All right.
In this lecture we're gonna start blocking in our colors and we're also going to kind of create a color
palette.
So let's go ahead and get started.
So real quick I just want to talk about my sketch.
So you saw me make a lot of changes so I tried a few different sketches at first and then once I decided
on I started to want to solidify one of these ideas a little bit more.
So my third sketch I went ahead and I just started continuing the drawing and changing things and you'll.
You should have seen how I changed a lot of the different features on I changed the placement of the
nose the size I changed the eyes two times I tried different eyebrows on there.
I did the mouth multiple times over and over again until I got it looking the way I wanted.
So it's really about doing a bunch of iterations of each feature on your character and trying to nail
down what it is that you want.
And you can do these on separate layers too so you can turn them off and on and try different things
and you won't have to lose those.
But now what I have here is I have my under drawn to the blue under drawing and then I also have my
top drawing.
So I have all that detail in there and what I want to do now is so I can paint the colors and I don't
want to use black and I don't want to use blue because that's not going to blend very well.
When I start painting on top of that.
So what I'm going to do is want to change the color of these in the way I'll do that as to go ahead
and start with the black layer so add a new layer above that I'm gonna turn into a clipping layer mask
and then using my fill tool we can just go ahead and fill that in with a dark reddish brown color.
So that looks let's keep it kind of saturated probably a little bit darker maybe a little bit more red
maybe a little bit less dark.
Something like that probably looks good.
Now let's go ahead and do the same thing for our blue layer so I'm gonna go ahead and create a new layer
turn that into a clipping layer mask.
We'll go ahead and fill that and with the same color maybe we'll make this a little bit more red and
a little bit lighter as well it's actually go ahead and drag it over here to where blue color used to
be.
Fill that in.
All right that looks pretty cool.
I like that
and maybe I'll actually just what I'll do is I'll fill it in.
So I have a dark color.
Maybe make it a little bit more saturated so a dark color and then I'll just bring the opacity down
on my blue layer so not on the clipping layer mask on the blue layer.
So it's a little bit more transparent but that way when we put color beneath it it's not going to be
a lighter color on top of a darker color.
This will be a darker color and the darkness will come through with the other color underneath it.
All right.
So that looks pretty good.
So now let's go.
And the reason why we change this to more of a red brown color is just because it'll blend better black
and blue are going to blend very well with the colors we're gonna be using.
So now let's go ahead and let's add a new layer underneath all of this and we're gonna start blocking
these colors in.
So I have an image here that you'll find in this file so if you don't want to draw your own character
you just want to use my character drawn you can download this file in the resources and it will come
with this image of this girl and what we're gonna do is we're gonna use her skin tone as a base so that
we can figure out what our color palette will be for her skin tone so we can basically just color pick
from her.
And so I'm going to start with sort of this mid tone Skin Tone Bringing My brush size and I'm just gonna
go ahead and start by filling in anywhere where there will be skin showing through
all right.
Great.
Then I can go ahead and I can grab one of these darker colors and I can fill some of that in in some
other areas.
So for example right there underneath the jaw it'll be a little bit darker there maybe her ear will
be a little bit darker maybe this side of the face will be a little bit darker and then I got to go
ahead and I must select this lightest skin tone will select it a little bit with some more of a brown
color in there and I can go ahead and just highlight some of these areas and a little bit it's not not
a whole lot but just something like that.
Go ahead and re select this color here and just kind of touch the shadow up a little bit more
aren't great.
It's looking pretty good.
Maybe we can grab some of this color here
and we'll add some shadow underneath this area where the bangs hang down over face.
All right great.
Maybe will add a little bit of shadow over here on the hand as well perfect next.
Let's go ahead and let's work on her hair so we need to decide what color we want our hair to be.
I'm going to create a new layer so that the hair is on a different layer so I can change it if I want
to.
I want to start by painting it this dark basically dark brown and see how that looks if I like it
so just quickly block this and if I overshoot the lines a little bit that's okay.
We can always come back any race
that's a nice thing too about making your line drawings a little bit of a lighter color as if they're
black they would just be blending in with this black would be really hard to know or the edge of that
hair is but since it's a little bit of a lighter reddish brown color we can go back in there any race
and know where we need to race
so I'm just go in there with my razor
right grip.
That looks pretty good.
That's going to zoom out.
See that looks looks kind of cool.
Not sure if that's the color I want her hair to be so what I can do is I can create a clipping layer
mask above that and I can just fill that in with different colors.
So we could try something else we could try something more like a purple for that and with the purple.
That's pretty cool.
I kind of like that.
I think I'm gonna stick with something more like that purple maybe I'll lighten it up a little bit
maybe darken it just a tiny bit.
That looks cool like that.
So I'm gonna go ahead.
I'll just keep it like that for now.
All right.
Next let's go ahead move on to her shirt.
So we create a new layer for her shirt that we can change it.
I'm going to try filling it in with black woops and see how that looks
now the reason why I chose purple for hair and the reason why it kind of looks good is because it's
a cool color and her skin is a warm color and so by putting that cool color next to it it just looks
kind of nice.
That's not to say that you can give her something like red hair or something like that.
In fact maybe we should give her more than one color of hair maybe the bottom or the tips of her hair
should be a different color and her route should be darker
it's kind of cool looking.
Let's add a clipping layer mask.
Let's try a few other colors in there.
Let's try something like a red seal that looks kind of cool maybe a darker red and be more saturated
it's pretty cool.
Can
you try some other colors triggering maybe this saturated green.
It's cool.
Try the blue
maybe we should just try like a gray.
See how that works.
Gray is kind of cool
to come back down into my purple layer for the hair and maybe I'll try.
Like I said adding a little bit of some different color in there.
Switch over to a soft edge brush and get a nice gradient so I can kind of just lighten up the bottom
of her hair like that with a more of a violet purple
it's kind of cool.
I think I like this great shirt.
I think it looks pretty cool.
So I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with this gray shirt.
All right let's go ahead and continue on.
So add a new layer and let's just go ahead and fill in her.
I'm not sure if she's wearing a skirt or pantsuits.
We're not really gonna worry about that down there.
We're just going to keep this nice and simple.
Switch over to something else like just switch back to the brush I was using before it goes using that
textured paint brush actually goes against something else.
Thing is this watercolor maybe this is textural is a watercolor skirt with that guy.
All right
so go ahead and fill this in.
You can always change the color it doesn't really matter what color you fill it in with you can always
change it
so let's look at that mean part filled in.
I'm just gonna go ahead and bring my brush size up
and just kind of let that paint fade out down there.
All right great.
It's going to zoom out.
So that looks so pretty good.
I come back down on my skin tone layer it's like this really light skin tone try adding a little bit
more highlight in here
I'm sure you come back and clean the hair off the face as well and some of it on the face and I want
to make sure that I get it all cleaned up.
Great.
Now lastly let's go ahead and just paint in this gun.
So when I come over here do these pants later because we're about to merge all this together anyway
so it doesn't really matter.
You'll select this gray and I'll grab more of a blue version of it.
So that looks fill that gun and with that color
looks pretty good.
All right.
So our colors are starting to come together.
Really good idea to take a minute and maybe take a break come back look at it decide what you want to
do.
So I'm going to take a break when we come back.
I might change some of these colors.
But we'll see.
But yeah this is basically how you block the colors for your character and then from here we're going
to go ahead merge these together and paint on top of that and really start blending things together
and giving it some form and more detail and getting rid of all these sketchy lines and stuff.
Thanks for watching this lecture and I'll see you guys in the next one.