OK SO i get asked about colors a lot and i’m really sorry i am so lame at giving detailed answers SO I’M GONNA ATTEMPT TO FORMULATE SOME„, BASIC TIPS I GUESS
LET ME JUST START OUT BY SAYING i’m not really a very skilled or fancy or formally educated artist (shocking i know) and i don’t take drawing very seriously, BUT I HOPE A FEW THINGS I HAVE SAY WILL HELP YOU(extra commentary in case anything is hard to read, here is the whole thing in one pic and not an obnoxious photoset)
1. HAVE FUN WHEN YOU ARE COLORING JEEZ don’t loose hair over trying really hard to study and adsorb shading and lighting ‘ruuuules’!! and while enough basic understanding is obviously important and necessary in creating believable and realistic pieces, being creative is also really important as well!! the bottom line of art is that there ARE no rules, and if you really do want to be happy with your work, i find a lot of satisfaction arises in knowing i made something only /I/ could make!! and besides, if i didn’t have fun making art, then i wouldn’t do it, frankly
2. PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT TONE YOUR COLORS PORTRAY this is especially true for people and expressions and setting
since color is such a big part of a piece, it also plays a big role in setting the tone of your work!! take a minute to evaluate the context of whatever you’re drawing and then try to see what colors would best parrallel that! and especially don’t be afraid to venture into palettes you don’t normally use!! but once you choose a palette that matches the tone of your work BE SURE TO STICK WITH IT so it is contiguous in both the background and foreground
(i used twilight princess and skyward sword as an example, i hope my analysis makes sense)
3. be sure to scribble with and test how colors look together BEFORE you take them to your lines!! and finally HAVE FUN WITH YOUR COLORING i know i already said this but it’s simply tragic when an artist becomes bored/uninterested/frustrated with colors ahhh!!! remember that every artist has different coloring styles so try you best to observe others’ techniques!! pay attention to what you like about them, but ALSO pay attention to what you dislike!!
practice a lot of styles, and ask around which programs/brush settings artists use if you find yourself interested in them!! i’m sorry i can’t help you with more technicalities, but learning for yourself is also half the fun!! plus i’m a lazy motherfucker and i’m bad a tutorials anyway
OKKKKAAY THANKS FOR READING OLLIE OUT
skintone palettes
Oh hell yes
BLESS
Ooh! nifty!
look how helpful this chart is wow wonderful A++
Okay, one thing I’ve been meaning to put up as a color tutorial is this, because my other color tutorial used a pre-made one.
THE 70% OPACITY SETTING IS YOUR BEST FRIEND FOR MAKING A COLOR PALETTE FROM SCRATCH.
This is what I do when I’m not working off a premade color palette. I put down a big chunk of one solid color, brown, red, gray-blue, green, whatever. Think about the lighting here, the overall tone you want everything to be. Red is sexy and warm, blue is contemplative and serious, gold is rich. Then you think about which colors you’ll probably be using: set your opacity to 70% and put down a little streak of red, blue, gray, white, black, green, etc. Bam, you’re done; you have one neatly unified little palette to use. If you want the colors to be even softer and more alike, use 50% color. Then use the eyedropper tool for the rest of the picture.
The top bar of colors shows the way a garish rainbow can be tinted to fit. The red and whites are all different, see? And the lower bar shows that I put down a handful of completely random colors to start with, then just mixed them up on the fly. Each of those schemes would make a different sort of tone for the picture they colored in, but they’d all be unified and wouldn’t clash. It’s quick, it’s simple, it’s easy, and it really, really pays off.
I just realized that I hit over 1k followers ; u ;/ I have no idea where you guys came from, but thank you so much ♥ fjdksfs!
Been asked numerous times over the past few months to make a tutorial on how I color and stuff. I have never really made one before so yeah fjksdfs;;;
You do not have to rely on my info if you find it confusing or pointless ; 3 ; ♥ If you have any other questions, please let me know!
Reminder: Pony Raffle
Beginnings - By Hana*
#A2C0AC #B5C5A6 #CECAAC #E8D5B8 #F6DABF
Oh boy I hope I did this right. Since Anon asked, here’s a hasty tutorial on how I do flat colors. This is also how I color pretty much everything in my webcomic. Now you know my secrets!
reference for the pallettes of the homestuck characters (except for black and white for obvious reasons) because it gets annoying when i want to draw them and i have to go dig out panels to use the colours from
i know i missed out some things and it’s poorly laid out idgaf
THANK THE LORD JESUS.
its like fucking christmas up in here
kisses tumblr on the cheek
OH MY GOD I’VE NEEDED THIS FOR YEARS ;A; THANK YOU
for anyone who is good enough at art to actually draw people, here u go
now imma go back to drawing SHITTY BEARS OR WHATEVER
Reblogging for Art Bros
This is a clever way to establish a pallet! I never would have thought of this.
(tutorial)
i just did a cool thing that i think would be useful if you’re like me and sometimes have a hard time picking colours / a colour scheme for an image
basically i just took a brush with moderate spacing, turned on colour dynamics and set all the hue/sat/brightness to a low (~10%-30%) jitter, picked a base colour, and drew a line down the side of the canvas
it’s sort of like when some people save colour swatches so they can keep their shading consistent, but more for playing around with different tones and lighting on a single surface. it’ll probably be pretty good for skin which is very multi-tonal by nature.
a lot of colours came out that i probably wouldn’t have picked manually, but they still looked pretty cool. and it saves a lot of time because now i have a broad range of colours without having to browse through my pantone swatches or open up the colour picker.
I’m not sure why I just found out about this but….amazing! So fast and simple!
Just in case you forget this exists.
Reblogging cause I need this.
Badly.
Stars - By TalkingZipperMonster
#160D2C #373960 #82697C #ECF7CF
pirouette-off-the-fucking-handle:
I just figured that I should make a nice color palette chart from the GIMP palette that I have saved of the God Tier outfits’ color schemes.
Each palette is seven colors; the first two are shades for the hood color, the next two are (typically) for the upper torso, the last two are (also typically) for the lower torso, and finally the last color is the symbol’s color.
Oh yes good reference thank you <3
this is really brilliant
