There are a lot of coloring tutorials out there. But some of us have heads full of rocks and can't get much out of them because we're too stupid to extrapolate general techniques from specific examples.
The tutorials that confuse me show one particular (very cool!) icon and then proceed to give instructions like, "create a layer, fill it with #blahblah, set the opacity to blah, and set the mode to blah..." (rinse and repeat for about 10+ layers)... and I'm left staring at each step going, "but WHY? What effect are you trying to achieve by doing that?" Sometimes I can tell by seeing the before and afters what it did, but sometimes I'm perplexed since I only understand the most obvious modes like "screen" and "multiply" and "color burn."
I suppose I should just follow each tutorial's steps exactly on another icon and see what happens, but I want to understand what the steps do. So if you ever write a coloring tutorial, you might take into consideration those whose heads are full of rocks
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Came for the FFX icons, which are great, but I love the Utena icons! I wish I understood coloring like this; they just glow.
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There are a lot of coloring tutorials out there. But some of us have heads full of rocks and can't get much out of them because we're too stupid to extrapolate general techniques from specific examples.
The tutorials that confuse me show one particular (very cool!) icon and then proceed to give instructions like, "create a layer, fill it with #blahblah, set the opacity to blah, and set the mode to blah..." (rinse and repeat for about 10+ layers)... and I'm left staring at each step going, "but WHY? What effect are you trying to achieve by doing that?" Sometimes I can tell by seeing the before and afters what it did, but sometimes I'm perplexed since I only understand the most obvious modes like "screen" and "multiply" and "color burn."
I suppose I should just follow each tutorial's steps exactly on another icon and see what happens, but I want to understand what the steps do. So if you ever write a coloring tutorial, you might take into consideration those whose heads are full of rocks ( ... )
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