Color Blending!
After much experimentation, I’ve come across a coloring style that I like (at last)! Check out the above post to see an example of it. The gist of it is that I lay down the base colors at full opacity and slightly smaller amounts of full opacity highlights and shadows first. Instead of sticking with three blending colors in my old cell-shading style, and instead of using more of an airbrushing of shadows and highlights like I tried in my more recent works, I’ve used about 4 shades to form a sort of gradient. After the base color and shadow are established, I pick an in between color at 1% opacity, and use the watercolor brush to blend the two together. I find this gives it a sort of painted look, and gives me stricter control of how the gradient expands. At the very end, I use an extreme dark/light color at the edges to give it some stronger contrast. I guess I should mention that I’ve never taken any art classes or anything, so if this sounds silly, it’s because I just made it up. If anyone has any suggestions or criticisms of this, let me know!
Art Thoughts | Kabitzin 2/26/2005
