Jun '21
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I just recently started with art, and I've been watching a ton of Marcs videos, and just signed up for Art School today (yay!)

I have a quick question about how Marc colors.

In many videos I've watched, his colors (flats/shading/etc) also color underneath his line art - so when he hides his line art layer, it still all looks solid.

When I hide my line art, my picture is filled with uncolored holes.

I'm using Procreate (but have knowledge of Photoshop), and I'm using the ColorDrop to fill regions with color.

Is Marc using the Lasso tool in Photoshop to select regions and use that to color? This seems REALLY tedious? There's got to be a better way?

Jun '21

Lasso tool is the best option to get it but you need to have a lot of dexterity in hand, most artists just use hard brush for it, check Christophie flats arranging there:

Painting Samurai Girl - Part 1
Jun '21

This video starts with his line art filled with gray already - that's the bit I'm struggling to get to.

So you're saying basically to just trace the whole character with freehand selection, and use that?

And then also use the selection tool to cleanly colour different segments after you've got your 'grayed' area?

Thank you :smile:

Jun '21

Exactly, Marc always starts his main selection with lasso tool and I think it its the best way as it won't need to hide lineart and correct little brushstrokes that could happen when just painting it with hard brush. But it is always nice to check anyway if the silhouette looks cool without lineart when you are done. I am learning from a lot of different artists and there isn't any trick for that :stuck_out_tongue: Lasso tool will help you train your hand control as well