My Attempt at Coloring

[ThorneMD]

So I got inspired by some art and decided to get back into photoshop coloring.

I took an old pic (by KiptheBold) and colored for myself. What does everyone think?

 

[ThorneMD]

Original Pic

Here's the original pic by KiptheBold.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Thats pretty neat!

 

[Meloncov]

Even if your only trying to make a simple image, you need some shading for it to be effective. At a minimum, have each surface have at least two tones based on how the light falls on it. More would be ideal.

 

[ThorneMD]

Tried adding some shadows and played with the clouds.

How's it look?

 

[Meloncov]

The drop shadow under him looks good, but the colors on him are still too flat. For the clouds, there's a method of doing them that generally works better than airbrushing them in:

Add a layer of solid blue-white
Go filter> clouds
Drop the opacity
Go in with a soft eraser and clear out any areas where you don't want clouds.


Or something close to that. I haven't colored in Photoshop for a while.

 

[ThorneMD]

The drop shadow under him looks good, but the colors on him are still too flat. For the clouds, there's a method of doing them that generally works better than airbrushing them in:

Add a layer of solid blue-white
Go filter> clouds
Drop the opacity
Go in with a soft eraser and clear out any areas where you don't want clouds.


Or something close to that. I haven't colored in Photoshop for a while.

Any suggestions on how to make the colors pop out more. I try to do shadows, but usually make the whole pic look bad. So I'm open to suggestions.

As for the clouds, I kindof followed that.
What I did:
Add layer of grey
Go filter>clouds
Burn tool to make them seem more like clouds.

And thanks for the criticism. I need it to make sure I get good at this.

 

[ThorneMD]

Added more shadows. I think I'm happy with it right now, but we'll see.

What does everyone else think? I know I'm getting annoying now. Sorry.

I'll probably start working on another pic in a few days or so.

 

[Meloncov]

Definitely better, but you still need to add a lot more variation in color. It might help if you think of filling areas with gradients, rather than flat colors.

 

[ThorneMD]

Just a quick coloring job that I did before bed. I'm going to fix it up some more, but wanted to get it up here.

I tried out the gradients on this one and I do like it a little better.