Coloring Help

Just start doing it. You just gotta shit it up real hard for a while and you'll figure it out. The information you read about will click eventually.

>>2895612
Right there with you.

Trying to "render" something through colouring and it's just not working out in the slightest.
Things seem to look okay with lines but as soon as I remove the linework it's a blob of colours, shape entirely gone.
I feel like I spend more time fiddling with the hardness of brushes than I do with actual colouring.

>>2895612
I was thinking about making a same thread. Someone please oh please tell me how you do it.

After three years of working with ink and graphite I got unironically good at most of the fundies, but the perfectionism just doesn't let me finish anything - as soon as I open a digital canvas, my mind goes blank and I scrap everything after the sketch phase.

I envy the weeaboo and furry autists flooding deviantArt with finished works. Even if it's garbage, at least they have something to show for their effort.

>>2895704
I finally reached deviantArt tier yesterday. It really just takes time to render and that's it, just do it.

>>2895612
>>2895673
>>2895704

What is the problem specifically? Picking the right colours? Combining colours? Blending? Establishing edges?

>>2895731
My problem is colors that go together, and light (like making the shadow/light the correct color). I can do really well in just black and white to get the shades down, but once color is added all hell breaks loose. I've also been looking at lots of examples of coloring and lighting but it hasn't clicked for me yet

>>2895612
God, this, this. Everyone keep saying how easy it is to work digitaly, and it's a torture to me.

I have so much fun using color pencils and watercolor, which are often called "hard" by comparison.

For reference I did the chicken in /las/.
I just can't control value changes, softness of brush, blending, hard to explain.

>>2895737
Get good at values, then slowly, and using reference, introduce easy coloured material renders into your practice.

>>2895737
Look up color temperature if you haven't already. Or just read Color and Light by James Gurney.