hey!! big fan of your tmnt AU and ABSOLUTELY love your artstyle!!!
so I've been meaning to ask if you could give a tutorial on how you color it? please đ?
I just really really love the colors and soft atmosphere and HAVE to know how you do it
I'm not sure if somebody already asked this, but if that's the case just ignore me-
have a great day/night!! áŻáĄŁđŠ
Hiiii!!! Tysm!!! That really makes my day!!! <333
Sure!!! I'd love to!
I like to use colors that fit the vibe I want to capture or the environment where the events take place. Carving Contest is both set in Fall AND Mikey-centric so it has a very warm color palette with a light cream color acting as white and a dark de-saturated purple acting as black:
For illustrations outside my comic, I like to just pick the colors to shade and highlight myself but for the sake of consistency and my sanity I use the same colors with the same layer effects across all characters and all scenes for the comic.
To illustrate, I have two little Mikey doodles which will act as models both with and without the effects for each layer. I use that same cream color from earlier as a base, so any colors on top of it will have to be warm in order to match as a result.
Next I add my base colors and then get ready to shade. All the brushes I use are from creators on Clip Studio Paint. I've included them in case you're curious :] For shading, I use darken instead of multiply because it preserves the color a bit better instead of making it come out more gray like it can with multiply.
Next up is highlights!
Next I use a multiply layer over everything to make it cohesive across all the characters and their different colors. I use a halftone brush now but when I first started I just used the bucket tool over everything. I've found I prefer the extra texture the halftones give :) I also went ahead and removed the shading and highlight colors from the right one so the halftone would be a bit easier to see.
That's how I color!! The only time I didn't use the same base colors was when Leo and Mikey were in the arcade. I changed the cream to a light blue and used a cooler toned version of all the other colors the characters had but I still used the same layer effects, even the orange multiply, then too.
I hope this was helpful!!! Thank you for the fun ask and the really sweet compliment!!!!! I hope you have a great day/night too!!!
