#asfdsesggr sorry giving advice is scary even thought i have so much stuff to say vfbgrggnrtg

[rapidhighway]

rapid when your art comes across i want to yell and scream it’s so so amazing. i love love the way you color, what did you do to study color/ how did you get so good at it?

Thank you so much! I'm definitely not an expert but I do have my methods of picking colors, I'm very happy it doesn't go unnoticed <3 Alright SORRY this got kind long but I have a lot of thoughts regarding picking colors xd so im gonna put this under a cut.

I got more interested in my choice of color when I got into supernatural tbh, I just really loved the vibe of the early seasons. I know I did a bunch of studies of some screenshots. But really in my opinion, you just have to know what vibe you're going for, like, maybe choose a color of the lighting, like blue or purple, and the next step for me is to establish what the white color looks like in this lighting. It will never be white. Even without a light source, this is my own way of coming up with whatever color palette for a drawing - I pick a color that isn't white to be my white, all the other colors will be tinted by this color I picked.

I think this isn't going to be very obvious in the beginning? You should pay attention to the color wheel and such, and there's color theory involved. I often end up wanting to have a green object in the scene, but the color i'm going to have to pick is gonna be like, gray or something, but in the context of all the colors it WILL look green. It's still hard to figure out sometimes (dear god don't even get me started on drawing Knuckles next to the light of the Master Emerald???? Red and Green cancel each other out, my man is gonna be like what? Gray or black. It pisses me off so much I usually just ignore it or work around it sdffsfedfgrggfdg)

and what I think is a really good exercise is that whenever you're using things like blend modes, like an overlay or multiply layer, it's good to later use the color picker and pay attention where your actual desired colors are on the color palette in your program. With time you just learn how to pick your colors directly instead of using filters and I just think that allows for more freedom and experimentation with your colors.

At the same time blend modes are fun af so of course you should go ham with them, I do whenever I feel like experimenting a bit or if a drawing needs some tweaking

I also recommend the youtube channel Light Mentor, this guy has a ton ton tonn of videos about colors and color theory.