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I have only recently discovered the fun of markers. Really fun way to colour. I like messing around. I get to feel messy as I do this, too

I have only recently discovered the fun of markers. Really fun way to colour. I like messing around. I get to feel messy as I do this, too

Yeehaw

Just trying to figure out a good colour palette for these characters, but it ended up spiraling a bit out of hand

For some practice getting back into art, we decided to do a colouring book page and turned it into Link.

(Colouring book info after the break)

Colouring book: Winged Fantasy Special by Colouring Heaven

Base linework: Forest Archer

A Lovely Blue Dress

Cos you know, what the world needs right now is a David Grusch colouring in sheet ...

David Grusch colouring in printable on Etsy

#hippogriff #bust #sketch and #featherstudy for a #creaturedesign I've been working on. The scan might be a little bad so I fear I'll have to rip the page out to get the best scan for #colouring In this #design I've put traits from horses, seriema, indent.terror bird and a little bit of harpy eagle. And the beard of the lammergaia #fantasycreature #griffin #gryphon #art #illustration

Hello!!

☆Noodle post of the day, still working on storyboard, colours and now... thumbnail sketches! To test how I want the overall look to be on different scenes!!

Lots of work!! But Iam having loads of fun seeing this take form, and doing my best to take rests and stay motivated! It can be dificult when you're a perfectionnist who wants her ferst ever animatic to be on professional level.

Haha.

But yeah!

As you can see, I take A LOT of notes. I also developed a google sheet and a slide of 48 slides (that is not finished) with some of my ideas, references, and movement decomposition I made, all for this animatic!!

Iam thinking of doing veeery simple colouring on this. For my health's sake haha cuz I want to finish it soon.

What do y'all think? :^)

Support would be greatly appreciated ♡ haha😭am losing my mind a bit

Thank you for reading and watching☆♡

Original pencils and inks by Dave Gibbons. Colors by me

Original art by Riley Rossmo. Colors by me

Pencils and Inks by Gene Colan & Tom Palmer. Colors by myself

[ Deadly Drive ]

my best friend. my one and only.

my best friend. my one and only.

I’m coloring this. I did great on coloring. #digitalart #digitalcoloring #digitalcoloringbook #digitalcoloringpage #coloringbook #meiyu #meiyuart #myart #mycoloringbook #mycoloringpage #colouring https://www.instagram.com/p/CcB87ersOJx/?utm_medium=tumblr

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Madeline Miller, Circe

Sooo

What do ya think? 👀

w.i.p for another drawing👍👍 i dont know anything at all about color theory so hopefully this looks as good as i think it does

i wanted to do an art project that was kinda just for fun and less for looking good so uhh here yay it was fun to do!

Your gifs are so cool and vibrant. Please do a coloring tutorial??

Hi, thank you so much! 

My coloring process is always the same, and very simple! Under the cut I will explain it:

1. CURVES

I always start with a curves layer and I use the first and third droppers. The first dropper adjusts the dark parts of your scene, so you'll click on the darkest spot of your gif (the closest that spot is to black the better.) The third dropper adjusts the light parts of your gif, but instead of clicking on the lightest spot of the gif, I prefer to click on the lightest spot in the character's face. This is how my layer looks like in that Luke gif:

This method doesn't work on all scenes, so sometimes I adjust it manually. Some scenes are hard to colour with the droppers (for example, scenes with neon lights) and in those cases I just click on ‘Auto’ to bring brightness to the scenes, without drastically changing the colours.

2. BASE PSD

After I have my curves layer I always follow the same method: Brightness, Levels, Color Balance, Selective Color, Curves and Vibrance. You'll probably have to adjust them depending on your scene, but the truth is that my settings are always very similar:

1. Brightness: Between 15-30 / Contrast: Between 5-15 (this will depend on your scene, if it’s dark I usually go with 30/15, but if it isn’t then 15/5 should work just fine.)

2. Levels: 10 / 1.00 / 245

3. Color Balance: This is the layer which will need more adjustment depending on the scene. That Luke scene has a plain background, and since I wanted to make it blue I edited this layer like this (Shadows: -0, 0, -12 / Midtones: -16, 0, +20 / Highlights: -14 / -5 / +13). 

4.1. Selective Colour (reds & yellows): This layer is so important to make the colours look natural. The Reds and Yellows which will affect your character's skin tone. In this scene as you can see Luke’s face is a little bit red, so I used this layer to fix that (x x). For most shows/movies I’ve found that the problem is actually the opposite and the character’s skin is way too pale (it’s just that this scene has great lightning lol). To fix that I edit only the Reds by increasing the Cyan, Magenta AND Yellow until I’m happy with the result.

4.2. Selective Colour: Magenta (x), cyan (x) and blue (x). Sometimes, I also edit the black (like this: Black: +5/+10), but in this case it wasn’t necessary.

5. Curves: I just click 'Auto' to make the gif more bright. Sometimes, if the scene I'm working with is too dark instead of Curves I add another Brightness/Contrast layer or I use an Exposure layer.

6. Vibrance: Between 30-50 / Saturation: Between 5-20 (this depends on the scene too, because if you add too much saturation your character's face will most likely look yellow :/)

Obviously, these exact settings won't always work, so you'll have to play a little with them. My advise is that if your coloring doesn't look right, edit the Brightness/Contrast, Color Balance and Selective Colour (the red, mostly) layers.

3. BACKGROUND

As I said this Luke scene already had great lightning. After all the adjustments I made before the only thing I had to do to bring out the Cyan was adding another Selective Colour layer and edit the Cyan (x) and Blue (x).

But, let's be real, most of the time this isn't the case. I’m going to use this Han Solo gif as an example:

This is how it looks like after using the previous method. It looks pretty and bright, but I want the background to look more blue. I use different methods to make colourful gifs, but lately the one I've been using the most are Gradient Layers. So you’ll click on Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. I choose these colours (2776ec and 001dfa) and set the Gradient Map to ‘Overlay’ (depending on the scene I use overlay, soft light or colour.) Now my gif looks like this:

This is a scene with very little movement, so to fix Han I’m going to add a Layer Mask in the Gradient Map and paint with black all over him (if you’r not familiar with Layer Mask check this and this, they’re a life saver if you’re making colourful gifsets!) My Layer Mask now looks like this. And this is the final result:

Obviously with gifs with more movement this will be more complicated, but I usually don’t mind if the blending isn’t perfect.

And that's it, I hope this made sense!