Just a Dance

[rydain]

Title: Just a Dance
Characters: Cai Wenji x Cao Ren
Rating: Everyone
Notes: Now in color!

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Comments

[oudeteron]

Ooh, the colouring is good. I like how you can tell each part of their clothes is made of a different material, and the gloss on their hair.

[rydain]

Thank you! I've been trying to get over a long-term fear of making an awful mess of coloring in my work. I was decent with acrylics and pastels in high school, but I never learned comprehensive color theory, and digital mixing is its own obnoxious learning curve. I also had little sense of whether my initial flat color selections looked correct enough to build on. I found some great tutorials and watched demonstrations from pro artists who made color look fun and approachable instead of making me feel unqualified to pick up a box of crayons. A lot of experimentation and screwing up went into this. (And texture overlays to give that sense of material.) I'm so glad you like the result!