I'm gonna be straight:

[Anonymous No.6824474]

How the fuck do you color? How do shades of color exist to show things like texture? I've been drawing sketches and only this for all my life and I can just never understand shading, barely even black and white.

[Anonymous No.6824477]

>>6824474
Rephrase your question, of course you can`t understand it if you can`t make a question sound right.

[Anonymous No.6824481]

>>6824474
I see a lot of things in this painting that demonstrate actual shapes. I see a fire on the beach, the remains of a sunken ship and humans on the shore. I see the depths of the waters in the midround and the night sky above. Like wtf how do I accomplish that level of colorwork?

[Anonymous No.6824487]

>>6824481
Shizo.

[Anonymous No.6824491]

>>6824477
>>6824481

Again: How the FUCK do you use or determine color in an original art piece? What techniques are relevant to pronounce the depth and shape of your art piece through color?
Example: This characters hair, the "red horns", and her makeup.

[Anonymous No.6824493]

>>6824474
Make a bunch of still lifes.

[Anonymous No.6824494]

>>6824491
>Again: How the FUCK do you use or determine color in an original art piece? What techniques are relevant to pronounce the depth and shape of your art piece through color?
Unironically buddy- read the /sticky

[Anonymous No.6824497]

>>6824493
Fuck, you know what, you're right.

[Anonymous No.6824499]

>>6824491
>What techniques are relevant to pronounce the depth and shape of your art piece through color?

>I've done no research and I'm already all out of ideas, anons please help me

Read. A. Book. This is like the 4rth chapter in every book about drawing

[Anonymous No.6824507]

>>6824497
Heck yeah. There are two main aspects of using colors: one is in emulating reality, that you can learn by copying still life.

Once you understand how those rules work, you can develop and understand ways of breaking from those rules to fulfill some artistic goals. A common example is exaggerating the chroma of real life colors, to various degrees.

But the key is practice, as always. You'll never get there by asking questions, but by painting stuff over and over until this becomes second nature.

[Anonymous No.6824598]

>>6824474
Seek out this book in the artbook thread.

[Anonymous No.6827099]

bump

[Anonymous No.6827203]

>>6824474
1) make the line drawing
2) color the whole thing WITHOUT shadows
3) make new layer
4) imagine everything is in cel-shading, and draw the shadows' borders
5) fill in the shadows with black
6) use the smooth tool to smooth the borders
7) decrease layer opacity to 50%

[Anonymous No.6828153]

Thoughts on these 8 min gestures?

[Illastrat No.6828159]

Color is so easy. You can't get it?

Pic related

[Anonymous No.6828206]

>>6828159
Apparently it isn't, because you clearly don't get it

[Anonymous No.6831972]

>>6824474
Try this exercise, make squares on a picture and try to guess the color, then go on with the eye dropper tool and check your accuracy.
Another exercise is try and do color studies of simple stuff like apples, eggs, bananas. Chances are if you can’t paint an apple, you will have a hard time painting a head.

[Anonymous No.6831976]

>>6827203
>Shade with black
OP don't listen to this retarded crab trying to give you sabotaging advice.

[Anonymous No.6831979]

>>6824474
Drop the words "coloring" and "shading" from your vocabulary and learn the basics of painting instead.

[Anonymous No.6832198]

>>6824474
>I'm gonna be straight
Not today op, not today.

[Anonymous No.6832535]

>>6831976
I'm gonna elaborate for OP.

Shadows are never just black unless your subject is trapped in the void of space. Ambient lighting (the indirect light that's currently flowing around you right now) affects the shade of shadows.

Likewise, a quick start in getting better at coloring is to hue shift values. For example, let's say you have a red ball. Instead of making the shadows just a darker red, hue shift the shadows to more of a maroon or purple hue. This is imitating the concept that the red ball is in a space with cool ambient lighting.

For the highlights on the red ball, shift the brighter parts to a different but warmer hue like a faint orange.

In short: Warm Highlights, Cool Shadows.

You can also inverse this as Cool Highlights and Warm Shadows.