oh god idk if this is helpful but its shit like this. a lot of my recent examples are teal/greenish water but the principle is the same no matter what color water there is. i havent drawn ocean waves in ages tho

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Additionally I will then mix the colors wiith eachother: like for green here specifically, I mixed my mixed orange into it to make it conflict less!

It works for cool colors too, I bet teal or purple would be good [nod nod]

Cooorrect! I should have added that specifically: I mixed a deep coral color as I like it and it's light enough. From there, I tweaked the values and saturation as needed.

Honestly at that point it's his commission and his call, like sure it won't look as good but I'm taking the work for money and the customer's satisfaction 🤷

In tune to "just learning to get on the skateboard without falling off" try working with just flat colors that look really good together! Try a limited palette first, try those ones from sites!

I kept thinking my flat colors looking bad would be fixed by shading and filters but I was wroooooong.

Forgot an r in "your" but it's fine, Captain Novalin type beat typo. Check you feet!

Yeah there's like, so much to it, and a lot of demonstrations don't take into account where a lot of us started out. Like I was beat for beat picking out my old colors and then did all the things I was taught and it's like, huh, this is still an improvement and a good foundation to improve from

You'll start to get a hang of what colors look good with others. Like if you want one color to dominate the whole piece, have everything be mixed by that color, complimentary should be close to grey.

and sure the first results will be maybe a little dingy like this but doesn't it already look more unified? You'll start to learn overtime from observing your favorite artists and reading books on color and shading (value is what makes colors good!!!)

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