How to color your drawings perfectly?

For some of you guys who loves drawing, like me, some of you has problems with coloring (for those who doesn’t, good for you guys! :D) I have lots of trouble using crayons, color pencils, water colors and the hardest of all, the oil pastels. In using crayons and color pencils, it’s really hard to maintain even strokes. With water colors, you must have a really good paper or else the drawing will be crippled. For the oil pastels, it’s the mess that makes it really hard blending. Because I was really frustrated with how my drawings turned out ruined, I tried to look for ways to make them look neat and like those in cartoons. Well, it’s quite complicated but achieving perfection is never easy right?  Let’s color this drawing I scanned (I traced with using a 0.5 sign pen) using Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) and Paint.

Step 1:
Open the applications MicrosotPowerpoint and Paint.

Step 2:
Copy the drawing to PPT.

Step 3: 

Double click on the picture it will bring you to the Format menu for Picture tools.Click the Corrections icon and a drop down will show. Select the last option. This is done to clean the pictures and make the lines even.

Step 4:

Copy the drawing to Paint. Then, go to Properties. Simply press Ctrl+E and a pop-up window will show up.  Click the button beside the option Black and white under Colors and click OK.  Another pop-up window will show then click OK.

After clicking OK, you will notice that the lines of the drawing became thicker with scattered dots so we need to clean it. In erasing the dots, you need to use the eraser tool and erase them manually. After you have cleaned your drawing, go back to Properties and click the button aligned with the option Color under the Colors option. By that point you can now color your drawing freely and make necessary adjustments in your drawing in Paint.

If you want to step up the colors of your drawing, you can do it in PPT. All you need to have are files of pictures, patterns, backgrounds, etc. that you desire to use in your drawing. The following are the steps that in doing so.

Step 1:

Open MS PPT.

Step 2:

Copy the drawing that you have colored in Paint and paste it in PPT

Step 3:
I choose to change the color of the tail with a pattern so to do this, click twice the picture and the Format tab for Picture Tool will open. Click the Color icon and on the drop down menu, select Set Transparent Color. A distinct pointer will appear. click on the tail and it will become transparent.

Step 4:
Right click on the picture and select Format Picture and a window will open.

Click Fill, and then click the button for Picture or texture fill. Click the File button and another window will open. Go to the location of the desired background.Once you found it, select it and click Open.

It will turn out like this. 

If you’re still not contented, for example, you want to use another background for the hair. You cannot repeat the same steps right away. Open Paint. Copy the picture from PPT and paste it to Paint. Copy the picture again from Paint and paste it back to PPT. this is done to remove the formatting of the picture because you can only set a transparent color once. After this, you can now do the same steps you did to change the color of the tail in changing the color of the hair.

To save the picture, right click on the picture and then select Save as Picture option. A pop-up window will show up. Type in your desired file name and then click Save. This is the final output. I hope that you learned something from reading this. May you be able to use this technique with your future projects. Have a nice day my dear readers! 