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ok iโ€™m flatting out a client illustration right now iโ€™m gonna try this

Gabrielle Drolet@gabrielledrolet.bsky.social

This is a technique Iโ€™ve used for years because of this one tweet from @sonnyross.bsky.social. Thank you Sonny for changing my life The book cover was designed by Talia Abramson at Penguin but they let me have a bit of a say over the colours. And I said boy do I have an ideaโ€ฆ.

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canโ€™t quote but btw elicia is 100% correct as to why it works. you can achieve the same effect by having a colour layer set to something like soft light (or whatever you prefer) on top of all your other layers. i do this on every single illustration i make (many MANY digital illustrators do this!)

I will mimic this technique digitally by making an overlay layer and filling it with one color and then lowering the opacity to help create harmony. I did it with all 4 of these to help color continuity

Same boat here. I have some upcoming ecommerce sites where we have color choices โ€” one site which currently uses a lot of earthy tones. Very curious how this can apply to that.