#how to color

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Art Tutorial| 3 coloring methods

If you're frustrated at coloring or don't know how to do the color, please check and try them. They may inspire you to find a new way. Any feedback and suggestions are welcome!

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[8pxl]

You might have already been asked something like this before, and if so if you could point me in the direction of that post I would !!! very much enjoy that but !!

How do you get your color palettes/pick out all the colors you're gonna use for a piece? At first glance it looks so 'simplistic'/like you can pick out each individual color but the longer I look at your art the more I see a billion tiny details and i'm just curious as to how you keep all of that looking so tidy!!! :0

YOUR ART IS GORGEOUS BY THE WAY AS SOON AS I CAN I'M DEFINITELY GETTING PRINTS

this is a v sloppy how to i just did (it looks like a froog loool) but basically i just make gradients then blend the colors, based on the mood i want. starting out i used a looooot of references for inspiration/colors and did a ton of studies and that helped me learn! then usually i add 'striking' complimentary colors for oomph! i also usually saturate/color correct at the end as well. hope this helps and thank you so much~~

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[amalas-tutorial-and-inspiration]

All these colors are used as variations of white in different drawings of mine.

And this is why color picking won't work if you don't understand colors and how they work in relation to each other.

Even though non of those colors are white when they stand alone, within my artwork we register them as white because they work in their surrounding.

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[amalasdraws]

Color picking skin color without considering the surrounding colors and overall tone/mood of the art work is never a good idea!

All those colors here are used as skin tones for the SAME character in various illustrations of mine.

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[jaskdraws]

I made a tutorial!

This was requested of me a while ago, so apologies for the wait! In this video I cover my entire process when it comes to coloring/drawing gold. I did my best to explain in-depth and detail how light, shadows, contrast, and color work together to create a polished gold look, applicable to any metal in art. Hopefully it's not too difficult to follow and I hope it helps!

-- ko-fi / patreon twitter / youtube

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[charon-cries]

how do you determine your color palette...? color is something i have a lot of difficulty with and i really want to learn how to at least figure out a color palette 😅

i guess another way to phrase it is how did you go about learning color theory?

the number one most helpful thing i did for myself when teaching myself to color was to realize that every artist colors differently.

i already knew color theory in advance, i memorized every word i had been told throughout every highschool art class i had taken, but knowing the actual facts and knowing how to apply them are very different skills!

if you haven't learned the facts of color theory, i highly suggest these two videos (thing 1) (thing 2). <- the most important part of watching those videos is to hold them in your head as facts. if watching them doesn't make you necessarily understand how to apply them, that's okay! these videos are to give you the skills to be able to study color.

for a simple example, when it comes to picking colors based off the mood of your piece, pretty much everyone knows that blue will make an image feel more sad and emotional. yellow feels happy, red feels angry, pink feels affectionate.

a great way to teach yourself how to APPLY mood through color is to go back to a drawing you're already very proud of, and just mess around recoloring it. pick one thing you want to work on and try to use your color choices change the emotional effect of the piece.

it's incredibly helpful to use a piece that you have already colored, preferably one you're the most proud of. this is so that you aren't stressing yourself thinking about things like proportion or composition, and allows you to think solely about your color choices.

here's my example! for this example, my goal was to make this one feel far more bleak than my original finished piece.

i achieved this change by shifting the colors to all be more cold and desaturated, as well as making the blacks of his undershirt and tie look more washed out. most people associate cool colors with sadness, and dull colors with defeat. mixing those two makes the mood more bleak. color placement can also change a lot— for this version, i placed a lot of the blush color (which i desaturated significantly) higher up his face, which gives him a more horrified and thoughtful expression

once you've done exercises like this once or twice, a great way to decide how you want to color is to find out how other people pick their colors. one way to do this is color picking studies, and another is to watch youtube videos like this one where an artist explains their personal thought process while choosing colors.

if you'd like to know how i, personally, go about picking my colors, i would be happy to make a separate post outlining my process! it would take a pretty long time, though, because a lot of my process is to not leave things alone until i'm satisfied with how they look

the thing about being a self-taught artist is that everyone tells you that the way to get better is to "just practice," but that's not the whole story! art is a skill you have to build, and i've found the most effective ways to improve are to do studies, and to learn how to spot your mistakes and problem-solve until you can fix them.

i hope this was a good way to get you started on learning how to internalize and apply color theory! the more you study, and the more you learn, the better your results will be

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[doodles-kit]

Reverse 1999 OC!!

TypeWriter

"A rascal, a nuisance, a bother. There's a lot of synonyms to describe this woman's disastrous nature. Though despite that, she has proven herself to be capable."

Her Arcane Skill allows her to materialize/summon ghost like creatures. Her most often summon are 3 rats.

