hey guys so for this video I'm going to
explain how I color my grayscale
paintings and that is probably my most
requested question ever and I see how
because it looks like magic but it is
extremely simple actually all I do is
make a new layer above my grayscale
painting and set that to soft light
overlay or color and in this video I use
soft light basically they all do the
same thing and I apply a base color to
that and I start painting as you can see
for the skin I used kind of a bright
orange as the base and when it actually
translates the painting you know to the
soft light layer it doesn't really look
that pigmented like you know it looks
kind of muted and great and kind of
gross but you just have to bear with it
try to use the brighter colors on your
color color wheel I don't know it's just
going to look better and you just paint
and I use a variety of colors you know
from all over the wheel just so that it
doesn't flatten when I go over it with
the curves that looks kind of good you
know it doesn't look monochrome because
the point of
coloring is kind of to make it have
different shades and stuff and I'm just
going to speed up the majority of the
painting part because it's just
basically painting up nothing to explain
there
after that I'll flatten the image
duplicate that layer
and go over it with a curves and the
curves I just use the RGB first curve to
make sure some lights are flying over
might serve and a good likeness and
darks or a good darkness but no and I
use the red curve to just threads the
green curve catches green and blue curve
to adjust the Blues and after that after
i have that i think i duplicate the
layer and i start painting over that in
this case i used like a blue or some of
the highlights and generally what I do
to make highlights pop is I will see
what my painting is predominately um
what I'm painting over what I want there
to be highlights on I see what the basic
color is so for this it was like this
pinkish orange color right I kind of use
the diametrical opposite of that like a
bright color so I won't use a white for
a highlight and this I use like a really
really really bright cyan so it just
makes the image pop person guys I guess
they're complementary colors but that is
the way I do my firm grayscale to color
that's how I color my images if I just
saw not rocket science is extremely
simple
um soft light curves that's basically it
and then a highlights you don't we just
make it look a little bit better I hope
this video was helpful and and I'll talk
to you guys later thank you for watching
bye
you