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Title says it all really, just something I doodled, and wanted to try coloring again.
Any tips would be great.
Any tips would be great.
Category All / All
Species Housecat
Size 677 x 900px
File Size 51.3 kB
I don't define "coloring" as bold cellshading.
I noticed that you tried some shading on the head and arms... you are way too soft with the values. Make the highlights lighter and the shadows darker.
Do not draw fur in with lines. Don't even bother trying to make it look furry (as in texture) until you have better control of color. The same goes for muscles: it's something that needs shading and values, a line simply won't do it. Lines suck for everyone when doing fur and muscles, it's not you or anything you did wrong, just avoid doing them for now.
Shading with black and white is a poor choice. Shade highlights with the color of the light source and shade shadows with the complement of the light source. Most light for everything is yellow, so that means you are shading with yellow and blue.
Don't do minimalist shading! Set that opacity brush to 25, 55, 75% and go overboard to clearly establish shadows and highlights. "Force" a light source somewhere by drawing a dot or orb of light and try to think how your subject looks when the light is coming from a certain source.
Remember, you shade by hand with the brush tool. Do not ever use Gaussian blur to "shade" or you will end up on deviantart faster than you can say "ITS A STYLE HOW DAR U".
Also, don't draw characters "standing straight up looking off screen or at the camera" anymore. Try different positions, poses, since the standing up straight thing means you're really just drawing the same thing over and over and over again but with different colors.
Otherwise, good understanding of the basic "human figure" that furry takes from, the tail doesn't touch the ground, hands and feet are decent, no glaringly obvious mistakes or errors in general anatomy.
I noticed that you tried some shading on the head and arms... you are way too soft with the values. Make the highlights lighter and the shadows darker.
Do not draw fur in with lines. Don't even bother trying to make it look furry (as in texture) until you have better control of color. The same goes for muscles: it's something that needs shading and values, a line simply won't do it. Lines suck for everyone when doing fur and muscles, it's not you or anything you did wrong, just avoid doing them for now.
Shading with black and white is a poor choice. Shade highlights with the color of the light source and shade shadows with the complement of the light source. Most light for everything is yellow, so that means you are shading with yellow and blue.
Don't do minimalist shading! Set that opacity brush to 25, 55, 75% and go overboard to clearly establish shadows and highlights. "Force" a light source somewhere by drawing a dot or orb of light and try to think how your subject looks when the light is coming from a certain source.
Remember, you shade by hand with the brush tool. Do not ever use Gaussian blur to "shade" or you will end up on deviantart faster than you can say "ITS A STYLE HOW DAR U".
Also, don't draw characters "standing straight up looking off screen or at the camera" anymore. Try different positions, poses, since the standing up straight thing means you're really just drawing the same thing over and over and over again but with different colors.
Otherwise, good understanding of the basic "human figure" that furry takes from, the tail doesn't touch the ground, hands and feet are decent, no glaringly obvious mistakes or errors in general anatomy.
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