Round 37: voting

[tinny]

Yellow pastel palette: inspiration strikes immediately!



Granting you a Dreamlike Life | Bai Yu x2


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This is what happens if you color it in the wrong way. He ends up looking like a mannequin or a Chinese Opera performer... /o\

Comments

[breyzyyin]

All three of these icons are absolutely stunning! I love the coloring for them. ♥ The alt is certainly dramatic too. ♥

[tinny]

Thank you!

I had to include it for laughs. :D Coloring doesn't always work on the first try.

[aestivalis]

So soft and beautiful, lovely as always! I love that last icon in particular, but they're all great. Is yellow a colour you particularly enjoy working with?

And wah, that last icon is. VERY DISTINCT, hahaha. It's so interesting to see the contract between that one and the final result though! Thank you for sharing it!

[tinny]

Thank you!

Yes, yellow is my favorite color. It's hard to work with when it comes to skin tones, so usually my icons end up more orange than yellow, but I like orange, too, so that's okay. :D

And wah, that last icon is. VERY DISTINCT, hahaha.

Haha! I thought the skin was lighter than the background, so I made the skin yellow and the background orange, and it just didn't work. At all. :D

Making the yellow a color layer makes him look jaundiced, so I had to set it to Lighten, and then he's a mannequin. It was no good. :D

[aestivalis]

Yeah, I can imagine yellow being especially difficult when you're working with live-action source material rather than scenery or something animated :o You do great work with it though! And orange is indeed good too, hahaha.

And hahaha, yeah, it just wouldn't play nice that way, huh! I'm sure he would make a wonderful opera star though!

[tinny]

I'm sure he would make a wonderful opera star though!

I'm sure he would! He is gorgeous and does everything well. :D

There's a great Guardian AU fanfic where he actually is an opera singer. :D (here)

And of course Dreamlike Life has an opera troupe, but he's not part of it.

[mintsnow]

Lovely work!! I love the colouring

[tinny]

Thank you! <3

[abyss_valkyrie]

LOOOL!!Dear god, that alt!

I really like the soft icons you ended up creating with this,especially that crop in 3,wow!

[tinny]

I like posting alts here, now, because they tend to be the ugliest. :DD Showing off failed experiments is fun!

Thank you!