This tutorial demonstrates my method for preparing a scanned pencil drawing for digital colouring. It shows how you can convert your drawing into a purely black-and-white outline that can be filled with colour, as well as how to set up your image for separate background and subject layers, and also how you can preserve your original pencil outline in your final picture.

This step-by-step video takes you through the stages of my technique for adding shading and lighting effects to my pictures. The tutorial shows you how to set up layers, what different brush options do, how to apply shading/lighting and carry out blending, and how to tidy up your work at the end. The whole process takes many hours, but I have cut this down to around 15 minutes of the essentials which you can view in real-time as I carried them out on this picture.

This time-lapse video demonstrates my technique for shading pictures once they have been coloured, using multiple players and a combination of Paint Brush, Airbrush and Smudge Brush tools. The clip is about 3½ minutes long and runs at about 64x of realtime speed - the actual process took around 3 hours and 45 minutes.