#if you dont have csp or a program with tone curve you can get similar effects using free online editing software

[animalinvestigator]

i was wondering, if you’re comfortable talking about your artistic process, how do you go about coloring and shading? i feel like your use of color always adds a lot of power to your pieces, it is very evocative and it feels like a lot of skill goes into your coloring process!! hope your day is going well and thank you for the amazing artwork that you share!

Hi wow, this is another really nice ask, you guys are really nice today. Sure id be happy to talk about my process!! My advice probably isnt very good though; i definitely wouldnt call it skill !!! but it means a lot that you like my art that much and want to hear about it. Thank you so much!!! seriously wow. what a nice compliemnt

i guess my main principle is that i try to treat every drawing like a painting, by which i mean i like to apply a lot of color and move it around a lot... i work very additively and switch colors like every 5 seconds so i really just end up with a ton of different tones and eventually i stumble across some that look good. i try not to erase my colors and i work over top of them instead most of the time...so picking colors is more of a process of trial and error than it is a matter of like, skill,

my advice for more interesting colors that ive learned by brute forcing is to move around the color wheel a lot! i try to stay away from monochromatic shading as much as possible because i think it looks boring on my boring drawings. i dont even really mean this in a "use complimentary colors to shade" way, i mean i literally just slop whatever color i want on there and if it doesnt work i do another one over top... you can get some really interesting effects out of it. i love using my full range of colors wherever possible!!! color theory is helpful, but its always just a rough guideline and breaking the rules of it usually ends up more exciting than confining myself rigidly to it for me personally.

the other thing that i guess is my big principle is to not be afraid to use my tools... as a digital artist im in a unique position to colorpick off of photos, edit colors to get smth new and interesting, etc..lately ive been doing a lot of shit like doing a tone curve over a drawing that looks particularly flat (or using posterize on clip studio paint which creates some interesting new colors) and then painting or rendering over that . its easy to feel like thats "cheating" somehow but if the tools are there you should use them!!! heres how that works for me:

Im still learning how to use clip studio paint so my art is in a period of storm and stress as of right now, but this is how i generally work :) hope thats helpful or interesting somehow!! agian thank you for the very kind compliment