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Tried doing the painting in grayscale before adding colour for the first time, any critique or tips appreciated.

>> No.3724648

>>3724644
Screenless or screen tab?

>> No.3724652

i really like it. clean it up a bit and thats a great style

>> No.3724654

The colors looking a little dull.

>> No.3724655

>>3724648
screen tab

>> No.3724659

>>3724644
The colors look a little muted and the shadows don't vary in hue very much, but I'm not sure if that's your preferred color style in general.
You might like gradient maps if you use Photoshop, although they take a bit of wrangling.
I also think that for this style without an excess of blending, putting down color by itself is less likely to causs mud or anything.

>> No.3724717

>>3724644
Kinda this >>3724654 >>3724659

Here's a suggestion OP, After you apply some of the initial color, try playing with color adjustment filters that comes with whatever program you're using. A lot of artists who color from greyscale use filters to brighten up the colors because often they can look pretty dull at first.

Here's two greyscale to color videos I really like

https://youtu.be/2GwQOJ55WQQ

Even in speedpaints where she works primarily with color at first, she often times seems to paint a little greyscale "underpainting" first to establish the initial values.

https://youtu.be/ztKEVEuhyoo
https://youtu.be/8Mcqkk21pcE

It seems like a lot of his paintings, like in his latest video, he paints from greyscale first. But he's able to color them in such a nice way it's hard to tell it was originally painted from greyscale.

I think even if you're focusing on greyscale right it's still good to study color theory at the same time. I'm trying to focus on getting better with values right now because I notice almost every artist that's amazing with color also has no problem making nice looking greyscale paintings. If my greyscale paintings are shit than my color paintings will be shit too.