Misunderstandings
[dc]G[/dc]ood grief, color two weeks in a row? Unlike last week’s watercolor comic, I colored the last panel using Manga Studio 5.
Manga Studio 5. Image via Amazon.
I bought Manga Studio 5 a couple of months ago, but had yet to really sit down and try it out. Thankfully, SmithMicro offers a bunch of video tutorials on the Manga Studio website. After watching a few videos, I decided I really needed to just work on a comic in Manga Studio 5–it would be the best way to learn.
I kept is simple, which is always good, and stuck to flat colors–although I did mess around with the different brushes a bit. The floating tiny hearts are the result of Manga Studio 5’s Decoration tool–which I found pretty much by accident. I wouldn’t normally use such an effect, but it worked for this comic and decided, WHY NOT?
The coloring process was fairly easy–pretty much the same method as coloring in Photoshop. The biggest snag was deciding which brush to use, which isn’t too big of a deal. Knowing Photoshop as well as I do makes using Manga Studio 5 all that much easier (the layers and blending modes are the same).
Coloring in Manga Studio 5 meant I got to dust off my trusty, and very old, WACOM Intuos 3 tablet. Yes, 3. WACOM is up to at least 5 at this point. Still, my tablet works just fine–although I might be missing out on the pressure sensitive features of the newer models.
