Koji(portrait)

[tonnybranzza]

[YRH]

Who’s this guy? An OC or?

The lighting is very realistic! At first glance I would say it was photo taken with a flash lamp.

[tonnybranzza]

Thanks!, The character is Koji from brawlhalla.

[YRH]

Haha, you nailed it! Nice.

I have a question actually. Do you often start with grayscale and then color it? I always had a problem with this method because the apparent (perceptive?) lightness of gray is different than that of a saturated color, if you know what I mean. So just applying the color without changing the value might not always work as intended. Does your process avoid this issue somehow? Thanks.

[tonnybranzza]

Grayscale to color tuto

Hi guys, I promised some of you a little tutorial on how I go from grayscale to color. Note: the better your understanding of values, the better your result will be. I went with something quite simple. But this methode can be applied on a large scale image aswell. 1- get yourself a grayscale image. [Drow Ranger] 2- give your image an overall mood using color balance ( I suggest you have your elements on different layers, characters,background etc). Normally the overall mood will be the te…

I think I’ll make a video tuto for more info