Baby Kiara - Help Needed with New Style

I've had a go at using a pencil drawing as a lineart for my picture above of Kiara as a baby. I'm not quite sure I did it correctly though.

I use GIMP. I'm not sure it is the same as photoshop, but I know it is pretty similar.
I got my pencil drawing and went to colours, colour to alpha. Then on a new layer I put my colours. I didn't think the lineart was heavy enough so I duplicated it a few times to make it darker.

I want to use more of this style. Does anyone know how to do it properly or another way?

I know I need to work on anatomy a bit more (this was just a quick sketch).

Credits: Kiara - Disney

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Guest	February 21, 2014

Thanks SNA! Normally I do use the path tool, but I wanted to have the pencil lineart showing rather than a drawn lineart. I'll try your tip and see what the outcome is on my next picture!


SixNewAd ventures	February 21, 2014

Hey there^^ I use GIMP too for my renders (I hope to extend them to drawings too, but I can't draw, not yet)

What I suggest is, instead of changing the layers to Alpha, have the pencil drawing as a base. Create a transparent layer over that and do your lineart using any tool you want (I use the paths tool) and then use fuzzy select to select the outside. Zoom in and fix the unselected parts using lasso tool. Then go to Select->Invert and create a layer above the background but below the lineart and fill it with your base color. Then all you have to do is fill in the colors and add shading (I usually use each color on a separate layer)

Hope this helps you. You're a very talented artist

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