Recently, Painting like this. (2001 Spring)
1-1. Drafting with blue pencil
 Following editor's O.K. on my rough sketch, I start making draft. In this case, Farber Castell's Col-erase pencil and STAEDTLER's color leads for mechanical pencil were used for drawing. Always I prefer using Col-erase pencil than mechanical pencil, but the STAEDTLER's leads are easier to obtain in local store near by.
1-2. Inking and Scanning
 I ink the drawing with mapping pen (NIKKO) and Manga-black ink (KURETAKE).It's an advantage using blue pencil for draft that you can easily find detail lines not inked yet. Correcting mistake with white follows inking. The inked drawing is scanned in without erasing draft line. The scanning condition is 300 ppi of RGB.
1-3. Erase draft lines
 When you make draft with blue pencil, you can erase blue draft lines easily by removing R and G channels from channel palette. When R channel is removed first, names of rest channels (G and B) will change to magenta and yellow. After removing magenta channel further followed by changing mode of rest yellow channel to gray scale, you will get gray scale line art, from which draft lines are gone. Then the Level correction is done as usual scanned gray scale line art to make the contrast clearer.
1-4. Moving line art on other layer and coloring with Painter
 I transfer line art to a new layer by making a selection from original line art on background layer and then filling the selection on the new layer with dark brown. The data (background + line art layer) is saved in Photoshop format, then is opened again with Painter. I put base color on background layer, then add shadows and highlights roughly.
1-5. Changing color of line art
 After moving to line art layer and checking "Preserve Transparency" box in Layer palette, I change the color of line art partially according to background by tracing line art with thick "Pencil" brush. For example, light brown and purple were chosen for the lines on girl's hair and shirt respectively.
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