[TUTORIAL] Manga Colorization pt.1

[daeva_neesan]

So, as I told you days ago I tried to colorize some Karin from Naruto, but my PC decided to die, leaving me all bothered and frustrated.
Today I tried again (despite the sempiternal heat >_>) and I decided to convert the experience in some making of/tutorial to share.
I never colorized a manga page, so it's an interesting experience for me too ^_^;; I hope I won't mess with things >_>

Anyway, in this first part I took care of the lineart and the first basic coloring.
For this tutorial I used my happy Paintshop Pro :D *huggles it*

First of all, I fix the Contrast/Brightness of the pic.
I want to use those fancy colored borders, and see if I can do nice stuff as I've seen in the inserts of the Naruto scanlations I got XD


Then, I take care of the borders with the Freehand Selection tool and the Colorize option.


Once I'm done, I use the Fill tool to-- fill the white spots with the base color, and in the end I fix some details of the lineart.


And here's a fullshot of the page:

Original art © Kishimoto
Color by Daeva

And that's it. Next time (tomorrow XD ?) we'll turn it in a fancy picture with happy Photoshop :D