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CMYK is more accurate though in terms of what the primaries are (and CMYK is for physical pigments just like RYB.). It's just a slightly hue shifted version of RYB. You can't achieve cyan or magenta by mixing, but red is magenta shifted towards orange, and the RYB blue is cyan shifted towards purple. The yellow is fine though. The difference between using the rules of the two is more in terms of what pigments you buy though than in how you mix them.
@@aquabluerose7734 The color wheels are all basically based on how they treat black. In RYB black is the absence of color because it's based on how light interacts with the world (in RYB white is the combination of all colors). In RGB it's the opposite, because it is based on how physical paint combines. If you mix all of the colors together you get black, while white is the complete absence of color. CMYK black is a separate color (the K) that gets added into the other colors in order to create different hues and values. This is based on how printers handle color when you are printing out artwork. When you're painting, you're automatically using RGB colors because of the way the pigments interact when you apply them to the canvas. It's not based on the pigments you buy because they still follow the same rules of RGB color.
Yes, however it very much depends on the medium. Often when mixing, say, acrylic paint, using ryb will usually give you muddy secondary colors (especially compared to using cmy). It really depends on the scenario
To clarify a bit on the rgb/ryb/cmyk, NEVER use rgb for paint. Paint is color, and they mix backwards. While all all the colors mixed togeyher is white to rgb, because it's measuring the color of light, paint is measuring the color of objects we see like paints. Cmyk is the dots in old comics where they get printed out. Cmyk is the color scheme printers use to make colors, because it has a wider number of colors it can make compared to rgb or ryb. None of them are 'incorrect'but also not all of them are right for either medium either. Don't Use rgb with physical paints, or vice versa. Hope this helps ✨ EDIT: I am back and edited because this comic started to pick up in popularity and it was badly worded. Thank you for the corrections on cmyk! I'd recommend looking into the comments for a better explanation of cmyk :))
Thank you for posting this! I was scrolling the comments hoping someone had pointed this out. She kept saying CMYK is the "contemporary artists" wheel. Like there's some elitist group of artists out there that only use CMYK because they're too cool for RGB or something. CMYK is for print and the K is important because it stands for Key, and uses black. High quality printers have a separate cartridge for black and different values are achieved by adding black to to the mix of colors. IIRC most digital artists who create for print, still work in RGB and switch to CMYK at the end, so they can do any necessary adjustments before sending it off.
@@GamerWolvenna yeah, I loved the video but was really confused about why she called it that when cmyk coloring is older than rgb by decades, printing has happened long before digital art. It's anything but contemporary to me. I use it like every day for English assignments, it's hardly contemporary. Also like I said, you should never use it in traditional art because it isn't made for that and she said it like you can if you are some elite ultimate artist or something?? You just don't because paint can't do that lmao.
CYMKis also use for printer but not just for it, blue and red aren't actually primary colors, cyan and magenta are, RYB is a limited color palet that can't make every color that was used in traditional Art only because of limitations in the colours they could produce, CYM is a better system for traditional Art as it can make a wider range of colours.
Nah, man, cmy is the new and improved subtractive wheel method for painting. It is not just for printing anymore! You can now mix those splendid colors! You get more saturated mixes when you use this wheel. Have you ever mixed red and blue together and noticed the type of purple you end up with? It is kind of dull…maybe even oddly brownish. This is do to red being a color that nears yellow more than it nears blue. When you use magenta it is closer to blue, therefore you get a lovely purple that is vibrant. Still…if I am honest, I think there should be two parts for each primary. Red leans towards yellow-it is great to make orange-while magenta leans towards blue-great to make purple. With blue, you can get colors like…primary cyan for those brighter greens and ultramarine blue for those lovely duller greens. For yellow, primary is usually better for oranges while something like…cad primrose leans more towards greens.
@@mundaneal The weird thing about primary colors, is that anything we come up with is just a approximation, the real primary colors, that you would use to make any other are outside of human color range, but while CMY is not perfect it was the best system we come up with to mix the maximum amount of colors while using three primaries.
@i Ch3rry b0mb 🍒💣 ! Then happy drawing with muddy colors :D Yk, there's actually a reason for those to not be the primary colors. If you mix red and blue together to get a purple, you get a muddy think of hell. That's because red is a magenta, but with yellow pigment, and yellow has noting to do in a color supposed to be purple.
it seems like i instinctively already use some of these color schemes without noticing, its cool to know that my brain is actually not just pulling random colors from god knows where
2:40 red and cyan!! i just did art with these two colours, and i was kinda thinking they were complementary because of how cool they looked, but this makes so much more sense with the RBG colour wheel
I have obtained the forbidden art knowledge and have thus become stronger. Also, on a serious note, how do you make every pallette I hate look so good??? Like, the dark yellow and light purple, I thought that was gross and impossible to make look good. But then you showed the examples and they are beautiful! It's honestly impressive how good you are at utilizing your knowledge.
It's because "dark yellow" isn't really a thing. Lightness is intrinsic to yellow; you can't darken it without also desaturating it. Darken it enough and it stops being yellow and turns either green or brown. Same with orange. Once a color gets desaturated enough, it harmonizes with everything, just like white, grey, and black. That's why earth tones are also called neutrals.
They "go together" in the art because both are very muted colors. If two colors share the similar level of temperature or saturation you can make it work.
