I know this is kind of off topic, but do you people know how to color in manga. I'm a pretty good artist, the best in my middle school, but I don't know how to color in manga like that of the website http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/fanq/l/i/lian2/lovehina.jpg.html

I use color pencils and water color, but I can't get the effect of something like that picture. When reading animerica magazine, they talked about using some sort of markers, but what kind? I can't make out a career as a cartoonist if I don't know how to color like that!

-- Anonymous, June 15, 2003

Answers

Are you sure that the picture on that site isn't computer? Because it seems like it.

-- Anonymous, June 15, 2003

They were probably talking about copicmarkers, they work like a dream, and they have a air brush line too. The website is copicmarkers.com or copicmarker.com, I forget.

And, you might want to get prisma color pencils, they're softer and nicer. ^^

That picture you're looking at was computer colored though, as most american cartoons nowdays are. Probably with photoshop, no doubt. Its expensive, but you can find it on a peer-to-peer server. Like grokster (.com) or Kazaa lite. (Kazaa gives you viruses, and winmx sucks)

-- Anonymous, June 15, 2003

Theres an program that allows you to do it on yo computer. But i forgot that name. Try searching on the net ir sumthin.

All life ends. It's how you live it that matters.

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2003

one word: PAINT

-- Anonymous, June 16, 2003

Well, in my opinion it`s definitely a computerized images using a graphic software to give color into it (I knew it, because I`m a graphic designer, and I`m using graphic softwares everyday). Many graphic softwares that exist, but U can choose the best, no doubt it`s "Adobe Photoshop 7.0" (at least for me :) first thing to do is you scan the handdrawing that you have done with a scanner and then go colour it with photoshop.

-- Anonymous, June 17, 2003

Try scanning your image (after cleaning it real good and using a mechanical pencil, inking it if possible). Then adjust the levels so you get a nice black and white picture in Adobe Photoshop or Jasc Paint Shop Pro (both have free trial versions). Or do that in GIMP, which is free. Then you can try to color it OpenCanvas (similar to Painter). You can find both to download for free on http://home.cwru.edu/~nxl25/link.html. Hope that helps!

-- Anonymous, June 19, 2003

Um... Sweetie, this is cg, not by color pencil or paint or anything. But the looks of it, it's done in photoshop, and mostly used airbrush after paint fill, and also blur tool a lot. But compared to her other pictures, this one's not that good... just because you can tell right away that it's done cd... In truth, Photoshop's not that good of a program for coloring, for the best ones, the the really expensive software Corel Painter 8.0, it just came out. It'll help so much, especially it can produce almost perfect watercolor effects.. Ah, I love that software!

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2003

That really does look like it was done on the computer. Well I never really tried these markers but alot of my friends recomend these "Copic Marker". Yeah i heard they work real well.

-- Anonymous, September 03, 2003