Notes on color and the habits of illustrators.
Short essays, workflows, and references for anyone who cares about the colors they choose.
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The palettes you loved last week
Illustrators lose their best palettes because they treat them as disposable. A case for keeping a palette library, and three rules that make it stick.
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Procreate's color picker is great, until it isn't
Procreate's color tools are genuinely good, and they hit a wall when your work cares about palette continuity. Three places it falls short, and what to do about it.
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Steal a palette from any movie still in 60 seconds
The single highest-leverage practice for improving your color eye: pull a four-color palette from a movie frame in under a minute. Here's the process.
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What Sargent, Hopper, and Klimt teach about restraint with color
Three painters, three kinds of restraint. A working lesson for illustrators on deciding the architecture of color before the colors themselves.