A few months ago, I wrote a tutorial on how to color in Photoshop for the blog portion of my comic Draw Write Play. I broke it down into 3 parts so that the post won’t be too long but now that I’ve discovered how to break blog posts, I thought I’d repost the entire tutorial here all in a single post. This is the first tutorial that I’ve ever written, and therefore is not my best piece of work but I hope it will still be useful. I used my sketch of Zuko for this tutorial. You can see the finished colors below.

Before we start, this tutorial assumes that you have a basic understanding of Photoshop and it’s workspace. Essentially, you should know where the tools and windows are located, what blending modes are, how layers work and what each tool is for. If you’re not familiar with Photoshop’s workspace I suggest reading the Photoshop Help file. Honestly, a lot of people tend to neglect the Photoshop Help file but it has tons of information that can help you work faster and more efficiently. I still use it when I get stuck or if I can’t remember what a certain blending mode is for. (more…)

If you already have a webcomic and looking forward to publishing it on your own site but have little experience in making websites, then Wordpress and Comicpress are the tools for you.

Before discovering Wordpress and Comicpress, I looked at all the other webcomic publishing tools on the internet and a lot of them were too complicated for my taste. I didn’t like the free comic hosts available because I really wanted a website with my own design. I wanted a system that made it easy for me to publish my comics while not having to write a lot of code.

And then came Comicpress. I’ve already been a big fan of Wordpress even before I wanted to use it as a comic publishing tool so when I found out that I can easily publish my comics using Tyler Martin’s theme I immediately wanted to try it out. It wasn’t until last year, though (when I started Draw Write Play), that I actually started using it.
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