I MASTERED Coloring by Studying This Artist - Here's Everything I Know — Transcript

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1. 0:00Do you ever just see an artist who
2. 0:01excels drawing in every single color?
3. 0:08Unfortunately, that ain't me.
4. 0:11But it is among. This level of variety,
5. 0:14you're already my favorite. [ __ ] all
6. 0:15vegetables. But then you double down and
7. 0:18make fan arts of Mob Psycho in this
8. 0:20economy, especially my boy Reigen.
9. 0:30Oh, by the way, thank you to my
10. 0:31Patreons. I have a lot of questions
11. 0:33about art, full stop. I have a lot more
12. 0:35questions about among's art. How did
13. 0:38she? Who did she? Where did she? And why
14. 0:40she not with me? And the answer is in my
15. 0:42hand. It's the power of friendship. I
16. 0:44went through 25 hours of among's art
17. 0:46course in Coloso.
18. 0:48But hey, it helped me create this
19. 0:50illustration.
20. 0:53And in this video, I'm going to tell you
21. 0:55how she does what she does and how it
22. 0:57helped me out creating my own art
23. 0:59pieces.
24. 1:01In the course, she talks about
25. 1:02developing creative ideas and layouts,
26. 1:04how color impacts illustration, and then
27. 1:06she walks you through seven different
28. 1:08artworks of seven different colors
29. 1:10step-by-step, explaining how she picks
30. 1:13the colors, placement of the colors, the
31. 1:15abstracts, contrast, everything, and how
32. 1:17each color changes her approach. All of
33. 1:20which you can find in Coloso, the
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35. 1:24global learning platform offering
36. 1:25in-depth classes taught by your favorite
37. 1:28artist. I'm not kidding. You name the
38. 1:29artist, they have it. Each Ann, Kidari
39. 1:32Mimmy, Gwames, Rino Tuna. And you don't
40. 1:35even want to get me started on the
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42. 1:38worked on because the artists teaching
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46. 1:47they create their art. They have a good
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53. 2:01exactly what you will get in each of
54. 2:03these courses cuz they will just tell
55. 2:05you under each course there's a trailer,
56. 2:08class detail, in-depth look about the
57. 2:10artist, the curriculum, so that you know
58. 2:11exactly what you will get. And these are
59. 2:14like full-blown art courses going up to
60. 2:17like 25 hours to 52 hours of class run
61. 2:20time. So, if you're looking up to level
62. 2:22up your art, check out Colosso.
63. 2:24Colosso was kind enough to give a
64. 2:25exclusive discount code for any of their
65. 2:27classes, which you can find in the
66. 2:29description. But, today we are here for
67. 2:32a mong. Her approach to drawing is to
68. 2:34draw what you like. Release that inner
69. 2:36child. Draw what you like. But, I like
70. 2:39tax fraud.
71. 2:42But, where the [ __ ] do I put that in my
72. 2:44art? And the thing is, it doesn't matter
73. 2:46cuz if you look at her art, she be
74. 2:48drawing anything she likes.
75. 2:51In one art, there's a puzzle, CD, a
76. 2:53plant. Do they have anything in common?
77. 2:56[ __ ] no. She draws it cuz she wants to.
78. 2:59Free will, people.
79. 3:02Release the child. So, the props for
80. 3:04your art is going to be one to three
81. 3:06elements, and it can be anything you
82. 3:08want to or like to draw, genuinely. Now,
83. 3:11where do you place these elements?
84. 3:13That's when you need
85. 3:17I swear to God, every time I watch a
86. 3:19Colosso class, I discover a new
87. 3:21composition. Last time it was L
88. 3:23composition. This time in a mong's
89. 3:25class, she talks about flow-based
90. 3:27composition. Flow?
91. 3:30My tea flow? Flow-based composition
92. 3:33looks like this. Curvy, flowy lines, and
93. 3:37then you have your character. These
94. 3:39curves create an illusion of 3D mass
95. 3:41compared to just drawing a straight
96. 3:43line. That is the theory, at least. And
97. 3:45this is how you can use it in your art.
98. 3:47We're going to draw the element in that
99. 3:49flow. Example A, let's say you have a
100. 3:52character and your element is tree and
101. 3:55you pick this flow of direction for the
102. 3:57composition. You're going to draw the
103. 3:58tree and its branches to follow that
104. 4:02flow.
105. 4:13And your character will be in the
106. 4:14center, so all the attention flows back
107. 4:17to her. You can change her position or
108. 4:19even make the character itself a part of
109. 4:21the flow like this.
110. 4:31But she also talks about the straight
111. 4:33composition, which as it sounds it's
112. 4:35straight lines. So instead of flow, it's
113. 4:38straight. I will give you an example
114. 4:40with the same elements.
