Mhh, well it's more or less based on keeping relatively high saturation and moving around the color wheel as the value changes...lighter colors move towards yellow and darker ones towards violet. So a piece that is mostly blue will have aqua highlights and indigo shades, a piece that is mostly orange will have yellow highlights and carmine shades...etc.
Mostly i find it to be a pretty boring way to chose colors. they are guaranteed to be relatively pleasing and not much else.
Tutorial/examples/theory behind your colour choices, plx?! You and the other painters (also helm) that lurk around pixelation usually tend to have a fantastic eye for colours... Most likely gained through little more than tons of practice and experience., I know, but surely there are some tidbits of wisdom that are verbally transferrable! I, for one, would certainly appreciate hearing some of 'em!
(Edit because I don't feel like replying!)
I've read through the thread Jad mentions below a few times before (Even both outrageously long posts!) and it is useful like nothing else. This is why I ask for more theory behind colour choices from members that seem to shine with their colour choices. Also, if anyone has links to where helm did his talk of colour theory he mentions in the beginning of his enormous post, I'd like to see 'em!
