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finnfrei · 3 months

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Hey there, i love your art very much!! Especially the recent BG3 portraits. As someone who's switching to digital art and works with colour for the first time, could i ask: how do you figure out the right colours for your drawings? Do you premake a pallete, or pick one colour and then work from there or something else? Any tips would be welcome, keep drawing ❤️

Hey! Ah, thank you so much, I really appreciate it!

That’s a tough question to be honest. I find myself struggling with colors almost every time.

As I start an illustration I mostly have a rough idea what I want it to look like colorwise. Basically there’re two ways for me when it comes to coloring.

1. If it’s something more simple like a portrait or a character design, I tend to pick one base color and paint the whole object. From there I adjust each separate part such as hair, clothes, etc by moving slightly along the color wheel and changing the darkness and saturation depending on whether for example hair should be darker or lighter. For me personally in that case I prefer using analogous (picture below) colors and maybe add some complimentary (on the opposite side of the wheel) colors for highlights or backgrounds.

2. If I get too lost in the color choices, I scroll through illustrations of other artists I like and choose some that would suit the general mood best. Procreate and, I believe, CSP have a function where you can create a color pallet from a picture. I’m sure you could find some similar web or app, if your software doesn’t have the feature. Then I just use the colors from the pallet and build up on them, adjust according to what seems to work best for me.

Although if I had to give some basic tips based on personal preferences:

1. Never use black, avoid using white. I prefer using dark and saturated blue, purple, red instead of black. Light and less saturated base color instead of white.

2. In general I prefer working with more saturated colors, but got to be careful, not to overdo it, not to create crazy colorful mess. But again that’s my personal preference.

3. Avoid using too much different colors. I mostly try to stick to three, max four colors in one illustration and just use their adjusted versions (darker/lighter, more/less saturated) for shadows and highlights.

4. Contrast is more important than colors.

Guess, that’s what comes to mind first, hope it makes sense at least a little. In general I’m really chaotic when it comes to colors, so I’m probably not the best person to give advices. However, if you have any questions, I’ll be happy to try and help as much as I can.

Good luck on your creative journey!

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finnfrei · 4 months

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I couldn’t decide which one I like more. There’s never enough of the sassiest wizard.

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finnfrei · 4 months

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Oh, I have the magic touch 🌝

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finnfrei · 5 months

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Couldn’t miss on Lestarion for the world✨

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finnfrei · 6 months

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Fire girl anyone?💥

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finnfrei · 6 months

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God’s favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world✨

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finnfrei · 6 months

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I can’t call Dark Urge my lovely girl…or can I?🍂

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finnfrei · 6 months

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hey!!! i wanted to ask if you would ever put up prints of your recent astarion illustration on etsy, it's SO lovely i'd love to buy one!!

Hi! Thank you so much , I most definitely will! I’m planning to get the prints ready by the end of October/beginning of November c:

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finnfrei · 6 months

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Hiya! I was wondering if you do commissions because I've just come across your art for the first time and WOW

Ahh, I’m so glad you like it!

Yep, I do commissions! You can hit me up on [email protected] or IG finn_frei and I’ll send you all the details and examples c:

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finnfrei · 7 months

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I’m obsessed and I’m not sorry.

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finnfrei · 8 months

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What more can I say

They’re too precious and live rent free in my mind.

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finnfrei · 10 months

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Something sweet for these hot summer days🌸

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finnfrei · 11 months

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He was a punk. She did ballet.

Opposite sometimes.

Bards from our current DnD campaign.

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finnfrei · 11 months

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“That’s a nice villain you’ve got there. That would be a shame if someone seduced them!”

Clio, my beloved bard from our dnd campaign🍋

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finnfrei · 11 months

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Hey I really hope I haven't sent this twice😅

Im reaching out because I was hoping I could ask for permission to feature some of your six of crows art in a video essay about the six of crows duology/Shadow and Bone TV show? (I mainly want to focus on the books but using visuals from the show to talk about it and the show hasn't depicted some major stuff from the books yet obviously so fanart would be great)

My YouTube channel is Ladyknightthebrave, if you want to look me up and see if I'm legit or whatever

I would have your name onscreen when your art is shown and link to your preferred social media in the YT info. Would that be an okay thing for you? It's cool if the answers no but if you're okay with it could you let me know if you have a preference for you're on screen handle and what I should link to info to direct people to your work?

Thank you for your time!

Hey there! Thank you so much for reaching out to me before using my art!✨

It sounds exciting, I’ve seen some of your videos and I’ll be really looking forward for SoC one!

I’m absolutely cool with you using any of the pieces as long as you have me featured as an artist, just my name, Finn Frei, would be great. I would really appreciate it if you could use the link to my IG profile https://instagram.com/finn_frei and maybe Twitter if that’s okay with you https://twitter.com/finnfrei

Thank you and have a wonderful day!

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finnfrei · 1 year

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My precious girl once again🌝

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finnfrei · 1 year

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“Let me get it straight. We have an assassin somewhere around and you suggest us to split, right? … Alright, let’s do it”

I was commissioned so many times to draw others OCs, but never managed to draw mine. So here I go, I guess.

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