(I don't know why some of my words in the title are capitalized and some aren't...C-composition?! :D)
I've found some good resources on colouring that I'd like to share with you guys~!
huevaluechroma.com - This website was very good at explaining colour theory, even though it's very complex and still hasn't sunken into my brain yet, it has opened my mind a lot to understanding colour. I highly recommend using this site because it shows how colour isn't something flat, but something more three dimensional.
http://www.floobynooby.com/ICG/artvalues.html - I haven't read through all of this, but so far it has been helpful. It's helpful on a level of simple understanding. It's just giving tips on basic things that you may or may not have already known, but it's nice for the reinforcements of that.
color wheel - This is helpful and fun to use. I use this with the help of these videos:
It's all getting much clearer now.
I like that guy's videos because he explain things well and talks about points that I've never thought of before. My only problem, and I have this with probably every art tutorial type of video I've seen...The videos are close to 20 minutes long, some are even longer than that. You'd think they are chock full of information, but they are instead full of the guy thinking about what to say next. Editing you guys, editing.
I also found a really really lovely website that helps HEAPS TONNNSSS on lighting:
I only wish I could turn the heads because I have a difficulties with shading the head from different angles, too...>3>
On top of all that, I've learned how to practice colouring~!
Every day I have been using a palette of about 3-4 colours and painting a quick 30 minute (or less) portrait. It's helpful in understanding how to use certain colours.
Now that my apprehensions over colouring have passed I am met with a new dilemma: screen toning.
I've realized that with colouring I might want to try painting with different lightings and scenes in mind, but not only that. I should also think about colouring effecting mood, so I would like to do practice bits based on emotion.
That got me thinking. You know what else expresses emotion besides colours? Backgrounds and screen tones!
Screen toning is just pure hell to me. It's hell because I can't find ANYTHING that explains ANYTHING about screen toning. Somehow the mangaka always choose just the right screen tones to make a scene either adorable or tear jerking. Of course, I've seen a lot of mangaka that unfortunately fail at this, too, but have good enough story-telling that it isn't so bad.
I don't want to be that sort of mangaka! I want everything to be the best that it can be!
Screen tones just baffle me. I can put in certain tones and hope they give the desired effect, but it's just...something that takes a lot of experience which I greatly lack.
I could probably do the same thing I'm doing with colour...but there are so many ranges of motion that can be shown with screen tones. Not only that, but what screen tone is used or the overall emotion depends on the build up. How do I get an emotion across exactly without build up...>3>
*sigh*
I wish I could just look them up and find billions of tutorials on them, but that's not gonna happen.
Maybe I'll figure out and be able to be one of the very few people with tutorials on screen toning.
The only tutorials I've found are ones that explain how to make your own or find some and then what they are. Not how to use them. Some also explain their meaning, but again, not how to use them.
That's the end of my ranting. Now here is a beautiful song from Nausicaa (that I didn't know was in Nausicaa, the melody yes, but not the rendition):
Now I'm off to find good examples of screen toning in manga (which is incredibly hard 'cause that requires a lot of reading...Just gotta remember what manga I thought did well at storytelling...'orz)
ADIOSSS~!
