Hello, sorry if I come across as rude or if this had been answered before. But how do you color your art? Do you just use flat color and continue with shadow, then light, then ??? — or do you color in grayscale and tweak it?
Your art is real pretty!
I finally had some (little) time on my hands so I decided to finally,,, make a simple tutorial on coloring (and i get a lot of asks for these) feel free to check it out! ^.^
Note: This is just how I color and render things myself, this is not objective so you don't have to treat it like a handbook heheheh feel free to be creative about it
COLORING TUTORIAL
Start out with the flat colors.
2. Do some soft airbrush coloring on it. (Usually a blush thingy and a soft skin air coloring on the edges of the hair)
3. Do a simple shadow layer. (be mindful of where the light hits tho so it's more comprehensive:)))
4. (These are all in this one multiply layer) Grab the AIRBRUSH, ERASER, a SOFT PAINT, and the BLURRING PEN. Put some airbrush on the shadows (don't do too much tho), just lil dab there and there.
5. Using the blurring pen, smooth SOME of the edges, DON'T blur them all. Basically make some edges soft but also leave some edges hard.
6. Use the ERASER and delete some of the shadows for where the light bounces back (it's okay if it sometimes doesn't make sense) but again,,, don't overdo it, just erase what feels right for you :333
7. Grab a hard pen,,, as for my case, I used a lasso pen for the little details and again,,, don't overdo it. Grab a lighter color for the light part and use a darker color for the shadow part. You can just make lil strokes there and there, just enough to show depth and details.
8. (THIS IS A REALLY LONG PROCESS TO DO)vBalright now grab the soft painting brush, and all the brushes that I mentioned before. Use the soft painting brush for mixing the colors and use the dark/light colors accordingly. Along with that step, do the coloring method that was mentioned before too (the erasing, airbrush, lasso, etc.) u pretty much mix all the techniques,,, this is what we pretty much call the rendering phase or sumthn like that :>>
9. For tweaking some colors, use the alpha lock (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT as it only goes to where you did the coloring to) and grab the airbrush again. Pick a saturated color closest to the shadow and dab it a lil on the edges (don't do it to everything, it's gonna ruin your render tehee)
as u can see from the image, the color lightened up a bit and also became a lil saturated.
10. Still with the alpha lock, we're going to use a bluish color (this is optional because i used a different color triad, so it's different for everyone) i went with that color bc it's a common one. Same with the step 9, you do the same thing but ONLY do it on the edges (and to wherever you feel like placing it heh)
11. Now, go to the line art layer and enable the alpha lock again. Choose a saturated color closer to the color over it. Use the airbrush, and dab it a little, more specifically on the lighter side. Treat it like another rendering phase, put it accordingly to where it's light and where it's dark.
12. Now do the same thing on other aspects (eyes, lips, clothes, etc.) Go crazy go stupid with it heh
More tablet practice, this time in the form of a simple redraw of my favorite screenshot so far from my Legends ZA playthrough. Trainer Ace and his weird little cat.
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But the two of us could have been something other than the sum of our parts, wizarder. And yet you choose to curse me, wizarder. Because you are scared of commitmenter
My lover......! ah, but no, i simply cannot trust one who would place a curse on me! I long to be in your arms but I simply cannot while I bear the mark of how we parter.
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Now that I have seen that you are serious about your love, I am willing to try and right our wrongs... For I admit i am not blameless in the matter of our squabble either.
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I am happy to say after 2 WHOLE DAYS of making these with my sister. She tapped out at the end of making them and I had to finish them while sick. Xander dying. Struggles in general.
Thanks to references from the drdt dev, @nageishi (for J and Arei) , and @levifontana (for David and Hu)
I PRESENT TO YALL
The drdt cast as actually cookies
Here is all of them up close
Also here is edgeworth and dead Xander
also ik not all of them have the right colors and aren’t perfect BUT I DONT CARE I SPENT TO LONG ON THESE TO ACTUALLY CARE
I believe it's way too early, but with terueden week and drdtxmas, you deserve a big, big heads up!!
IM SO PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ACEVI WEEK!
Before I get into the prompts, I would like to explain a few rules and guidelines!
-your submission can be in the form of memes, art, comics, fanfiction, or anything creative as long as it’s acevid and it sticks to the prompts!
-your submissions can be romantic or platonic— basically whatever as long as it’s acevi-centric.
-if it wasn’t clear in the above: keep it acevi-centric!! other ships are allowed but acevi should be the main focus!!
-not a rule, but if you do participate, please do support other people’s posts!! this ties into the next point, which is a rule—
-be respectful to everyone, including, and especially the dev!
-despair time is a 16+ show. that means spice is allowed, no outright explicit porn. keep it pg 16.
-review the dev’s rules please and apply them to this fan ran ship weekend. i’m especially emphasizing the no ai rule.
-official tag? #aceviweek2025 please don't use until then!
-be respectful to the ship. you don’t have to ship it, but you don’t have to bring others down.
-dont use banner without asking me
Oh, by the way, if I have you blocked on my main account, chances are I’m going to block you on the tumblr account associated with this announcement. This doesn’t mean you can’t participate, it just means you can’t accuse me of harassment.
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