- Hi, I'm Chaitanya Limaye.
I'm an Illustrator and Visual Storyteller.
I've been working as an independent illustrator
for close to six years now.
I got a chance to work on films like "The Jungle Book",
"Guardians of the Galaxy", "Cinderella" and many more.
I try to bring this experience to my illustrations
when I'm creating my characters and environments
that feel believable and beautiful.
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So before I start the coloring process,
I would love to take you through the Procreate Color Panel
and show you how I choose colors.
So when we go to this corner
and tap on that Color Panel button,
we can see this disc view
wherein we can see the full range of all sorts of hues,
and then we can choose the exact shade
of that particular hue,
depending on the lightness or the darkness,
and as well as the saturation or desaturation.
Then there's also this classic view,
where you can be more precise
about your choices and decisions.
So what we have here is a slider
to select a hue in particular,
and then we also have this slider
wherein I can select and choose
the amount of saturation or desaturation I want.
And then I have this place to choose the tone.
Now, tone, or value, is just another word
for the amount of darkness or lightness
in a particular image.
So these three sliders combine
to give us the exact color that we are looking for.
So we can either choose it directly like that,
or we can specifically tune it to what we want.
And sometimes we want to make something just slightly darker
and also slightly more saturated,
say, to create a particular shadow of an object.
So in that case, what I'll be doing
is taking in the saturation slightly more
and adding a bit of more darkness to it.
So more of a shadow I want,
sometimes I can do more of the darkness,
and I also change the saturation,
depending on the lighting that I want in the scene.
And here we have this Harmony tab inside the Color Panel,
which is an excellent and very cool feature of Procreate,
where we can select and create different sorts
of color combinations immediately, right from this panel.
So this is something that one would need to plan for
and do traditionally, looking at different color swatches.
But the awesome feature of Procreate is that it's built in
and it helps make this process much faster.
So if I'm looking for the complementary shade
for particular shade of green,
then I can just go using this method
and get the exact opposite shade of red.
So we can also check out other color schemes,
like Split Complementary,
wherein we have one color and then two colors just besides
the exact opposite color of this one.
So here I have orange,
then I'm getting a cyan-like color,
and then blue,
and these together will make
a really awesome color combination.
And then to experiment with the darkness of it,
I can also pick, say, this bright orange,
and then go darker,
and then use that bright orange,
along with this cyan and blue,
which are darker versions of themselves,
to create something interesting.
And similarly, we also have the Analogous Color Scheme.
In this color scheme,
we can select any kind of a color,
and then it gives us colors that adjust into it,
and wearing in just tiny amounts
so that we can get a slight kind of a gradation.
Then there is Triadic Color Scheme,
which is kind of like a triangle on the color wheel,
which is also a cool way to color your drawings.
So apart from these color schemes that we discussed,
the very most important thing
that I believe in choosing colors
is warm and cool colors.
All the colors that are adjacent to orange,
so that would be red, orange, yellow,
are known as warm colors,
because they kind of exude heat.
And similarly, all the colors that are adjoining blue
are known as cool colors,
because they have this cooling effect
that we see in nature.
It might sound very simplistic
that particular colors are warm
and particular set of colors are cool,
but even within a cool color,
we can always have warmer colors as well.
Say I'm going to do a big section of my illustration
in blue color,
but even within that I can have this nuance
of having few parts of the illustration be warmer.
So I can just go more towards yellow,
and then those parts of blue will start looking warmer,
and then the even more lower parts
can look even more cooler.
So we can mix and match warms and cools
to create these interesting color combinations
and also give a sense of daylight,
or different types of lighting in our illustrations.
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