Webtoon Line Art Coloring

This door colors line art for a Korean webtoon look. The style starts as Korean webtoon. The note asks for soft light from above, gentle color on skin and cloth, and the original ink kept. It is still a color pass on your drawing. It is not permission to redesign the face into a different person with smoother features.

Webtoon light is a falloff, not a cel wedge. Skin can carry a quiet warm-to-cool shift. Hair can have a soft band of light along the top. Cloth folds that you inked should catch that same top light. What you should not get is a new haircut, a smaller nose, or eyes moved apart because “webtoon” was interpreted as a beauty filter. If that happens, the note needs “do not change features or line placement.”

Vertical pages are tall. Color one episode beat at a time if the file is a long strip, or the model compresses the middle panels. Name the palette in clothes, not in mood words. “Lonely blue” becomes a filter on the whole strip. “Navy coat, cream shirt, cool window light from above” stays editable. Backgrounds that were simple ink shapes should stay simple. A fully rendered city dropped behind a character is a different picture.

Anime cel is the hard-edged door. Manga flats are the door you tone later. This door is the soft top light. Do not stack all three notes. A working note: “light from above, warm skin, cool shadow, navy coat, keep every ink line, do not add panels.” Match that light direction on the next strip or the scroll will flicker. If the middle of a tall file comes back muddy, split the strip and color the quiet beat on its own file. Keep the coat navy on the next beat. A new jacket color is a costume change the ink did not draw.