veridian: colour schemes

allow for colour coordination

though experimentation of colour I have found that the use of split complementary colours tend to be the safer option in addition to generally looking better

the process used for this piece was the use of a traditional ink drawing that I have scanned and coloured digitally.

to prepare a scanned document to be coloured on photoshop I first save the document as a jpg, this will allow photoshop to open the document as the background layer. as the image is a solid layer however it can be very hard to edit over as it is impossible to effectively select the black lines as they are due to scanning imperfections and just trying to avoid them will be far too difficult, to avert this I use a process that is used by the graphic novelist Al Davison and several other artists that use traditional drawing and digital colouring: first if the lines are black then the threshold layer edit should be applied, this converts the image to solid black and white so it is easier to select, then the layer should be copied onto a new layer preferably on a new document and above all other layers, from thereon the layer can be set to multiply, this will make the white complete transparent while keeping the black, allowing for colour to be added on lower layers without effecting the multiplied layer. another way to use this is if red lines are used instead of black and are then sharpened and the hue and saturation is used to reduce the imperfections, as when red lines are multiplied they become translucent rather than opaque, this can be used for muted outlines.

C=complementary colour scheme

SC= split-complementary colour scheme

forest tones SC

this was my initial plan for this colour scheme as I wanted green to be a big focus with the character, taking this into consideration I used inspiration from the transition from summer to autumn with bright oranges and greens as well as black and grey neutral tones. however I do not believe these colours match the character and the style of clothing and I think more artificial colours may work better with the gypsy style clothing.

purple C

purple SC

sunset SC

living room SC

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