10-30-2012, 03:08 PM
(10-30-2012, 10:29 AM)Mighty Jetaku Wrote: To decrease the saturation, just make your colors (mainly the purple) more gray-shaded
b...but I said to increase saturation, not decrease it...
From here I'm not sure how to be very clear without giving an edit, so hopefully gorsal will have something nice for you. But good work so far. Sometimes banding is hard to keep an eye on even if you're trained to look for it, so I'm glad the tutorial's helping you learn how to recognize it. Keep reading and learning about all sorts of things, I can't emphasize enough how much reading can help your art.
Also, if you wanna learn more about colors, I think it's useful to paste some sprites in paint and just check out the color values of what other people use. I mean, don't get stuck on thinking that only one small set of colors is right, but it just helps to see other approaches.
Making the middle shade of the skin more saturated would probably help. Darker shades do tend to be less saturated than the main ones, but I think it's too dramatic of a decrease here. It does look better now, though. If you put them side by side, the old one looks kind of sickly in comparison.
The purples still could blend better. I always have the hardest time shading dark blue and purple myself. Like I said, maybe seeing how other people do it will help you.