I've been thinking about getting into spray paint as an art medium for awhile now, and this has somehow made the concept less intimidating overall. Like I don't need a whole bunch of different colors to make something satisfying
My old art teacher used to show my class these videos all the time, and i could never let go of the amazing references to games/animes i liked, like Kirby and Link in the beginning. Recently, this came up in my recommended and i thought id stop by and share how much i enjoy your videos and creations. Have a wonderful holiday!
FINALLY! I've been trying to find good lessons on color theory, and all the ones I found were still beginner level color theory. I actually learned new things in this video!
one really cool color effect you can do with anything animated is take a polychromatic scheme, and adjust the brightness so all the values are exactly the same, then have each color cycle through the colors of the rainbow at the same offset from each other. It looks really freaking cool.
I've been using polychromatic scheme in my art this whole time (I'm into psychedelic/rainbow aesthetic), and it's just today years old that I found out about the term 💩. It makes me ashamed of my fine arts degree, but at the same time kind of proud cuz I've managed to pull off that color scheme pretty well, when you've claimed that it's the hardest to organize.
I picked a double split complementary color scheme for my first graphic design project in sophomore year of high school, I had seen a yt video on it some days before, my teacher proceeded to literally jump with joy when she asked what scheme I was using and I actually gave her an advanced answer. It wasn’t the greatest execution ever but for being like 15 and unfamiliar with the program, my (now published) self thinks is actually a pretty decent piece.
I worked in print, at a newspaper. It's interesting to watch how digital tools and better CMYK mechanisms in graphic software have led to much better print qualities. If you work with Lasers, RGB is thing that makes sense -- you add red light, green light to get yellow, add all 3 to get white -- called Light Additive; in print its CMYK, with K being black. Lasers build images out of darkness, while CMYK builds images on a (usually) white surface, so can be called Light Subtractive; when you put Cyan on white, you are subtracting all other colors from the light reflecting off the canvas. The ink in this case is actually a filter, filtering out other light
As an amateur artist who's been roughing it out and learning by myself for two years, I'm a bit embarrassed to say, it just feels like you've opened a whole new world up to me
I've been going into a deep dive into researching and learning how the color works digitally and traditionally, along with the hex code and various different color schemes, this videos helped me a lot consider the more advance color schemes are not as popular on the internet (especially the discordance color scheme, I have been to multiple websites and not one of them have mention this scheme), thank you for this video!
i was interested because of the thumbnail for this, then realized "but wait, I use the polychromatic scheme basically for everything"... and actually, I basically use that and the discordance theme most often. Thanks for this! I never knew what they were called but I do now!
I have my dad's color wheels, handwritten anatomy notes and sketches, shading, perspective, etc... All from when he went to commercial art school back in the early fifties! I cherish that stuff, he passed in 2011. I was born right before his 57th birthday 😲💗
My high school art teacher always told us to use the complementary color scheme for EVERYTHING. I didn't even know there were other color schemes until I found this channel
It depends on what HUE. I aswell use purple, though I advise to stay away from warmer tones. Warmer fuchsias or grape colors fit pink, dark clothes but nothing bright and cheery!
I used Polychromatic color schemes all the time, never realized it's not a common scheme. It's just naturally what my eye enjoys and uses. You learn something new everyday!
my graphic design teacher is actually so bad at explaining color theory and color schemes 😭 thank you for making this- you’re made my life so much easier
If you do a lot of color mixing & don’t do digital art, RYB is a good basis to keep in mind* ESPECIALLY when you’re creating your own paint from scratch via non-synthetic items for pigment.** magenta= mix certain ratio of red to a certain ratio of blue (or certain purples - which is already comprised of red & blue - mixed with certain reds) cyan=equal amounts of blue+equal amount of green to create teal, you lighten the teal with either yellow or white to get to cyan. The type of green & blue you used will determine if yellow or white will be more efficient. Experiment a lot, to help you acquire a practical grasp of your chosen medium’s limitations and difficulties when it comes to color. **If you’re making your own paint, the binder can also affect your color’s final look.
Wasnt here for the premiere but little notes: think of split complementary as a pizza 🍕,, and i dont know if this was added but polychromatic and tetriadic Edit; double split comp. is like the mix of (split) comp., analogous and tetriadic
No - RGB is a digital color wheel. RBY is pigment based. One's not "contemporary" and the other's "outdated," it's specific to your medium. You're a digital artist, therefore you're concerned with the primary _pixle_ colors (RGB). However, people who use pigment-based mediums (there are a TON of painters still out there) use the RBY color wheel because red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors that do not have other colors in them. You can't mix two or more colors together and get red, yellow, or blue. When you're using pigments, that's important because you want to know what your base colors are, and mix from there. Green, on the other hand, is a combination of yellow and blue, and therefore not a true primary in pigment based mediums. This is important because there's no amount of mixing of blue and red that you can do to get yellow, and therefore you can't get green, either. An RGB primary color wheel is impossible with physical mediums.
hi. im new here. im a horrible artist who teaches myself skillz through mistakes, experience, and youtube!!! and you, are the best channel for this kind of thing. i have NEVER HEARD OF THESE BEFORE. thank you SO SO MUCH
I've watched alot of tutorial things on RUclips and I have to thank you so so much for getting to the damn point immediately and not harassing me with 3minute intro filler, fabulous creator!
