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-We've got a question from Kastriot Takeshi.
-"How to learn to color during manga?"
-How manga artist learn coloring during making their manga.
-Weekly manga artists doesn't have much time to practice. So how they learn it?
You got a point.
Color illustration is very difficult.
As you know Japanese manga is basically drawn in black and white.
But sometimes we have to draw color manga.
Like when you publish a comic book. Called Tankoubon in Japanese.
You have to draw a cover for it.
And you have to draw it in color...
This is a difficult problem as you pointed out.
I've drawn many color manga and it makes me confused.
So I can understand how you guys feel difficult with color works.
I really do.
So what makes manga coloring difficult?
First, what kind of color should we use.
The matter of color selecting.
People who familiar with coloring naturally know what kind of of color should we use, I suppose.
Like this color suits to this color.
But it difficult to know it if you don't have enough experience
and if you don't know which color will suit to other color.
Yeah, there is a color goes well with a specific color.
Imagine vivid yellow, blue and red.
When you make them go together, It irritates our eyes.
It doesn't work well as an illustration.
So you need to know good combinations of colors.
Red, yellow, blue...
Can you see that they are conflicting each other?
We don't like it. We need to know color combination which harmonizes each other.
I mean, you need to know a color scheme.
Haishoku in Japanese.
It means how we arrange the colors. Like where you put the color.
And that's what you should learn at first.
And I mentioned this in the rehearsal,
To learn the color arrangement is like to learn a fashion.
There's an impossible combination in color arrangement as it is in a fashion.
Did you get a picture? I wasn't strong at colors and also at fashion.
Well I'm not strong even now but anyway,
I was totally ignorant at fashion and doesn't know the common idea.
Like people don't wear a jogging suit and leather boots at the same time.
Well maybe it's possible...
Or like a down jacket and beach sandals don't go well together.
It's weird that you wear down jacket and sandals together. Don't you think so?
Like he wears this thick jacket...
But he wears beach sandals... Isn't that weird?
There's no sense of season.
So this kind of arrangement can't be a style.
Though you try to draw this as a cool guy, it's impossible.
He is just a weird person.
Same thing might occur in color arrangement.
Though you try to color your work in cool way, if the color arrangement is weird, it's extremely difficult to make your work cool.
That't why you should learn color arrangement in a certain extent.
You can check the websites for color arrangement.
Like websites for web design. They offer you variation of good combination of colors.
There might be subtitles to tell you some websites.
There's some websites for it.
For example, a site that pick a good combination of 5 colors.
Or less or more colors...
And you pick your favorite combination of 5 or so colors
And you color your work based on the combination of colors.
It's good if you get used to it.
In coloring,
the color arrangement
is everything.
And one of the colors you pick
might be the color of skin of you character.
Pick the skin color and then select the rest 4 colors.
Decide the 4 colors then start coloring. That's a possible way.
If you picked right colors,
it doesn't really matter though your brush stroke is poor.
It will be fine. Though it doesn't stay within line art.
Though shape of shadow is not cool enough.
If the color arrangement goes well, your work seem cool. Very cool.
For example, combination of orange and green is very lame.
It's impossible. Isn't it?
Because the color arrangement is wrong.
Vivid green and vivid orange are very difficult colors.
It's like Takasaki line.
I know you don't know it.
Well but you'll say it can be possible.
But maybe yes. Like a flight jacket.
Green cloth with orange liner.
Why such a flight jacket doesn't seem lame? Because the green of such flight jacket has very low saturation.
Combination of dull green and vivid orange is possible.
I have one more thing to tell you.
Light is one.(?)
There are many colors exists in this world.
But there's only one kind of light source in your picture.
I mean there's a color of light. The color of light is not only white.
There's many colors in the light and so it seems white.
For example, the sunlight. It contains more blue than other colors.
So if you color your work bit blueish, it seems under the sunlight.
What I want to say is, the same color of light fall to the all objects in your work.
So all object seem like the color of light a little bit.
Can you see?
If the blue light like the sunlight falls,
All things seem bit blueish.
Especially shadows.
You can color he shadows with more blueish compared to the base color.
The whole shadow can be colored with blueish colors.
This makes your coloring better. I believe.
If you learn to control these, you'll be good at coloring a bit.
An easy common tips: after you finish coloring, add overlay mode layer.
And you make a blue gradation.
It adjust the tone of color of your work.
Because the overlay mode layer makes same blue light fall on your work.
And it add blueish taste on your work.
So the colors goes weeell.
I couldn't say any English words.
Don't say it in Japanese...
I want to say Touitsukan in English.
One things.
(Touitsukan = sense of unity)
That's it for today.
Let's get used to coloring, it might be good for you.
So, the first point.
Pick good combination of colors.
Second. Take care of the color of the light in your work, and adjust your work to the color of the light.
-So how did you learn coloring?
When I was so bad at coloring,
I put my work next to works of other professional manga artists,
to find the differences between them.
And I found out that it's the color arrangement.
I had had no common sense about color arrangement.
It depends on individuals but
I had been selecting too vivid colors. That's what I found out.
So I checked where they use vivid colors and how vivid the colors are.
And I realized that actual nature doesn't have so vivid colors. That was a break through for me.
Drawing reflects real world basically.
So we can paint colors that we see.
And this blue jeans and this blue jacket are
not really "blue" as we human think.
There's no saturation as we see.
But we recognize it "blue" so we tends to paint them in "blue".
But it's not really blue.
Now, our staff Yumoto wears natural pale green.
Actual colors tend to be paler than we think.
So try to select not vivid colors, select natural colors.
But I guess some people has different habit.
Anyway, if you feel like something is weird in your work, that might be caused by your strange habit.
Find them by comparing with good artists' works.
And correct the habit as your work reflects the colors of actual world.
That might be a way to make your work better.
The answer is in the real.
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