For the purpose of hiring, we're offering up
three templates for you to play with: The Buck, the Filly, and the Moth. Click their images below to download them for use:
These templates are very different from what most b/c artists are used to: they do not merely use shading and multiply layers. Instead, layers must be recolored by hand and markings applied either with masks or the eraser tool. As such, we
strongly suggest you use
photoshop, but
paint shop pro or the GIMP may work as well.
More information about how to use the templates can be found in
this post in our long-closed Color Your Own Event, where we go into the methods
we use. You can also stop in on any of the artists' streams, and are welcome to ask questions during as to our process!
It is important that you pick colors by hand and use our method.It is impossible to get breedings to look right using the classic templated multiply layers method, so you
must play with layer masks to be a colorist at Matope!
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(moth based on winter prompt)
