I think, right now, you've got a very basic style: lots of browns, very light/bright, emphasis on cropping above all else, and very clean. You seem to have a good grasp of quality from what I can tell (because I stalked you a little and had a browse through your icon community), and you mostly deal with celebrity candids and stock. Which means, more or less, your style can go anywhere from here! But only if you are willing to experiment with some new things.
Some fun things to try to flex your coloring wings: I'm thinking, most likely, that you'd gravitate to a more muted coloring style considering what you've started with here. So that's what I'm going to focus on, but if you feel like you'd rather go vibrant, please let me know because I can do the same thing only with vibrant stuff.
Absolutely everything ever written bytheotherayn because her stuff is so graceful and elegant and definitely the kind of thing we should all aspire to make. There's also some fun text tips in there that are always good to pick up, you know?
And also this guide written byhauntes which details a popular coloring style, yes, but also one that can be easily absorbed into your own thing to make something really cool and unique.
And if you wanna take a stab at jazzing up your compositions, you might look at these:
All the things byfuuurs; also has the benefit of including stuff with random actors as opposed to fandom stuff, and also this gal is the queen of composing so.
These tutorials byscoobyatemysnax because of the unique take on composing things and, I don't know, she's just interesting as far as her iconning choices go.
And I think anything you can dig up that looks interesting from the Ask the Maker activities that have happened would be a great step forward.
Which is all blah, blah, blah, and a crap ton of tutorials, but a) tutorials are great and b) now I'm going to do the concrit thing. Stay tuned for that part two, yeah? =D
I think, right now, you've got a very basic style: lots of browns, very light/bright, emphasis on cropping above all else, and very clean. You seem to have a good grasp of quality from what I can tell (because I stalked you a little and had a browse through your icon community), and you mostly deal with celebrity candids and stock. Which means, more or less, your style can go anywhere from here! But only if you are willing to experiment with some new things.
Some fun things to try to flex your coloring wings:
I'm thinking, most likely, that you'd gravitate to a more muted coloring style considering what you've started with here. So that's what I'm going to focus on, but if you feel like you'd rather go vibrant, please let me know because I can do the same thing only with vibrant stuff.
This muted coloring guide written by the lovely and talented raiindust is definitely really spot on, and it'll also give you a crash course in some texture work that might be fun for you to explore as well.
Absolutely everything ever written by theotherayn because her stuff is so graceful and elegant and definitely the kind of thing we should all aspire to make. There's also some fun text tips in there that are always good to pick up, you know?
Any of these tutorials by liesmiths but more specifically this one which will just build on what you're already doing with your coloring and cropping.
And also this guide written by hauntes which details a popular coloring style, yes, but also one that can be easily absorbed into your own thing to make something really cool and unique.
And if you wanna take a stab at jazzing up your compositions, you might look at these:
All the things by fuuurs; also has the benefit of including stuff with random actors as opposed to fandom stuff, and also this gal is the queen of composing so.
These tutorials by scoobyatemysnax because of the unique take on composing things and, I don't know, she's just interesting as far as her iconning choices go.
And I think anything you can dig up that looks interesting from the Ask the Maker activities that have happened would be a great step forward.
Which is all blah, blah, blah, and a crap ton of tutorials, but a) tutorials are great and b) now I'm going to do the concrit thing. Stay tuned for that part two, yeah? =D
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