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Anonymous01/17/26, 18:06No.7860764
Why is it impossible to find good color and value resources
Every single recommended resource I've looked into turned out to be either yet another light resource, or a physical paint mixing resource, when all I want is to understand how to put together pleasing and cohesive color palettes in a digital painting
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Anon01/17/26, 18:17No.7860776
>pleasing and cohesive color palettes
You need color theory. Charles Bernard does a good job teaching this:
https://onlineartacademy.com/adacess.html
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Anon01/17/26, 19:32No.7860836
howie thread
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Anon01/17/26, 20:51No.7860887
Did my best to remove the ''Digital'' look
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Anon01/17/26, 21:25No.7860912
resources, you need not.
paint you must first. then see if colours pleasing are
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Anon01/17/26, 23:02No.7860971
I struggled with this forever until I actually bought a set of gouache primary colors and started painting and color matching. It all just suddenly makes sense. Im guessing the vast majority of good background artists are pretty skilled and experienced with traditional painting.
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Anon01/17/26, 23:23No.7860987
Fucking hate the egg rodent so much for blocking misty's tits the rest of the series.
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Anon01/18/26, 02:55No.7861101
>digital
>bother about color theory.
Color theory is just a sumary of what is good to minimalize the amount of paint used. With digital, just learn some basic techniques and experiment with color to find your own way.
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Anon01/18/26, 08:59No.7861257
I hope you are aware cartoons turn the contrast of all colors up to 11 and thats why we are drawn to them. their world is artificially high contrast which makes ours look bland by comparison.
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Anon01/23/26, 02:21No.7865172
It's impossible because no one today knows how to make nice color palettes, we have all this color accuracy and gamut technology and all it did was tank colors in all media across the board
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Anon01/23/26, 22:21No.7865858
I like to save images with nice colors, then open them in csp. I try to guess what color a certain area is, then I color pick it and see how close I was.
One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of artists don’t actually use too many colors, they just play with the values and saturation more so.
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Anon01/24/26, 18:09No.7866329
>yet another light resource, or a physical paint mixing resource
coz thats what it is
>when all I want is to understand how to put together pleasing and cohesive color palettes in a digital painting
just do what you like there is no method to this
and if someone claims that there is a way to make "harmonious" colors or something they are bullshitting
top tier color scientists, neurologists, psychologists, etc have no idea how any of this works and they get paid a lot to research this shit by the marketing industry
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Anon01/27/26, 02:10No.7868259
>another autistic learning and starting from Zero thread