/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6939991
If you ignore the gradients in this still life (by squinting your eyes, which automatically groups all the values / colors into one block), you can break the colors down to three, or even just two - even you could just literally drag the sliders around until the color-indicator looked like it would somewhat remotely match what's in the reference (unless somebody is blind or color-blind, anybody can practice color matching)

>>6939935
I use an underdrawing that was traced yes, if you're talking about the level of color accuracy, that's from training my eye hundreds of hours. I wouldn't be the first human being that's achieved that, either. Jarod Erwin, Senior Concept Artist at Microsoft, recommends using an underdrawing as well

Here's my photoshop file that shows the individual layers of work - if you step through each one, you can see how each layer of color is based off of the previous one, thus, picking the next color is a matter of comparing what you already have on the canvas, to the reference, and then making a mark, and then checking if it's right (in other words, how I pick colors is extremely hierarchical and controlled, but I do not pick the colors using the eyedropper tool)

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Perhaps using the Coolorus color wheel is "cheating" though, because it is quite easy to match the HSV of something using it

Each apple doesn't have more than (about) 5 values, you could deal with blocking in 5 colors.