your art is SO PRETTY! how do you choose your colors so they all work together in a piece? I'm trying to learn how to use pallettes in art, but I'm not very good at it haha. any tips?
hello!!!!!! Tysm for all the compliments!! 🥹💖
Okay mm basically keep in mind that finding a palette for a certain kind of character is something that is in constant evolution; tonight I was looking at one of my old arts and I noticed I used to draw Kaoru's skin a bit more greyish than what I do now! Your eyes train to perceive the colors and so they improve for the better to find the combo it better suits your drawing!
Two things I also try to keep in mind are
1) colors are relative to the illustrations in place; your eye knows what a certain color is like even if for example you see it under the sun or under a sunset yellowy light. So the same palette might not work if you find youself in a different light situation!
2) colors are ALSO related to the art style where they are used! I once had to illustrate a character for an academy project and its palette came out in an atrocious way when the same character was illustrated by my friends! My style is more rough, so pastel like colors go really well with it, but when my friend (who has a VERY heavy lineart) used them they seemed dim and dull. So not all colors work for everyone!
One other advice I can give you is, put every different section (hair, skin, cloth1, cloth2) in a different layer, put some placeholder colors (you can also use mine if you want!) and then open the hue, saturation and brightness color panel! - It's ctrl+U in photoshop, or else in procreate is v easy to find, all softwares have it!
There you can tweak a bit the colors until they reach a balance you like!
To help yourself in the beginning you can also put a colored layer on top with a different color mode (multiply, etc.) to give all the colors a common characteristic (for example, pink colored layer in multiply with low opacity, everything will look pinker BUT the colors will look more armonic); I suggest tho to be very careful with this one! Some color/color modes of said layer sometimes can compromise a delicate balance ur original colors managed to create!
I hope these advices have been helpful! Lmk if they are, and thank u again for ur question!
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