Colouring Indy Art....

hey i've just started trying drawing indy art...and i always seem to get the colouring all wrong. Does anyone have any idea if there are any good tutorials out there, ive tried looking but i guess not many people have tutorials on them. If you have any please post^^ thanks

"Indy Art" has no meaning...explain.

Post links to a couple examples—yours and others.

Post an example...

We cant help if we have no idea wathyouy need

i think you mean really bright colours and stuff...... like the things you see on Diwali posters?
If it's what i think it is then i would :

1) Use the pen tool to select the shapes you want to be one colour..... Then fill it and give it a stroke of 1PX black or whatever,,,,,

2) Then make a new lay7er and repeat the above step over and over each time making new layers

Hope that helps?

Filling in any image is always easier if you work on a layer over that image.
If you don't like the shade or tint you can always adjust image color or saturation before you merge it with the basic image underneath. (Also erase anything you don't like.) I find it easier to make pallets of color selections directly on an image somewhere out of the way (in a corner, up at the top edge) with the brush at 100%. That way you don't have to wonder where you got that color, or try to mix it again if you lose it. When you are done you can delete it, or save a version with the pallet intact for future reference. This is especially good for flesh-tones, since there are so many colors there. Every time you use another color or modify it, get in the habit of putting another spot on your pallet for that image. When you paint, never use a 100% brush. Get down to 30%, 20%, 10% even as low as 1 or 2%, to get good results. This makes it very easy to hand-blend colors. Like doing glass reflections needs very light applications to give that soft optical effect. If there is a hard edge, it is on another layer in a solid flat color to be your selection to cut the excess reflection. It takes longer but is worth the results.

sorry for not explaining properly:S I meant like ummm....you scan in a pic then colour it. Sorta like those animated show type things....thanks for the tips anyway. I'm really not good at the pen tool. How is it possible to colour in your picture with the original lines you scanned in? oh well thats the best i can explain it:S hehe.

well that's easy.
You scan your drawing or whatever, and then adjust the image.
(using the Image menu). There you can change the SATURATION value of the image, to turn everything into black and white, instead of any residual color left on the scanned pic. Then change the CONTRAST until you are left with basically a bunch of black lines and white spaces.
When you have the drawing in this state, you can clean it up a bit if you need to with any of the drawing or painting tools. (Small brushes, 100%)
What you are doing here is making sure the lines are not broken and they go all the way around the area that you want to color. Then you can have some fun.
Add C O L O R ! ! ! Just like a coloring-book you had as a kid, but this time you can put way more in that area than just a single color, like put in a gradient fill ! !
Photoshop is a program that allows you to do anything several ways, and you might learn more than one way to do something.
This is the part where you get to experiment, and do it over and over until you find out what works best for you.
Someone once told me that one key to making Photoshop work for you is being able to make good selections.

oh ok thanks. Yeah I know what all the tools are though...i just wanted to know how to change it to just black and white pixel-ish lines. heh. but thanks for telling me. it's shed some light at least...lol

click...? I made one. heh it took a while....i know it looks weirdd but umm.. yeah. I guess i might practice more...lol

OK ! I see what you mean. Good colors !

When you clean up your image before you color it use a smaller brush and you won't have all of the lines with the same weight, which doesn't look right.
Also, if you use the brush at less than 50% fill to fix your b&w version, it will give you better looking results. The secret here is to do the cleanup as best you can and then to adjust the image again to sharpen the lines and make them darker.
And you can do this over and over until you are satisfied with it.
So like, you can use an airbrush if you are careful and it is very small with the hard-edged brush. Use short strokes and they will blend together.
Use an Optical (laser) mouse. It is 10 times more accurate than a ball mouse and it never gets clogged with lint. I like mine better than my old Wacom tablet.

I like your picture.

V live long and prosper! :D