I made some minor fixes to Snow White’s face and cleaned up the line work on the house today.

After compressing all the inking layers into one, I removed any white so the layer was transparent. Then I fiddled around until I found the buttons needed to change the layers from black and white to color.

This took far longer than I like, as a long time Photoshop and Illustrator user, I have come to expect things to be in certain places and to act in certain ways.

I don’t know why I am not finding Manga Studio’s interface less intuitive for me, but the time spent learning where all the tools are and how to make them function the way I want is taking a major portion of my ‘drawing’ time.

I feel good with the amount of progress I made today. I hope I will have time to get back to the illustration before next week, but because of my schedule for the next several days it seems unlikely. I hope the time away from the program doesn’t slow me down again.

All-in-all, I am quite pleased with the program’s capabilities once I figure them out, but a good tutorial would be something I would appreciate. The tutorials I have been able to find are either too generic or assume the viewer is already familiar with the tool pallets. I would love some lessons on how and where all the tools are and how to make them work. I guess I’ll have to do it the old fashioned way. By trail and error.