Thanks for the feedback.
Well yes, I admit it, coloring hair so it fits the original characters is not that always that easy, but good that you mentioned it.
As for the palettes, I usually imported colors - from other existing portraits - I considered fitting for each character, at least that's how I understand the part where you speak of borrowing. I never ever played around with each palette color's attributes individually. I swear, it's all only imported/"borrowed" but maybe really just tads too similar colors, as you already mentioned. Sorry if I missunderstood.
Well, most of time, the palettes get divided like the following:
- first color is background as always
- then 4-5 brownish skin colors are for face, faceborder, the eyelid parts, sometimes for some lighter parts in the hair
- 3-4 colors for clothes
- this leaves maximum 3 colors for things like edges, eye color decoration (i.e. the white stripes on the Yuri's jacket)
- and only 1-2 colors for others things (i.e. like the "turquoise" hair basket of Lucia)
Maybe some adjustment of those skin colors (which take most of the palette space) might do the trick. Hopefully without making it look weird D:
Well yes, I admit it, coloring hair so it fits the original characters is not that always that easy, but good that you mentioned it.
As for the palettes, I usually imported colors - from other existing portraits - I considered fitting for each character, at least that's how I understand the part where you speak of borrowing. I never ever played around with each palette color's attributes individually. I swear, it's all only imported/"borrowed" but maybe really just tads too similar colors, as you already mentioned. Sorry if I missunderstood.
Well, most of time, the palettes get divided like the following:
- first color is background as always
- then 4-5 brownish skin colors are for face, faceborder, the eyelid parts, sometimes for some lighter parts in the hair
- 3-4 colors for clothes
- this leaves maximum 3 colors for things like edges, eye color decoration (i.e. the white stripes on the Yuri's jacket)
- and only 1-2 colors for others things (i.e. like the "turquoise" hair basket of Lucia)
Maybe some adjustment of those skin colors (which take most of the palette space) might do the trick. Hopefully without making it look weird D: