How Do You Color In Your Traditional Pieces? I Love How You Do It!

How do you color in your traditional pieces? I love how you do it!

I'm not sure if I can explain this well, but I'll try!

1. What i first do is line it in two shades of brown, then I'll put the base colours down. Why I do this is because the brown would give it a softer look and putting down your base colours are well, its ment to be a base.

2. For shading I'd use any colour exept gray! Using different colours would make it more interesting to look at but gray is still an option if that's what you're going for, I'd usually use pink or purple for most of my art when I don't have the character in a specific setting. There are additional things you could add, like putting orange to make the pink shading more warm toned or putting blue to make it more cooler , I like to add green sometimes in highlighted areas for extra detail.

A good way to learn how to shade is to use a gray scale, its when you only use black and white. It helps teach you to know where to put the shading and highlights.

3. I use a white gel pen to highlight and separate areas to help make them stand out when they blend into eachother.

Sometimes you'll see me use textures in my art, you'd only want to use textures when you use very simple shading or no shading at all. If you do use textures on detailed shading then it'll clash together to Much and give you a headache (i know this from experience.)

Here's an example with a bad drawing.

Some smaller things I do is go over it again after the base with the same colour to where I want the shaded areas to be. You can see this a lot on the green. I slowly build up the shading to lightest to dark.

I hope this was helpful for you, sorry if your unclear on some parts. I'm not best at explaining things.

Honestly I don't know when I'll get wilds character sheet done, could be tomorrow or a week from now. So here's a sneak peak of his design. I'll let others try and figure out which hero he is although its kinda obvious.

Misplaced heroes au

I'm not quite sure how to make the image smaller

I saw someone post something similar to this on discord and decided to take inspiration from it

Twilight as the hero of warriors

I didn't really expect a lot of people to like my designs but thank you! I'd thought I'd give some more information about the links for the au since not a whole lot was in their character sheets.

Legend (four) - during his first quest he had to pull the master sword but it was almost the size of him, so he didn't take it. When legend (four) went to the dark world and stumbled upon the palace of the four sword. He took it (there weren't any dark links in the palace, youll now why once I get another character done.)

Sky (wind) - I thought of making him older then 15 since itll make more sense, and I don't want a group of teenager heros. So instead hell be 17-18. I'm still trying to figure out more about him but if anyone has any ideas then just let me know :)

Its not a lot but I'm trying not to spoil other characters and I'm still making the story. Anyways this post is getting long so ill split this into another one

I love your Misplaced Heroes AU so much. I love the designs you gave them. I think Hyrule as the Hero of Winds is my favorite so far. It just suits him.

I'm glad to hear that you like it so much :)) and honestly same though, the idea that he's a sailor and can't swim is hilarious to me.