By Moose

I’ve been coloring Farm Lessons for 10 years now and I did this quick coloring tutorial a few years ago. If you ever wanted a little peek into my coloring process, check it out.

Here’s the line art that I drew quickly for this tutorial.

The first thing I do is flat the image. I just put some base colors down. These aren’t necessarily the colors I’m going to use, I just want to get the colors separated, I’ll change them later as needed. Since much of Farm Lessons happens during the day (and around the farm) I go with cool skies a lot unless there’s a reason I need to be moody.

I’m not a big fan of using lots of layers or channels, so I usually only use three layers. One for the flats, one for the rendering, and one for the lineart. I can use layers while I color but I always flatten them.

The first thing I do is go in and change the colors to what I’m actually going to use. Next thing to do is seperate the girls so they don’t look so close to each other. Here it’s an easy call to bring Jez forward because she would mostly be in the shadow/shade of the tree. So I put a dark cyan on a different layer at like 30% over Jez and the tree.

In Farm Lessons I use a lot of textures and stuff mainly because they’re such a dysfunctional family and I always try for a real grimy feeling throughout. So I go thru the grass and the tree with a texture brush. I add a little blue to the tree but grass I tend to add a lot of yellows and browns.

I decided to go back in and pop her boobies a little more and color the rocks in background. You’ll find in a Moose coloring the boobies always pop.

I decided to flip the image (something I should have done before I started coloring it) and fixed Mama’s eye a little bit. I also added some make-up to Jez.

Here’s the final image, and it’s a little bigger.

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