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On request I have created this pallette tutorial. :P I know a few people have problems with pallettes so I'm creating this so you can make your own lovely pallettes for your dolls.
My standard pallette that I work with is 8 colours so I can get a smooth gradient but still have high contrast. When working with only 3 colours in a pallette you can often find your doll will end up quite flat so I'm going to show you how to make a 8 colour pallette like I use.
-[Working in Colour]-
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This is an example of a doll in a plain purple dress. As you can see there is a big difference in contrast between the lightest and the darkest colour.
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The image on the right speaks for itself really. I start off with the darkest colour making it a bit darker than I want the colour of the dress to look once it's done. I then pick a colour that compared to the colour before it you can see a difference between them but theres not much difference, so if you made it any darker it would be too similar. This is what I do with each colour as I go down the pallette. I compare each one with the colour above it only. This is a simple process that insures the colours blend together nicely.
Simple huh?
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As you can see by comparing this pallette to the pallette above the dress doesn't look half as good. That is because I work in unsaturated colour. This means the colour is slightly greyer than the solid colour and maked the dress look less tacky and bright and allows the real shading to come though. But don't go too grey. My pallette colours have more colour than grey in them mostly.
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-[Working in Black]-
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Working in black is one of the hardest things to do in dolling (next to working in white).
The biggest tip I can give you for black is work with a coloured background, preferably something dark for example dark green. If you work on a white background your dress will end up grey because white washes out shades which makes you put bigger intervals than necessary so your dress doesn't stay in the darker black shades, it turns grey. As you can see from this pallette there again is a lot of difference between the darkest shade and the lightest but it looks fine in the end when it's shaded. Don't worry.
To create this pallette I did the same thing as I did with the purple one only this time I was working in the greys and blacks. I assume I don't need to do another diagram.
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-[Spice up your colour]-
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Now this is something you'll find me doing very often in my colour palettes that I use for my dolls. As you can see the dress looks blue but not just a plain blue. What I did for the pallette was in the shadow colours I stuck to a plain blue pallette like above but for each of the higlight colours while also making it lighter I made it a little greener each time. By only doing this to the highlight colours this avoids making the whole dress look gradiented so the dress still looks blue, but it makes where the light hits it seem to shimmer slightly and just makes your doll that little bit more interesting. But don't use this all the time on the whole doll. The waist belt and shoes of this doll are still plain pallettes.
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I hope this tutorial has been some help and if theres anything else you would like to see how to make pallettes for then you can either PM me at The Dollers Den, The Under Ground or The Magic Garden (username Pyrochan) or email me at satansangelpyro(at)googlemail(dot)com
Base by Apitchou
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