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>>43297
Ok
General things:
- You're using too small of a brush to shade. It's a million times easier to blend colours with a large brush. This will eliminate most of the streaky stuff on its own. Use big confident brushstrokes!! Not tiny fussing ones!!
- Don't manually turn down opacity unless you're mixing colours in a palette. Keep that at 100% and leave it to pressure sensitivity. Fixing opacity at a lower level tends to make the colours fade out and look like rubbish, too. You'll have greater control over the colours you put down if you leave it alone.
- You have a really cartoony, blocky style. Keep in mind that more detail is not always better; colouring should fit with the style of the linework. Keep it simple!
Colours:
- Your shadows aren't very dark, and the value differences between light and dark vary a lot depending on the section. For example, her pants have a fairly obvious value change, but her skin hardly has any. You can see this easier if you temporarily merge the layers and desaturate the image.
- I made some palettes from >>43281, and I found that the most saturated colours are the midtones. When the midtones are the brightest, it makes your image look really washed out. Generally, you want the highlights to be the brightest, and shadows to be darker and less saturated than the midtone.
- You don't need a lot of highlights. It's ok to hardly have them at all.
- One of the simplest things you can do to make simple shadows look interesting is reflected light. Shadows are always darkest at their perimeter and gradually fade (unless it is a harsh cast shadow or something of that nature). Objects take on the colours of their environment too. So you can take the base colour, or a mix of the base colour and background, and apply it on a layer over the shadows to create a nice soft effect. Try doing a dark multiply layer for shadows and then lightening them this way.
- Maybe try experimenting with other types of layers. Multiply is kind of the go-to guy but you can get nice effects with others too if you know how to use them. For instance Multiply tends to make the colours beneath it less vibrant, but Colour Burn keeps them nice and bright; if it looks shitty to start change how it filters things with the Fill% in the layer window and it responds differently than when you simply lower the Opacity% (there are a few layer types that do this). I think the result of Colour Burn, after the right Fill% adjustments, looks a little like marker.
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