First of all, I want to say that I love your work. It makes me so happy! I'm pretty sure that has to do with your color scheme. So, I just wanted to ask, how do you choose your colors?
🌿 This website is amazing for color palettes and there’s so many of them to choose from! But I realized that I kinda suck at sticking to palettes someone else made so I gave up on using pre-made color schemes haha.
🌿For my art I always use soft colors with a pop of brighter/contrasting colors. I use Paint tool SAI as my main drawing program and I always have the HSV slider and color swaches options enabled.
🌿 I’ve saved a lot of colors on my swatch pad throughout the years (5 years so far) so when I’m coloring a piece I always choose from the colors I already saved and then I adjust them through the HSV slider if needed. Here’s my swatch pad:
🌿 When working on pieces with one dominant color I like to mix warmer shades with cooler shades of that color. Here’s my Sailor Moon piece as an example:
🌿 For my Kiki matching set I knew I wanted it to look soft yet have contrasting colors (‘cause that’s the kinda colors Kiki wears). Colors can also look different depending on what other colors you pair them with and even tho I picked a pink-ish color and a orange-y color for her shirt/cap and jacket,they actually come off more as red and yellow (at least that’s how I see it idk haha).
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