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
Every colorist eventually tries to paint water and gets a blue smear that looks like a swimming pool. Here is why that happens: water is transparent, so what you are actually drawing is not water — it’s what water does to the things around it. It darkens what’s underneath, mirrors what’s above, breaks both into … Read more
Ask any colorist which subject made them quit their first coloring book, and the answer is almost always the same: faces. Skin tones are the final boss of adult coloring. You lay down what looks like a perfectly reasonable beige, add shadow with gray, and suddenly your portrait looks like a mannequin left out in … Read more