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chicinlicin — Colour tutorial...kinda

Published: 2013-06-29 09:28:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 7204; Favourites: 453; Downloads: 111
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Description Something I put together to answer how I pick colours, you can look at both parts on tumblr here and here .

Sorry if it's a bit long I tried to compress it more but the text started to be unreadable...or at least more so oh and try to ignore all my spelling errors, the first part was made just before I went to bed last week, and the second part was made this morning when I woke up...if anyone happens to have anything else they'd like to see a tutorial or whatever on then just ask heh
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Comments: 13

road-tripping [2015-08-13 20:15:50 +0000 UTC]

jesus your shading style is so colorful!
(I'm gonna use this for future art :3)

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alexyorim [2013-07-15 14:24:31 +0000 UTC]

colourful...

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NinRac [2013-07-02 16:41:44 +0000 UTC]

Hurray!

Might be just me but I didn't have any problem reading it

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PenBee [2013-06-29 16:34:21 +0000 UTC]

I tend to use several analogous colors and complementary colors to shade myself. I like the concept of using the gray-scale. I always forget to try and use that. Do you have a particular single color that you seem to use over and over in your work?

I find that I always end up using a lot of reds lately. I really just enjoy warmer temperature colors it seems. I am trying to use more blues and greens-but I always end up gravitating back to reds it seems.

Thank you for the nice tutorial and insight on how you go about approaching colors yourself! It always seems to vary from artist to artist-but the basic overall concepts nicely overlap<:

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chicinlicin In reply to PenBee [2013-07-02 13:01:58 +0000 UTC]

Analogous colours is how I tend to work as well, I just find it easier to explain this way cause with some colours I won't change the darkness of the shadow at all, only the hue will change. Recently, I think I've been using more purples/indigos and yellows, previously I think pink was the colour I used the most In terms of shading I think I've been leaning towards warmer colours with cyan and yellow as highlights.

I need to get used to more greens. Usually after finishing a picture I'll make a compressed version and level out the colours, I always add more red or blue but never any green I never seem to colour anything that warrants adding green...it's always red. Maybe I should try doing some mood pictures to get some practice with green.

I quite like seeing how everyone handles colours yeah, with a lot of people they will overlap somewhat, guess that's just unified colour theory at work

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MellieBels [2013-06-29 16:19:38 +0000 UTC]

Very nice! I love this. The colors as gray scale is pure genius! Anything to help me work better color is fab. C:

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chicinlicin In reply to MellieBels [2013-07-02 12:42:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks I wish I could remember where I learned about the greyscale thing I think it was a tutorial where they recommended using greyscale rather than desaturating for making black and white photos, since it takes into account the colour contrast and whatnot

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MellieBels In reply to chicinlicin [2013-07-10 03:36:51 +0000 UTC]

<3 It's radical! : D

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AtomicRay [2013-06-29 14:19:19 +0000 UTC]

You can also if you choose a colour for your light source fx light yellow and then make the shadows the complementary colour which would be some sort of Dark violet it goes for all colours for light. But remember that There should also be a lot of the ground colour. It looks awesome sometimes you should try it out

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chicinlicin In reply to AtomicRay [2013-07-02 12:37:42 +0000 UTC]

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to try something out like that but have most of the shadows coloured how I normally would and then the darkest of the shadows in contrast to the highlight. So if I was doing something orange the shadows would be red and purple and the highlights would be yellow

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AtomicRay In reply to chicinlicin [2013-07-02 16:11:44 +0000 UTC]

Yes okay, it sounds like you already knew this haha But I really like the way you make shadows and highlight anyway, and you have your own way of doing it I'm jelly!

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IrnBru32 [2013-06-29 09:39:47 +0000 UTC]

I just realised the colours when put in grayscale order is the colour test card pattern for TV *3*

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chicinlicin In reply to IrnBru32 [2013-07-02 12:35:29 +0000 UTC]

Whoa, it is I never noticed that...weird...they do that for a similar reason though, it goes from most luminescent to least based on amounts of green, red and blue.

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