Photoshop
DESIGN COLOURFUL CHARACTER ART
Loish shares her advice for developing an eye-catching colour scheme to use in your digital character artwork
Artist PROFILE
Lois van Baarle LOCATION: The Netherlands
Lois divides her time between personal art and character design work. She also creates regular Patreon tutorials. http://loish.net
This is a redraw of an older image that I first made back in 2003. For the original I used highlighters, so when remaking the image digitally, I wanted the colours to be just as bright and vibrant as the highlighter ink from my original drawing!
When working digitally, creating a bright colour scheme is easier said than done, given that there isn’t a specific setting for neon colours. In order to create a similar effect, it’s much more about how the colours interact with one another. The relationships between the highlight and shadow colours are what determine whether the colours look bright, so it’s really important to think about the palette as a whole throughout the process.