How do you choose the colors in your art? Your color palettes always look so cohesive and so pleasing to look at!
ah, this is gonna be pretty long so i'll talk about it under keep reading :^]
now i am no expert!!! i am just a guy!!!! i'll just be talking about how i do it! ok!
PART 1: COLORS??? HELP.
i really like going with warm stuff on my art so it's kind of a given that most colors i use end up wounding up on this side of the color wheel
so, let's say i'm coloring trucy, a character who wears blue, i end up choosing warmer looking blues, sometimes i end up choosing purple or gray if the other colors i chose makes it look like blue, yannow, color theory and stuff. like this for example!
now the first one is noticeably blue, but the second one is like a lavender and third one is like, really not blue! it's like a desaturated rose color or something, however, paired with the right colors...
they're all "blue", aren't they?
PART 2: CHOOSE WEIRD COLORS
by weird colors, i mean colors that aren't like what the thing looks like irl. like, a leaf is green right? but, it doesn't have to be when you color it!
like when i color things gold sometimes, i use a light and desaturated red-orange for it or how like with the color blue, i don't even use blue at all!
now just because i use warmer tones a lot doesn't mean i don't use the colors from the other side of the color wheel, it depends really, if the color scheme i'm going for is monochromatic or if i really wanted to make something pop
but of course, you can't just color willy-nilly, you gotta take into account
PART 3: CONTEXT AND MOOD
where and when is your drawing set? what's the mood? are we having fun here or are there Horrors?
see how it changes the mood? the things we're supposed to be feeling when we look at the drawing? yeahg. ill use warmer colors when i want the drawing to look happy dreamy etc but ill break out the blues and greens when we're in sinister town pftt
also, just wanted to share again how other colors can change what another color looks like:
PART 4: GRADIENT MAPS AND OVERLAY LAYERS
now as for making colors more cohesive... seriously, just slap that thing on top of your piece and it helps the colors get together even more! like of course i choose my own colors but gradient maps + overlay layers are kind of like adding that one final thing.
i'll use this one as an example, left one is no gradients maps/overlays and the right one is with them. i just really prefer some good ol' ourple tones in my art so there are a couple of things i add on top to really bring out the warmth in here, like so:
PART 5: ANYTHING ELSE?
uhhh don't be afraid to use tools in your program to correct the colors you don't like ala color balance tone curve contrast brightness etc etc.
hell, you can even color pick from like irl pictures and adjust accordingly to what colors you want.
i also do have like colors that i consistently use when shading things after countless trial and error; like how i'll use purple to shade red, blue to shade with green etc etc
the "i love being a hater"sentiment has been one of the worst trends to hit this website in recent days imo. Not because there's anything wrong with being a hater, don't get me wrong, it IS your god given right to be a little hater when time allows,but because so many people take it the completely wrong way. like it is one thing to dislike things and talk about these things on the internet or with your friends Because after all, you are a human being with opinions.but there are so many people on here who are just plain mean and act as though that makes them cooler. being a hater is okay in small amounts. Necessary to being a lover,even. but if you define yourself by hating people and things Well you are just an asshole!
everyone adding onto this with “you’re just not a REAL hater” and “well you just dont have enough hate im sooo cool and special for being a Hater” congratulations for being a draining and sour individual who completely missed the point of the post
mia and phoenix are soooo funny and i swear to god so much of it is in how mia really treats phoenix like some sort of wayward little brother-esque figure. she describes him as a genius to maya after his first trial and then when maya's like cool i'll hit him up if i ever need some defending then! she goes ABSOLUTELY not. he's a fucking idiot. if phoenix says a testimony sounds good when it's very clearly not good she looks at him and goes ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!? when phoenix passes out the first time he sees her being channeled she's like okay alright fair enough he's not exactly used to spirit channeling but when phoenix passes out AGAIN she's like OKAY phoenix that is NO WAY to greet an old friend. look at me when i'm talking to you. when phoenix goes "it's not fair!" in a trial she gets sooo disapproving about it she's like are you a LAWYER or a SCHOOLCHILD? she smacks his hand when he presents the wrong place on a map in jfa. she believes in him more than he believes in himself. she makes dead people jokes around him just so phoenix can go mia please :((( no dead people jokes :((( you're literally dead :((( when cody gets taken by gumshoe and they're back to having zero leads on the case in turnabout samurai and phoenix turns to her like mia!!! what are we gonna do!!! she's like hm. ahahaha. golly gee phoenix would you look at the time i REALLY need to get going i'm SURE you'll be fine though :) and then when phoenix couldn't come up with anything while going against von karma and mia appeared out of nowhere and went PHOENIX!!! THINK CRAZY!!!! COME ON!!!! and to top it all off she left maya, the person she loved most in the world, in his hands and told maya to take care of him but then when she speaks through pearl and maya isn't around she asks phoenix to look after maya as well. like she's always teasing him and admonishing him for being stupid or too serious but the minute the heat gets hot she puts her faith in him and encourages him not only to believe in his client but in himself as well because she KNOWS he's capable. and it's just soooooooo. ARGH
quite frankly when it comes to the og trilogy i think everything comes back to when maya was first in the detention center and she said "i've been abandoned, then." and phoenix looked her dead in the eye and told her "i won't abandon you. you can count on me." like everything in the trilogy is just phoenix refusing to abandon her over and over and over again. even when maya HERSELF thinks that she's guilty in jfa he just. absolutely refuses to give up on her. when the shot rang out in the channeling room he immediately kicked the door down because he refused to abandon her. when he thought that the murderer had fled across the bridge he tried his damndest to cross it anyway even when it was on fire because he refused to abandon her. that promise was the start of how they became each other's family in the wake of mia's death and it carries throughout the whole trilogy do you GET me
Franziska and her wholehearted acceptance of Edgeworth as her brother despite them not being blood related
Franziska and her courage to try to stand up against her father to give said little brother a chance to shine
Franziska and her insecurities making her always strive to be perfect and better than others
Franziska and her stubbornness to never back down even though she's scared
Franziska and her support of women because she knows how hard it is to be a woman in a man's world
Franziska who, at her core, is aware she isn't perfect, is aware of who her father is and what he's done, is aware that she's young and has issues allowing herself to be vulnerable and isn't sure yet how to handle that trauma, but is still proud of who she is and how far she's come
man as an afab nb with long hair and no intention of cutting it and tits too big to bind i rly have no way to not look cis. cis people rly see me on the streets n think we have the same vibe….. frightening.
