yoooo juby!! how do you make your pieces look so colourful and vibrant? Whenever i finish a drawing, the colouring looks boring and sad haha. I always try to use brightness, contrast, etc afterwards but it doesn't do me justice!!!! :(
Hiya! This could be one of three things:
◈ Colour choices: are you choosing the colours you want from the start? On a colour picker, the more you veer to the upper right, the purer the hue gets. However, there are ways to get your pieces to look vibrant without even using the upper right corners, via colour relativity. Make sure the colours you use next to each other are either clearly different in hues (the rainbow slider), values (↕ the colour picker), saturation (←→ on the colour picker), or any of these three in combination. These are the basics of contrast, and when you have full control over contrast, you can make any colour pop. =D
Protip: If your picture has a background, I advise putting down those colours before you start on your characters; it makes colour picking a lot easier.
◈Blending: are your colours suffering from overblending? Remind yourself that colours that are too far away from each other on the colour wheel (ie: complements like blue/orange) become gray when mixed◈Brush settings: related to blending, depending on how dense/soft, opaque/transparent your brushes are, it can muddle your colours. Some programs like SAI set you up for this because their brushes are inherently very blend-y. I usually stay away from watercolour brushes in any program haha
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