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Zhrayde β Basic Color Tutorial - Part 2
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You can view Part 1 of this tutorial here:More tutorials by me:
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Thank you so much for these tutorials! Now I finally get why people stress the importance of value, hue and saturation. I have a lot of trouble with colouring, so your "tips for beginners" was particularly helpful. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Not only was this helpful but you were incredibly thorough in explaining things! I love that you mentioned common mistakes and how to fix them, and then also went another step and brought it down to basics.
Also wicked art!
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Those are some really great advice. I have been trying to learn digital painting about a year now, from people like you but some of these color and saturation tricks a new to me. I will definitely think about this in the future 
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Your art is great, I really like your creatures. Do you have any tips on improving drawings? (besides the obvious practise)
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thanks for this tut! i never know what to do with the gray scale, i always get lost with dont know if i should keep or throw it away lol
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Thanks for leaving a comment. I'm glad the tutorial is helpful. Haha, those gray scales can be tricky
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Thanks, i learned a lot, colors is one of my problems so this is really useful
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You're welcome! Glad you found it useful.
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the "process" version are really amazing
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I appreciate the thorough explanations for your process. Like others, I've been trying to figure out how to approach coloring, and this helps a considerable amount. I can't thank you enough!
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It's my pleasure! Glad you find it useful.
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I can't thank you enough. I took a stab at coloring today, and it came along a little more quickly than usual. Your pointers on color schemes were especially illuminating and I feel awful for discarding any knowledge I had on the color wheel from way back in junior high school. Take my heartfelt thanks!
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You have literally outlined what I've been trying to figure out in my artwork for months now. Thank you so, so much for this. This is what I was so frustrated with in my artwork and now I can work on fixing it.
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I'm so glad to hear the tutorial helped you!
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This is a great description. Do you have any advices for traditional painting with coloured pencil?
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Judging from your gallery, you're already using colored pencils very well. The biggest thing about using colored pencil is layering different colors to create new colors since you can't mix them like you can with paint. I can see your already doing this in your drawings. I didn't talk about color mixing in the tutorial, but you will need to read up on a this a little to understand how to layer color. For instance, if you have a red dragon and you want to make the lights warm and the shadows cool, you can add blue to the shadows first and overlay that with red. This way the shadows are more purple and lights are more red (alternatively you could just use purple and layer red over too, it depends on the effect you want). What you are able to do with colored pencils is limited to which colors you have. The fewer colors you have, the more creative you'll need to be. But overall, the techniques are the same as in the tutorial, just with a different medium.
I hope this helps! 
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Thank you very much. This is really helpful. I'll try this out!!
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Your tutorials are not only interesting and informative they are very nicely laid out and pretty to look at.Β Your examples using not just the little spheres but also applying them to your painting as well really helps to illustrate your points.Β Thanks so much for taking the time to make this and share your knowledge with us!
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You're very welcome! I'm glad you like them! 
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Thanks so much! Great feature!
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thank you .....your first two tut helped me to improve lots and so is this one....now the more i practice i see also other areas arising such as value composition its like wow practice that then discover new things its like a stepping stone of advancement....lol thanks again.
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You're very welcome!
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This is an absolutely gorgeous and informative tutorial, I learned so much and I love it!
I am going to try this as soon as I get the time to! Thank you so much!
I am really glad that you have decided to share your techniques with us
Stunning!
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You're most welcome! It's my pleasure. Enjoy!
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You are the BEST for making these tutorials!
They help me immensely. C:
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And it shows! One of the best tutorials I know!
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Seriously, I should do some far beyond thanking you. Your tutorials helped me a lot!
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Hey, no trouble! If I wanted something in return, I'd wouldn't be posting these for free. "Thanks" is more than enough!
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Fantastic tutorial, I've always loved to but struggled to find a nice balance of color in my pieces. Your tutorials really help me out. Thanks for taking time to make this and inform others!
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Thanks so much! It's good to know the effort was worth it. 
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Thank you for the tutorial! Iv'e been needing help with coloring my drawings lately. I'm so used to traditional art.
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You're welcome! 
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Thank you for your tutorials, and nice gallery you have there I am still looking through it.
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You're welcome! And thanks so much, it's an honor.
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