Adding colour

The next step is adding colour. Create a new layer below the ones which contain your strokes, to make it easy to colour between them. You can either use an airbrush or pencil brush to colour the image, by painting on this layer, or you can use the “fill path” button (the black circle on the paths panel) to fill them for you. Note that fill path will only work reliably on paths that are closed (those where the end point joins the start point). You can also fill with preset patterns using this method, by changing the options in “fill path…”