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Quick and Dirty Color Theory
Published: 2010-04-19 00:21:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 120180; Favourites: 5581; Downloads: 3397
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My Quick & Dirty Color Theory Tutorial. That turned out to not be so quick >.> I got absorbed and explained a lot more than I originally intended. LMAO I hope you guys find it useful
More tutorials to come!
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Absolutely awesome XD thank you very much
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This is pretty useful 
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XD yah, it took me awhile to get out of that phase too XD
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This was a helpful tutorial. Good job.
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I did not find this helpful, I found it SUPER helpful.
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XD i'm glad you found it helpful! hehe thank you for the lovely feedback :3
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XD thank you, it was certainly a surprise!
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It's a great tutorial, but the correct spelling is "complementary" colors, not complimentary. Otherwise, very nice work; it's very helpful to those of us who are color idiots.
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thank you very much! they're so useful!
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XD you are so very welcome
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Thanks!! I think this will help a lot.
The only question I have is about complimentary colors.... you explained tinting the shadows and highlights, but do you ever directly mix a complimentary color into the shadows/highlights?
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you are very welcome :3
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Thank you for this very helpful tutorial
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you are most welcome :3
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I've read all sorts of coloring tutorials but never really understood much what the writer was telling me.
This tutorial on the other hand has been very helpful, and your detailed explanation really came through.
Thank you so much for this!
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Cool, this helps me a lot!!
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you're very welcome :3
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Hey! I really liked the tutorial, especially the "darker color, less saturated" bit etc. Very helpful
But you're using the wrong color theory. The primary colors aren't blue, red and yellow but Cyan, Magenta and Yellow. (Notice you can't mix magenta with red and blue?). Secondary colors are therefore red, blue/violet and green. It's a common mistake, and if I hadn't had to writte a 30 page paper about it a few weeks back I probably wouldn't know either
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This one has the right primary colors
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XD it's actually accurate but only for traditional media - i was raised doing oil paints so I wasn't aware the primaries were different for computer color theory when I wrote the tutorial XD I just haven't had the chance to go back and edit it yet :3
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I dont know if you know much about the topic but could you cover maybe this in relativity to other objects in a painting? Ex. Like how saturation and value and heaviness effects which objects come out and recede and maybe the difference in shading hard and soft light?
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I probably will do something like that in the future, this tutorial needs an update XD
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Good tutorial! It was easy to go through, and explained the differences well.
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I have a question. On your other tutorial about painting, you say to pick three shadow tones: one darker and more saturated, one darker and less saturated, and one much darker and more saturated. This tutorial, however, states that it should be one darker and more saturated, one darker and less saturated, and one much darker and much less saturated. Which selection is correct?
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both are correct, as long as there's some saturated dark tones and some less saturated dark tones XD i just change my opinion frequently as I try out new techniques ^^ Most days now I only work with three tones, mid, dark, and highlight. It's just a personal preference. The important part is that for most of your saturated tones to be in the mid and mid-dark ranges, and everything else less saturated
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Thank you for adding an explanation of how saturation affects the colors to your tutorial. Most tutorials skip that and it ends up feeling like there's a piece missing!
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XD you're very welcome, i've noticed that too!
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I can't wait to try this! I've been trying to learn more about color theory, so thanks for explaining it in a simple way!
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