Color exploration: A trial-and-error process

…Color exploration is just that an exploration…of color. Some themes and subject matters…related to illustration are literal. You're tasked…with illustrating a banana, then it's a sure…bet you'll be using hues of yellow to pull it off but not all illustrative coloring…is so literal. And it will require you to try and possibly reject several…colors, before you discover that one color that you feel will work best.…

These types of creative decisions are normally done on the fly as you work on an…illustration, so let's do just that. Approach…a project from scratch, and explore what…colors we could use to illustrate with. Okay, so this is just a funky illustration…I put together, some of you might ask what's it mean,…I don't know, I'll leave that up to you. But all…of my illustrations regardless of what style I'm working in, or…who it's for kind of all start off the same way…and that is, I draw out my design. I don't leave…a whole lot of guess work, when I move to digital.…

I want to know what my vector shapes need to be.…