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AHH!! Sorry tumblr didn’t notify me for this!! Also thank you!!

For the most part, when I go into a piece, I already have a general idea of what I want the colors to portray. For example, in this first piece here, I knew I wanted the background to be really bright and eye catching, and for the subject to be a little less bright. And in the second screenshot, you can see that I originally chose this greeny-blue and red (picking near complementary colors helps for contrast.)

A lot of my process after that has to do with color adjustments and sliders. If I’m really unsure of how the base colors would look in a certain color environment, I lay them down raw and then adjust with overlay layers, the curves function or through manual color replacement (drawing over them again).

Some more tips/other bits (hopefully I explain this well):

- My white colors are almost always not pure white, instead they tend to reflect the background or general color palette I’ve chosen. In the first example I provided, my white is purplish, and in the second its blueish.

- Color palette websites can help too! I use those a lot when I’m stuck, and just generate colors until I really like one or two of them. I’m a very colorful person in general, so I like a lot of bright things haha.

-I shade/highlight with adjacent hues! So if my light source is warm toned, and I’m drawing something green, I’ll highlight with yellows and shade with blue hues. This gives a little more depth to your colors!