There are a million tutorials online so I often feel like doing any of my own would be pretty redundant. But there is one area that I often see done differently than the way I prefer and that’s when people prepare their line art for coloring in Photoshop. The easy way and the one I see most often in tutorials is to just duplicate the layer with your line art and set it to multiply and then color on a layer underneath. This does work, but I find it extremely limiting compared to the method I use and learned while coloring comics.

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