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Published: 2008-11-05 19:04:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 1233; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 71
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** download for full viewthis was from my design class. damn good class it was.
anyway, i made the design and then used it over and over again for the color system. (mostly markers with some sharpie)
this i show to you now in hope that it may help.
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Lesya, I know still have long way to go, but my god you have taught me so much. This is a perfect example of things I reference. One day I will show you how much your inspiration has meant to me! I promise!
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Sure does help! Makes the theory practical! It's easier to visualise the info this way.
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hmm... i like he effect of the split-complementary and the analogous... and i like the monochromatic ones...
i should try it myself
thanks for posting!
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If only my feeble mind could wrap around the concepts... to me they are but mere colors laid in design, each complimenting themselves in their own ways.
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well i think its easier to understand when using the colors wheel.
imagine an arrow going up and down. it can only point at two colors only. so when you spin the arrow round, no matter what two colors it lands on, they will be complementary to each other. same with the more complicated color schemes. its a bit like a while of fortune or something. if you make a triangle with equal sides and make it spin on the wheel, it will point to three colors (equally spaced from each other) making a Triad. so you use only those colors to paint with. and so on. the color schemes is just like a limitation of colors you can paint with.
once you understand that, even when you use many and all colors, you can then know what to do when you want to draw attention to one side of the picture. or if a lot of things are red, but you want one part of something red to really stand out, you would place some variation of green around it (its compliment) which will make the red look even redder.
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Oh wow, I think I get it! Thanks, I appreciate it. ^_^
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