how are your colors so freaking goooood your recent lara painting made me open my eyes fully damnnnnn...... galloping into the distance in pure bliss.......
THANK YOUUUU SMILES Let's gallop Into The Distance Together.... and listen I'll tell you something. Gonna give anyone who reads this a tip and/or trick actually. so this lara picture was holding me down torturing me spurring me to the blood and shit I could not for the life of me Make It. Felt like I was going insane, the colors were pissing me off, the lines, everything. So here's what I did
First redid the lineart with another, less "clean" brush. Endless suffering but it had to be done
But what helps mostly is the coloring trick. I've used it before I'll use it again. So you're going to paint all the background, you're going to give it some texture. Here I did a dirty beigegreybrown, a canvas texture, darkening of the corners, some lighter patches near the figures. Okay? This is the unifying base.
Then I did the dark blue of the background and the tripartition, as a MULTIPLY LAYER on top of the unifying base. this way everything is naturally tonally coherent, and also the texture can poke through. you're going to RESERVE the figures, as in keep em the color of the background.
Then you will color the figures atop of this reserved background, again on a MULTIPLY layer, so as to keep the tonality and the texture of the background. For my strong as fuck warrior beginners that is mildly annoying to have to have to consider they need to be chosen lighter and more saturated than than you would directly rendering on a normal layer if youre not used to it, but it's easy after a minute.
Once you have your flats, hints of shadows and eventually highlights on a multiply layer (and eventually a like. Overlay or soft light or something for the lighlights) over your kept background tone, you can eventually merge everything [after having set it aside unmerged in a group in case you want to get back to it], including the lineart, and render with more precision, more saturation, pops of color, covering the texture of the background in places etc.
But what it will give you, because you've worked your first color wash over the background, is a tonal consistency based on the color of the background. As I've said, mine was beigegreybrown, to imitate painted canvas, but you can do Whatever really. As you'd be working with multiply layers, it still needs be light enough for the flats to show up... but its an experimental base you can work upon. And also a great way to get out of a massive coloring rut if you hate every color you're working with ☝️
THANK YOU AGAIN..... everyone do a multiply layer trick easiest trick of the summer. Let's Gallop Wild and Free Together And Graze The Vast Prairies Of Art.....
