If you’ve never tried grayscale coloring, here’s the frustration that sends most beginners back to regular books: you pick up a colored pencil, start filling in a section, and the result looks flat. The shadow you tried to create is wrong. The highlight you added doesn’t line up with where the light actually falls. The … Read more
Flat Red Circles and the Page That Made Me Quit Every colorist hits the same wall the first December: a page of Christmas ornaments comes out as flat red circles, side by side, like a row of stickers. The drawing gave you spheres — round things with highlights already inked in — and you colored … Read more
Flowers are where most colorists get humbled. They look simple — petals, a center, done — and then your first rose comes out looking like a pink paper plate. I did that more than once before I understood what was going on: flowers are not about coloring petals. They’re about coloring the gaps between petals. … Read more