Anime Artist Lets the Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature Color Inside the Lines of His Neatly Detailed Line Artwork

Ely Bulnes • Writer and Editor

Dec 11, 2024 3:00 PM EST

Welcome, anime-lovers. When people learn how to draw, they rightfully focus first on sketching. They learn about perspective, body proportions, and shading. Only later do they start to think about color theory. Plenty of beginner artists make the mistake of thinking that coloring is somehow more intuitive and easier than drawing something realistically. In truth, getting the colors right in a piece of art is just as important as getting the proportions right. Your line art might be chef-kiss perfection, but if your color palette is off, it can make people never want to look at your art again.

The best teacher when it comes to color is nature. Sometimes, a dreary winter day and a flower-filled spring garden can both be the inspiration for a beautiful composition. Somehow the colors in the natural world seem to always work and complement each other. @kotetsu_of seems to realize this. So, instead of coloring their anime characters, they make cut-outs and let the beauty of the world around them fill in the lines, making mesmerizing compositions in the process.