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Here comes the fun part. Colouring. I love this part with a passion. Make a new layer, call it Lighthouse Colour and put it behind your outline. Now with the magic wand selection tool [and anti-alias turned off!] select the parts that make up the light house, holding SHIFT to make more than one selection.

When the whole thing is selected fill it with a light grey colour. Every colour that you place will be the lightest that it will appear in the picture, so don't be afraid to use a light colour [also, since this is on a computer everything is VERY easy to change so you shouldn't be afraid anyway].


that's one coloured in telescope!

Now do the same for the other objects. Make a new layer called Trees and select the tree tops and fill them with a colour, then do the same with the trunks. Another new layer called Ground, fill in the grass, and then the cliff face. I also changed the white backround to a sky blue and renamed the layer Sky.

Now just give it a once over and hunt for some stray pixels that didn't get coloured. There are a few in the trees and one at the top of the telescope. Just select the right layer and by pressing ALT when in pencil mode will give you the eye dropper tool, so just select the colour and fill it in, no worries!


So here is where I am so far. Simple stuff.

Now is the time for adding different colours. So select your telescope layer and fill in objects that you don't want to be flat grey. If you set the USE ALL LAYERS box, you can keep the colour layer selected and still have your selections limited to the outline. I don't know if that explains it but try it out and see.

So here we go, I added a lense and a purple rim on the top telescope, then I coloured in the boards that hold the telescope to the base along with adding yellow lights into the windows. There's also a moon in there, I put it on it's own layer also called Moon. I just used a sizeable circle brush with the pencil tool and then drew some craters on it...


not too much changed here.

STOP!

Think for a second. Are you having fun? Is what you are doing a pleasing act?

If no, then stop. Stop working on the backround and go do something else. Write some more story, script, play a game, GO OUTSIDE. Just stop and get your mind off of it. If you are having a bad time,continuing on will just make you angry and the art will come out like crap.

If you're happy and enjoying your work than continue on...

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