Hi, I don’t know if you have already tried, but procreate can help you find complementary colors with a bunch of different setting! You can choose from complementary, triadic, tetradic, split complementary, and analogous! They show you with an opposite on the other side of the wheel.
I mean yeah...But traditional artists and artists using computers also exist! We don't all have these tools, really. And even if so, using Adone's color scheme creator CAN work, but it'd be stupid to completely depend on the website.
"Usually in concept art it'll be complimentary and usually it will be like a red-cyan or yellow-blue situation" I feel called out And as someone who's self taught and knows a lot of self taught artists, the fascinating thing is a lot of us fell into even some of these more complicated color schemes quite naturally because we learned to notice what things work well together and what doesn't as part of our personal education journeys. People like things that look nice
this actually made colour theory really fun and simple!! it's easy to follow and engaging, i've always struggled with picking colours but this seems like it'll be really useful :) glad i came across it!
Thanks for this. I'm no artist, so color schemes are pretty new concepts to me. But it seems like there's some contention on RGB vs CMYK vs RYB, and I do know a thing or two about that (from a hard science perspective). So RGB is additive, while CMYK and RYB are subtractive. They're three different things that are used in different applications. RYB may be outdated in digital art (I'm no expert in art), but from a practical perspective, the three are mutually exclusive, and nothing makes RYB less important. The RGB colors carry luminance (not sure if this is the correct word for this), which provides light (rgb can illuminate a dark room). If you have a given color, and you mix in another color, you're adding light. When you add RGB together in even proportions, you will get some form of grayscale/white (essentially the same). Since RGB adds light, no amount of addition will get you black. You start with black and ADD to it. CMYK seems to be most common in printing.. And with CMYK, you start with set base color (whatever you're printing on) that provides all the lightness (not light) you have to work with. This base is seen through the translucent inks that subtract from it. So as you mix, you theoretically end up with black. The ink itself doesn't include any white/luminance. When you print with CMYK, you can can never end up with a color lighter than the surface you're printing on. For paints (the opaque ones like acrylics.. Not translucent like water colors), any given color is made starting with a white base, which provides lightness. The pigments are then mixed in, subtractibg from the base white color. Because each color of paint includes some amount of white (the base) no amount of paint mixing will give you black. Because these paints are opaque and carry with them a white base that provides lightness, you can get a color that's lighter than whatever it is you're painting on. So for some examples, RGB is like combining colored flashlights, CMYK is like stacking colored transparencies, and RYB is like mixing colored sand. I hope this helps someone.
I like this video a lot, but that being said, I would describe the RYB vs RGB color wheels as being "Light Additive" vs "Light Subtractive" instead of "outdated" vs "modern" because it simply isn't true. Pigment and Pixel are different because of physics, one is useful for this kind of art, the other is much better for other kinds of art. One is not outdated.
Idk if it's just in the Philippines but in grade seven they teach you stitching, Color palette's, Colour palette Recycling ( art project that you need to pick a pallet and get items that goes with the pallet and turn it to recycling art piece) all in one Quarter :) Absolutely fun!
Thank you for giving specific and general examples! I've known about color schemes but when I go to actually pic them out I never know how to choose! I understand the atmosphere they create better now
There is no contemporary or modern color wheel. The three color wheels are based on different things. The RYB wheel comes from the way light reflects color. In RYB adding all colors together gives you pure white because that's how light works. The RGB wheel comes from the way artists mix paint. Adding together all pigments gives you black, while white is the absence of all color. The CMYK wheel comes from the way printers print color. Printers struggle to create tonal variation with just three colors, so they have a fourth color called "Key." Which is pure black. Printers add black into other colors to create darker values and add less black for lighter values. You only ever use CMYK if you're sending a digital painting off for print, and even then you'll probably work in RGB first and switch at the end. It's important to understand why each of the color wheels. None of them are outdated and none of them are more correct than the others. They all have different uses.
@@GamerWolvenna by using RYB you are limiting the range of colours you can have, it is based on outdated colour theory, red and blue are not primary colours, magenta and cyan are, you can't make magenta and cyan. with RYB, but you can make red and blue with CMY.
I watched this last night and did some painting today using these methods and just came back to say thank you so much. It helped me open my mind again to techniques and colours, and used colours in a way I wouldn't of previously. I think that's really important in art to step out of your comfort zone. So thank you so much 🖤🖤🖤🖤
as a colorblind """artist""" I put a lot of time in understanding colors and this video is very helpful. I can't really rely on my eyes to choose colors and using the schemes and color combination with some thought to it might make my art better (it's better to use already existing combinations than making my own at my stage of learning). I do believe that color can be the most important thing in the art since it can tell almost everything about the character and the mood. Making characters in a specific color scheme can make them feel like they belong in the same art and thats why I put a lot of time to learn and choose colors
I normally hate watching/listening to long stuff like this, but for some reason i enjoyed listening to this one its really fun, i could watch it for hours and probably not even get bored
You explained discordant colour schemes better than my prof did - she said "it's basically just any colours you want!" So confusing. Thanks for this :))
This is so helpful for **both** my personal art exploration and my A level graphic design! I think I’m predicted an A* and I really want to live up to it - i love technical stuff like this. It feels like there’s so much more technical stuff people don’t talk about with the composition and colouring of designs. Will be coming back to this video for future!!
