BJake said:

Yooo, people get pissy as shizzles over colorists, it sucks for real. I may not be a colorist but I know DAMNNNNNNN well I hate coloring, shit. Being a colorist is a damn worthy of the title artist. It is hard work and something some people literally get paid to do by the artists who drew the lines.

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Considering the fact that it is a legitimate job.

I recently saw a comic artist(Pet Foolery, amazing comics, recommended) and he pays a colorist to make it easier on himself. So yeah, you're an artist, and you're handy indeed.

-Sweet-Poison- said:

even at that some people cant do lines very well(me) but are DAMN good at coloring them- and making sure the colors line up, the shading and everything else is difficult!

Long Wang said:

I agree with BJake. I knew someone who loved coloring so much she would have taken any job where all she had to do was color. I grew up among coloring sheets and printed linearts. It takes a certain skill to color a lineart the same way it takes a certain skill to create the lineart itself. It is the same difficulty, if not harder, to truly color something unique than to line-art something. Line-arts can be traced or reused. The best designs are truly unique to themselves. As a fellow colorist/artist, I understand how under-appreciated most colorists are. I'm sorry you had to go through this.