I love your art sosososo much!!! the texture!!! the colors!! I lose my mind every time!!! would you consider dropping process pics or a quick tut on your coloring process?
Oh thank you! I've been putting together a video explaining this exact thing since I've gotten a few asks about my colours and my process.
I also have streams on my YT channel, where you can see me work on some pieces (but never really finish them on stream haha). Maybe I'll also post speedpaints, if that does well!
Here's a few progress pictures from my luna piece!
I'll break it down into steps;
1 - I sketch! I never have an Idea in mind. Honestly, I should be doing thumbnail sketches, but it slips my mind. Anyway, I sketch different things until something sticks out to me as potentially salvagable
2 - I put some colours down! For this piece, I KNEW I wanted Luna's hair to be the focal point with how orange it is (and for foreshadowing sake). I made sure that all the other colours felt dimmer and applied all the lovely colour theory in my head. Most importantly, I kind of just follow what I think looks nice over any logical thought process. Think of it as "grass doesn't have to be green; it just has to FEEL green".
3 - I start applying more colours in areas I think need colour variety. Like her apron, different things like that. Again, it's about feels and not about what makes sense. Am I adding light to where there should be shadow? Yea, but it looks good so who cares!!!!
4 - renderinggg. It's called rendering but i genuinely just slap my pen around with different brushes to have more texture. I also work in big strokes and not tiny details! I also take the time to check my values and mess around with the colours.
That's it!
Here's more progress pics of different pieces of mine. I really just work on whim and hunches over thoughts and logic. I love taking what feels right in the moment and turning them into art pieces. Art should be fun and also be whimsy!!
(here's an included speedpaint of a few quick doodles)
I recommend learning the fundementals of art because to break the art rules you must know them. That's all!