Shading Colour Tips

shading colour tips

hey yall its me the Art Mom™ to help you shade pretty

rule 1: DO NOT SHADE WITH BLACK. EVER. IT NEVER LOOKS GOOD. 

red- shade with a slightly darker shade of purple

orange- slightly darker and more saturated shade of red

yellow- i think like..a peach could work but make it a really light peach

green- shade with darker and less saturated shade of blue or teal

blue- shade with purple

purple- a shade thats darker than the purple you’re using and maybe a little pink (MAYBE blue)

pink- darker shade of red

white- a really light lavender or blue..or i guess any really light colour??

black- okay listen dont use pure black to colour anything unless you want to leave it with flat colours because you cant really shade black lol

grey- a slightly darker shade of purple or blue (less saturated)

brown- slightly darker and less saturated shade of purple or red

aaaaand thats all i got lol. let me know if there is anything i should add to this list!!

Just a quick tip to artists

If you’re an artist who likes to work really close, (like me), do yourself a favor and put up two views. You can do this by clicking View–> New on your toolbar.

There’s nothing worse than finally zooming out and realizing what you were doing was very wrong. This saved me a lot of grief tbh. I’m sure everyone knows this already but ._.;; I arrived quite late to that party.

Rocks

Ah, don’t you love them, rocks. So fun to animate too.

If you’re into drawing pixel art rocks, boy does Patreon got you covered.

The above was a joke posted by Pedro ‘Saint11’ Medeiros (on Tumblr as the game dev team @studiominiboss) before releasing his real rock formations tutorial.

Pedro’s is probably the #1 Patreon page to follow and support if you’re into condensed tutorials about pixel art. Even though they seem on the surface as being about different concrete things to draw, they hold an even stronger underlying narrative about pixel art style.

Follow Saint11 on Patreon and Twitter.

Nauris Amatnieks a.k.a. @namatnieks​ is a newcomer on Patreon and also has some hard knowledge to share with you. His tutorials stand out by also showing weaker ways of completing each step, things you’re usually looking to avoid.

Follow Namatnieks on Pateron and Twitter.

Finally, a fellow Deviant who I’ve been following for a long time, Kat ‘RHLPixels’, completes the current rock trend with her newest tutorial. In good old DeviantArt fashion, the format is a long image instead of the eye-catching GIFs popularized by Pedro. There’s plenty of more of these old-shool long-reads in her DeviantArt album Palettes and Tutorials.

Follow RHLPixels on Patreon and Twitter.

This week: Form follows function! You can tell a lot about a bird by its wings.

Palette generator for all your paletting needs

palette generator

@chub-deer​ sent this ask to my raritwi blog but I thought it would be better to answer it here. I can’t really give a full walk through but here are some pro tips: -Move that hue slider around. Even if you only adjust it by a little bit just get comfortable moving it around frequently  -Ditch your sketch as soon as you can. Like, as soon as you can tell where all the parts are without your sketch, leave it. It’s okay to turn it back on every now and then if you need it but it usually gets in the way of you seeing what your painting looks like. -If your painting is looking too light or too dark you can always use the magic of digital art to save you, just move a exposure/colour depth/whatever slider around till it looks right again -Learn to render simple shapes like cubes and spheres on their own if your having trouble with painting a character. Also if you’re having trouble figuring out how light should hit them, cel shading is a good thing to practice -Don’t export paintings as gifs. Seriously this thing looks like trash and is making me angry as I type -Don’t be afraid to paint over stuff you’ve already put time into if you don’t think it’s working out -Stay hydrated this is kinda a broad overview of what I’m doing? idk lemme know if there are more specific things you want me to cover