Tutorials

Color Selection in Illustration and Painting

Tutorial 2 with Bonnard Template – Exercise 3

(Method for coloring these special template layers in Photoshop.)

Before -- After

Step 1

Open the Bonnard template. You may download the template here.

Step 2

Hide all layers except for L1. Choose a color for the background rectangle. Here we chose a yellow.

Step 3

A palette is created from the gray, range 60. A dark brown is chosen, and layer L2 is filled using the special layer coloring method.

Step 4

L3 is filled with a pink, chosen from a 10 range from the yellow.

Step 5

L5 is filled with a magenta, a 30 range from the color we just used.

Step 6

L5 is filled with a green, a 10 range from the yellow.

Step 7

L6 is filled with a darker pink, a 20 range from the yellow.

Step 8

L7 is filled with a blue, also a 20 range from the yellow.

Step 9

L8 is filled with a similar green to the one we already used.

Step 10

Fill L9 and L10, and L11. L9 is filled with a brighter green, a 5 range from the green we just used. L10 is filled with a pink, also a 10 range from the green. L11 is filled with another blue, a 5 range from the blue.

Step 11

Fill L12 and L13. L12 is filled with a near-white, a 10 range from the pink. L13 is filled with a bright orange, a 30 range from the darkest color.

Step 12

Fill L14, L15, L16 and L17. L14 with a darker red, a 10 range from the red. L15 with alight orange, a 30 range from the red. L16 with a lighter color, a 5 range from the previous color. And L17 with a blue, a 30 range from the darkest color.

Step 13

Fill L18 and L19. L18 with a dark purple, a 10 range from the purple on the left. L19 with a brighter purple, a 20 range from the color just used.

Step 14

Finally, fill L20 and L21.

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