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Any tip for choosing colors? Is just, i really like the color palette that u use :3
I mainly try to remember the colour wheel and different palette types you get from it. It’s usually in the back of my mind when I’m thinking of what colours to use.
You should limit yourself to a maximum of 5 colours, at least as you’re getting comfortable with colour schemes. Less if often more with colour.
In my art, I lean towards analogous or split-complementary colours and they’re the most common. For Isha and Tashi I use only 3 or 4 distinct colours plus a neutral. Neutral colours like white, grey, black, and brown can be worked into any colour scheme and it’s good to use them to balance the drawing.
Complementary colours schemes work best when used as an accent. You tend to want the majority of the drawing to be one colour and use its opposite sparingly. For example, the majority of the drawing on the left is dark and purple, with the light green used only for the highlight.
Also, when it comes to chosing colours for light and shadow, it works best when one is warm and the other is cool, even with analogous colours. I wanted to keep the drawing on the right mostly warm and pink, but for a more diverse pallet, I used a cooler purple for shadows to contrast the warm orange light.
It helps to keep the different hues in a drawing at different brightnesses. This helps keep them distinct so they don’t fight for attention. Even when you want a piece to be bright or dark, keeping the values distinct is still important. For example, on the left, I kept the reds darker to better contrast the light yellows and mid greens, even if the pallete is overall bright.
In addition to the hue wheel, you can look at the brightness and the saturation of colours in quadrants. To balance a colour palette, I’ve found it’s best to choose from multiple quadrants.
I’d say the second pallette looks better than the first as, despite having the same hues, they have different brightnesses and saturation in contrast to being all heavily saturated and dark.
I hope this can help and if it doesn’t, there are some great resources on colour theory you can find around on the internet and I highly recommend looking those up.
Night at the Star Factory - Submitted by SeesawSiya
#a5998d #f6cf9d #b6cac3 #785362 #483451 #030126
Could I get a palette or the name Ink, please? (Preferably without black)
b8a294 || #e1d5c5 || #b18f7f || #916050 || #75404b
random thing but i realized it might be helpful for some people so uh. theres this thingy where you can upload an image and it gives you a color palette based on it !
heres an example
and it also gives you the hex code values for them too its p neat !
here’s the link to the website !
may i have a color pallet inspired by minecraft lush caves?
b38540 || #728531 || #535a2e || #3b3e19 || #655f61
Second-Hand Teabags and Second-Hand Dreams - Submitted by SeesawSiya
#3e342b #a35433 #c9994d #a9d0cf #c19ca4
How about Wren? ((My new name! 😁))
63454d || #c2887c || #936969 || #baa2a6 || #ddd7e3
hi could you do a color pallet based off the word “horrorshow” (please incorporate the color orange). thanks!!
0c0b0b || #d1611c || #9f280d || #4a1f10 || #25111a
A color palette for the name Cătălin, please?
eee9df || #e1cdc2 || #d3b1a5 || #a47f8a || #716289
Here’s a “life-hack” for you. Apparently concentrated Kool-Aid can be used as a pretty effective leather dye. I was making a drink while cutting the snaps off some new straps for my pauldrons and I got curious, so I tried it, thinking, “ok even if this works, it will just wash out.” Nope. It took the “dye” (undiluted) in about 3 seconds. After drying for about an hour and a half, it would not wash off in the hottest tap-water. It would not wash out after soaking for 30 minutes. It did not wash out until I BOILED it, and even then, only by a tiny bit and it gave it a weathered look that was kind of cool. Add some waterproofing and I’d wager it would survive even that. That rich red is only one application too. Plus it smells great, lol. So there you go, cheap, fruity smelling leather dye in all the colors Kool-Aid has to offer.
Can you make a pallette of what you're inspired when listening to Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence op 70 (1890) please? Thank you!!!
bb9971 || #ddcc9e || #bb8a5c || #a56448 || #4c423e
i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors
HEYY my 2nd color tips pdf is now available ! ^o^ hope you enjoy!
BUY HERE or HERE
hi! i made a color wheel of flight rising’s official colors for clip paint studio. download [here].
All the color palette collections I've made so far. These are on Gumroad too. Feel free to use these colors, and tag me if you'd like.
And let me know if you have a favorite set! My personal favorite is Town of Puddle.
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DEAR ARTISTS, PLEASE READ THIS POST I STUMBLED ACROSS
IF YOU ARE NOT DOING THIS ALREADY, YOU SHOULD TRY IT
I even tested it out myself, it works great
Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.
This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)
If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!
Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...
Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!
You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!
Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!
