04-16-2015, 10:16 PM
foxfire1345 : If I want a piece to have really nice colors and mood, most of the time I start with a rough thumbnail sketch where I just focus on color/mood/light. Using every trick in the book - fancy layer/brush modes, over-doing saturation (or desaturation), in messy chaotic strokes, really just trying to nail the right „feeling“. I think of stuff like color contrasts, placing pleasing colors next to each other, making nice shadow/light patterns. Then, when painting the final thing (cleaner than the thumbnail version) I try to preserve this feeling - sometimes working on top of my color thumbnail to keep the colors, or color picking from it. At this stage I also try to include things like bounce light - light reflecting from one surface onto another, or temperature shifts. Playing with saturation, and sneaking in shifts in hue, sometimes not as much so that it becomes visible, just slightly.
But all that aside, just turn up saturation and you’re already halfway there, I think that’s the main thing why people seem to like my colors - they are very „in your face“ :P Something I need to work on …
Hope that helped - feel free to ask if I wasn't clear enough...
But all that aside, just turn up saturation and you’re already halfway there, I think that’s the main thing why people seem to like my colors - they are very „in your face“ :P Something I need to work on …
Hope that helped - feel free to ask if I wasn't clear enough...