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I started recording the painting of Snippets cover and uploading to YouTube for your enjoyment. Sadly I didn’t think to record from the beginning, and in fact my laptop couldn’t handle the video editing until I discovered how to split the recorded videos, but now I know!
I’m gonna start regularly uploading speedpaints, so feel free to subscribe to my channel<3
Snippets - Brotrunks fanart 01
I couldn’t start recording this until today, and it’s a short video, but I’ll continue to record as I finish coloring this, so enjoy!
Got a new brush pen (for my sister) and decided to try it on this Lapis sketch. There is a reason I use pens!
Today is the first day of Fall! Let the delicious autumn treats roll in! This picture started as a fall-themed sketch and ended as my entry for @copicmarker 's Iiiacademy instagram fall contest.
Do you have any kind of process for picking colors for the backgrounds? They all seem to have really nice uniformity, and I would love to read up on how colors like that are picked (or if it's more intuition based). I do remember you mentioning that you also had help from another color lead before, so I was wondering how much of that they help out vs the colors you chose?
hey, thanks so much! this might get a lil long (as it always does!!) so bear with me.
firstly i want to say, there’s no right or wrong way to pick colors. every artist has their own palette they prefer and i think it’s super delightful to spend time developing your own special sense of color. so even though i’m explaining things in a “this is how you do it” sort of way, it’s not the only way! just my way. the best method to develop your own sense of color is to look at a LOT of art, look at a LOT of the world around you, and practice practice pratice.
at this point in my life i pick colors intuitively just because i think it’s something i’m naturally tuned into, and i’ve been doing it for a few years, so i don’t actively plan my palettes. but here are some things that i think about as i pick colors.
firstly, i want to go over hue, value, and saturation. i’m sure everyone knows these intuitively but i want to explain them in words. hue, value and saturation are what make up a color, and decide how colors differ from each other.
hue: what color the color actually is. red, purple, green, yellow, and everything in between.
value: how light or dark a color is. if you’re painting traditionally, adding more white or more black to a color lowers or raises its value.
saturation: how “pure” the color is vs how much neutral tone is in it.
here’s an example of all three:
this comes into play because a big mistake i see beginners make is that they pick a “just” color, and by that i mean they pick “just blue” or “just yellow”. imagine buying a set of oil paints and only using paints straight from the tube without ever mixing. it would be impossible! so i try to avoid picking “just” colors, except as for a complementary color (more on that in a bit). here are some variations of a red, for example.
so, the biggest thing for me when i pick colors is that i want them all to be friends. i want them all to have something in common so that they get along. i usually lose control of a painting when my colors feel to different from one another. so, i will usually start a painting with one color i know for sure i want, and “subordinate” other colors to it, meaning every other color i pick has to look good with that color. as to how you figure out what looks good and what doesn’t, that just takes time and lots of observation to build a personal opinion :) here’s an example from one of my paintings. in this case, the main color is the trees.
and here’s another from rick & morty, the main color is the sky this time.
now that that’s out of the way, i’m going to give you the Actual Cheat Sheet for color palettes. in color theory, there are 8 basic color schemes that are generally pleasing to look at. here they are.
i usually use an analogous palette or monochrome palette out of preference. the two examples above more or less fall into those categories. however, i also like to use split complementary because the complimentary color adds a LOT of contrast and visual interest. it’s great to use if you have a specific thing in a painting you want to draw attention to. here’s an example:
it doesn’t always have to be a perfect split complementary, just one color that differs from the “family” of colors that take up a majority of the piece.
now! you might be wondering when’s the right time to subordinate a color, or where to put it, or how much of it to use, etc. and the answer is: CONTRAST. there is always visual interest in things that are different. i was rifling through my school notes and found these great types of contrast when working with color.
value: things that are light vs things that are dark.
hue: two colors that look different. I.E. yellow vs blue.
saturation: things that are saturated vs things that are desaturated.
proportion: note the example above. a majority of the painting is orange, so the green stands out because there is proportionally less of it.
temperature: things that are warm vs things that are cool.
complementary: red vs green, blue vs orange, yellow vs purple. when in doubt, these colors always contrast against each other because they have nothing in common (there is no red in green, etc).
simultaneous: this is a little advanced and i’m bad at explaining it, so please read up on it here.
