The First Guide to Choosing Colors When Drawing Anime & Manga
Beginner Guide To Picking Colors When Drawing Anime Manga – This is a comprehensive guide for color beginners focusing on anime and manga. These are the same themes used by professional artists, designers, and cartoons. If you do not know much (or maybe nothing at all) about a color wheel or a combination of different colors, then this should be read.
Examples of Various Color Combinations For Anime Girl
Color Combination
The colors of the anime characters and the manga or scenes are not randomly selected. Some colors work best when combined with others.
Color Wheel
The color wheel shows colors based on their relationship to one another.
Please note that although the color wheel used in this study is probably the most common example, color wheels may have more variations or slower gradient transitions from one color to another.
Basic Colors
There are three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow. The main defining feature of key colors is that they cannot be created by mixing other colors.
Second Colors
The second color is made by mixing the two primary colors. For example, you can mix red and yellow to get orange or blue and yellow to get green.
Higher Colors
High-quality colors are a combination of the first color and second color. So if, for example, you mix yellow and green, you will get a yellow-green color.
Using Colors in Anime Characters
The examples below show how colors and color combinations can be applied to an anime-style character in different ways.
Please note that the colors will only change on the hair, eyes, and clothes in these examples. The shaded part of the color circles represents the color used in the shady areas of the character.
Color Tightness
Color intensity light color. It is made with tints, shades, and tones:-
- Tint – white addition to color
- Shade – add black to the color.
- Tone – gray add-on (a combination of black and white)
In the example above, you can see the difference between tones and colors.
Having the right color intensity can be very important when coloring a character.
More vibrant colors may be more appropriate for a happier character, while less intense colors may be more appropriate.
You usually do not want to use colorless colors at all colors in the whole character. But you may want to use more vibrant colors if you, for example, as the parts of their garment to look radiant.
Achromatic
Pure achromatic “colors” are black, white, and gray, but achromatic can include brown, tan (bright browsers), and darker or more pale colors.
For example, achromatic costumes are more familiar with anime characters (black suit with a white shirt).
Monochromatic
Monochromatic means one color. In this case, the color is a mixture of red and blue and white and black (tone) to make a different color variation of pink.
A monochromatic character can be great if you want to create a colorful character. For example, if you see a person walking down a street wearing a bright red or yellow, that person will probably pay more attention to you than anyone else.
Free Colors
Exciting colors are found across each other from the color wheel.
Once again, this is a beautiful color combination that you can use for a character who wants to stand out.
Divide the Matching Colors
Separated colors are a softer version (slight variation) of preferred colors. This creates a “Y” shape on the color wheel.
Divide color schemes are pervasive in anime characters.
Same Colors
Matched colors is another common color combination of anime characters. These are the colors next to each other in the color wheel.
Matched colors create a soft, minimalist look.
Three Colors
Triadic colors are a combination of three or more colors. These colors will form a kind of triangle on the color wheel. You can choose any of the three colors you want as long as you keep the exact distance between them (in this case, three sections separately).
Square Colors
Square colors are a combination of four colors. These colors will form a square on the color wheel.
Tetradic Color Combination
Like a square tetradic is a combination of four colors. These colors will create a rectangular shape on the color wheel.
Warm colors
Warm colors are yellow, red, and orange. The colors you would combine with warm things like sun or fire.
This color scheme may benefit fantasy or sci-fi characters (for example, a magical feeling).
Cool colors
Cool colors blue, purple and other shades of green. The colors you often associate with cold things like snow and ice.
As a warm color combination, a fantastic color combination might be good for sci-fi and fantasy characters (snow magic uses a character as an example).
Conclusion
There is a lot you need to know when it comes to colors, but hopefully, this tutorial will help you better understand different types of color combinations. You can also try using this when coloring your drawings, and you can also try to see some of them in your favorite anime characters.
