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Gonna post this silly little tutorial thing here too, just in case it helps anyone else out or if anyone was curious about how I personally like to colour stuff!

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Ohhh, colors. Gosh, to be honest it took me a while myself to get a hang of it - because I usually used just one color scheme + i shadowed the whole picture just picking a ‘darker’ tone of each color, like if a sweater was orange, i created a layer above it with ‘darker orange’ color. And I did that for each layer, which is so not convenient, takes a lot of time and it just looks dull after some time.

I made a little “tutorial” (it’s hardly a tutorial but I explained there what colors i choose for lighting and for shadowing) on colors that you can find HERE

Essential word here is LAYERS. Now what I do, firstly I color the picture with the base colors - like skin, hair, clothing etc. I also set up shadows - like I did in the tutorial linked above. Lemme show you on my latest klance picture -

Next, (it depends on what environment the characters are in - if they are situated in a well lit room, a dungeon, if they are on a meadow and there’s sunset/midday/sunrise/evening or night) I select all the character layers and just bucket color it with bright blue or light pink and change different layer modes.

In this case, they are laying on the beach, after the sunset - so the base colors here are blue AND pink. All as said above in the picture.

The final steps here - a vivid light layer, peach pink color. I added in on the things that are exposed to the light the most - which are boys’ hair, a camera, soda cans etc. I also added a bit of glowy-sparkly dots to imitate the sand reflecing the setting sun. 

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Tumblr makes it look really low quality, but they’re fine if you click on them~ :)

Tutorial time! Here’s a quick hair tip tutorial for eat-my-shxrts (I’m working on the eyes/facial features one, but since I finished this one I thought I’d post it :) Hope this is helpful, I wish I was better at explaining how I draw XD