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The three Jedi from our Star Wars game: from left, Ree, Zan, and Lydia, Ree's apprentice. For my sister, because she's been blue lately.I've been mucking around for a while, trying to find a coloring technique that really suited me. I've played with several I kinda liked, but I think that finally, I've found the one that fits me. This style is fast and intuitive to me, and fits perfectly with the way in which I tend to manage my files.
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Love them in general and the robes in specific. What colouring method did you use?
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I colored the robes in grey tones (best to use as large a brush as you can conveniently get away with, on a very low opacity--not more than 10%, perhaps as low as 5%...though to get some texture I also used a small brush, which you can see in some places), then I created a layer above that with the blending mode set to "Color," and washed over it with the brown I wanted. I shaded the faces and whatnot in a similar way, except that was a Luminosity blending layer over the base skin colors (preserves more of the skin tone than the Color blending mode does, keeps skin from looking ashen, which it otherwise would when shaded with black and white--note that however you color skin, using plain old black and white to do so will usually result in an artificial, pasty look), and then three separate Color blending layers--one for each lightsaber shade--over the rest, to get the tints to the shading in appropriate places.
I like this technique because it forces me to pay more attention to the contrasts--something which I tend to have trouble doing when working in color, though it comes fairly naturally to me with monotone graphite. Bonus points because I like dramatic lighting. Plus, it lets me adjust colors at my leisure after I have the bulk of the work done, which also fits me nicely because I'm still kind of indecisive when it comes to choosing palettes. A nice thing about this Jedi picture was that the colors involved were fairly limited, and I knew that most of the drama would come from the lighting. Made it easier on me.
Hang on, I got the technique from a tutorial on a site that'd probably be very useful to you. ImagineFX: [link] The specific tutorial is here: [link] but there are a lot of great art workshops and tutorials on that site for all kinds of things.
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Thanks, very informative and logical + a handy site.
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You can't lose with Jedi! I love the gal's robe design.
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Jedi indeed! This picture was so much fun to do!
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Thank you! I'm definitely liking this new technique. It helps to overcome the problems I tend to have with shading color pictures. It's amazing how much fun those robes were to do.
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