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[.Potemkin.]

PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 6:12 am


Okay, as you might know, coloring a drawing defines it's deph and it can also give it life.

Most of us have problems while coloring something, either because we can't simply come up with a good color palette, good lightining sources or simply a way to color our drawings.

There are tons of different ways of coloring a drawing, specially an anime based character. You can go from soft coloring, cell shading to color blending, so in short almost everything is accepted for this purpose.

Now! to help you improve how to color, I'll be posting (whenever I have free time and without any commissions lol ) some linearts for you to color, and to make it more simple, I'll be choosing randomly avatars (specially females but not only limited to it) so you guys have a reference of a color palette surprised

Now, for the first practice we'll have a very fast drawing I did right after I woke up based on this beautiful lady: Miss Stellarium

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Once done with the coloring post here your results for other to see surprised

If you want the high resolution picture click here, and click the download button =D

Have fun guys!
PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:09 pm


Interesting idea.
I probably coloured it wrong... At first I thought she was wearing a backpack or something and that she was holding the strap, but then I decided it was part of the scarf. The thumb looked like it could be a part of the scarf, too.
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Zantetsken


[.Potemkin.]

PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:17 pm


Nice! =D

I thought this would end up being a bit more popular in here crying

Anyways! I won't give up because of this, if only one person decides to color these to practice, it's still all worth the effort surprised

Now, here's the next test subject!

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His name is Damian from my comic Veltz mrgreen

Oh! there are a few important things I want to guide you, guys through: his base color palette.

Here are the flat colors (which is actually used for chapter 4)

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His clothes could be any color you want =D

Have fun! whee
PostPosted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:21 pm


I would, but I got no printer, and I am epic fail at digital color still.

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Zantetsken

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:53 pm


Oh, sweet, new Veltz chapter. I also thought this would catch on a bit better, especially since the line art is so good.

Phydeux77
I would, but I got no printer, and I am epic fail at digital color still.

All the more reason to practise. I dunno what program you use or what features other programs have, but I used openCanvas to colour the previous picture. It's a pretty simple program, legally free up to version 1.1 or something... I dunno, using a different program might help you.
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:33 pm


Zantetsken
Oh, sweet, new Veltz chapter. I also thought this would catch on a bit better, especially since the line art is so good.

Phydeux77
I would, but I got no printer, and I am epic fail at digital color still.

All the more reason to practise. I dunno what program you use or what features other programs have, but I used openCanvas to colour the previous picture. It's a pretty simple program, legally free up to version 1.1 or something... I dunno, using a different program might help you.

I know it means I need to practice, but I just mean I'm still working on very simple pictures for now, because anything with this level of detail would still be total overload for my underdeveloped skills.


Oh, and I use the latest version of Gimp. So far it's my favorite freeware, but I do plan on buying Paint Tool Sai soon.

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[.Potemkin.]

PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:43 pm


Alrighty then!

I'll upload some not-so-detailed drawings as well surprised

Oh! Zantetsken, I didn't know you were reading my crappy comic =D!
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:46 pm


Awesome! I'll try to color a few!

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