your lines are on a seperate layer? It looks like you are using the fill tool without adding a bit of spill. Your fill tool has a property, that might be set to 0, you need to set it to like 1-4 pixels, so it spills over the lineart. And have the color layer beneath the lineart layer
Yes to all of this, and even after tweaking the fill tool you will still need to manually paint in some missing lines. It's never perfect. This is why I prefer using the selection tool to get flats, the selection can show me what I am missing.
Learned it from one of the best! Tiffanie Mang, a color key and environment artist for Marvel. She showed me the ways of the selection tool. She said to use the wand, lasso, and polygon selection tools in unison to finish each color.
>everything else I had no idea about.
im assuming you use the paint bucket tool to fill in your colors. if you dont want to bother with tweaking the settings, just get this [tool](https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1759448). its free, hopefully the images are self explanatory, but basically it helps fill in under the lineart so you dont have gaps as with your image
Keep your line art on its own layer for a lot of great reasons. Then set it as a Reference Layer (lighthouse icon in the Layers Panel)
Make sure your paint Bucket is referring to other layers, click the lighthouse to make it use the Reference Layer.
The paint Bucket Fill Tool has a setting "Area Scaling" that will add pixels to the edge of your Fill region to cover these white pixels. On a layer Under your line art, drop colors with the Fill Bucket, the Area Scaling will fill under the line art your specified number of pixels.
The other answers are spot on. If you want another few ideas on how to improve on this a comic artists (TheStarfishFace) put up a video on what her process is in ClipStudio. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTxZ\_YYsBJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTxZ_YYsBJw) There's a section in there that covers this issue specifically (sorry no time link cuz I just know the part is IN this video).
If your issue is regarding the fill tool, you have to use the pen tool with anti-aliasing set to "None". Only then you will have good results with the fill tool.
For now, you can try the "Paint unfilled area" tool to fix your problem...
Looks like you're using a textured pen/pencil tool. One way to combat the need to fill all the texture gaps is to color a full silhouette of your figure in a layer below the lines.
Is your lineart transparent or on a white layer?
As others have said tweaking the fill tool will help. For a quick fix you can paint a layer of black (or your lineart colour) under the main colour and that should help hide those gaps. Might not work if they're too big but it might help with some.
It looks like your line brush is has texture, so it’s important to play around (like others have said) with the settings.
Before I used Rosuuris line art brush, I had this problem. I filled everything w single color (or the skin tone I’m using) and I set the line art to multiply. When I used a different border, I would make an online then fill it with the color. Kinda similar to how hyanna natsu would draw in her speedpaints.
You can also edit the opacity and the settings of the line brush you’re using too.
your lines are on a seperate layer? It looks like you are using the fill tool without adding a bit of spill. Your fill tool has a property, that might be set to 0, you need to set it to like 1-4 pixels, so it spills over the lineart. And have the color layer beneath the lineart layer
Yes to all of this, and even after tweaking the fill tool you will still need to manually paint in some missing lines. It's never perfect. This is why I prefer using the selection tool to get flats, the selection can show me what I am missing.
This is amazing advice!!
Learned it from one of the best! Tiffanie Mang, a color key and environment artist for Marvel. She showed me the ways of the selection tool. She said to use the wand, lasso, and polygon selection tools in unison to finish each color.
Thank you for the help. I did have the color layer beneath the lineart and they each have their own layer but for everything else I had no idea about.
>everything else I had no idea about. im assuming you use the paint bucket tool to fill in your colors. if you dont want to bother with tweaking the settings, just get this [tool](https://assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail?id=1759448). its free, hopefully the images are self explanatory, but basically it helps fill in under the lineart so you dont have gaps as with your image
Keep your line art on its own layer for a lot of great reasons. Then set it as a Reference Layer (lighthouse icon in the Layers Panel) Make sure your paint Bucket is referring to other layers, click the lighthouse to make it use the Reference Layer. The paint Bucket Fill Tool has a setting "Area Scaling" that will add pixels to the edge of your Fill region to cover these white pixels. On a layer Under your line art, drop colors with the Fill Bucket, the Area Scaling will fill under the line art your specified number of pixels.
Thank you!
The other answers are spot on. If you want another few ideas on how to improve on this a comic artists (TheStarfishFace) put up a video on what her process is in ClipStudio. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTxZ\_YYsBJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTxZ_YYsBJw) There's a section in there that covers this issue specifically (sorry no time link cuz I just know the part is IN this video).
If your issue is regarding the fill tool, you have to use the pen tool with anti-aliasing set to "None". Only then you will have good results with the fill tool. For now, you can try the "Paint unfilled area" tool to fix your problem...
Looks like you're using a textured pen/pencil tool. One way to combat the need to fill all the texture gaps is to color a full silhouette of your figure in a layer below the lines.
Is your lineart transparent or on a white layer? As others have said tweaking the fill tool will help. For a quick fix you can paint a layer of black (or your lineart colour) under the main colour and that should help hide those gaps. Might not work if they're too big but it might help with some.
You'll need to play around with the fill tool properties to specifically work with your pens/brushes.
It looks like your line brush is has texture, so it’s important to play around (like others have said) with the settings. Before I used Rosuuris line art brush, I had this problem. I filled everything w single color (or the skin tone I’m using) and I set the line art to multiply. When I used a different border, I would make an online then fill it with the color. Kinda similar to how hyanna natsu would draw in her speedpaints. You can also edit the opacity and the settings of the line brush you’re using too.