/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3459892
http://godsh0t.tumblr.com

>>3459908
Read Color & Light by Gurney. Look at process videos of artists you like and xcopy their workflow-- combine the stuff from people you like into one process. Frankly speaking, I don't even really know what I'm doing most of the time. But I think if you can reduce the decisions you make regarding color into how it affects contrast (like differences in value, complements, warm vs cool etc.) then it greatly simplifies the thought process of picking color. If you need a quick base then you can't really go wrong picking an overall base color and mixing the other midtones you're going to use out that color. After getting a bunch of those colors in you can then play with the contrasts by bumping saturation of certain colors, having light interactions or introducing some interesting hue shifts. I draw a lot of influence from street-ish art so I tend to use a lot of saturated colors.

So yeah, copy stuff you like, try to figure out why a certain aspect is working, apply it to ur next work, probably fail horribly but then come out better since now u actually have something tangible to compare with what u were trying to do. Since u conceivably can understand why it works in the art u like then u also know how and why u failed which u can then keep in mind for ur next try. That's pretty much me for the entirety of my progress image.