PAINTOVER PALS: Episode 13

Summary by Krater

The host provides paintover critiques for five digital illustrations submitted by Patreon supporters, focusing on lighting, form, anatomy, color choices, and silhouettes.

From the video

Answers: How can I improve my digital character art through paintover critiques?

• digital painting critique
• character art paintover
• lighting and form in art
• anatomy and silhouette correction
• color choice and saturation

What it concludes

• Copying and pasting overalls onto a new layer and color-adjusting them is an easy way to build up lighting without redoing textures.
• The teeth color should not be an unrelated white tone, but rather the general highlight color of the skin.
• Making deeper ambient shadows in the hair and adding highlights around the face draws viewer attention to the focal point.
• Squint testing an image helps identify if colors are too high-key and lack contrast in the background.
• Selecting out the background and pushing it back into bluish tones helps balance bright values in a scene.
• Finding areas of density and rest in clothing folds prevents clothing textures from looking too evenly dense and overwhelming.