Base colors

…The first initial stage of coloring is what I like to refer to as the base…colors. This is the foundational color base that…all your vector detailing will be built upon.…Most base colors tend to be neutral color…for the given element in an illustration. So…if it is brown hair, it's the mid…tone brown where as highlights would be lighter tint…of brown and shadows is a darker shade of brown etcetera. So let's take a look…at establishing the base colors of your illustration.…

In a previous movie you saw me work…on a very non-literal color exploration with the…men and the flaming hair and the bird.…Now we're gonna move into a more, what…I would consider kind of a, a cartoon illustration.…And this is another figure of a man. And like the other one, it all starts off at…analog. I draw it out, build out the core…based vector shapes I shown here. And this is where…I'm gonna start working through my base colors. Just…think flat colors. Whenever I use the term base colors,…that's what I mean. It's the flat. A foundational…