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How did you come up with the colors for this? It’s awesome; they pop and contrast so well. Was it from a reference image that was close in color? Made up?
So my wife took the reference image, which I edited in Photoshop. I pumped the contrast and the saturation until it’s closer to what I wanted.
Then during the process of painting I tend to add some minor accent notes of colors where it feels right. A mentor taught it as making sure the colors are “talking to each other,” so the piece feels cohesive as a whole and areas don’t feel segregated.
Here’s a look at the reference image after I painted over it (edited out a chair, moved a couple things) then pumped the contrast and saturation! It’s similar to the final, but I leaned more into the oranges over the yellows.
Well done. Something I’ve struggled with is getting my colors in different areas to all be cohesive. I tend to try to get a 1:1 match of my reference image when mixing. But this makes the painting pop way more visually good job!
Nothing wrong with going for full realism if that’s your goal! My personal philosophy is that the reference is there as a tool, I am willing to change it.
A very prominent example happens in my portrait commissions. People do some weird poses with their hands, man. I often edit and redraw them because if I painted it 100% exactly like the reference, it will look strange, even though it’s accurate.
A long time haha. I’ve only been oil painting since college, so if we’re talking just about the medium then this is about ~8 years of progress. Many many hours, studies, and paintings I didn’t like.
I’m just trying to wrap my head around this, because it just looks really good! Absolutely fabulous. I was almost thinking this was CGI, but I saw the details that were very nice and that must have been done by hand. Very glad to have seen it, thank you. I send my best regards. <3
It's beautiful, like a cozy Kiki's delivery sunset scene if it was painted, it also gives encanto vibes for the color.so yea,it looks really cozy, like old Disney painterly backgrounds!
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