Technicolor speed paints

[Snowfly]

Thought I'd try one of those sketch thread things, I hear they're pretty neat. :-)

I've had a fear of working with color ever since I was diagnosed with a color deficiency 4 years ago- which led to me working primarily in lines and grayscale. It's become a serious handicap at work, so I decided to try and do something about it. I figure this is as good a way as any to start. Gonna work with limited palettes first and work my way up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/skelly.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/incoming.jpg

[ThatDon]

Freaking love the last one! MORE MORE MORE MORE

[Spacemonkey]

good for you snowfly! :)

[Frozan]

nice work! keep it up. the last one is freakin sick! love the angle and color choice.

[Ramseus]

Hey, welcome to the colour deficient club. *shakes fist at people with full colour vision*

Nice sketches.

[Snowfly]

OK, not speed paints - I got caught up in renderland, since I've discovered online color scheme generators. :) They've put the fun back into painting for me.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/redqueen2x.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/buccaneer-paintx.jpg

[Dario]

oh... wow! :)

the dress design ins absolutely sweet, as are the colors. strong work, thanks for showing!

what is that color scheme generator you mentioned?

[sinz]

Great job progressing forward snowfly don't let anything stop you we love your sketches.

Dario:
I think this is one if not then this is still pretty cool:
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

[FredH]

Love the girl in red! It looks like you nailed your color problems. These studies look really great man.

sinz - thanks for this link. I am playing around with it myself now.

[Spacemonkey]

Snowfly the newer pics rock! I love the bold colour :)

I think a little explanation on how you are using that colour picker is in order!! :D

[Frozan]

yes do tell do tell. also looking amazing more more!

[blankslatejoe]

these are great, snowfly!

[Snowfly]

Thanks guys! Honestly I wouldn't know where to begin explaining how to use that color schemer thingy. Just start with a value sketch, paste the swatches from the color generator into the image, color pick and blend colors from it until it looks right.

Here's a couple more...I'm trying to deliberately compose colors into zones.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/narrowescape.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/chrisdejoya/knights.jpg

[makoa]

NICE! the red chick with the crazy dress blows my mind! color schemer thingy? i'm still confused, does it just give you a nice set of harmonious colors? i'ma have to look into this.

lovely work keep posting this goodness ;)

[EricElwell]

Dig'n the buccaneer man! I am a little curious, I don't mean to pry at all, but what colors do you have trouble with? Because having checked out the color picker tool, you seem to be fine-tuning far beyond what the tool offers. The skin shading on the joker/chick sketch and the way you are handling reflected color light in the knight's joust is really spot on. Whether you see it clearly or not, you seem to have a clear knowledge, and it's rockin!

[Kalango]

i like it a lot, the lady in red is inspiring to me. Keep posting...its all i need to say :D