Painting and colors!
So, does everyone here have a technique they follow when painting? Most people do, I think. But what's gotten my attention lately as something I pretty much ignored before is the picking of colors. This is because I used to just pick a greyish tone, put a top layer on Multiply and do all the shading on grayscale. I never worried about the base colors either, I just picked whatever I was in the mood for, and what I figured fit the picture.
Now I've become interested in learning about people's palettes and how they pick their shades and lights. Since I stopped using the Multiply layer method, i've been picking my tones the way this tutorial says: http://darlingmionette.deviantart.com/art/Quick-and-Dirty-Color-Theory-161213599
That is, paying attention to the saturation etc. There's still something missing, the painting turns out lifeless. Then as it happened with my last picture, I mess around with color balance, add a little bit of red and suddenly it looks worlds better. Feels like a waste of all that effort to just change the colors at the end.
I've also found some cool color-related sites, though I'm still figuring out how to properly make use of them:
http://kuler.adobe.com/
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
They're still fun to mess around with, anyway.
So, how do you deal with color?
Now I've become interested in learning about people's palettes and how they pick their shades and lights. Since I stopped using the Multiply layer method, i've been picking my tones the way this tutorial says: http://darlingmionette.deviantart.com/art/Quick-and-Dirty-Color-Theory-161213599
That is, paying attention to the saturation etc. There's still something missing, the painting turns out lifeless. Then as it happened with my last picture, I mess around with color balance, add a little bit of red and suddenly it looks worlds better. Feels like a waste of all that effort to just change the colors at the end.
I've also found some cool color-related sites, though I'm still figuring out how to properly make use of them:
http://kuler.adobe.com/
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
They're still fun to mess around with, anyway.
So, how do you deal with color?