipulation programs have layers systems however, and I’m sure I’ll describe at the least one method you can use. I’ll also describe how certain elements are named in Photoshop. Gimp has good layer functionality as well, but some layer types are yet to be available in Gimp. We’ll be going through some techniques for preparing the lineart, and we’ll be using the layer docker to put each colour on a separate layer, so we can easily access each colour when we add shading.īut before we get to that, let us get familiar with the layer docker.įor this tutorial I’ll be using Krita. The thing we’ll aim for in this tutorial is to get your lineart coloured in with flat colours. So, now you’ve got your lineart cleaned up, you may want to colour it in.