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Update: My color palette went from muddy to clear after a month of focused practice
I was stuck for ages making digital paintings that looked flat and dirty. My colors just never clicked. About six weeks ago, I decided to stop making full pieces and just do 30-minute color studies every morning before work. I used a free site called 'Palette Trainer' to force myself to match hues from photos. The first week was brutal, everything looked wrong. But by the third week, something shifted. I did a portrait last night and my partner actually said, 'Wow, her skin looks real, not gray.' The difference is I stopped guessing and started really seeing the base color first. Has anyone else broken a bad color habit with a specific drill like that?
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scott.drew1mo ago
Old master paintings" is a bit off, they're just masters.
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rodriguez.felix1mo ago
Man, that hits home. I was in the same boat with my watercolors looking like dishwater. I forced myself to do little swatch copies of old master paintings, just trying to get the color mix right before I even drew anything. It felt silly but it finally made my brain stop seeing "leaf" as just green.
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