Good video, title doesn't lie I didn't know about those last color schemes! Though, the mic quality is too low not to notice... there are sentences that I straight up didn't hear
you literally taught me about the color wheel and the 4 basic schemes in less than 3 minutes as compared to my current digital art teacher who taught us this in a total of around 4 hours (2 separate days)
I could never lol. I have a lot of respect for artists who use cmy and don’t go around acting like it’s the “correct” colour wheel. I’ve been able to make beautiful and incredibly accurate colours using ryb because that’s just the easiest way for my stupid brain to process colour. I also just, don’t like bright colours.
I enjoy seeing that the video's title has color/colour spelt in the British variation while the Thumbnail has the American take. Great video by the way teaches pretty much everything you need in one video about color schemes 💯
IM JOINING YOU PATRON NEXT MOOOONTH!!!!! I’ve been making art for a very long time before I don’t consider myself an artist because I don’t practice often. I alway want to learn more! You make it sound so exciting and I’d love to be a part of your community 🥰♥️
When I saw the color scheme chosen for the double split complementary scheme I kind of flipped out because those are the colors on the sunset aroace flag, and that explains why I love it so much!
When referring to the color wheels, my brother and I use “light” and “dye” to distinguish between them, because in terms of dyes and physical pigments, red yellow and blue are still primary colors, so I wouldn’t think that the dyes (RYB) color wheel is outdated or “not modern,” it’s just not applicable to digital art references like the light (RGB) color wheel
My art teacher actually talked to me about RGB/RYB once and I looked into it more after that. It's true that RGB/CMYK are the physical ways that color is combined in a technically balanced way, but RYB works not just because it's traditional, we also like psychologically find more harmony in those complements.
This is actually quite helpful. I am not an artist. Just a frontend dev. Dealing with colors is not something I have been taught. So this was quite insightful.
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Thanks for this video! It’s super helpful ^^
wait achromatic isn't part of monochromatic?
I've only really done gray scale art, but after watching this video I've felt okay trying colors and it's come out amazingly. Thank you so much!!!
Watching her videos feel like a free Art lesson from an actually good teacher
Lol yessss
AGREED!
agreed this has made my art a lot better :))
Yea but like the discordance just really felt like a math lesson but actually fun like-
Hmph
RYB isn't *outdated* when you're still working with physical pigments and I think that's an important note.
CMYK is more accurate though in terms of what the primaries are (and CMYK is for physical pigments just like RYB.). It's just a slightly hue shifted version of RYB. You can't achieve cyan or magenta by mixing, but red is magenta shifted towards orange, and the RYB blue is cyan shifted towards purple. The yellow is fine though. The difference between using the rules of the two is more in terms of what pigments you buy though than in how you mix them.
@@aquabluerose7734 The color wheels are all basically based on how they treat black. In RYB black is the absence of color because it's based on how light interacts with the world (in RYB white is the combination of all colors). In RGB it's the opposite, because it is based on how physical paint combines. If you mix all of the colors together you get black, while white is the complete absence of color. CMYK black is a separate color (the K) that gets added into the other colors in order to create different hues and values. This is based on how printers handle color when you are printing out artwork.
When you're painting, you're automatically using RGB colors because of the way the pigments interact when you apply them to the canvas. It's not based on the pigments you buy because they still follow the same rules of RGB color.
I was going to add that... It is weird to say that now if you mix green and red you'll get yellow out of it...
@@aylenvillarreal5439 If you mix red and green paint you get brown, which is, at least on an RGB scale, just a dark yellow/orange.
Yes, however it very much depends on the medium. Often when mixing, say, acrylic paint, using ryb will usually give you muddy secondary colors (especially compared to using cmy). It really depends on the scenario
To clarify a bit on the rgb/ryb/cmyk, NEVER use rgb for paint. Paint is color, and they mix backwards. While all all the colors mixed togeyher is white to rgb, because it's measuring the color of light, paint is measuring the color of objects we see like paints. Cmyk is the dots in old comics where they get printed out. Cmyk is the color scheme printers use to make colors, because it has a wider number of colors it can make compared to rgb or ryb.
None of them are 'incorrect'but also not all of them are right for either medium either. Don't Use rgb with physical paints, or vice versa.
Hope this helps ✨
EDIT: I am back and edited because this comic started to pick up in popularity and it was badly worded. Thank you for the corrections on cmyk! I'd recommend looking into the comments for a better explanation of cmyk :))
Thank you for posting this! I was scrolling the comments hoping someone had pointed this out. She kept saying CMYK is the "contemporary artists" wheel. Like there's some elitist group of artists out there that only use CMYK because they're too cool for RGB or something. CMYK is for print and the K is important because it stands for Key, and uses black. High quality printers have a separate cartridge for black and different values are achieved by adding black to to the mix of colors. IIRC most digital artists who create for print, still work in RGB and switch to CMYK at the end, so they can do any necessary adjustments before sending it off.
@@GamerWolvenna yeah, I loved the video but was really confused about why she called it that when cmyk coloring is older than rgb by decades, printing has happened long before digital art. It's anything but contemporary to me. I use it like every day for English assignments, it's hardly contemporary. Also like I said, you should never use it in traditional art because it isn't made for that and she said it like you can if you are some elite ultimate artist or something?? You just don't because paint can't do that lmao.
