Yet another digital artist!

Posting schedule: Su - Storytime Sunday, Tu&F - regular stuff, Sa - silly stuff (sporadic)

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I had the thought that I could decrease the opacity of the main hand tone and add a layer under that with a color that would push things warm. According to my research, warm undertones lean gold, so I picked a nice gold tone that I thought could accomplish that.

I think it worked?

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Bright spot

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Tall glitter

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So my thought with this one was, "OK, if my brain assigns the color of the skin to what should be the highlight color, what if I just worked with that and made that the highlight color and then figured out what the unlit AND shaded colors were based off the highlight?"

Maybe it worked?

I think I'm learning a little more about when to use the blur tool, which is helpful.

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Quiet sparkles

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Rapid-fire (har har har I'm hilarious) glitter

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I wanted to draw a sparkly flower with leaves over a mulch-y type background, so I did.

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Red and gold

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Gold star for you! </positive>

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Ah, interesting. So it seems like for me personally, my eyes get drawn to the highlights on skin and I assume that that's the base color, and that's not how it works with digital painting, so I'm going to have to train myself a bit. This outcome is actually pretty close to my IRL coloration (or lack thereof?). As I previously stated, I am painfully pale. I have actually briefly blinded people at the start of short-sleeve season. And I thought that this meant the base color would be annoyingly light. As it happens, the base color is actually a lot darker and more reddish. The highlights are the super bright parts (and even then not as much as I would have thought) and then the shadows are WAY deeper than I would have expected (and opacity is reduced to make it look right because the situation is still pretty bright).

…and I guess that actually makes sense. At a certain point of pale, there's not enough color to block the red that comes through from beneath the skin. I should probably use the word "translucent." That's probably what I was looking for.

Hooray for color theory, which I clearly need to learn more about! Now's a great time to start.

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Get the glitter into the sky

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R e d

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A friend of mine suggested using a non-natural skin tone for getting some practice with better contrast to make the skin look like… well, skin. And not like it should be weirdly glowing (my words). That way my brain could ignore trying to make it look "natural" and just focus on what the lights and shadows were doing.

I think it helped.

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I'm not sure what's going on here but I'm a fan

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It's giving heartbeat vibes when GIFed.

(I cannot believe that sentence makes sense in context.)

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Alright, https://www.color-hex.com has been added to my bookmarks. They've got color palettes. You can sample those for some basic believability and eyeball it from there.

I need to actually look up color zones. I saw someone post about this somewhere. The person was talking about in reference to the face but I'm sure hands have them, too. Tried it in this one w/o looking anything up. Not sure if it's better or not? I'd like to think it's a little better. Sometimes these things get worse before they get better, though, so your mileage may vary. Just part of the learning process, I guess.

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