Running into screen colour limitations for the first time and not sure what to do or think.
So I'm a very new artist, only made the transition from paper to digital about a month ago and I've just run into a confusing problem I had never heard of before.
I have two pc monitors and a Huion pen display which I draw on, and the drawing I just finished looks different on all of them. I read into it a bit and found out it's due to a thing called "colour accuracy". As you would expect, my pen display is very colour accurate. One of my monitors is also pretty good but on the other one my drawing looks a little choppy. Gradations look rather blocky and shadows that were supposed to be subtle are noticeably darker. My character looks like she's about to be sick because the skin shadows are darker than when I drew it on my pen display.
I'd like to post my art online but I'm a bit worried that for some people it'll look slightly or considerably worse. I'm obviously proud of my work so that scares me a little. So I guess my question is: what should I do? I can lighten the gradations a bit but that doesn't help the blockiness much. Is there some way to make my art more adaptable for all types of monitors? I tried exporting in many different ways but nothing helped.
As an aside, I've been looking at other artists' work with shading similar to mine and they don't have the blockiness on my monitor at all? Kind of makes me think there is some secret to it but idk. Anyway, thanks for any responses.
Posted Jun 4, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC
The color accuracy on a monitor is part pf its hardware makeup. The only thing you can do is change your color settings for the graphics display adapter/dedicated card. You can play with them until things look better. The truth is some monitors just have poor color accuracy and there isn't much you can do.
That doesn't mean your artwork won't appear good on other people's displays, especially if you render a high definition image. It's more down to the result of your personal monitor, not really what other people will see. It's really not an issue if it looks the way you intend on your main setup. It's never going to look the same on every single display, so you just kind of have to accept that. That doesn't speak to your skill.