1) why you're so good (I imagine I know the answer to that--work, work, practice, work--but it still bears repetiton in at least a rhetorical sense)
and 2) Where you'd say your sense of colour comes from. I imagine it's the same answer again (huzzah, hard work!) but it's just that I'm partially colourblind and people with such great senses of colour really knock me flat.
Actually, no practice or work. I was granted art powers by majestic unicorns that came to me in a waking dream. They also gave me a lifetime supply of Pixie Sticks! Those unicorns. They're real pals.
In terms of the color sense... I had an art teacher tell me once that "color gets all the credit but value does all the work." You might want to look at the work of a guy named Peter de Sève - He's at the top of the illustration game right now, and his work is so gorgeous that you wouldn't think he's almost totally colorblind! His wife has to lay out his color palettes for him, iirc - In his perception it's all value organization, something that most people neglect to their detriment. He's turned what some would call a shortcoming into his biggest strength.
After you've got the values down the colors are just personal taste, laid down to soften, alter or reinforce the value statement and mood. I hope that sort of made sense...?
Oh man this is SUPER helpful. Color has been torture lately, and it's been so long since art school I don't even know where to start anymore haha. So I end up fucking around and going with something mediocre and convoluted. This is a great kinda wake-up call to putting more thought into WHY you're using what you're using. Thank you!! Your work has been giving me art boners exceptional lately so.. yes :)
I find this fascinating- and its no wonder your colours are always rich. My question: when you 'mess around' with the hues, are you specifically looking at the values- i.e do you find the numbers normally fall in a certain combination- whether you aim for it or it happens anyway? Or is this all decided visually for you-'hmm needs more blue'?
Your method of narrowing down to the feeling you want to convey- may seem obvious but I've lost track of the times I have been surrounded by multiple copies of the same image unable to choose!
Oh man, that is like fifty hard questions in one question! No fair! Waaah! :P
I am looking at the values... Sort of? I mean, aside from the over-all mood, I also usually have a primary and secondary focal point, and I'll be nudging both color AND value to highlight those. So I'm juggling keeping the values logical, harmonizing color, retaining/enhancing the mood, setting off at least two focal points, and in some cases designing new elements for the inking stage because my pencil didn't have enough information for me to move forward
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I'm just having a process-nerding moment here.
Don't mind me.
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1) why you're so good (I imagine I know the answer to that--work, work, practice, work--but it still bears repetiton in at least a rhetorical sense)
and 2) Where you'd say your sense of colour comes from. I imagine it's the same answer again (huzzah, hard work!) but it's just that I'm partially colourblind and people with such great senses of colour really knock me flat.
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In terms of the color sense... I had an art teacher tell me once that "color gets all the credit but value does all the work." You might want to look at the work of a guy named Peter de Sève - He's at the top of the illustration game right now, and his work is so gorgeous that you wouldn't think he's almost totally colorblind! His wife has to lay out his color palettes for him, iirc - In his perception it's all value organization, something that most people neglect to their detriment. He's turned what some would call a shortcoming into his biggest strength.
After you've got the values down the colors are just personal taste, laid down to soften, alter or reinforce the value statement and mood. I hope that sort of made sense...?
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Your method of narrowing down to the feeling you want to convey- may seem obvious but I've lost track of the times I have been surrounded by multiple copies of the same image unable to choose!
Thank you for a fascinating post!
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I am looking at the values... Sort of? I mean, aside from the over-all mood, I also usually have a primary and secondary focal point, and I'll be nudging both color AND value to highlight those. So I'm juggling keeping the values logical, harmonizing color, retaining/enhancing the mood, setting off at least two focal points, and in some cases designing new elements for the inking stage because my pencil didn't have enough information for me to move forward ( ... )
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THANK YOU.
I dislike coloring, because I'm such a herp-a-derp at it, but I'm trying my best to get better. This helps a lot =3=
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