If I can ask, how do you do color palettes? Your drawings make it look so amazing and nice and I just keep looking at them with my mouth wide open. (Also, sorry if this is a bit too meta)
aw thank you sm and dw that's not too meta, i am in fact willing to admit i'm a real person who is happy to tell you how i make my real art! here's some lil pointers:
1. remember that colours are untrustworthy shapeshifters
colours look different depending on their contexts! bc i use a Lot of pink, i tend to use very desaturated or even grey colours as my blues and greens bc against a lot of warm colours, small bits of grey will look blue/green/colder
so if you want something of the "opposite" colour to blend in, use a more desaturated colour closer to the palette's side of the wheel. if you want something to stand out, use it's 'actual' colour
on this, you can also set what "black" and "white" is within your piece bc again, relativity! in most my half-lined art, i use a dark brown as black and a very light yellow or pink as white, going down to more of a grey if the bg is darker. this way you can make even black and white coherent with your palette!
this is just a good idea for coherent palettes bc you have a baseline you're basing your colour choices off (said base too many times)! select the shape of your art, fill it with a colour, then when you're actually getting to colouring, start off from that base colour. i don't know how to explain that less badly so here's a picture
alternatively you can be lazy and just do it normally then use a multiply layer on top. but i find it really hard to work like that soo i do this (also you'll learn better this way yada yada)
you wanna know my cheapest n dirtiest trick for having nice colour palettes? just use less colours. re-use colours within the same art as much as you can. like when i draw the last (4) jedi, there's usually only about 11 colours between the four of them
(a nice lil rule of thumb for limited palettes is have 2 similar colours and 1 different colour, bc variety is the spice of life. ie the tl4j palette is yellowy pinks + oranges (both near each other on the colour wheel) and then blues (opposite to orange). rule of three, baby!)
limited colour palettes are also a really good way to practice the colour relativity thing bc they force you to really think about colours and what they can be in the right context. my favourite way to practice limited palettes and relativity is through just using the MS paint default colours to do studies:
(ALSO JUST GENERALLY DO STUDIES OF ANY ARTS OR ARTISTS YOU LIKE PLEASE its a great way to learn any art skill)
5. disregard everything i just said and do whatever you want forever
look i do not have any formal art training and we are on tumblr.com. the only rule of colour palettes and art is have fun and draw your blorbos. there are no other rules -- there are definitely guidelines, and it is worth listening to people who are Really Good/Well Trained, but like. it's art dude. use whatever colours you like and just do whatever floats your stoat
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