painting with bazkie! 🧵 a (slow) thread [8/x]
alright, let's get some colors in! I tend to start with the background, so you kinda get a sense of the general vibe.
then we add some paint everywhere, just basics, again, so we get a feel of the whole thing.
(I ran out of time for filling out eve & adam 😅)
basic color theory: stuff further in the background fades into the "fog color", for which white/blue tends to work well.
this also means further away == more blue == colder, which offers a nice contrast for a more warm/orangy foreground.
(so the tree on the right is WRONG! it uses the same colors as the tree close by, while it should be more blueish/less contrasty/less saturated. this poor tree keeps getting the short end of the branch 🥺 I will fix this later 🙏)
shadows also tend to be more blueish than stuff lit by the sun, so for example for the tree colors, you'll find that the shaded side is more blue while the lit side is more yellow.
this is also why the shade on eve & adam is purple. skin tends to be pink/brown, but if it's in the shade, you mix it with blue, and you get this kind of color. it will look fine when all is done :)
now the tree is very.. poopy green. but like my painting class teacher used to say, "it's far more important to get the dark/light contrasts right, than it is to get the colors right. also bazkie, how are you so cool and sexy, omg"
not sure if I remember his quote correctly 🤔 but well, you get the gist of it.
I gotta say, I'm not really feeling this painting yet. it's all too plain now, too well-organized. so next time, let's add some "wild foliage" between the characters and the background layer. some bushes, trees, plants.. let's see if we can make this thing come alive a bit more.
thanks for tuning in to painting with bazkie! 👩🎨 see y'all next time!
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