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The Ultimate Coloring Guide
Contrary to my exotic-maxxing thread, this one is for everyone equally. Enjoy!
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Coloring Guide: Understanding Ideal Coloring & Ways To Improve Coloring (Revamped)
Coloring Guide: Understanding Ideal Coloring & Ways To Improve Coloring by @enchanted_elixir Table of Contents Introduction Why Coloring Is Important Principles of Ideal Coloring Coloring Types and The Ideal Colors For You How To Improve Your Coloring Conclusion Introduction Upon my...
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Coloring is the color palette contained on your face and body. What makes good coloring is harmonious color combinations that contrast. You want to see your coloring as a piece of art. Think of your coloring as a painting, a canvas. Anyone who knows anything about art knows about chromatics and color theory and the crucial role color plays in the perceived beauty of art, so why not the same for humans? How can you make your coloring pop out, and look like a glorious piece of art?
An example of a dull piece of art:
Features possessed: Unsaturated and dead shades, lack of color (monochromatic), lack of vibrance, low clarity.
An example of a beautiful piece of art:
Features possessed: Multi-colored, saturated colors, high clarity. The image on Instagram is by @ico_sphere
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Color Harmony
So here are all of the colors in a color wheel, harmonious combinations include...
Warm and cool colors also matter a lot in coloring as well.
I will say that you'll have to experiment for yourself to see what's uncanny and what's godly coloring but you get the point nonetheless.
So let's apply this to human coloring. For this, I do not recommend more than three colors, four colors max, granted the four colors are harmonious. Warm undertone people, stick with warm-colored clothing, cool-undertone people, stick with cool-colored clothing!
Clothing plays a very important role in coloring, do not neglect it!
Blacks, greys, and whites usually don't have an effect on the coloring unless they are warm or coldly tinted, if so, use it accordingly.
I will list all of the available options of colors for each component of coloring (hair, skin color, skin undertone, lips/gums, eyes, teeth, clothing, jewelry)
Hair:
Skin Color and Undertone:
Lip Color:
All I have to say here is NOBODY should be having dark or hyperpigmented lips or gums. That's just a curse
Eye Color:
With eye color, blue, grey, and dark brown are cool-colored eyes, and green, hazel and light brown are warm-colored eyes. Your sclera should be completely white.
Teeth:
Nobody should be having any shade of teeth exceeding 5 from the left.
Clothing:
Jewelry:
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Examples of Top Tier Coloring
Using the knowledge we've learned, let's examine examples of great and bad coloring.
Bad Coloring: Using the knowledge we've learned, let's examine examples of great and bad coloring.
Aside from being hideous, this man has cool undertoned skin combined with his yellow (warm color) sclera and teeth. This leads to warm-cool disharmony. Another place of warm-cool disharmony is his gums. The dead purple and the vibrant pink ruin his harmony. He is also wearing a saturated blue-purple, throwing off everything but his purple gums. If his shirt was yellow (opposite of purple) or green, it would just take his rating into the giga-negatives since his purple gums would not have anything to latch on for harmony.
Imagine what his morning breath smells like...
This woman wears cool colors (which is her only positive as it meshes with her pale skin) but warm and bright variants of it, on top of wearing hot red lipstick (this would work better with orange as orange has triadic harmony with green, but orange lipstick is paranormal), these colors aren't harmonious with each other or with her skin and that's a huge nope. If she used cool green, orange, and purple triadic harmony colors, she would have looked better.
Great Coloring:
In this example, the only thing missing for god-tier coloring is the eye color (specifically green/hazel). Artbreeder didn't have any "green eyes" setting and I couldn't generate it so I left it at a kind of warm blue. Red undertones are very good for women. Hair and skin here go hand in hand and looks fantastic. Her undertone is red-orange and her hair is red, which fits into this perfectly.
In this example, we see the prevailing use of cool colors. She has cool undertones and dresses accordingly, the navy blue dress, pale skin, blue eyes, cool-undertoned dark hair, and black earrings. The eyes really help with the contrast, which is also a cool-colored shade of blue-green.
In this example, the tan he has plus the red and the warm beige pants all compliment each other. The only failo here is the cool blue shoes, which disrupts everything. This is the importance of staying in your lane with warm and cool colors, very important!
In our final example, we see warm colors used, her warm olive skin, warm wan clothing, golden earring, green eyes, and heavy green highlights complement and contrast each other in a very aesthetically pleasing and harmonious manner. Photo from https://www.artbreeder.com/beta/image/d7b4d655dec3878c0c37ee8091a3
Some more examples:
Thanks for reading, may have more threads coming soon.
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