Creating colored line art
It's OK when you draw black and white art with a solid black line, but once you start coloring the image, don't you think the black line color can be too harsh on the eyes? We are going to explore how to change the line art color in this section.
Colored line work, or color holds, can be used for a variety of effects. It can highlight an area, make it blend more with the coloring, or make a background element face away to leave the foreground in the spotlight. Colored line art can make an image look much softer by not having harsh black lines in it. This is a very easy technique to use to really add punch to an illustration.
In order to follow the steps in this section, you will need line art done on a transparent layer, as shown in the following screenshot:
The preceding image is an ink drawing scanned from paper, with the white taken out automatically using Clip...