CYMKis also use for printer but not just for it, blue and red aren't actually primary colors, cyan and magenta are, RYB is a limited color palet that can't make every color that was used in traditional Art only because of limitations in the colours they could produce, CYM is a better system for traditional Art as it can make a wider range of colours.
Nah, man, cmy is the new and improved subtractive wheel method for painting. It is not just for printing anymore! You can now mix those splendid colors! You get more saturated mixes when you use this wheel. Have you ever mixed red and blue together and noticed the type of purple you end up with? It is kind of dull…maybe even oddly brownish. This is do to red being a color that nears yellow more than it nears blue. When you use magenta it is closer to blue, therefore you get a lovely purple that is vibrant.
Still…if I am honest, I think there should be two parts for each primary. Red leans towards yellow-it is great to make orange-while magenta leans towards blue-great to make purple. With blue, you can get colors like…primary cyan for those brighter greens and ultramarine blue for those lovely duller greens. For yellow, primary is usually better for oranges while something like…cad primrose leans more towards greens.
@@mundaneal The weird thing about primary colors, is that anything we come up with is just a approximation, the real primary colors, that you would use to make any other are outside of human color range, but while CMY is not perfect it was the best system we come up with to mix the maximum amount of colors while using three primaries.
I love monochromatic landscapes, those look so cool
OMG you just made a perfect rule for primary colors at 2:00
'Red, yellow, blue, that's not true'
That's a good way to remember!
yellow cyan magenta that is correcta💀
@@katzagain2580 lmao I’d use this
@i Ch3rry b0mb 🍒💣 ! Then happy drawing with muddy colors :D
Yk, there's actually a reason for those to not be the primary colors. If you mix red and blue together to get a purple, you get a muddy think of hell. That's because red is a magenta, but with yellow pigment, and yellow has noting to do in a color supposed to be purple.
@i Ch3rry b0mb 🍒💣 ! yes praise kidcore
Blue and orange is my favorite color scheme and i use it on my main oc that i draw and i'm very proud of it
Green and orange are my favs
T i d e P o d
I dont mainly use blue and orange but it looks very beautiful
Ayo same but somehow my orange look like brown and orange at the same time💀
Ok but blue, orange, and red-orange
it seems like i instinctively already use some of these color schemes without noticing, its cool to know that my brain is actually not just pulling random colors from god knows where
Yea I was kinda relieved too, always doubted myself coz I never really studied art
Same, I always felt like I was just vomiting color wherever but turns out I've just been using polychromatic color schemes lmao
2:40 red and cyan!! i just did art with these two colours, and i was kinda thinking they were complementary because of how cool they looked, but this makes so much more sense with the RBG colour wheel
I have obtained the forbidden art knowledge and have thus become stronger.
Also, on a serious note, how do you make every pallette I hate look so good??? Like, the dark yellow and light purple, I thought that was gross and impossible to make look good. But then you showed the examples and they are beautiful! It's honestly impressive how good you are at utilizing your knowledge.
It's because "dark yellow" isn't really a thing. Lightness is intrinsic to yellow; you can't darken it without also desaturating it. Darken it enough and it stops being yellow and turns either green or brown. Same with orange. Once a color gets desaturated enough, it harmonizes with everything, just like white, grey, and black. That's why earth tones are also called neutrals.
@@pendlera2959 yooo that's kind of cool, thanks
@@pendlera2959 very cool
Yeah-I know huh, but that lavender olive combination should be like the new camouflage combo. I liked it too.
They "go together" in the art because both are very muted colors. If two colors share the similar level of temperature or saturation you can make it work.
It's not out yet but I would love to see this! I will help improve my digital art! ^^
Same here
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Yo yo yo it’s out now
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Tysm! I have not been super happy with how my art has been turning out lately because I struggle with color. This video will really help!
I've been thinking about getting into spray paint as an art medium for awhile now, and this has somehow made the concept less intimidating overall. Like I don't need a whole bunch of different colors to make something satisfying
Learn how to handle an air brush gun. It can lead to work painting art onto cars.
My old art teacher used to show my class these videos all the time, and i could never let go of the amazing references to games/animes i liked, like Kirby and Link in the beginning.
Recently, this came up in my recommended and i thought id stop by and share how much i enjoy your videos and creations. Have a wonderful holiday!
FINALLY! I've been trying to find good lessons on color theory, and all the ones I found were still beginner level color theory. I actually learned new things in this video!
When you pulled up that Arowana fish image I got excited because I've drawn that fish before. I think with the same reference image.
one really cool color effect you can do with anything animated is take a polychromatic scheme, and adjust the brightness so all the values are exactly the same, then have each color cycle through the colors of the rainbow at the same offset from each other. It looks really freaking cool.
I've been using polychromatic scheme in my art this whole time (I'm into psychedelic/rainbow aesthetic), and it's just today years old that I found out about the term 💩. It makes me ashamed of my fine arts degree, but at the same time kind of proud cuz I've managed to pull off that color scheme pretty well, when you've claimed that it's the hardest to organize.
I picked a double split complementary color scheme for my first graphic design project in sophomore year of high school, I had seen a yt video on it some days before, my teacher proceeded to literally jump with joy when she asked what scheme I was using and I actually gave her an advanced answer. It wasn’t the greatest execution ever but for being like 15 and unfamiliar with the program, my (now published) self thinks is actually a pretty decent piece.
