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For years I struggled with painting and coloring. Mainly because I couldn't separate the color theory from the ideas that go into the rendering (like and shadow/texture). Once I moved them into two schools of thought...coloring became easier to understand. It's still something I'm working on and trying to get better at so I thought it would be fun to share one of my tricks with you. For me coloring can be approached as a graphic design problem. How do I pick the right color combo for my design. In some respects I believe the right color combos keyed to the emotion of the piece is more important than the rendering.
I keep a palette of color combos that I can pull from no matter what rendering style I use. With a few tweaks I created some combos I plan to use on future BLAST pieces. I have provided them as a download for you to experiment with. Have fun!
The original:
The line art for you to color:
I keep a palette of color combos that I can pull from no matter what rendering style I use. With a few tweaks I created some combos I plan to use on future BLAST pieces. I have provided them as a download for you to experiment with. Have fun!
The original:
The line art for you to color:
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I struggle with color theory so much myself especially when trying to work digitally. It's like there's some kind of disconnect between what I can do traditionally with pens and paper versus having an unlimited palette at my fingertips digitally. Maybe I just get overwhelmed with the enormity of the digital medium or something and I just need to slow down and simplify.
This is very cool and helpful as I too get hung up on tonal qualities and volume without even having a set color palette. Probably why I have such a hard time of it. Thanks man.
This is very cool and helpful as I too get hung up on tonal qualities and volume without even having a set color palette. Probably why I have such a hard time of it. Thanks man.