Talk:From Sketch to Screen - Basic Computer Colouring on MS Paint/@comment-35181954-20180511084839/@comment-11163511-20180511100651

It depends on what program you chose to use, how detailed the outfit is, how refined you want your lineart to be and what tools you have (as in whether you’re using a tablet, with a stylus or not or a mouse). On MS Paint, you can use the method described here or another way of creating lineart based on your sketch is to draw it in black on your sketch then changing the image properties to “Black and White”, like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQVjVE1siq8 .If you’re not confident with using a mouse, you should try using the curve tool to draw it then refine the pixels later. There are many pixel art tutorials which usually can help you when using MS Paint.

On better art programs such as Photoshop, FireAlpaca, MediBang and many others, you should be able to create more than one layer, so draw on separate layers for your lineart, colors and effects such as shading, which you can merge or blend later on.