a super helpful exercise is to look at your favorite illustrations, paintings, photographs, designs, etc and assess which one of the 8 color schemes (linked above) it has, and which types (can be more than one) of contrast it has. we did this in school and it REALLY helped me look at color better. here’s part of the assignment i did, the artist is annette marnat.
so! that’s pretty much how i think about color and how i pick my colors! i hope it was somewhat helpful! there’s so so so so much about color theory i can’t even begin to cover, i highly urge you to watch some videos and read some books and articles to further your study. a great starting place would be this series of videos. these are made by my teacher Richard Keyes, i think he had a dvd or something. everything i’ve talked about so far i learned from him and he is an absolute expert in color. these videos are invaluable. if you take anything away from this post, let it be to watch these videos hahaha.
to answer your question about my color leads, every painting was a collaborative effort between the three of us, and sometimes other painters too. it was a very hands-on crew, so i can’t say any of the r&m bgs i did are 100% “mine”. however, i think my personal color sense is waaaay different than jason or phil’s, which made the process very interesting because we usually had 3 very different opinions hahaa. you can check out their work here and here to see what things they brought to the table in relation to my own contributions.
thank you for the ask! again, i hope this was helpful :)
rough sketch & final drawing
rough sketch & final drawing
Facial Expressions Top Image Row 2 & 3 Row 4 Row 5: Left, Middle, Right Bottom Image (Source Unknown)
I actually could use this very much.
I couldn’t work on Siklo this week due to health reasons. :( Here is an unrelated Zelda fanart and hopefully next week I’ll have something cool to show you guys!
A long ass beginner level tutorial for all of you comic folks who want to start using sketchup for your backgrounds but don’t know how to get started.
http://www.genkigirl.com/finesometimesrain/?p=771
This is thorough, easy to follow, and funny as hell. If you don’t know where to start on Sketchup and want to use it for comics or illustration, READ THIS.
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I impromptu participated in @copicmarker ’s #summer3colorchallenge. It was a good exercise in blending and coloring while thinking about the position of lights and shadows.
I won the contest! I'm so happy and grateful at @sakurajoker and the #iiiacademy team for choosing my picture over all the awesome pictures submitted! Thank you so much!
More Trunks and Broly art please
Oh gosh, I knowwwww. I promise I didn’t forget about these two and I shall draw more of them as soon as possible!
I impromptu participated in @copicmarker 's #summer3colorchallenge. It was a good exercise in blending and coloring while thinking about the position of lights and shadows.
Working on a super secret project for a few weeks now, but I couldn’t help myself anymore, so here is a little preview ;) #loz #legendofzelda #ocarinaoftime #majorasmask #mixedmedia #illustration #fanart #gameart
For the art crew.
I’ve been dipping my toes on analog painting lately, thanks to my sister. I’ve been enjoying using markers a lot, it’s fun to try different things and techniques with them! This is a little practice on painting curly hair, curly hair is beautiful but tricky to color! (I swear I’m not biased for curly hair because I have it… well maybe a bit!)
Siklo has reached (and passed) the 200 followers mark!
I’m so very grateful, and to say thanks to everyone who has shown interest in Siklo I am doing a give-away.
The give-away will run from today Monday 3rd July until Sunday 9th at 12am. There will be ONE (1) winner, who will get a one-of-a-kind original illustration (seen in the picture above) of Siklo’s adorable mermaid goldfish Koyumi. You must be OK with giving me your post address so I can send you the illustration. If you are a minor, ask your parents or legal guardians for permission.
RULES: -To participate you must follow this blog (new followers are welcome, ;) ). - Like and/or reblog this post to enter. Liking = 1 entry, Rebloging = 1 entry. -You can only like and reblog once -Side-blogs are allowed if you use them for game-related content or other such motives. -If you just want to spread the word, tag with ‘not participating’ or ‘spreading the word’ or such other terms.
That’s it, good luck!
I’m doing a giveaway to celebrate the latest milestone for my rpg game Siklo’s blog. If you win, you get one of my original marker illustrations (you didn’t know I did those? Neither did I until last week!) If you don’t know about my game project, now it’s the time to find out and maybe get free art for it! ;D
EDIT: I have mulled it over and decided you do NOT need to follow Siklo’s blog to enter the giveaway, though it would be cool if you did (but also because you are interested in the game) :)
Progress! :D