I worked in print, at a newspaper. It's interesting to watch how digital tools and better CMYK mechanisms in graphic software have led to much better print qualities. If you work with Lasers, RGB is thing that makes sense -- you add red light, green light to get yellow, add all 3 to get white -- called Light Additive; in print its CMYK, with K being black. Lasers build images out of darkness, while CMYK builds images on a (usually) white surface, so can be called Light Subtractive; when you put Cyan on white, you are subtracting all other colors from the light reflecting off the canvas. The ink in this case is actually a filter, filtering out other light
“Your value strength is how strong it is with its values” good to know thank yoo
As an amateur artist who's been roughing it out and learning by myself for two years, I'm a bit embarrassed to say, it just feels like you've opened a whole new world up to me
Yeah lol. I'm not even amateur and I didn't know half of this stuff...
I'm not too terrible with colour combinations but this will be helpful
I've been going into a deep dive into researching and learning how the color works digitally and traditionally, along with the hex code and various different color schemes, this videos helped me a lot consider the more advance color schemes are not as popular on the internet (especially the discordance color scheme, I have been to multiple websites and not one of them have mention this scheme), thank you for this video!
that was so quick and efficient wtf??? I LOVE IT THANK YOU
i was interested because of the thumbnail for this, then realized "but wait, I use the polychromatic scheme basically for everything"... and actually, I basically use that and the discordance theme most often.
Thanks for this! I never knew what they were called but I do now!
I have my dad's color wheels, handwritten anatomy notes and sketches, shading, perspective, etc... All from when he went to commercial art school back in the early fifties! I cherish that stuff, he passed in 2011. I was born right before his 57th birthday 😲💗
omg perfect for my terrible colour decisions!
My high school art teacher always told us to use the complementary color scheme for EVERYTHING. I didn't even know there were other color schemes until I found this channel
I too enjoy red and cyan
It’s crazy how you fitted a whole unit in 10 mins and 50 seconds and in such a simple way too
I use purple for shading and I’m a bit skeptical about it especially after watching this video lol
It depends on what HUE. I aswell use purple, though I advise to stay away from warmer tones. Warmer fuchsias or grape colors fit pink, dark clothes but nothing bright and cheery!
From what I heard, shading is generally done with complementary colors so if you're using purple to shade it means you're light would be yellowish
being a game developer and loving double split feels awesome tbh
I used Polychromatic color schemes all the time, never realized it's not a common scheme. It's just naturally what my eye enjoys and uses. You learn something new everyday!
my graphic design teacher is actually so bad at explaining color theory and color schemes 😭
thank you for making this- you’re made my life so much easier
Happy to help!
If you do a lot of color mixing & don’t do digital art, RYB is a good basis to keep in mind* ESPECIALLY when you’re creating your own paint from scratch via non-synthetic items for pigment.**
magenta= mix certain ratio of red to a certain ratio of blue (or certain purples - which is already comprised of red & blue - mixed with certain reds)
cyan=equal amounts of blue+equal amount of green to create teal, you lighten the teal with either yellow or white to get to cyan. The type of green & blue you used will determine if yellow or white will be more efficient.
Experiment a lot, to help you acquire a practical grasp of your chosen medium’s limitations and difficulties when it comes to color.
**If you’re making your own paint, the binder can also affect your color’s final look.
Thank you! This is very helpful, I did get kinda confused with these before.
Wasnt here for the premiere but little notes: think of split complementary as a pizza 🍕,, and i dont know if this was added but polychromatic and tetriadic
Edit; double split comp. is like the mix of (split) comp., analogous and tetriadic
since i dont wanna bombard my comment, i mean more rectangular than tetriadic,, tetriadic = square,,
Thank you so much! I was literally giddy listening to this. I thought I knew color but this proves how much I didn't know. And now I do!
No - RGB is a digital color wheel. RBY is pigment based. One's not "contemporary" and the other's "outdated," it's specific to your medium. You're a digital artist, therefore you're concerned with the primary _pixle_ colors (RGB). However, people who use pigment-based mediums (there are a TON of painters still out there) use the RBY color wheel because red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors that do not have other colors in them. You can't mix two or more colors together and get red, yellow, or blue. When you're using pigments, that's important because you want to know what your base colors are, and mix from there. Green, on the other hand, is a combination of yellow and blue, and therefore not a true primary in pigment based mediums. This is important because there's no amount of mixing of blue and red that you can do to get yellow, and therefore you can't get green, either. An RGB primary color wheel is impossible with physical mediums.
hi. im new here. im a horrible artist who teaches myself skillz through mistakes, experience, and youtube!!! and you, are the best channel for this kind of thing. i have NEVER HEARD OF THESE BEFORE. thank you SO SO MUCH
This video made me realize i use double split complimentary palettes almost all the time, cant wait to try some of these other palettes!
Same here, I didn’t know the name for it either. I always try to do split complementary but end up doing double split because it just works
I've watched alot of tutorial things on RUclips and I have to thank you so so much for getting to the damn point immediately and not harassing me with 3minute intro filler, fabulous creator!
