do you have any tips for coloring/rendering? your art always looks so effortless and cool!! you always have the best color palettes.
aw thanks!! my reccs for making color palettes work is to learn color theory, not merely for understanding color palettes but to understand color values. if you pick a bright red and a bright yellow at the same value on a color wheel they actually don't read the same because of the ways our eyes work
you'll see a lot of my art is either complementary colors or analogous, including the first paintings above are analogous- green, yellow, orange. Yellow, pink, purple, blue.
the top portrait here is mainly dark teals and in gray scale the red glasses are also a dark value, but because red is so different from the blue/greens it stands out by color alone
Something I've learned lately is using Color Burn, Linear Burn, or Darken color instead of Multiply for my shadows, set to a very low percentage, esp for pieces where i really want the colors to be dark and rich
Lastly, when stumped for color palettes take inspiration from nature
In case you ever wondered where the art magic happens (jk it happens downstairs on my sofa actually) but I'm cleaning my office today and thought you might like to see it. Almost everything that isn't my art is stuff people have sent me over the years, friends and readers alike! Sitting in here makes me feel a little more visible 💕
I know Jumin is associated with office sex a lot but imagine him pushing you onto the desk only to notice the messy documents around you and how they're not perfectly organised anymore so he aligns them one by one and gets so anxious about the possibility of the papers being in diagonal that he keeps being distracted from your make out session, so he stops it midway, leaving you frustrated, only to bring you home where everything—the scene, the things he can use on you—is under his control.