115. 4:42So place your character,
116. 4:44tree is the element and we're going to
117. 4:46draw it like this, straight.
118. 4:59Another composition she talked about
119. 5:01that stood out was the composition that
120. 5:03draws focus. In this composition, we
121. 5:05have our character. The elements are
122. 5:07going to be positioned in a way that the
123. 5:09attention is diverted towards the
124. 5:12character. She calls it the focus
125. 5:13composition, I call it the pick me
126. 5:15composition.
127. 5:17For example, a hair positioned in a way
128. 5:20that the focus goes back to the
129. 5:21character.
130. 5:31Or a element scattered to revert the
131. 5:33attention back to the character.
132. 5:42So now we have a basic idea to how to
133. 5:44approach our art piece. So let's lay it
134. 5:47out before we move on to the colors. I
135. 5:49obviously picked the flow composition. I
136. 5:51picked only one element. Didn't want to
137. 5:54do too much. I picked arms as the
138. 5:56element.
139. 6:02Now, the only thing we need is
140. 6:08colors. As I said, she goes in depth
141. 6:11about seven different colors and how to
142. 6:13approach them. We cannot be doing all
143. 6:15that, okay? So, I'm just going to talk
144. 6:17about about one color. The main thing
145. 6:18about her way of coloring is to pick one
146. 6:21big mood color. And then there's 30%
147. 6:23complementary color and then neutral
148. 6:26shades.
149. 6:28But, I will go step by step so we don't
150. 6:30get confused. First, you have to decide
151. 6:33what mood you want the piece to have. Is
152. 6:34it calm, happy, dark?
153. 6:39Whatever mood you want to depict, that's
154. 6:40going to be the main color. I want to
155. 6:42depict power. So, I'm going to pick red.
156. 6:51And we're going to use a texture pen to
157. 6:53apply the base color. A good texture pen
158. 6:55is really important here. I'm going to
159. 6:57use my own brush pack here. You can find
160. 6:59the brush link in the description. The
161. 7:01next step is to apply colors that are
162. 7:03around your base mood color to create
163. 7:07some variety. So, in my case, that would
164. 7:09be some oranges and yellows.
165. 7:14Make sure the surrounding colors you
166. 7:16pick are in similar brightness and
167. 7:18saturation to our base color cuz right
168. 7:20now the goal is to create variety, not
169. 7:23depth. Now, we're going to add a point
170. 7:25color. Think of this as an accent color
171. 7:27that we use sparingly, usually taking
172. 7:30around 10 to 30% of the entire piece. It
173. 7:33helps break up the dominant color and
174. 7:35gives your eyes somewhere else to look.
175. 7:37So, you're controlling where you want
176. 7:38the audience to look at. The main color
177. 7:40is the first thing they will notice,
178. 7:42then their eyes will automatically go
179. 7:44towards this accent colors. She uses
180. 7:46complimentary colors for the accent
181. 7:48colors. Complimentary colors is
182. 7:49basically colors opposite in the color
183. 7:52wheel.
184. 7:53So, in my case, opposite to red color in
185. 7:56the wheel would be blue. I'm going to
186. 7:58add that blue to her coat.
187. 8:04Then I'm just going to color her other
188. 8:05features with the same color closer to
189. 8:07the base color.
190. 8:14Then she goes on to add some neutral
191. 8:16tones to the colors to lower the
192. 8:18intensity of the piece. You can find
193. 8:20your neutral colors here.
194. 8:30Now we are going to concentrate on
195. 8:31increasing the contrast between the
196. 8:33light shades and the darker shades. I
197. 8:35want the background to be darker and her
198. 8:37face to be lighter so that they have a
199. 8:39good contrast. So, now I'm going to go
200. 8:41ahead and increase that contrast by
201. 8:43increasing the dark shades in the
202. 8:45background and lighter shades in her
203. 8:47face.
204. 9:05So, that's how a mangi picks the colors
205. 9:07and places the colors. From here, it's
206. 9:10just render and refining the details so
207. 9:12I will just let the speed paint play.
208. 11:00>> And that's the final piece.
209. 11:05I kept it really simple. I basically
210. 11:07took one element from each of her tips
211. 11:09and applied that to create this. In the
212. 11:11course, she goes through six other color
213. 11:13approaches and explains how you can work
214. 11:15with each of them. So, there's a lot
215. 11:17more to explore. I genuinely found her
216. 11:19course really helpful. I would say a lot
217. 11:21of courses on Coloso are really well put
218. 11:23together. So, if you're interested, I
219. 11:25would definitely recommend checking them
220. 11:26out. Bye-bye.