Megatokyo is Fred Gallagher's web comic. It's wonderful. Some references to tutorials and coloring guides follow at the end of this page ...

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Chapter 9
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Chapter 8
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Why MTCGAC?

A group of us who read the strip like to add a bit of color to Fred's work. Why not? A single person could color the entire strip, and some people do; that's fine. We think it's interesting to let people do one panel each, independently, and then put the panels together to form a sort of collage. Sure, the color of the shirts or the tint of hair may vary from start to finish, but this variety allows us to see a range of ways to interpret the ideas and action of the comic. It also helps us to learn from each other.

If you're interested in coloring MT strips -- or anything, for that matter -- you might enjoy

• Sample MT character colors
• Examples of "official" colored images of main MT characters
• The Photoshop ABC of CG-ing a very basic guide to your first CG by wordwarrior
• Yone's CG Tutorial and the references it provides
• Bert Monroy's Step-by-Step guides
• Shinmeko's Guide to CGing (posted in MT's Story Discussion forum on Feb 23, 2005 )
• Omnilynx's tutorial, first mentioned in an MT Story Discussions post on Oct 23, 2006
  • in Word format
  • in PDF format
• Shannon M. provides several examples to CGing MT panels.
  • Shannon's guide to CGing hair which originally appeared in an MT Story Discussions post on Oct 21, 2006.
  • Another tutorial focusing on colors and shading which originally appeared in an MT Story Discussion post on Dec 4, 2006.
• Color settings in Photoshop , mentioned by hikaru99.
• Zambi's "Cellshading Like Zammies" cel-style shading tutorial
• Color Choice in Anime CGs is just one chapter in a comprehensive Tutorial for CGing Anime
• Using the GIMP to color drawings uses a panel from strip 940 in its example. The document is in PDF format.
• Hikaru99 explains briefly how to add light rays to a panel.
• Using Pixia to CG comics by moogs. Originally posted to an MT Story Discussions thread.
• Tutorials by SerenaC . Each is a single, very large PNG image.
  • Serena's Awesome Skin Tutorial discusses the shading of skin.
  • Serena's Wavy/Straight Hair Tutorial discusses the coloring of hair.
• Kaorien's guide to coloring hair which was originally posted on her LiveJournal site.
• Monochrome's guide to using MS Paint for CG'ing which was originally posted on his DeviantART page.
• Spoonifur's "Coloring in Photoshop" poster which was originally posted on her DeviantArt page.
• Spoonifur recommends highly a coloring tutorial by Arne Niklas Jansson. You can find a local copy of it if the original moves.
• MuffinLurver has written a two-part tutorial focusing on skin and hair. You can find the original on her DeviantArt page
  • skin and hair shading tutorial, part 1 (JPG image)
  • skin and hair shading tutorial, part 2 (JPG image)
• Hellrose recommends this tutorial for coloring eyes.
  • getty's tutorial on DeviantArt .

You can follow the discussion or join the effort by looking in the MT Story Discussion Forum. Yone has also created a place where you can our work; see Yone's MTCGAC page. Electronerd's MTCGAC Super Mix-O-Matic lets you mix-and-match panels by individual artists. Finally, Scientision's giant CG database contains a cornucopia of work by many artists.