Hi, I don’t know if you have already tried, but procreate can help you find complementary colors with a bunch of different setting! You can choose from complementary, triadic, tetradic, split complementary, and analogous! They show you with an opposite on the other side of the wheel.
I mean yeah...But traditional artists and artists using computers also exist! We don't all have these tools, really. And even if so, using Adone's color scheme creator CAN work, but it'd be stupid to completely depend on the website.
@@FainthedCherry I know, I was just saying it was cool…
@@StarPlatinum7912 It is, no doubt! But keep in mind more than procreate artists exist ofc. : D
@@FainthedCherry I know, just wanted to give a tip to the people that use it! :P
"Usually in concept art it'll be complimentary and usually it will be like a red-cyan or yellow-blue situation" I feel called out
And as someone who's self taught and knows a lot of self taught artists, the fascinating thing is a lot of us fell into even some of these more complicated color schemes quite naturally because we learned to notice what things work well together and what doesn't as part of our personal education journeys. People like things that look nice
this actually made colour theory really fun and simple!! it's easy to follow and engaging, i've always struggled with picking colours but this seems like it'll be really useful :) glad i came across it!
I love how quickly you speak, it really helps me on not getting distracted
As someone who works with webdesign, good colour palettes are a necessity. Thanks!
This was really helpful, i always thought Monochromatic was black and white/greyscale, awesome video!
I appreciate the not just dumping on the traditional color wheel, it has its spot. XD ye ye this a lovely video E>
Thanks for this. I'm no artist, so color schemes are pretty new concepts to me. But it seems like there's some contention on RGB vs CMYK vs RYB, and I do know a thing or two about that (from a hard science perspective).
So RGB is additive, while CMYK and RYB are subtractive. They're three different things that are used in different applications. RYB may be outdated in digital art (I'm no expert in art), but from a practical perspective, the three are mutually exclusive, and nothing makes RYB less important.
The RGB colors carry luminance (not sure if this is the correct word for this), which provides light (rgb can illuminate a dark room). If you have a given color, and you mix in another color, you're adding light. When you add RGB together in even proportions, you will get some form of grayscale/white (essentially the same). Since RGB adds light, no amount of addition will get you black. You start with black and ADD to it.
CMYK seems to be most common in printing.. And with CMYK, you start with set base color (whatever you're printing on) that provides all the lightness (not light) you have to work with. This base is seen through the translucent inks that subtract from it. So as you mix, you theoretically end up with black. The ink itself doesn't include any white/luminance. When you print with CMYK, you can can never end up with a color lighter than the surface you're printing on.
For paints (the opaque ones like acrylics.. Not translucent like water colors), any given color is made starting with a white base, which provides lightness. The pigments are then mixed in, subtractibg from the base white color. Because each color of paint includes some amount of white (the base) no amount of paint mixing will give you black. Because these paints are opaque and carry with them a white base that provides lightness, you can get a color that's lighter than whatever it is you're painting on.
So for some examples, RGB is like combining colored flashlights, CMYK is like stacking colored transparencies, and RYB is like mixing colored sand.
I hope this helps someone.
Me: I know color theory pretty well
Me during the videos: OOOOH! I didn't know color theory
I love how you dont just explain what they are, but also what effect they have and where we see them
I've heard about all of them, just didnt know how they were called. Thank you for the video!
I'm so glad to find another red+cyan complimentary appreciator ♡♡ that's always been my favorite complimentary set
Im so exited for this one it’ll really help me out!
Thank you for this vid. Thank you for showing examples! Very much appreciated.
I like this video a lot, but that being said, I would describe the RYB vs RGB color wheels as being "Light Additive" vs "Light Subtractive" instead of "outdated" vs "modern" because it simply isn't true. Pigment and Pixel are different because of physics, one is useful for this kind of art, the other is much better for other kinds of art. One is not outdated.
Idk if it's just in the Philippines but in grade seven they teach you stitching, Color palette's, Colour palette Recycling ( art project that you need to pick a pallet and get items that goes with the pallet and turn it to recycling art piece) all in one Quarter :) Absolutely fun!
my teacher taking months to explain, winged canvas just using 10 minutes 💀💀💀
Thank you for giving specific and general examples! I've known about color schemes but when I go to actually pic them out I never know how to choose! I understand the atmosphere they create better now
Dang, my teachers have taught me color theory like 5 times and they never told me about the contemporary and modern color wheels. I feel cheated lol
Ngl i like the outdated ones and i use rgb for tech/glitch themed ocs
My teacher didn’t teach me anything
There is no contemporary or modern color wheel. The three color wheels are based on different things. The RYB wheel comes from the way light reflects color. In RYB adding all colors together gives you pure white because that's how light works. The RGB wheel comes from the way artists mix paint. Adding together all pigments gives you black, while white is the absence of all color. The CMYK wheel comes from the way printers print color. Printers struggle to create tonal variation with just three colors, so they have a fourth color called "Key." Which is pure black. Printers add black into other colors to create darker values and add less black for lighter values. You only ever use CMYK if you're sending a digital painting off for print, and even then you'll probably work in RGB first and switch at the end.
It's important to understand why each of the color wheels. None of them are outdated and none of them are more correct than the others. They all have different uses.
@@GamerWolvenna by using RYB you are limiting the range of colours you can have, it is based on outdated colour theory, red and blue are not primary colours, magenta and cyan are, you can't make magenta and cyan. with RYB, but you can make red and blue with CMY.
