---PhotoShop Coloring Help---+sketchs (nsfw)!

Doctor Pain

i got some new thing going, and wow does it look bad, i could just go on with it, but i thikn its better if i get some wisdom and see if i can improve this coloring technique im using.

MagicToaster

*uses telekenisis to call Bacon*

Maybe he can help.

beavotron

i think your first major problem has nothing to do with photoshop and everything to do with color theory.
you are shading and highlighting by simply using a darker/lighter shade of your base color

i only this year figured out the beauty of using compliments in shading and highlighting

it makes painting so much easier! and it always looks much richer and fuller, for serious.

Grifter

Word.

Tam

beavotron wrote:

i think your first major problem has nothing to do with photoshop and everything to do with color theory.
you are shading and highlighting by simply using a darker/lighter shade of your base color

i only this year figured out the beauty of using compliments in shading and highlighting

it makes painting so much easier! and it always looks much richer and fuller, for serious.

Elaborate, wise one. Please.

Sublimus

@Tam: Instead of adding black to the color for the shadow, add some of the compliment. This darkens the color, and also desaturates it. Because shadows are desaturated, ya know. It also give a better, more interesting range of color, rather than just kind of a monochrome section by section.

@Doctor Pain: Your light source is defined kind of strangely. For example, for his front side to be in complete shadow, there would be a much larger shadow on the front side of his arm; probably about half of it would be in shadow.

For me, it is easier to see the larger shadow patterns if I work from a cell shaded sort of approach first, with only two shades, then just break those into smaller shapes and flesh it out that way.

Doctor Pain

ok thanks for the info, but im not gonna add color compliments in this one, ill start another painting later, this one is finshed.

wakkawa

Protip: red and green make horrible color choices. The first thing someone will think of when they see those two colors together is christmas. Unless thats what you want, don't do it.

http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

would be an awesome tutorial to follow. Everything from the skin shading to how you posed the guy.

core tactic

Well I personally love it. Wish I could color like that.

Grifter

The lighting doesn't make much sense.

core tactic

The nipples seem kind of out of place though.

Doctor Pain

core tactic wrote:

Well I personally love it. Wish I could color like that.

now this guy knows what hes talking about.

so i tried that color complimentary thing... its starting to look richer and more solid.
check it out.


waaka, that looks like a nice tutot, ill check it out later.

Sublimus

Much better!

But you may want to ref the anatomy, specifically the armpits, clavical, and the neck muscles are skrewy. Wach those pecs, too. They are border line boobies.

And also, pick a light source and stay consistant. (the shadow in the neck implies a light on the right, but nowhere else does it come into play)

You got potential kid, keep at it.

Doctor Pain

ok, the anatomy is crap, but that wasnt really the point, i was just practicing coloring. anyways coloring is really hard, and its gonna take a while to get the grasp of it.

meanwhile, heres some sketches...


from ref (drawing naked ladies is fun!)


crits? nit picks? dicks?

(ohms)Crunchy

OMG nipple

tynic

They're staring right at my face

Nipples that look like fried eggs are of course a personal aesthetic choice, but you might want to research placement.

galen

Or you can omit them entirely. They're fairly unnecessary in this respect, and it's better to define them with light and shadow than with two hard circles anyway.

It's good that you're drawing from life, keep it up! But you don't have to go so fast! Both those life drawings look like they took maybe five minutes of furious sketching. Don't be afraid to take your time to get things right.

Doctor Pain

you cant take my nipples away from me, never. as far as placement goes, i think i just made the tits look kinda perky.

galen: those arent exactly from life, there just pics. the reason i didnt go into detail is cause, those are totally off, by quite a bit, i was just having fun doing some quick lines.

heres something... different

The One Dark Knight

I rather like your style actually


But they are right, the large nipples kind of distract from the rest of the sketch ):