I'm not that great an artist, and I'm not that serious about it. (I'll never know how to draw hands, ever. ;__;) But I like to digitally draw/color anyway, when I'm bored or have nothing to do. So if anyone has any digital coloring tips/tricks to help me, that would be awesome. *_* Here's something I drew last night... I posted this a long while ago. Did my coloring improve, or get worse? I used GIMP in this one: http://www.kh-vids.net/showthread.php?87846-With-a-Tint-of-Pink-lt-3 The Image Original Canvas Size; 3000 x 3000 Programs used; Paint Tool Sai and Photoshop CS5 Second Rough sketch; Spoiler I say second because the first was just a bunch of lines and circles, and I was GOING to do real line art, but got lazy and unmotivated to do so as always. Flat Colors; Spoiler Shadows; Spoiler Highlights and Lines Spoiler Finished product; Spoiler This is after Photoshop. I did a lighting effect, and a low-opacity gradient color-burn. Oh, and I duplicated the picture and added a little blur then set it to overlay. This isn't my set coloring process, just what I happened to do last night. (I haven't drawn properly in months thanks to a certain someone, lol.) I'll go into more detail about a part if someone wants me to, but for now, I'm wondering if anyone has any coloring tips or tutorials they follow?
I think I would have liked it better if you had stopped with just shadows. But I think they've gotten better with the colors. You've certainly added a lot more depth than with just a normal drawing. Although, why did you change the hair color from brown to red?
I didn't, really. Maybe it's the color burn layer in Photoshop that gave it a general tint. It doesn't look red to me, but that might just be...me. xD; Yeah, I have all of the different versions on my computer, and I still have the Sai project in case I want to tweak something or tone it down. Thank you.
Yeah, I'll certainly help with drawing. I may not be the best artist(at all), but I still love to draw, and I'm really picky about my colors sometimes and how things go together. By the way, is that supposed to be like the sun or something in the back of the last picture?
Yeah, same. It's fun. But I'm trying to get better at digitally coloring in general. I'm glad it looks like I've improved, at least. And no, it's just light.
I think my biggest problem with the coloring is that it doesn't feel like it has any sort of texture or dimension to it. Not to say it's bad, it's a huge improvement from your old post. But there's lots of room to improve. =] I sometimes harbor fantasies of being good at drawing (spoiler alert: I'm not), but here are some tutorials I've collected on it: Color Theory & using complementary colors to create light, instead of just black Coloring lips Coloring hair (a more anime style, which I assume you like drawing, haha) Painting skin
