Coloring issue

[lone umbra]

I made some lineart and i tried to color it, but it hides all of the lines and details of the drawing, it now looks like a blob of vague shapes, how do prevent this?

[whole knot]

Thicker lineart

And if your colors are dark

Like in that drawing

You can sometimes invert them to be white or some other lighter color

Ofc then you need a background too

[whole knot]

But this above all

Vary your line thickness

A good rule of thumb is to thicken where lines meet

You have very very fine lines in that, that's why they get hard to see

[lone umbra]

Do i trace it from hand or there is an automatic way?

Exxluding the variating thickness part

Because thats manual

[whole knot]

I don't really do digital

So I can't tell

You should search for some tutorials on yt

There's probably a few on digital lineart

[lone umbra]

@whole knot i did thicken it and thickened where the lines meet, but it didn't solve everything, i still don't see the body shape that i like in the lineart

Should i change the line color?

[lone umbra]

@fair bolt with the color, i don't see the sharpness, the menacing stance, it looks weak in comparison

Idk why

It isn't imposing

[fair bolt]

Usually when i try to make my subject more menacing i would use a more dramatic lighting

[lone umbra]

I still have to shade yes, i was trying to solve this problem first

[fair bolt]

Idk it's hard to tell from just base layer

[lone umbra]

Base layer?

[whole knot]

It looks fine to me, honestly

[whole knot]

He means the drawing with only flat colors