Good evening, readers. Another game night, another no-picture day (boo!). Instead, I'll talk to you all a bit about color selection, and how much of a difference that it can make in how a figure looks when it's completed.
It may seem obvious - you obviously want to pick the best colors for the figure, and who could go wrong with that off-white and luminescent green combination that I was thinking of using? But it's more than just grabbing some random colors off the shelf and expecting them to go together - or worse, trying to use a purple to shade a green. It just doesn't look right...
This is because certain colors work better together than others. Reds and blacks, blues and oranges, these colors are used together a lot, and the reason for this is simple - they are colors that complement each other. I would highly recommend any aspiring painters invest in a color wheel or bookmark one of the (many) color picking websites out there, particularly one that shows you shades and Triads or Quatrads, so that you can pick out the colors for the whole figure in one go, potentially.
Once you're used to that, you can go back to grabbing what you think feels right with the figure, knowing that you've gotten used to thinking of how the different colors with compliment and contrast each other - which, in turn, will make your figures shine all the more!
Until next time, readers - paint on!
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