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Digital Flats Tutorial: Intro to Comic Craft
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2017
About this lesson
Comics artist Becca Hillburn shows how to lay down flat digital colors before shading: setting a neutral background, keeping the ink layer on Multiply, filling shapes with a hard-edged brush or magic wand, and organizing layers so a colorist can work from them.
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