STEP 8-I: Coloring Hair in Painter, Part 1

We're going to color this line art using Painter 5.5. Painter 4+ should be sufficient, but I'm not really sure about Painter Classic... Painter Classic doesn't offer some of the options that are essential to some of the things we do in this step. Click here for the working size line art! I did that sketch in Painter 5.5 from scratch, using a customized pen tool.   Before proceeding, please note that this is not the only way you color hair using Painter, nor is it the only way I do it. We'll get to a couple of other ways to color hair after we're through the basics. Try to experiment and find out your own ways to do things~

First, using Watercolor> Simple Water, just color around the hair with one color. Don't worry about the shading or anything like that. If Painter doesn't feel like letting you use the watercolor brush, make sure Canvas> Wet Paint is checked (take a look at this screenshot if you can't find the wet paint option).   If you wish to follow everything in this tutorial, save the picture to the right and use eyedropper color pick to pick the brown I used from the big round blotch of brown. When you're done, do Canvas>Dry .

  What does "Dry" do, you ask? You probably noticed when you were coloring with Simple Water, the line art doesn't disappear. And the coloring done with Simple Water can't be erased with regular Eraser tools; it must be erased with Watercolor> Wet Eraser if you wish to erase anything. If you're familiar with programs such as Photoshop, you might want to think of this whole watercolor business as a separate Multiply layer in Photoshop. Once you "Dry" the picture, the watercolor layer disappears, and the the coloring you've done becomes a part of the non- watercolor things.

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