ArtSpots Forum Topic - Color help again. ^.^

KoOkY!

Sat, 10 May 2008 04:18:24 -0000

No no, definitely helpful! :) And he's wearing boxers actually, or they're supposed to be. Hehe. But yeah I'm very timid with shadows sometimes, same way I'm timid with poses. I do a lot of kinda stiff standing there with limbs in different positions type of poses. I need to like OVER emphasize gestures in order to train myself to be a bit more loose. Same way I should probably over emphasize the shading too. Kinda go way off to the extreme opposite direction from where I'm at now so I can figure out where the mid-way point between the two should be if I'm making sense. (it's late) Hehe. As for shading to get the texture of fur across....youch that's hard to do I think but will work on it! Need to update photoshop so I can use some of the fur texture brushes floating around out there. Thanks for the feedback! :)

Celty

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:54:51 -0000

It's looking really nice, Kooky. To be perfectly honest, I'm kind of at a loss when it comes to color too. For more toonish drawings such as this one I usually just cel-shade. However, if you are going to keep with this method then I suggest being a little more bold with the shadows. You've figured out your light source, which is good, but there are certain places where your darks should be..really, really dark. The folds in his shorts, for instance. Light and shadow help convey form and texture, and right now the shorts look like they're just a blue part of his body because they're shaded in a similar way. I'm assuming they're denim shorts? If this is the case, make sure to not over-do the wrinkles, as the material tends to be stiffer than cotton or silk and therefore bunches in more blocky shapes. As for the fur, keep in mind when shading that the surface covering his body isn't smooth and rounded like our skin, it's more irregular. The shading would have to reflect this, putting jagged shadows and highlights in here and there. Anyway, not sure if that helped too much, but those are my two cents at least. Good luck! (edited for typos)

KoOkY!

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:49:36 -0000

Picture just finished tonight and putting it up for some feedback maybe. ^.^ I'm trying to improve but my coloring keeps looking the same. I did stop using greys for my shading though, going for dark blue usually in more natural lighting and I think that did help but am I using TOO much blue now? Are shadows deep enough? Now and then I do try for some texture like Vizon was trying to show me but....it's really hard to do. :D And looks iffy when I do a more toonish picture like this guy. So I dunno, I guess any comments on a direction or something would be cool. Here tried using solid brush instead of the soft airbrushes I usually use. Not sure if made much difference the way I did it. Hmmms.