PITT colours

[LEGION]

okies people, I need you to help me :chug: what can I do to improve my colouring style, what techniques do I need to learn, how could using a program like painter 7 etc help me? any help would be much appreciated, I'm relatively new to art and stuff, and I'm keen to learn from you fab people
http://www.renderosity.com/photos/ArtistArticle3408.jpg :)

[rpace]

Hi,

Well, one suggestion I could make is that Pitt's grey, not yellow.
:D

One thing you may try is to avoid using so much black in your colouring and use fewer highlights. The forms are already divided into objects by the very thick linework within the form -- you only accentuate this by further rendering the smaller shapes. Considering that a character should usually just be a shape in a composition instead os several smaller shapes. . .

Hmmm. . .

Hang on. . . .
http://members.rogers.com/mysterium/pittshoulder.jpg

Okay -- that took a few minutes. Still looks pretty crappy, but, hey, it only took a couple of minutes. . . .
:)

Okay -- what I did was take your basic Pitt shape and simplify the form slightly. Instead of three distinct shapes; deltoid, bicep and forearm I tried to limit it to one shape, allowing the colouring and outline define much of the image. I tried to have the light hit one side of the form, highlighting the parts closest to the light source or the elements I want to have "pop".

Highlighting every bump equally also breaks the form into a series of smaller shapes.

Take another look at Dale's work -- you'll find that, in spite of his heavy rendering and spotting of blacks, he rarely breaks the form into smaller shapes.

This site should be helpful:

Comic Colour (http://www.comiccolors.com/index1.html)

~Richard

[LEGION]

cool man :cool: cheers for the help , thats great,

[Tedsuo]

You're rendering all of your smaller shapes with the same value of highlight, midtone, and shadow. Which flattens out the image. Think about the larger shapes more.

Check out Prom's thread on this, he does a really good job explaining it:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5648

[HYBRID187]

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