Digital art practice self directed (Week 3)

For this week's self directed task, I wanted to analyse a character concept by concept artist Daryl Tan.

I chose his art 'Kylie Kix' as my point of reference.

Link to the reference - https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d0o6Ne

The concept is well broken down into steps, including, sketch, refinement, value pass, colour pass, render.

There is clear use of contrasting colours, in this case it is purple and yellow.

Furthermore, the principle of colour picking off greyscale colours, like warm and cooler greys, rather than pure black and whites. The grey is colour picked from around the blue-purple range and the pink represents a slight offset to the purple, so overall the colour scheme feels harmonic.

Typically, line art isn't always pure black either, and sometimes you could create a masked area and paint over the line in a darker or lighter tone of the colour the line is over, so for example, if the line is over a highlighted blue area, you could paint the line a light blue

This may not help directly with photobashing, however, this gives an insight into how colour theory works, if your photobash isn't particularly great, good line art and basic colour rendering could be something to fall back on.