On OC Design #1 - Colours

[Melted Dog 161]

DISCLAIMER: This is just a general guide I use to make my OCs. Derive from it if you want.

DISCLAIMER #2: British spelling used here. That's what I *favour*.

 

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On OC Design #1: Can you paint with all the colours of the wind?

 

I'm sure you have been through this: perfect backstory, design, name... for your OC. You click on a drawing program, fingers clicking on keyboard and mouse, then suddenly you come up with this:

and realise that you never actually thought about the colours. Here are a few tips and techniques I use to get good colours.

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1: Harmonizing the Colours

I take a nice light pastel colour, in this case a lilac purple and set it to a very low opacity.

Then, I swipe it a few times across the old colour palette to get a whole entire new palette. Eyedrop the colours you get and voila! This can be done as many times as you want until you get a colour you like.

PS. Does example pone look a bit like Firefly to you?

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2: Add it to the Mix

We have the original hideous palette and a new example pony.

This one is simple: just take the colours from the joining of two colours. Works best, ironically, in bad drawing programs that blur everything.

I played with the brightness and saturation a bit before colouring the stallion in.

Edited March 1, 2016 by Corgi Control