I feel sooo compelled to ask you how you choose your color palettes. I've always wondered this but after that last crows gifset, I can't take it anymore 😂 do you just pick them on a whim, or do you use color palette generators? they always look so beautiful and I know you get told this on the daily but I envy your ability to make any color combination look good and I need to know your secret for coloring picking.

firstly, beck thank you for being so kind and complimentary ❤️ i'm not sure it's so much a secret though as me just messing around and seeing what comes together! a lot of the time when i'm thinking of what colours to use for a set i will just look at the scene i'm using and see what colours pop out for me. usually i'll do my base colouring and something will stand out, and that will create the basis for my colour palette. let's take this crows outfit set i did this week as an example, these palettes just sort of formed from what colours i felt stood out in their costumes, and so i adjusted the backgrounds around that. so the palettes i ended up using were very personal to them, but i also think there was a lot of work in costuming to get cohesion between the characters (e.g. they all have quite earthy tones somewhere in their outfits) that i could accentuate myself for the gifset.

with that said, sometimes i do use colour palettes to get ideas, but i usually use them once i have an idea of at least one colour i want to use rather than going in blind. so let's just take this nina/inej set for example, i knew i wanted to use purple because as i was working on the first gif, there were a lot of blue accents that could easily be manipulated to purple (and i would always recommend trying to look for colours that stand out in your og scene, because it just makes colouring so much easier too if you can manipulate what's already there). but i didn't really know what i wanted my overall vibe to be, so i just put 'purple colour combos' into my good old search engine and i got a lot of palettes and pictures with purple as a main focus that i could chose from. ultimately i found this one which had a lot of sunset vibes which i really liked and so i decided to roll with using the first three shades in the gifset:

also sometimes i just get inspired by random things in day-to-day life. like absolutely years ago i remember seeing a picture of meghan markle wearing red and purple and i was like 'daaaamn i wanna use that colour combo in a gifset so bad'. which is so random but i think we're surrounded by colour combos day in day out via fashion and advertising and media, so sometimes i just get inspired by other outlets! it probably does help that i love colour matching, but there's also a lot of outlets that can help you think about how to pair colours together to create something special. anyway, i really hope that provides some helpful tips! good luck color picking!