I know a lot of people struggle with them. I am tired of "tutorials" that give an outline on how to make a cookie-cutter version of what someone else does: those are not useful except to replicate an effect someone else already uses! Those will not help a whole lot, and I've made ones like that in the past. This is more like a TLDR version of something that will be in my color book when it's ready, using a speedpaint from the Pal/Palette story as an example.
This simply offers things to think about with some examples of each of the things: more detail can be covered on each of these aspects, undoubtedly, but this is just a general advice thing. I will make a more detailed one when it comes to my book, with several examples on composing backgrounds and how to approach that. I favor teaching how to critically think about your work rather than giving a tip on exactly how to work like someone!
Feel free to ask questions + address things I wasn't able to cover in depth here: I'll try to give a response over time, and it will give me things to think about for the better version
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I've never really painted in grey and then gone over it in colour. And seeing that you put different tones over before you start colouring more is cool!
I also need to do backgrounds more. I feel like I've become such a lazy artist for the past couple of years (barely doing more than sketches and lazily cel shading and argh argh i hate it) so maybe this will light a bit of a fire under me to actually start making some art instead of just scribbles.
And the fact that there's different values in tone and saturation etc in the different areas of the painting has just clicked for me and I'm going to attempt it! I never really thought about it before (because i am lazy and don't do backgrounds >M< )
I also love the brush you're using, it's like you're dragging a palette knife over your colours. Is that just in sai or do you know if there is a photoshop equivalent?
it always surprises me that more people don't use flat brushes, they are really good.
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