Alex.W Art

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Batman AU

Comics & fan comics

Animation

Original Characters

do you have tips for improving with color please? Like how did you learn to pick and use them? i particularly love the way you do your lighting.

I yearn to use fun colors, but i struggle a lot with understanding theory and all that jazz. I also draw comics and always end up with boring and muddy colors for my scenes. Like if I try to deviate from "normal" it doesn't look coherent, especially with night scenes or like anything with unnatural light.

I'm guessing you take a lot of inspiration from classic comics, but do you have maybe classes or coloring exercises that you've done? thank you <3

honestly, my color journey is still ongoing, but the biggest piece of advice I have is to study other peoples work and use slightly de-saturated colors most of the time

I think most people aim to make colors pop by using lots of super bright / super saturated tones, but colors pop best when something vibrant is juxtaposed against something duller and darker, I use that trick a lot to make my work seem very bright and colorful in general

also don’t be afraid to push colors to their limits, a desaturated blue can pass for green in some contexts, purple can pass as brown, light orange for yellow or pink for orange, this is something that takes some practice to utilize, but it can make coloring so much more fun

ty! and ,well, Superman is the answer to that question, he was actually the first DC character I loved, I've only just now gotten to a point where I feel like I can utilize his character in interesting ways :)