oh dear ima stop this post right here to say i found a stinkbug on my ceiling
anti-dysphoria stinkbug: if you didn’t have long hair, you wouldn’t have had that scrunchie on you and i would have been slightly harder to wrangle
me, sobbing: i understand why you came to me, i understand the lesson in self acceptance you wanted me to learn. nb has no “look” and i can just present in whatever way suits me.
People say that phoenix learned being a bitch mostly from mia. And while that may partially be true, i think he's had it in him the whole time. Imagine the first time Phoenix makes a bitchy comment about something in front of Mia and she thinks "... this might work even better than expected"
ace attorney popped the fuck off by doing that thing where certain characters have ‘hidden’ sprites that you only see once in the whole game, usually it’s an emotionally closed off character offering a smile in the final hour of their story to show a sense of peace and closure, but ESPECIALLY they popped the fuck OFF by having franziska von karma break down crying in hers.
‘the angry/mean character is actually deeply emotional and using anger to keep it at bay’ is an incredibly common character archetype but it is so often done in a more shallow manner. like they will just bust out their tragic backstory in the 11th hour and we’re supposed to sympathize because awww they’re sad :( but we already know everything there is to know about franziska pretty much immediately. we know she is a child prodigy, we know she is a genius, we know she is fierce and dedicated and that she loves what she does. and we know she’s lost her father, and we know she’s upset with her brother and wants to see him again. but she does not invite pity, because she does not want it. she lays these details out clearly and concisely when they’re relevant to what is being discussed–they simply are. she remains as she is, and she fights the same way she always has, for what she believes in.
franziska goes through it. we watch her go through it. we watch her lose everything, and then we watch her have to be confronted with the fact that her brother disappeared on her and is utterly remorseless about it aloud. and then we watch her get shot by a violent hitman, and kick and scream and fight while she’s bleeding out because she wants to go to court. she has to be dragged to the hospital by force. never once does she back down an never once does she present anything other than this steely determination and resolve. until the very, VERY end. until POST CREDITS. she doesn’t even crack until AFTER THE CREDITS HAVE ROLLED!
and it is KINDNESS that breaks her! it is softness that makes her cry. i feel like to a lot of people what miles says to her in that scene might seem cruel, but it isn’t about what he says, it’s about what he does.
by franziska’s own admission she has abandonment issues. one of the few single insights we get into her pain is that people tend to discard her and make her feel left behind. miles fled back to his home country and left her all alone in germany to pursue his career, and he wasn’t wrong to do that, but it obviously hurt franziska and she felt neglected and like he didn’t bother to keep up with her. and then when he took his dramatic fucking sabbatical, he refused to loop her into that, too. miles decided without the consent of the people who love him that he was not worth it. he was unbelievably selfish to disappear the way he did, blinded by this idea that he is not loved or worth love. franziska loves him more than anything, and he did that to her on the tail end of her father’s incarceration. she lost both of her favourite people in the span of a few months.
she ran away at the end of JFA and intended to give up on everything. and she ran away from him because if she abandons him first, he cannot abandon her. but nothing miles says in that scene undermines the fact that he chased after her. he could look her in the eyes and tell her she was scum to him but the fact of the matter is he followed her. he loved her enough to not be content just letting her give up and run away. he chased after her. can you imagine what that must’ve meant to her?
he didn’t have to chase her. and he didn’t have to bring her whip back. and when he said ‘if you stop being a prosecutor, this is where we part ways’ i think we all knew he was not being literal. i think we all knew he was full of shit. i think what miles meant by that was to light a fire beneath her. to say that he had no intention of stopping, that he would keep on fighting, and that he wanted her to fight alongside him. they’ve always been rivals and they have always pushed each other to do better and be better, and miles knows that rivalry drives franziska unlike anything else. she doesn’t actually want to stop prosecuting, she’s just emotionally vulnerable and struggling to cope and throwing a bit of a tantrum about it, and so he pokes at an old button he knows will clear her head. franziska is a difficult person, but miles edgeworth knows her more than any person in the world, he knows how to love her and he does. he loves her so much.
she has seen a lot of pain in JFA. she has seen a lot of wicked words thrown her way, a lot of pushback, a lot of antagonism and banter and bickering, but the one thing no one shows her is kindness and love. phoenix tries, when he brings her flowers, but he gets nervous and backs out at the last second. gumshoe tries, but he does it out of earshot where she can’t hear. every nice thing someone says about franziska, they say while she is not there to listen. miles is the only person who looks her in the face and says he loves her.
it is love that allows her the space to fall to pieces. it is love that shatters her veneer and turns her into a sobbing mess. she’s literally just a little girl who was forced to grow up too fast. she’s 18 years old and everything’s so hard. she just needed a fucking hug.
no scene in ace attorney will ever, ever, EVER mean more to me.
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