What do u use to color your drawings with?

[*Hope*]

What do u use to color your drawings with?? Does anybody have any suggestions? When you talk about "ink" what do u mean?

[Rashiir]

Sharpie!

[Kirika]

I use openCanvas (http://www.portalgraphics.net) but I'll probably get Photoshop........................someday XD

[Spencer]

It depends...For digital color (rare), I use PhotoShop. How did I get my paws on Photoshop? Luck! But for "organic" art (I think it was Archan who came up with that one...), I outline with an India Ink pen, then color with colored pencil for the most part.

[Gypsy]

But for "organic" art (I think it was Archan who came up with that one...)

Yup, that was Archan all right. I use photoshop LE and 7 for my digital stuff. Lately, I've been using Sakura inking pens (brush tipped and fine tipped) as well as Prismacolor colored pencils for my organic art.

[Mave]

Photoshop ImageReady/Photoshop 7.0 for CG, like my signature below..

Apart from that, color pencils, cheap markers (those you can pick off any big supermarket like Walmart). Just don't have money

Examples:
http://www.geocities.com/yumialone/touya.html
http://www.geocities.com/yumialone/shishi.html

[StarMasayume]

For digital art, I used to use paint shop pro, but have turned off that (the brushwork is acting really slow for me in it) in favor of photoshop elements 2.0 that came with my tablet CD. It's kind of small... the painting is similar to the regular photoshop--just in a dinkier way. I'll live with it until I can get my hands on photoshop.

For other means of coloring... I mostly been using colored pencils so far. I got prismacolors recently, but most of my colored pencils so far that have been done were the cheaper ones I dug out of the garage somewhere. Some of my colored pencils are....

Crystal
Earthwoman
Christmas Display
Ruby the Elf

When I was just starting to want to color things... well, I couldn't try anything as daring as paints (though I'm working on getting into acrylics and watercolors), and colored pencils were the only thing I had around the house besides crayons.. I've gotten to like some of the results I've gotten with the colored pencils.

Personally, there's an artist online whose art I adore and she uses a very interesting combination that I really want to try... she uses markers for the main character or subject, and then uses water colors for the backgrounds--and it made a really nice final affect. ^_^

--star

[Rashiir]

When I said Sharpie before, I was just kidding, but I was watching the special features on the Cowboy Bebop movie the other day and I noticed that the head artist for CB uses Sharpie to ink his stuff in.

[inkhana]

There is one point I'd like to bring up. I heavily HEAVILY discourage people from using Sharpies, not because they're terrible to use or I haven't used them myself, but five years from now, your pics may turn blue or yellow, and the paper will begin to erode from the acid in the ink (this has happened to me). My suggestion is to use acid free pens (I use the brand Sakura/Micron or something like that, I believe). Or ink digitally...that's even better! (You can clean up stupid mistakes...^^) Anything you would use in, say, scrapbooking would be much better to do your artwork in. Although the stuff is a little bit more expensive, it will pay off in the long run because your artwork will be preserved.