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This tutorial covers the Painter 6 coloring technique I currently use~ It's much faster than
the one I covered in the older coloring tutorial. With this one, I practically only use a single Painter 6 brush, the Smeary Round brush, and nothing else. The example pic is very sloppily done, and due to the little experiments I did during the process of making this tutorial, it turned out to be quite different from my usual CGs. That, and the fact that I'm not good at explaining things, make this tutorial a somewhat lousy one. However, it should still give you some idea of the coloring process I usually go through, and hopefully it'll be of some use to you ^o^
Click the thumbnails for larger pictures~
If, instead of drawing your line art straight into Painter, you have a scanned sketch/line art that you want to use, check out this tutorial on how to set up your line art on a separate layer~
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For this one, I started out with a quick sketch, done with the Scratchboard Tool,
on a separate layer above the Canvas. It's named Layer 1 by default, and as I don't usually bother renaming layers, that's what it's called here :P You color UNDER this line art layer; that is, color on the Canvas, not on Layer 1 or anything above it.
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 | | Choose the Smeary Round brush. It's under Brushes. If in any case your brush
should have different settings than mine, you can use the screencap as a guide for adjusting your brush settings if you want to make it just like mine. Do the background first, it saves you a lot of trouble later on if it's a complex one. In my case, however, it's just solid dark green.
Apply it on the Canvas.
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 | | I start with the skin. For this one, I picked a greenish hue that matches the background color for the skin, since I happened to like the background ^^ Just... apply the color. It serves as the base, so it doesn't necessarily have to be even.
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 | | Now pick a darker shade, and start putting on the shadows. I felt like making the art look a bit
monochromish, so I picked a tone that leaned towards green.
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 | | Now pick a lighter color and use it for highlights.
** For some tips on light sourcing, shading, and doing shadows, click here.
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 | | The pic now has shadows and highlights, but it still looks rather flat. So I put in
some more shadows, with colors that are darker than the one used for the first application of shadows.
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 | | Now let's do the hair. Pick a color for the hair; in this case I picked a greenish brown. I then applied it, just like how I did the skin.
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 | | Did the shading on the hair. Picked a greenish color for the shade here as well.
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 | | I then put in highlights for the hair.
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 | | Now what? Oh yeah... the eyes. I picked a random greenish-yellowish color and put it in.
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 | | For highlights on the eyes, I made another new layer on top of Layer 1. It's automatically labelled Layer 2. Smart, no? Anyway, I put on some highlights for the eyes, using white, on this so-called Layer 2.
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 | | If you did the background earlier, you'd be finished by now. But since this pic still had no background aside from some ugly muddy green color, I decided to change the background color to lighten it up a bit. Still using the Smeary Round brush, on the Canvas, I applied some sort of... greenish color. Not much better than before, actually, but it's at least not too gloomy now.
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Here is how the finished pic looks like~ Yes, I know it was a rather hastily done example, but at least (I hope) it showed you how I would normally color.
I hope this tutorial is useful, and answers some of the questions you might have about the way I color~ ^-^
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