🙅‍♂️ DON'T MAKE THESE COLORING MISTAKES

Summary by Krater

An experienced digital artist explains five common color mistakes artists make when painting characters, covering issues like shading with black, ignoring color hierarchy, bad color balance, failing to use color harmonies, and ignoring the terminator in color theory, and demonstrates how to fix them for better results.

From the video

Answers: What are common color mistakes in digital art and how do you fix them?

• character painting color mistakes
• shading with black vs color shifting
• color hierarchy in digital art
• color balance and temperature
• using color harmonies like complementary and triads
• terminator in color theory

What it concludes

• Shading by simply adding black to a base color creates boring, desaturated results, whereas shifting the hue towards yellow produces more vibrant and rich shadows.
• Ignoring color hierarchy causes viewer attention to be drawn to less important parts of the image, so you should saturate what is important and desaturate what is not.
• Poor color balance resulting from an overwhelming ratio of warm or cool colors makes an image suffocating or lacking contrast.
• Using established color harmonies like complementary or triadic color schemes significantly improves the visual appeal of a character design.
• Ignoring the terminator between highlights and shadows leads to muddy, dead-looking skin, which can be fixed by tinting the terminator with a warm hue.