#color tutorial

Thank youu 💜💜 Basically for shadows I use saturated color or light Blue/green, I also play with gradient map a LOT. I can't help more than that I'm sorry, most of the time I got with the feels 💔 here's a vid if it helps

How do you choose the colors you do :0? I am struggling with coloring choices in my own pieces and love how your art pops with different colors! Thank you :)

Part II

NOTE: I don't know why, the enter key/space bar spaces do not really work on tumblr? Ironically enough, the text will be distributed in a weird way, apologies.

Orange is -metaphorically speaking- dangerous to use on your paintings, on anything. You have to know how to use it.

"Mum aren't there too many oranges in this pic?"

"NOPE"

You can clearly see a sense of untidiness, of disaster, and the girl being annoyed and uncomfortable, beautifully framed not just by orange, but by white.

The orange works.

She STANDS OUT.

So-- let's talk about The Mummy (2017). Terrible movie, and at the same time, similar to some of MARVEL's so-so movies, were you see "this could work" but is cancelled by other ideas. Butano-like ideas.

"Oof, Mr. Art director. There's too much blue in this background, not enough orange. Let me fix that for you".

Now you might think, "But this image has the same crowded oranges as the painting of the little girl above! The subject is untidy, chaos, same concept???"

Here's my issue-

what was exactly the POINT of these lamps?

This sequence from The Mummy is the "reveal" from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde. He's the monster now. Spooky eyes and all whatnots.

This is a NEW character. You might say, well, he's hiding between the lights.

But this is not Mr. Hyde. This is Mr. Dystractful.

Can you SEE his eyes? Can you see his FACE? This is a moment which goes so fast and does not frame anything, aka no point. The only thing the lights do is being distracting, not chaotic.

Heck- I tried to fix it- took me 5 minutes? With a mouse because my XP-Pen is lagging?

Listen to Unka Ridley Scott, The Mummy. Crowe's nicely framed. Chaotic lights. No face. But we as the audience know who he is.

"UGH... AGAIN???"

"STOP WITH THE FUCKING GARFIELD ORANGEEEEES"

OT: For some reason people insist on using large mouths on horror movies? It's not scary. IT. IS. NOT. You know what it reminds me of?

Unless you're ironically funny.

"Give Sweet Freddy K. a kiiiiiissssss"

BONUS:

Good fire framing. SEE THE POPE'S EXORCIST?

-Fire-

- -Is-

- -Not-

- -Always-

ORANGE.

AND you can instantly recognize who he is.

Anyway, let's leave The Mummy on one side-

Crowe's good movies. Like Cinderella Man.

"Yes sir, I like this orange. Compositionally not bothering me. Can I have a drink of that whisky over there which is harmonically balancing the lamp? "

Also, for a movie which does not really belong to the "dark" genre, this framing has an excellent use of black which any baity horror movie wish it had.

The Nice Guys- a 70's themed movie. Impossible not to use butanos. But they're used WELL here.

Orange framing and orange MOOD for comedy.

Angular and basic composing? Maybe. But it still works.

Unlike--

Bah, I like Austin Powers. Palette's terrible in this promo, but Goldmember is stupid fun. I guess it's only the 70's movies where you can allow yourself to go crazy fun with colour?

Yep. Art director knew EXACTLY what he was doing.

"It's not the colour, mate. It's how you use it"

Nice poster, but Gosling's arm tangent here is KILLING me, haha.

Find positivity, and you'll find negativity easier- does that mean you have to avoid negative spaces?

NEVAH!

Just avoid (+ learn from) people who don't know how to handle negative spaces. How to balance them.

Example:

How to kill a concept with terrible colour framing.

The movie does not look like this, but the person who edited the gif is a psychopath. Where are Lilo and Nani, exactly?

"We're fine, our skins are slowly being eaten by hell"

Anyway, as long it does not happen on Disney movies themselves--

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

"Ooooooh so you wanted me to show my full potential through an underused classic literary character? Well, too bad! Now I have the potential of a car AD!"

"SEEEEEEEE??"

(Actually I like this frame. Absence of f oranges, no poor CGI, just Crowe being natural.

And throwing in his WTF eyes

Did they throw red on his eyes for a moment? Subtlety? REALLY?

THE MUMMY IS TRYING TO REDEEM ITSELF. But even if you have a good actress as the villain and Crowe as the antagonist- it will self-explode.

PRETENTIOUS TURQUOISES AND NARANJA BUTANOS

Part III

NOTE: I don't know why, the enter key/space bar spaces do not really work on tumblr? Ironically enough, the text will be distributed in a weird way, apologies.

Acknowledging priorities and remembering what or whom is your main character on your composition. If you're going to use reflected light- what else will you frame on your composition?

As much I drill people onto colour choices and its level of "tackiness"... ANY EXCELLENT composition can survive psychopath orange saturations, like the one below. The above pic is so good the fire would be blue and still be readable, clear as day.

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood likes to be tacky, too. (A scene I have no issues with- thank you Ridley, that was very nice of you)

I swear every time I see him standing up he looks like he had an arrow stuck on his back.

