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Pro tip: I was flattening skin tones with pure black for a year
I've been doing digital portraits in Clip Studio for about 3 years and always wondered why my shadows looked muddy and dead compared to artists I follow. Last week I was watching a stream from an artist in Toronto and she pulled up her color picker to show her shadow color, it was a deep warm purple, not black at all. I tried swapping my shadow layer to a dark plum color and the whole face suddenly looked alive, like actual skin instead of a gray mask. Now I'm going back through 12 finished pieces wondering how many I need to fix. Anyone else have a color habit they had to unlearn the hard way?
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kaib1818d ago
12 finished pieces is rough, but at least you caught it before hitting 50. Meanwhile I'm over here still using straight black on my line art like a caveman. Welcome to the warm shadow club, your skin tones will never ghost you again.
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