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Teal is a weird color for me because as much as I love how awesome it conveys shine and depth, it basically looks grey or silver to me. I know it's a combination of blue and green, but it just looks grey. So, every now and then, I really enjoy playing with it... and I find lots of long hair provides lots of opportunity to play with different shades and highlights of a color. So, here's a young woman with a whole bunch of teal hair, and this is probably my favorite mane out of all of the ones I've drawn.

Thank for taking a look, and any comments, critiques, or tips are welcome and appreciated!

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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.

Description

Teal is a weird color for me because as much as I love how awesome it conveys shine and depth, it basically looks grey or silver to me. I know it's a combination of blue and green, but it just looks grey. So, every now and then, I really enjoy playing with it... and I find lots of long hair provides lots of opportunity to play with different shades and highlights of a color. So, here's a young woman with a whole bunch of teal hair, and this is probably my favorite mane out of all of the ones I've drawn.

Thank for taking a look, and any comments, critiques, or tips are welcome and appreciated!

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Disclaimer: I’m red-green colorblind. Because of this, it’s difficult for me to tell similar shades/hues of different colors apart, and, therefore, I need to work with very limited palettes when I color pieces. For shading and highlights, I’ll start with a gray base and lighten or darken shades from there, and then add a color overlay (and, for some skin tones, attempt to add a blue overlay to make it less “hot”). I’ve often been told to be bolder in my highlighting and shading, and I’m trying to be so, but… sometimes it still seems pretty tame. I’m just saying this in case you mentioned I need to do that on a previous piece – I’m not ignoring you, and I appreciate the input. It’s just not very easy for me to implement confidently.