"Bah, that's nothin'"

The importance to be "framed" by orange or/and--- reflected light.

"You're being framed correctly by a lamp. Stop it."

Orange used as it should on a movie with the title "Land of Bad"? Used with a purpose? WHAT?

"WHAT THE HELL??"

I like Crowe's orange/beige shirt too? He may be wearing the same Hawaian shirt through the whole movie, but it makes him more iconic?

Unlike something as American Gangster, which I swear he wears TOO MANY shirts. I know people might disagree with me, but this movie is like Crowe's shirts. Way too many scenes.

This one looks like he just opened it from a Shein bag.

"Look Steve, chief's now being framed by blue. He looks like a loser" "That's because he IS a loser, George" "Oooooh. And what does that make us?" "Shut up, George" -

As said before on another Crowe post on Land of Bad, the movie's very OK. It will surprise you if... you know.

You've never watched a belic movie before.

Speaking of green and orange-

when Disney had the guts to make fire green

You might say, "it's a fantasy movie"- BUT STILL they're using real physics on this. Fire stands out on a dark base, fire is "colourless" on light.

I don't know how much feedback this posts are going to receive, but I'd love to explore further on orange and green combos.

Probably one of my favourite oranges, though. "Intentionally tacky orange"

Lie you not, I LOVE Syndrome, but I laughed so hard with Chantel DuBois (Madagascar 3).

A Hulk reference? I was SOLD.

(they're both from 2012. Coincidence, I guess?)

Guardians Inferno- I'm not going to say anything. People haven't seen it yet?

In 2025? NO.

It's better than any of the 3 Guardians of the Galaxy movies altogether.

Watch it.

MCU again. Tony Stark's Orange Audi R8 plays a funny role in Captain America: Civil War, too.

This reminds me on the first Iron Man- Jarvis and Tony are designing the first suit. Jarvis says "Yes, that should help you keep a low profile" after Tony says he does not want to show off and immediately proceeds to colour his first suit red and gold.

It's so funny how this car sticks out visually like a sore thumb through the whole movie, how Tony can still be so tacky and have a giant ass ego (even if his intentions are good). Not really a main character, but this car continuously feeds Tony's personality and his surroundings.

Part IV

NOTE: I don't know why, the enter key/space bar spaces do not really work on tumblr? Ironically enough, the text will be distributed in a weird way, apologies.

"Watch out miss! Orange!"

"Shit!"

There is no correct way to use orange. But like any other colour, you need to give it a role, a function. And neutralizing it with another colour helps A LOT.

The Hulk from the left has the white shirt to frame him on the orange.

And the right has the blues to be neutralized. Everything filmed (except the creature, obviously), which is amazing.

Framing in classics...

You'd say, oh, but this sequence from Fantasia could belong to the "Pretentious turquoises" area? No- not really.

It is that slight taste of orange down there which makes it so good.

More black and white framing....

I love that Crowe has the GOOD poster on his promotional video.

The other one was generic, like any other suspense/pursuit DVD cover from the 90's.

Guess which poster the marketing campaign chose, which was EVERYWHERE?

Exactly

"YOU SEE BITCH??? THIS is how you are framed by orange! FULL SILHOUETTE, CLEAR AS DAY (literally) AND THE POWER OF ORANGE IS THERE TO SUPPORT ME!!!!"

"I'm also supported by the power of orange on my hair, but shhhh, don't tell him"

More black and white framing...

"How to make blue stand out" -Yours truly, The Thief and the Cobbler

"Oh, don't mind me. I'm beautifully designed by nature and the black and whites of my skin naturally frame and balance the prominent shell on the blue ocean. "

"What?"

"Oh"

This is Poncho- a beautiful orange ludopath.

Notice how Poncho stands out more with his white fur rather when he's facing back?

Poncho digs those blues.

This guy on the other hand- hates blues. Hates oranges. Probably hates Russell Crowe too.

This guy hates all colours. Hates everyone. Probably homophobe.

How can you put Crowe in the friggin center and still cannot see him?

That'll be all, for now. If you think this was useful, reblog (or let me know/leave a comment, human contact is always good for everyone)----I'll def share more Butano stuff. Besides, I hardly touched the Turquoises subject.

You can visit my work and sketches clicking here:

https://www.instagram.com/caty_doodles_art/

Tutorial?

Thank you! When coloring I like to use tons of layer modes until I get the colors I like. I use brightness and overlay modes a lot to set the colors. Other than that, I use the row method as explained below.

<3 receiving this ask made me SO excited i love talking about processes and techniques. anon i hope you enjoy the essay

note: for anyone wondering how i get the different color strokes in my art, that's color jitter! I can answer a different question on that, but it's just a brush setting that changes the color for each stroke. This answers how I choose the base colors :)

It’s so colorful and very pretty to look at

Keep up the great work

Thank yooouuuu! especially for this post - a small tutorial on how I color my arts

AND A LITTLE MORE OF MY ENGLISH PRACTICE, I made the visual understandable in case if I made a lot of mistakes, sorry guys. I'm still self-taught, even in learning a language :]