color ref – The Chaos Bitches

tf2humbug:

tomatomagica:

secretsivekept:

dragonofdarknesschaos:

lazysmirk:

Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.

With those “when you want to design a character but you don’t know color theory” posts flying around I thought this would be relevant again.

SLAMs THE REBLOG BUTTON

there’s also Coolors website that gives you randomized palettes!

Don’t forget ColourLovers, either! It’s a social media-esque site where you can browse tons of palettes and share your own.

You can browse the most popular ones or search for certain colors, themes, and even specific hex codes!

When you find one you like, you can download a wallpaper swatch of it and also select the specific colors it uses to look at more palettes that use those same ones.

ColourLovers is my go-to for when I’m having trouble coming up with a color scheme! It’s also been around for over a decade, so there’s plenty to browse through.

ugwuu:

some people in my discord found this helpful when I was trying to explain my color choices for shading and how I like to shade with cooler tones and do lighting with warmer ones… I figured I’ll share it here, too, in case anyone could use it!

nisamohi:

I made a color tutorial! i think the main thing is still to experiment a lot and to not be afraid of pushing it, but i hope this is helpful! i also hope my writings legible

sleepy-kinq:

not sure if this is actually helpful to anyone but I feel like the use of colors is very important for the kind of feeling you’re going for with your art! so I thought I’d show you what I think when I say “warm/cold/etc. colors”. keeping yourself inside one of the categories when drawing a piece can be very helpful – of course you don’t have to use only the colors showed here, mixing stuff is rad. But just to get the concept yknow