Colorizing tutorial.

[tyklfynd]

Here are some notes on how I colorize. There are many ways to colorize, and the most important rule of all is: experiment fearlessly. Its the best way to learn.

One note: the pink color that I add to the palette of colors on page 2 comes from taking the highlight color, increasing the red, decreasing the green, and lowering the brightness.

I tried to keep this short tutorial very simple. There are a lot of other tricks to play with, like burning and dodging into a channel, gaussian blurring to smooth the skin tones, and using the sponge tool to saturate or desaturate the shadows and highlights, but I didn't want to get bogged down in variations.

All this is done in photoshop CS.

all comments and critiques welcome.

[laughinggaszone]

Good job tyklfynd. I think this is a definate help for those artists wishing to advance into the realm of coloring their work. It gives a good break down of the different shades involved in coloring. Thanks for taking the time to add to
what will be a growing tutorial library. I'm glad you were willing to do it.
thanks
webmaster joe

[Redscript]

AHA! So that's his secret! He looks at pictures of naked women, while drawing! No wonder his artwork is so good.

Oh and by the way, excelent tutorial. You draw the most realistic feet by far.