Thank you so much! Great suggestions! I can picture very well how adding more darkness in the corner in the fireplace panel could make everything more unified. It would also be good both for realism and composition of the panel itself.
This is such a nice thing to hear 
Thank you!
Ahhhh 
Ty for breaking it down into steps! I can read your writing just fine, I've seen far worse (mine lol).
Totally makes sense where you're coming from with the scene lighting too!
Gorgeous work and lovely examples. I really love the dramatic shift a shadow/light source can make,
I love talking about color and seeing what others do! I personally lean towards red color palettes myself because my story is dark and industrial. Red just feels correct.
...But I also really love color palettes that lean towards intense, deep blue feat. the sky or ocean!
...So yeah, I pick colors based on the mood of the scene! Simple but effective in my own art.
That cityscape painting is such mood. It's industrial, fast-paced, and you just know there is something going on that just ain't right. You can feel it in your bones. They are beautiful paintings and the contrast between the red and blue combined with the subject matter is such a shift in feeling and so dang neat.
Thank you for sharing!! 
I love vibrant colors! That's why I usually pick mostly saturated hues for both coloring and shading. When it comes to shading I tend to use cyan at full saturation cause it leads to quite beautiful contrasts, specially when the characters have a warmer palette overall.
Yasss I love the vibrancy in your color selections and the overlay of cool shadows or warm tones that have a hue to them depending on the colors present in each composition!
Totally feeling that method for highlighting details. Really brings depth to that cute sweater! I'm totally digging your character designs too. Lovely work
Colors come to me really easily. I would say that it's one of my biggest strengths, as it is something I can talk about for hours. When it comes to color, I always pick colors that show the mood or personality of my characters. For example, my story is about two brothers with different personalities. The brothers are always in a row with each other as one is more depressive (Jung) and the other is Panglossian (Jong-ho). Because of this, they are unable to understand one another and respond appropriately to each other's feelings.
In another scene, I also experimented with color to show the unpleasantness of the apartment flat the brothers are living in. The apartments are very small with everything being in one room, and only one bedroom, and the apartment complex is called "Anarchy Apartments".
I always get inspiration from other artists, especially Rembrandt and his color palette.
If you are struggling with color, I highly recommend these books. They have helped me a lot in color:
Enjoy!
Yo Dog (heh)!
I love how deeply ingrained color theory is embedded into your work and the use of color science to further depict mood, theme, and personality traits. That's really cool and defo shows a deep understanding of how color can work for you as an artist. The colors in that apartment just give such a sense of dullness that makes things feel destitute too, so nice job on toning the vibrancy down to achieve that feeling of melancholy
Van Gogh is such a fantastic point of reference for making surreal scenes, but also ones that give a feeling of unrest and even unwell like in particular with "The Night Cafe" as the colors aren't welcoming and even feel a bit sickly. The inclusion of classical artists in inspiration for modern artist is something I always encourage and am a huge fan of!!
How renaissance of you to depict the art of absolute truths in your modern settings in a way that totally nods to art history.
Thank you for sharing your process and for including the links!!
I guess the only way to describe my coloring is “experimental”. I like to try with both vivid and monochrome colors, but I also dabble a bit with just black and white. Overall, I’d say I use different colors for different highlights and shadings. My overall goal is to make my art look less muddled.
Initially, I would shade with purple and set it to multiply:
But after experimenting a bit more, especially with darker skin tones, I found that hot red/hot pink worked better for shading. It really gives more life to my characters, like blood is running through them. For a highlight, I use a soft yellow/gold and set it to gold dodge. Since I use Clip Studio, I’ve gotten to experimenting a lot with the different modes to bring out the best results. Here’s a breakdown of how I use vivid colors. Overall, I’d say I use five different modes to shade and highlight my art. I want everything to stand out and look soft in a way.
For organizing, I keep a color set with my shading colors. I also reference back to the modes whenever I need some help experimenting. Even more, I might reference the hue changer and color correction in Clip Studio to help with saturation and contrast. 
