I think the halftone colouring looks absolutely and completely one hundred percent amazing. So much, in fact - that I want you to make a tutorial on it, because I want to try it!!

Squee! This is awesome-awesome! Earl Kray, I see what you've done now! Ahaha! The Chipper in the background looks so cute! I love how you've done the colouring! I used to overlay half-tone over comics myself, but I became lazy! Ahh, I need to calm down! Thank you so much!

It looks awesome~!

It's a perfect scene too~! ^w^ <3

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Ah, thanks! Hmm...I'm still trying to perfect the overlay technique, so I'm not sure if I could work up a tutorial. I'm glad you dig it though.

Basically, just make a duplicate of your colour layer and convert that to halftone by whichever method you use and then try some different layer blends with that until you get an effect you're happy with. It's the part about getting an effect I'm particularly happy with that I'm currently having trouble with.

As to how to convert a picture to halftone, most decent editors have a halftone filter you can use, or in the case of GIMP, which I use, you find it in filter/distort/newsprint. I use an analog method that nobody seems to get though, so I just keep it under my hat these days, haha.

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Sounds good. So you duplicate the entire colour layer or just the shaded?

LMAO X3

it looks awesome hun YAY for tea

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Hee, I'm glad you like it. The older picture I did has some nice curls, but I'm not that happy with it now; it was one of the first pictures I did all on tablet. So every time I looked at it, I wanted to do a new one that more properly showed what I can do.

I'm glad you like the colour too. It's making a good impression so far, so I'm thinking I should do more with it. My eventual plan is to post black and white comics on-line and then make pamphlet-style versions available in colour, so something like this seemed like a good way to tie in the visual. My thinking is that my audience for the web comic would be manga/scanlation fans that could care less about colour, but if the print comic itself, even with fancy colour, was missing the half-toning, some people might think it loses a lot of its character.

Ah, you're reactions really make a picture like this worth the work though. A 'squee!' is really worth its weight in gold, haha.

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Hmm...I do all my flat colours on one layer, shade on another, highlights on another, maybe some other layers for patterns and what and then lines on top, so I usually just turn off the linework layer and then make a copy of everything else that's visible, so yes, that would include the shadows and all. You don't really want to run your actual lines through halftone though or they'll get jaggy, that's the main thing to watch. Otherwise, you want the changes in colour to be represented best in the halftoning process. Ah, I also suggest desaturating the new layer or converting it to greyscale before running it through a halftone filter. You may want to up the brightness and contrast a bit too or it could end up looking way too busy like some of my older toned pictures.

Basically, what really helps about a halftone filter as opposed to just using a dot pattern fill is that it represents shadows and gradients like traditional photographic half-toning methods: the dots get bigger in darker areas and smaller in lighter areas. The problem with filters though is you're stuck with dots whereas the manual way I do it manually, I can use any pattern to get a halftone effect. If you look at this picture's textures closely, you'll see dot patterns most places, but it's different in some areas and the dark parts of the suit use a sharper texture.

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Ooo, thank you very much!

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