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I noticed that August 06 hadn't been colored yet, so I figured I would try it. I have no drawing tablet, and just worked off and on for a few days. I don't have Photoshop, but I used the GIMP instead (I'm a cheapskate ). I used a process similar to the one Caigan documented, except I used the pencil tool to trace the edges of colored regions, then used bucket fill. I smoothed the lines on the muzzles with the blur tool. I did gradient backgrounds by bucket filling, then drawing a line and bucket filling again, then using selective gaussian blur on the layer. Here are the results, and an animation showing the individual layers.

Not bad at all.

Welcome to the forums

(sees TuxRug's rapid 9 steps)
(sees Sage's 19 steps)
(gets dazed)
(swings like a pendulum)

(sees TuxRug's rapid 9 steps)
(sees Sage's 19 steps)
(gets dazed)
(swings like a pendulum)

Despite that fact, he actually did more work than me.

He just put multiple steps into single frames of animation.

In reality if he had made the animation like I did he would have used more frames because of the background in frame 2, despite me using the slower method which I plan on changing perhaps. I still like coloring with the green background though, so...

Yah, it was harder than it looked in the gif. I'll try a single, simple panel, and make a screencast of it. Problem is... My screencast software is slow and low-res when I do my whole desktop, and the image window keeps changing size, because of the way I have zooming set up. I'll see what I can do though.
I originally started digitally coloring Sabrina-Online, but I used a terrible technique (working in just one layer using bucket fill, but I did shading too). Those who wanna see:

^It's a thumbnail, clikie!!!!!^

I do say that O&M is easier and more fun to color, because I tried this same technique in Sabrina and I failed .

PS Sage: I didn't animate the process really, I just took the layers and saved them as an animation.

Wow that is a good job, and the bottom one is awesome!

Welcome to THE forum!

Great coloring job, btw!


Have some blueberry buckle and a glass of milk!

/me notices he got the date horribly wrong

--edit--
/me notices he didn't but oy what a funny goofup, right?

Ok, I finally got a decent screencast of my coloring process, problem is the only thing that would do it right would only save to flash, so here's a link a zip of the flash file and an html page to hold it in. Extract the files, and open the .htm file, and watch. It's sped up quite a bit, and don't worry about the off colors and gradients, I reduced the colors and resized the frames to bring the filesize down (from 300+MB down to 12MB woot!). Enjoy!
O&M coloring screencast (Hosted by MegaUpload [12MB])

BTW here's the finished panel from the screencast: