Tutorials

Color Selection in Illustration and Painting

Tutorial 2 with Bonnard Template – Exercise 2

(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 gray.

Step 3

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

Step 4

L3 is filled with a pale orange, chosen from a 10 range from the gray.

Step 5

L4 is filled with a bright orange, a 20 range from the color we just used.

Step 6

L5 is filled with a muted color, a 5 range from the gray.

Step 7

L6 is filled with an orange, a 20 range from the gray.

Step 8

L7 is filled with a brown, a 10 range from the color we just used.

Step 9

L8 is filled with a light blue, a 5 range from the gray.

Step 10

We fill L9, L10 and L11 in succession here. L9 is filled with a similar color, a 5 range from the blue. L10 is filled with a pink, a 10 range from the blue. L11 is filled with a red, a 10 range from the brown.

Step 11

Fill L12 and L13. L12 is filled with a near-white, a 10 range from the pink. L13 is filled with a green, a 40 range from the darkest color.

Step 12

Fill L14, L15, L16, and L17. L14 with a darker green, a 5 range from the green. L15 with a lighter green, a 10 range from the green. L16 with an even lighter green, a 10 range from the previous color. And L17 with a dark gray, a 20 range from the darkest color.

Step 13

Fill L18 and L19. L18 with a yellow, a 10 range from the orange on the left. L19 with a lighter yellow, a 10 range from the color just used.

Step 14

Finally, fill L20 and L21.

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