Is it hard to choose what colors to use for shading? Do you need to create content faster (like for webcomics)?

 

I created an autoaction to make everything easier. Download it here and see how to use it below (it’s very very simple!):

Video explanation

See how it works in movement.

Written explanation

With this autoaction, you can use the same color (any color) to shade all parts of an illustration.

 

Even if you use white, if you shade over dark blue, you’ll get dark blue shading. If you shade over light blue, you’ll get light blue shading.

Steps

1. Put all your base color layers into a folder.

*No need for a specific layer name, I just named mine “base color” for the example so it’s easier to see.

2. Close the folder and make sure the folder is selected (just click on the folder).

 

3. Click to play any of the three available autoactions.

4. Now paint your shadows using any random color on the new yellow layer that was automatically created.

And that’s all! Now let’s see an example.

Example of use

This is my illustration with base color, and I want to add shading.

After performing the autoaction, I will paint the shadows on the yellow layer. I’m painting them using gray (random), but this is the result I get.

This is what shading with gray would look like without the autoaction:

But as you can see on my example above, using the autoaction you get different shading colors that match your base colors in brightness, hue, etc.

 

I hope this is useful!

 

PS: I also included an autoaction for cold atmosphere.

If you like my work, follow me on social media! I’m inma_polito on Instagram.

 

The character I drew is Yule from my webcomic “Wild Beast Forest House”, which you can read for free on Webtoon and Tapas.