Hello, First of all I want to say that your art is so pretty and I love it!!! If you don't mind I'm asking, how do you choose your characters color or color palette? 'Cuz whenever I read your comic I always went "AWE-look at those dang gorgeous colors!!!!"
Thank you! Very kind of you to say.
I'm not very good at explaining this stuff (sadly most of my tactics are genuinely "I feel it out") BUT I will give it an honest shot.
For designs I often stick to like. a color or two to center the character around. Lain is Yellow and Green, Mariner is Blue, Fate is black/grey, Faith is white/red, etc. Even if what I consider "Their color" to be a small part of their design, it needs to stand out. Crane and Dry's color is "Green" but compared to Lain or Mariner, there is definitely very little green on their respective designs.
The Colors around it should showcase then! Dry has a lot of complimentary colors to make the green stand out (darker warmer reds and purples), and Crane has a darker orange around her green eye that makes it stand out more.
For palettes of scenes, it kind of depends. I mostly fuck around with layer and color modes until I get the exact vibe I want for a scene. I like to match up tone and contents of scenes a lot. blues, darkness, and dramatic lighting for serious or sad scenes, more saturated and lighter colors for goofier scenes. Contrast is also important, but I must admit I'm still trying to get the hang on that and am not great at it lmao. I'll conquer it one day.
For wac specifically I try to have the colors set in reality in some way, and I'll find pictures of sunsets/sunrises and color pick to get the vibe that I want. I'll do this for non-wac comics too if I'm really really struggling with a scene lmao.
Also, I decide the setting colors before I even start coloring the pages! I make little scene preps for every scene, and it saves a buuuunch of time when it comes time to actually start coloring.
sorry about the negative space. I never expect people to actually see these. All the little circles with layer modes is what I use to make the characters match the scene colors!