ok to start i have two of the same pictures of my girl Bel!
The left Bel is coloured completely on a normal layer, me picking the colour i want and slapping it on, each colour is straight from the colour wheel.
The Bel on the right is painted on a Hard-Light layer, this is the layer on normal right now. but i chose the colours while drawing with the layer in hard light as ill show you below the difference this makes…
just for comparison sake both images are with hard light on the coloured layers. the Bel on the right is how i coloured the image to get the colours how i want them to be. I colour the hard light layer as close to as how I would colour her on the normal layer as i possible can. Since i put the ‘normal’ Left image in hard light as well you can see the clear difference, the left image is far more washed out and pale.
The left bel isnt worse because of this! this is up to preference entirely, i usually use the right image’s method when i want to colour with vibrant highlights, its almost as if im colouring the shading first. the left image is far more suited for shading as shown below…
The shading and highlight layer is completely a hard light layer aswell.
Now here i where you can really tell between the two, the images convey two completely different moods now, the right bel seems to be more of sunset on a very hot day, and considering what shes wearing this is the final image i would use, the left bel is a lot cooler, i used a stronger blue/purple here to show the difference clearly, but even with a more subtle blue it would still be a cooler image, maybe a partly cloudy day.
The main point of showing this is that again if i use the right image method of colouring, i would focus mainly on highlights as the base colours are much darker. and on the left i would focus on shading as the base colours are much brighter, simple 🙂
and for the sake of it here’s the highlight/shade layer in block colours to show you what i mean.
I hope this helped any! I’m super bad at explaining stuff like this so at least the images make sense? if you have anymore questions my ask box is open 🙂
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