Let's exercise!

[Cloudy]

do you use reference when colouring? using your eye to try and match the suitable colours is a good start, if you have a tablet come on Group Board and have a look at what the artists are doing on there

i suggest finding video tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1JP...ayer_embedded#!

this one is from MT's own Sunny! she is really good at digital painting and finding suitable colours

[FrancysPai]

do you use reference when colouring? using your eye to try and match the suitable colours is a good start, if you have a tablet come on Group Board and have a look at what the artists are doing on there

i suggest finding video tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_1JP...ayer_embedded#!

this one is from MT's own Sunny! she is really good at digital painting and finding suitable colours

I don't use referencing, I try and go off where my head is telling me. I recently started doing reference skin tone when painting and had some shocking results XD.
I can't get on group board, it never lets me log in.

I've looked around tutorials, but some of them aren't very in depth :< I've just learned colouring off my own sort of grounds until now.

[Cloudy]

You need to install the latest Java for the GB

[FrancysPai]

Does this thing have layers? If not, how on earth do you keep everything so tidy.
This is like, my first GB sketch AND my first time not using a single structure line;
Not using structure lines feels like the hardest thing ever, you seriously have to just try and remember where it all is.
But I guess that's a good thing because it's training your muscle memory into not making mistakes.

[CypressDahlia]

Oh snaps it's Billy kane.

[FrancysPai]

Oh snaps it's Billy kane.

HEY HEY HEY!

Seriously, he's part of my main KOF13 team. As soon as I started playing him, I just haven't stopped wanting to draw him.
Lovable yet irritating troll of a guy <3

[CypressDahlia]

Billy Kane is like the Kilik of KoF. Very good character.

As for advice on coloring: I see you did it all on one layer. There are layers in the GB yah you just gotta look on the side bar for em. It would make coloring a lot easier. And have you tried cel shading before? I mean no blending. It's a good way to practice defining forms with shading. If you over-blend colors they begin to look muddy.

[Sylux]

Kilik cannot be bested

[FrancysPai]

Billy Kane is like the Kilik of KoF. Very good character.

As for advice on coloring: I see you did it all on one layer. There are layers in the GB yah you just gotta look on the side bar for em. It would make coloring a lot easier. And have you tried cel shading before? I mean no blending. It's a good way to practice defining forms with shading. If you over-blend colors they begin to look muddy.

I have done cel-shade before yes.

And I tried making layers and it was like "You're not allowed to do that" so I gave up -_-"
That and I couldn't figure out what half the tools did so just winged it, got frustrated and stopped.

[CypressDahlia]

yeah you can't make new layers but there are six that already exist for use. I think it would help if you continued to cel-shade for a bit. I can help you one-on-one in GB sometime. The way I color is only like step past cel-shading, really. If you knew how easy it was you could prolly get it down quick.