#3

[tiptoetwirl]

5 x Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5 x Ms Marvel
5 x The Untamed
5 x The Witcher

all for somein30






These are for the Summer Rewind 2 round at somein30. For this batch I chose to redo Round 3: Vibrant vs Muted. I chose hard mode which means each icon needed to draw from the inspirations in the challenge post. Hover over the icons to see which inspiration was used.

Muted colouring is a weak spot of mine which is one reason I wanted I picked this round. The first 10 are (obviously IMO) inspired the vibrant inspirations in the challenge post and I had a lot of fun with them. The second ten were inspired from the muted section and I also had fun but also found it tricky. I kept defaulting to techniques that I usually used and then had to "rescue" the icons 🙈. Towards the end though I think I had managed to rewire my brain a little and was able to deliberately work towards a more muted outcome (even if they still seem a bit on the vibrant side to me).

If any of you have any concrit or favourite tips and tricks for muted colouring, please do share them! (If you want to 😁).




1 - 5

6 - 10

12 - 15

16 - 20

Comments

[tinny]

Oh, wow, working deliberately against your tried and true process! Congrats on the great result!

I especially like 5 (awesome crop and coloring), 6 and 7 (great text placement), 9 (I love the borders and the zooming in in the levels), 12 (great daring composition), and 19 (amazing coloring!).

My own process usually tends towards pastel coloring, and I've written a tutorial on muted skin tones last year that might provide some inspiration? https://tinny.dreamwidth.org/651350.html

[tiptoetwirl]

Lol, yes I like to challenge myself sometimes :)

Thank you so much for the amazing feedback. I'm really glad you like so many of them!