Hey, absolutely obsessed with your art style! Just wondering if you have any tips for making colour palettes for art pieces (or anything to do with the colours you use because your art always has the nicest colour schemes) tysm!
Hello!! First of all tysm!!! I don’t think my colours are that outstanding so this is a neat lil surprise!!
So, for the colour picking itself I’m not sure how to help because I go by instinct, leaning towards muted tones! I rarely use colour palettes and tend to just save colours that I think are pretty and stick to those!! I’d recommend looking around tumblr, Pinterest, etc, for inspiration and studying the ones that you like, e.g. the colour contrasts, use of certain colours to highlight/shade something! However I can give some advice to sort of toning the overall drawing!! Disclaimer, I’m not an expert I draw for fun!! This is just what I do personally yea!
Firstly here’s a quick tip to toning an overall illustration to get the colours to gel together! Usually adding a coloured layer with a layer setting over the whole piece really helps the colours be more cohesive! It’s best to experiment depending on the mood of your drawing, but usually I use ‘overlay’, ‘soft light’, ‘colour’, and ‘linear burn’. The opacity usually ranges from 5% to 20% depending on the desired intensity.
I also want to say that when shading, I’d recommend using a reddish tone on a lower opacity with the Multiply setting! I used this for Willow’s shirt, arms, and nose, which helps bounce of the original colours. Using grey to shade often comes out as a murky imo.
Secondly, here’s a small tip for monotone colours featuring a Luz!! Using the same colour on a Multiply setting helps keep the colours cohesive and prevent clashing colours that are jarring!! And masking a different colour over at certain areas helps to make it less flat quickly!
I don’t know how useful this is but I hope it helps!!
