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The Color Tutorial - Part 1
Published: 2010-11-20 03:21:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 98481; Favourites: 4058; Downloads: 2932
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Part 2 --> [link]Snap. I think that's the quickest one my tutorials have been turned into a Daily Dev. Thanks very much. Also, thanks to people who have faved/commented/watched and to the groups that requested this dev. Much Love.
I haven't had enough time to finish this tutorial in full so I'm submitting this first part of my coloring tutorial which I had in my scraps+some new parts. To tell the truth, it makes me a little nervous to do tutorials in parts, because I do a lot of reorganizing as I do tutorials to make things seem... logical. But whatevs.
Next sections cover color perception and painting techniques which can be applied traditionally and digitally.
I hope some of you find this helpful.
With Love,
Sasha
P.S. I'd like to make a note that while I go over typical color relationships like complementary colors, and I go over color wheels, all this should be taken only a short-hand for an easy way to pick a color palette and a way to introduce people to terms artist commonly used to define color. The most important parts are the ones about hue, purity, and value, color mixing, and gamut.
Remember that you're the artist, and you should pick the colors that appeal to you.
I make my tutorials for free, but if you enjoy my tutorials and want to donate some funds for gas, art books and such, I would appreciate it. [link]
Helpful Stuff: [link]
Perspective Tutorial: [link]
Pencil Tutorial: [link]
Lineart Tutorial: [link]
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This is probably one of the most well written tutorials I have ever seen. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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I love this tutorial. I'm about to check for the second part of the tutorial, but if you haven't released it yet, I'll be looking forward to it!
...Now, I have a question...
I'm colorblind. Doing my own research, I think I could self-diagnose myself with dichromatic colorblindness? Or something like that. I have troubles with Reds and Greens most of all.
But my question: If I were colorblind, do you know how that would affect my perception of color? Or my usage of color?
Color has never been one of my strong points, and though I think I can see color just fine, I've realized that I just don't see color the same way as everyone else.
As an artist, I don't want that to be a huge obstacle...
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Hey love,
If you have red-green color blindness, then you'll have a tough time distinguishing reds and greens. So, you might have a bit of trouble mixing things like skin tones and such things. You'll distinguish blues and yellows fine.
Mm, I've actually know a few color blind artists personally. One African painter told me that he would have an assistant help him when he was mixing colors. Others shift their reds and greens toward yellow or blue so that they can be more certain of their hue. There's also a method of distinguishing greens and reds by viewing red/green objects through red glass... I think the green objects don't filter well through the red glass, so they appear darker than a red object would.
You might want to not think of color blindness as an obstacle, but as something that marks your work as unique and turn it into an advantage: [link]
I hope that helps : )
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This is awesome ^.^
Possibly irrelevant question : What font did you use?
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Excellent! Colour is extremely important and can make even the most simplest of designs look good.
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Great work! And really helpfull.
Even if you're not a painter.
Thanks a lot for all the energy you've put into that!
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Informative and very clear. Nowhere near as convoluted as anything I was taught in school
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I love you for making this. I adore you, I worship you. 
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This is awesome °_°
BTW, I noticed that you can't make pink but if you mix pink with yellow you obtain red... This is why now I buy CMYK+W paint bottles lol.
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hi, love the tutorial, glad it grabbed a front page, but like so many other tutorials you make a very crucial mistake when describing complementary colors to people, and I would have really preferred it if you stayed to the CYM color model when doing that portion, just because the representation of colors on that wheel, particularly when it comes to complementaries and the like, match up so much better, quick couple of examples:
green looks rather ugly with red or orange, at least compared to the way magenta complements it, similarly; blues are better complemented by reds then they are oranges... and all this confusion is avoided if people remember their magentas in the wheel 
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I covered the RBY color wheel only because it is the one which is most commonly used. I personally don't have a preference for either system of color organization. I might come back later and add a magenta-cyan-yellow version beside the red-blue-green.
I actually prefer a green and orange combination rather than magenta and green, and I like oranges an blues more than reds and blues, but all this is just personal preference.
Color wheels and color organization are nice for initial color choice, but I believe it's secondary to one's own judgment.
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"Color wheels and color organization are nice for initial color choice, but I believe it's secondary to one's own judgment."
completely agreed
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Thank you a lot for all your extremely useful tutorials!
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Wow! A very informative and very well-deserved DD! Congratulations!
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I'll wait to be a little less busy to fully read this, but it sure looks interesting
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Color Theory in a Reader's Digest edition. This is great.
Also, what, no mention of CIELAB?
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LOL. I'll take that as a compliment, yes?
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Indeed. You can have it for free.
(I bet you studied arts)
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Thanks, this was really helpful. It was going over a lot of stuff I've understood, but you've clarified in a very simple way a lot of information I was fuzzy on.
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thanks a lot for all the tutorial you've done.
It helps me a lot.
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Thank you so much for this. I've always felt my understanding of color relationships has been lacking. Can't wait for part 2.
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Thank you kindly for such a good structure on the tutorial. Very professional and helpful!
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This is an incredible tutorial! Thank you so much!
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Nice intro ... I can't wait to see the next part! But man, it reminded me of how birds can see in four colors ... it's so unfair! XD
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i am waiting with anticipation for your next part... WORK HARD! *0*
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This was very helpful to me. Usually I can't read through a whole color theory tutorial... but for this one somehow I managed. o_O I have always been very bad at scientifically choosing colors, I usually just pick whatever comes to mind, but hopefully I will remember to refer back to this when I am thinking of my color pallets...
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this is just fantastic. a lot of this stuff is sort of intuitive for the most part in many cases but it's really very helpful and enlightening to see it all laid out in such an organized manner. thanks so much for this!
;A;
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No problem : ) I've always felt that codifying things and organizing things makes them seem less scary... at least to me. I'm happy you like it : )
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