@dog^ᵈᵒᵍ What's wrong with the colors?

I drew it a while ago, I found this pretty cool app called MagicPoser that allows me to adjust a male/female's (both manga and realistic) body, and it's really useful. I'm still interested in the site that has reference pictures though, as I still use normal photos, and references for something specific can be kinda hard to find sometimes.

@AccendoArt have you ever painted before? Because that might help explain things.

Im gonna relay some basic stuff here, and its okay if you dont get it, because color theory albiet it seemingly simple its very extensive and sometimes hard to grasp.

@dog^ᵈᵒᵍ I've painted with both acrylic and water color, but that's it.

Cool, so you probably know not to use black to make a color darker for shading? At the very least not too much, right?

@AccendoArt

Yeah, you should use the color on the opposite side of the color wheel.

That's what I was taught, anyway

Yeah exactly,

And its kinda hard to do that too on digital but it should still apply

It is man. Is there a particular area on my drawing you're referencing? The skin was supposed to be a blue-grey, but appears to be more grey when I look at it.

Well, all of it really since it looks like you used the same tactic for the whole picture, but im gonna draw your attention to the orange hair since its easier

To shade her hair you would want to use a more red color, or lean to a more red color,

And for highlights you want use yellow

But the thing is theres such an easy solution

Brb im gonna show you with pictures

So you have this beautiful color you want

But you want to make it shaded, so you first instinct is to just move the dial in the middle towards the dark area right?

Yeah

Yeah dont do that thats bad

Instead focus on the dial that surrounds the traingle and nudge it towards the red

And BAM with a lil more adjusting you got some good colors goin on

Same with highlights

Nudge it the other way

Ah, thank you!! I really appreciate your tips!!

They're really helpful, as I am currently drawing an actual comic.

^^ im glad to help! I feel like you would make great use of it

At this moment.

Oooh

Im interested whats it about

It's essentially about a goddess named Ragona, who's commissioned by her sisters to help create a world, and the trials she faces in that world.

She's the goddess of magic, and a lot of the issues she faces are really just various fascets of humanity.

Oooh

Thats actually a really cool concept

How far are you

Thank you!!