That’s mostly just for vivid colors. For my monochrome colors, I have a certain aesthetic I like to go for. When I think of monochrome, I think Film Noir. So I mostly have a golden tinge with my monochrome, as well as some Chromatic Aberration effects. I also add a light tv filter for that extra bonus.
Again, I keep a color set for the flats. I mostly shade with a light gray on multiply or linear burn for these. 
And then there’s just my black and white drawings, which dive more into hatch shading, maybe a bit of grey for color, and some patterned brushes for extra details. I did a lot of experimenting with this color method, mostly in order to understand lighting and depth without colors. A lot of my work was for my shorter Webtoons, and it helped me really understand the tone I wanted to make.
I’d say for this, I used a few of the Clip Studio pattern brushes for details, as well as downloaded brushes to do extra detailed hatch shading (though I mostly did my own).
In the end, I’d say all three of these methods overlapped with each other. I was able to take what I learned from all of them and apply them to other pieces. It’s really fun to look at my color style because it just changes so much over time XD
@Jenny-Toons
Your coloring style is actually one of the reasons I began to use Multiply layers for shading in my illustrations. 
I tend to use magenta though. Before that I always just did darker or lighter shades of the colors
I think there was a thread about coloring a year back, (maybe longer?) where you mentioned some of these tips before. I decided to try it out after that.
Ah shucks, thank you!
I think I remember doing a post on that! Figured it out through experimenting, and I've never looked back. Still do some shading with purple but mostly with clothes and mood lightning.
No problem. The forums have so many great artists here, I'd be a fool not to learn what I can from my peers. XD
I only use purple if magenta doesn't jive with my eyes.
I don't really have much of a process.
I have my flat colors. I have my black inking that eventually replaced shading in my comics. Altho if I do shading it's usually a multiply layer set to blue, occasionally with other multiply layers on top. I have my lighting effects layer (or layers)
Sometimes I put some color on top of the flats to make the characters fit the environment (like, with the jungle pages I'm doing now I put a sort of a dark blue on top of the flat colors, and with sunset it's sort of a pink)
I did notice that I sort of have a primary color for every topic or character I draw a lot. Most of my WoW art has a purple hue because the character I draw has a lot of purple in her design, although now it's mostly blue because the characters I draw now are mostly blue.
Experiments lead to innovation so I'm about it!! I feel you there, finding that balance of contrast and color is definitely work when you work with a literal colorful cast bc there isn't a one size fits all solution that works with all your characters, especially if you are working with a multitude of BIPOC characters. I started off picking one color for general shading color that I used for everyone, but as I don't use a strictly limited pallette for my comic or black and white it was jarring. I’ve learned a lot more since then about overlays and layer effects though and I’m aware of how much more control i’d have (and how easier it would be) if I stuck to a limited color selection, but cest la vie. You live and you learn. I do think for shorter side projects working in limited palettes is something I’d like to explore more for that reason of avoiding muddled colors and over thinking colors :V.
I love your journey of discovery when figuring out how you prefer to shade black skin!! not only that but the multitude of approaches you’ve discovered in order to bring your beautiful work to life with so much character! Thanks also foe sharing such detailed notes on how you work. It’s always insightful to see how other comic artist make their comics and art!
All the pics are lovely, I’m just extra feeling the black and white piece at the bottom with the hatching in the background making the darkness feel unsettling. Ohhhhhh ahhhh!!
I actually made a sort of a process for my usual art:
This is for my regular art and not comics, with comics I usually also have a ton of black inking, to the point I kinda replaced the shading \ multiply later with it.
I feel like we're opposites in this regard: you don't use pure black at all and I use a lot of it
Here are some examples of my fan art having primary colors:
My Skyrim fanart - this sort of bleak desaturated blue that comes from the sort of bleak environment
Ortheka (one of my WoW characters) - purple
Most of my SWTOR fanart + Bestia's Wrath - kind of an orange, although Bestia's Wrath goes to different environments that have their own colors
