100 Palettes Challenge // Palette #11 // The Fastest Kid Alive by @3ofpents

We've made it through the first decade!

Today's palette is from a Russian (I believe) ballet costume design from 1910.

I really did want to use this palette to work on some interesting color work! I really did! But I had to play around with it a little by setting each one as a background and seeing how the tones shifted on the rest of them, and as soon as I noticed that that dark yellow-orange read more as a flesh tone against the lighter orange? All I saw was Wally West as Kid Flash.

So fanart!

It's not as adventurous color-wise as I wanted it to be, but I'm proud of myself for considering the way the colors look layered on top of each other. I'm proud of myself for finding a reference photo of a sprinter that forced me to draw hands. And I also got to play around with some other brushes trying to find the right look for the speed blur.

Also, like, the Flashes especially have a look that really lends itself well to this minimalist style, which was a boon given the really limited palette. It also forced me to really take into consideration the shapes of the runner's muscles in the reference photo, and then how to alter them to make them look "right" without any outlines or shading. That right-most arm really gave me some trouble, I ended up having to redraw it a few times, but I'm really happy with how it all came out.