coloring

[ebethalan]

I keep seeing these beautiful, wonderful color caricatures.... I'd love for people to maybe post their color pictures several times... like in the different stages of coloring. I've tried some color things, and mine always look messy. I learn by seeing/watching what others do, and then expanding on that with my own imagination. Also, what are the different tools that all the artists on here are using for coloring? Thanks, Ebeth

[Ricky]

Hi Ebeth,

I'm guilty of not trying colors myself....though, I think color caricatures are great. Though I haven't colored mine (i'm afraid to....eek) I know that many use markers, acrylic, photoshop, and Corel Painter.....many others as well but this is a great place to learn.

Ricky

[bidgis]

hello ebeth, personnaly i use coloured pencils.

I think i can colour my drawing, but it take for me so many time that i'm discouraged after.

i haven't the step by step of this caricature, but i think it's the best colored drawing i've ever made for the moment. even if it is not look like, i keep it because of the colour,



what do you think of it ?

[dedder]

This is from a forum I visit from time to time.Great step by step for colouring an eye.
www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=227727
(rightclick/save the animation,that shows the intire process)

[nelsonsantos]

adviçe: forget the animation and follow the step by step. Thats a good one Hans i usually go to that forum and i've never seen you there!

[vidal1951]

Dear Ebeth, the most important thing is to lose the fear to the color.

First you should know how to apply to your drawings the diffuse elements of the light and the shade. Light, Dimness and Shade that are white, gray and black.
She/he seeks advice to not arrive to the total target that is the paper, neither to arrive to the black one total, it is preferable a gray one dark.
When applying the light and shade you should not use the whole range of gray that are infinite... it is enough with three...
... You should not forget to also apply the reflections according to the surface where your models are, preferably volumétrics: cube, pyramid, cone, sphere, paralelograms,etc...
Then you should locate the high lights.

When you have practice with the light and shade and know how to apply different types of lights and to control the shades, to change them, to modify them, to create them, you are clever to apply the color, using the same procedure...

You begin with a single color, for example the blue.

You remember: light = white, now, light = clear blue
dimness = gray, now, dimness = blue gray or I intermediate and shade = black, now, shade = blue dark.
Then you can practice with two and three colors.
Lastly you tries to color alone with the primary, yellow, blue and red basic colors; white and black.

I believe that that will prepare you to pass to know other techniques, they are the bases...

This procedure applies it with my students and they gives results. I wait it helps you.

Excuse me my regular english