Damage: Reality

Role: DPS / Nasty Wound / Burst Dmg

[I'll post on the Incantations someday.]

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[chordsykat]

Thought I'd show you guys what goes through my head during my coloring process this morning.

Starting with this picture, you can see how I start with my line art, and even at the beginning phases, I'm blocking out colors for some of my lines. This just helps my brain keep things "on track" as I color. The next step in the process, this time, was to block out the "main shadows". You can see I did an overlay of red as my shadow (since this was indeed going to be a very red image), and the highlights were a graphical "cross" across the body, guitar and cape with only light highlights on the rest of the main figure. This sort of shading can make a big impact and figuring out how light hits things can be a lot of fun to learn.

In the next row, you can see how I block out colors (again on a separate layer) and the middle image combines the layers (the blocked colors are on the bottom, then the lines, and the top shadow layer is set to "Multiply"). I erased the shadow from her eyes, entirely. I add the fake blood on a separate layer. Liquid, and especially blood (real or fake) has its own "rules" about how lights work, so I just find this easier. to manage on its own. The blood layer is also set to "Multiply". Also, note how the perspective really gets amplified when those stage lights and rafters are added at the top.

The final shots are adding more highlights and shadows to the piece, to make them pop. The inverted crosses are just red and the have an red "Outer Glow" on their layer. Same with the little "sparks" I guess you'd call them, that fly in front of and behind Caj. The red flood lights are a bright red gradient that is set to "Screen". The additional shadows are there to add more contrast, and they are done in a light purple layer that's set to "Multiply".

Thanks for looking :D

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[jaeharuart]

Tutorial sheet. One of my personal methods I use to color over greyscale. Just thought I'd share. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JaeHaruArt?fan_landing=true Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/jaeharuart

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[jjaydazo]

Some additional notes

You can use full black shading on some other purpose, point, or use. Some peeps use the black shade and they turn that layer into overlay. Or use this shade to give it a darker gray depressive tone in the art.

This is just my method in colouring stuff. You can take my advice if ya want, of course you'll eventually find a style that would suite your way to Color.

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[jandoesart]

How I Choose Colors.

Choosing colors is one of my favorite parts of drawing. It can really pull a piece together and help portray a mood. There are so many different ways to go about color there is no way I would be able to go over them all. I can go over 2 of my favorites that I tend to use the most in my work though. This is going to be a longer post but I do hope that you stick around. I am not a professional artist so some of the terms I use may not be 100% accurate but I do hope that I can get my point across.

Muted Color schemes.

When trying to convey themes of sadness I will often go with cooler colors. Using muted tones can also help bring about a sort of calmness as they aren't as striking to the eyes.

On the left, the colors are warmer, and while we can see on his face he is experiencing some sort of sadness, the overall color scheme of the image doesn't necessarily convey that. In my opinion, a warmer color scheme is much better for conveying happier moods. it shows more comfort and joy.

On the right, the colors are cooler and it makes the drawing look colder. It makes it feel a bit more like he is feeling isolated and his environment reflects his sadness.

Having a warm background and a cool character(or vice versa) may introduce an interesting contrast though. I haven't tried it myself much but now that I am thinking about it, I think it could work well to show how a character feels versus the way the world is around them.

RED.

A lot of the time when I use saturated reds in a drawing it's supposed to portray some sort of shock factor. I haven't used it much lately but I will show you an older piece I drew for someone that utilized a lot of red.

In this piece the shock is supposed to come from the fact that this character is not completely human. The red sort of aids in this as it introduces a certain air of danger. The cracked mirror portrays the shattering of a facade and that general Idea.

Red can also be used to aid in portraying one character being the one inducing fear or a character being angry. This color language can be used with other colors as well such as yellow showing joy and blue showing tranquility or peace.

Anyway, those are the top two ways I choose colors. I hope that this helped, even if just a little.

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[nicstylus]

Someone messaged me asking me how I do stuff I use Clip Studio... But I always recommend Krita instead Literally... I don't use anything else with the exception of some pattern brushes (rarely)

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[overwatch1]

this is more like a tip then a tutorial but wtvr

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[diviii3]

Again with those watercolours

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[koifishart]

Work with hair 😺 of my sweet'n'spicy Shiro Kitsune ❤️

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[kavaleyre]

• The Hanged Man •

“Compared to what Falin went through? This is nothing.”

#my art #laios touden #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi laios #hanged man #falin touden #dungeon meshi spoilers #cw blood #walk it off kid walk it off #I really thought hanged man was a good choice for this moment #hanged man is all about sacrifice and introspection and intuition #and a moment of trials that lead to clarity #also when he was falling??? with the blood out of the dragons mouth??? #stunning #i love him so much #the line art for this was so fast and then I colored and revolted the flats for like. 20 hours #like how it turned out in the end tho #kavaleyre