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Contrast studies

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Another thing I did giving myself a challenge that I am not allowed to use the colors I can plainly see in front of me, because doing that, I would usually get pastel colors which is apparently a bad habit.

I want to hate myself for this, but this completely changed me to be better at colors.

However, I learned that low contrast isn't always bad. You need badly contrasting colors to be able to pull off dark colors e.g. horror settings. Otherwise, you'll be stuck with pastels if your mindset is stubbornly stuck at well-contrasting colors (e.g. your resulting palette will be extremely sparse with darks) and something will be missing if you attempt to mimic low lighting.

15 colors. Was a pain in the ass dealing with varying amounts of contrast with only 15 colors.

Ref: Art Nudes - C 12 by mjranum-stock

I would have not used this otherwise if I never got over a stupid nitpick that this is a very commonly used stock and that your art loses originality. Fuck that, I need to practice.
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YO THAT IS SO GOOD