@@eztak. isn’t cyan blue + green together? or am I just being dumb
Thank you for sharing this tidbit. You don’t know how much this helps.
oh whattt this is rlly helpful!!!! definitely don't regret subscribing :D
I watched this last night and did some painting today using these methods and just came back to say thank you so much. It helped me open my mind again to techniques and colours, and used colours in a way I wouldn't of previously.
I think that's really important in art to step out of your comfort zone. So thank you so much 🖤🖤🖤🖤
I'm thinking about making a discordant color scheme with black and white, like, bright black and dark white
Bright black.. and _dark white..?_ *how-*
wait
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so grey??-
what 😭
I am learning wayyyy more through your channel than I do in school art classes, and every time i‘m like : ‚for free?!‘
ikr? i’m glad i came across this channel because it’s insanely helpful.
Oof I really need this 💀 I’m extremely upset with my past self for not finding this channel sooner
(Edit: NOOOO I’M SO STUPID I MISSED THE STREAM 💀)
Don't be! You'll learn lots in the future and thats what matters
as a colorblind """artist""" I put a lot of time in understanding colors and this video is very helpful. I can't really rely on my eyes to choose colors and using the schemes and color combination with some thought to it might make my art better (it's better to use already existing combinations than making my own at my stage of learning). I do believe that color can be the most important thing in the art since it can tell almost everything about the character and the mood. Making characters in a specific color scheme can make them feel like they belong in the same art and thats why I put a lot of time to learn and choose colors
I normally hate watching/listening to long stuff like this, but for some reason i enjoyed listening to this one its really fun, i could watch it for hours and probably not even get bored
You explained discordant colour schemes better than my prof did - she said "it's basically just any colours you want!" So confusing. Thanks for this :))
I really enjoyed watching this video, and used a good chunk of them while designing today. It came out super nice! Thanks for the video :)
As someone who has NEVER understood color theory... your videos finally made it click. Thank you so much
these are crazy useful informations, thanks a lot
This is so helpful for **both** my personal art exploration and my A level graphic design! I think I’m predicted an A* and I really want to live up to it - i love technical stuff like this. It feels like there’s so much more technical stuff people don’t talk about with the composition and colouring of designs. Will be coming back to this video for future!!
Tip: on Procreate, the Harmony color chooser helps you with color schemes.
10:25 i love how link is being drawn while it says " *Link* in description"
I don't even draw but I found this very interesting
Good video, title doesn't lie I didn't know about those last color schemes!
Though, the mic quality is too low not to notice... there are sentences that I straight up didn't hear
i'm watching this knowing i'll remember nothing about this video in 2 minutes
you literally taught me about the color wheel and the 4 basic schemes in less than 3 minutes as compared to my current digital art teacher who taught us this in a total of around 4 hours (2 separate days)
I think i discorded my blue (i used the outdated technique and i think a darker blue hair would be nice so-)
No no, I’m with you. That red and cyan combo is preetttyy.
Personally, I use CMY color wheel. I find it way more appealing when making orange and purple
I could never lol. I have a lot of respect for artists who use cmy and don’t go around acting like it’s the “correct” colour wheel. I’ve been able to make beautiful and incredibly accurate colours using ryb because that’s just the easiest way for my stupid brain to process colour. I also just, don’t like bright colours.
I enjoy seeing that the video's title has color/colour spelt in the British variation while the Thumbnail has the American take. Great video by the way teaches pretty much everything you need in one video about color schemes 💯
Don't you just love when a random girl on RUclips explains stuff better than the school you are paying for
IM JOINING YOU PATRON NEXT MOOOONTH!!!!! I’ve been making art for a very long time before I don’t consider myself an artist because I don’t practice often. I alway want to learn more! You make it sound so exciting and I’d love to be a part of your community 🥰♥️
I think I’ve used some of these unconsciously
I was so happy to hear you say you like red and cyan!! Red and blue is my favorite color combo
I think I do well with my colors, but this will be really helpful:)
No one has ever explained color theory to me in a way that made this much sense before. Thank you for teaching us and making this content 🙏
When I saw the color scheme chosen for the double split complementary scheme I kind of flipped out because those are the colors on the sunset aroace flag, and that explains why I love it so much!
it literally feels like a class because of the sound quality, it sounds like a teams meeting 😹 I love the vibe!
When referring to the color wheels, my brother and I use “light” and “dye” to distinguish between them, because in terms of dyes and physical pigments, red yellow and blue are still primary colors, so I wouldn’t think that the dyes (RYB) color wheel is outdated or “not modern,” it’s just not applicable to digital art references like the light (RGB) color wheel
The color wheel thing made so much sense to me. Explained what makes digital art feels "too bright" to me. I'm not a visual artist.
My art teacher actually talked to me about RGB/RYB once and I looked into it more after that. It's true that RGB/CMYK are the physical ways that color is combined in a technically balanced way, but RYB works not just because it's traditional, we also like psychologically find more harmony in those complements.
This is actually quite helpful. I am not an artist. Just a frontend dev. Dealing with colors is not something I have been taught. So this was quite insightful.
Wow
This was so much like learning from an art teacher, i even took notes in my sketchbook 🥲
same!
SO I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE LMAO
It feels like a really nice teacher is teaching you art!