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shesta713 — The Big Long Tutorial: Part 02
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This series of tutorials will teach you the basics of colours/light/shadow, and how to apply them.Part One: Tones, Hues, and Saturation. shesta713.deviantart.com/art/T…
Part Two: Colours, and Intro to Light/Shadow. shesta713.deviantart.com/art/T…
Part Three: Light/Shadow Continued shesta713.deviantart.com/art/T…
Part Four: Putting it all together. shesta713.deviantart.com/art/T…
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I realize this is old, but in case you may want to update it there are actually four stages of shading (not just three). You forgot reflective light. It's usually taught in your first drawing class.
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Thank you so much for this Tut ! 
Thx !
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You are very welcome, and of course it is possible! More artists than you like use a mouse only - it just takes a little extra patience because the lack of pressure sensitivity.
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helps me to understand the color wheel thing more....thanks!
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Awesome tutorial! Gives a little bit more than just the basic colour theory than most of the tutorials I've seen on dA. Very useful indeed.
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You're welcome! Thank you for the lovely tutorial.
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Thank you for this great turtorial.
Still, there are some things I'm trying to figure out: First, on the color wheel, yellow is opposite to purple. In painting software like GIMP, MyPaint, etc. yellow is opposite to blue. In MyPaint, where you have the possibility to display the complimentary colors, also blue is the complimentary color to yellow, not purple. Why's that? Which color wheel is "wrong"?
Second, when mixing colors, for example with the smudge tool, yellow and blue don't mix to green; in fact they don't mix at all, the hue value simply jumps.
I assume that I am misunderstanding something... can you help me understand these things?
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There is actually multiple types of colour wheels, which is why it may seem like things are all over the place. There is your basic colour wheel, that includes only primaries/secondaries/tertiary colours and generally will not show colours such as cyan, bright purples, pinks, and your more-so "neon" colours. In this case, it would be red-green, blue-orange, and yellow-purple.
However if you use the full spectrum of colour, and this is typically the colour wheel that is used. Then the colours match up to be red-green, blue-yellow, orange-cyan, purple-yellow/green.
But whatever the colour wheel that you choose to use, all you need to do is draw a straight line across to see which its opposite is.
The problem with the smudge tool is that it is not a MIXING tool, it simply mushes the two colours you have together and doesn't actually physically mix the colours to create a new colour. Try using one layer of yellow and then use a low opacity of blue over top, that is actually mixing the colours. The difference is that you are forcing the colours to layer onto each other rather than pushing them up against one another.
Hope that somewhat helped!
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Hey, thanks for your reply!
I just did a quick test with GIMP portable, using separate layers. Result was the same as if I painted or smudged on one single layer...
I shall do more testing on that, when I'm back home from work. Thanks again!
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I haven't tried GIMP before... maybe download a trial of photoshop and see if things are any different/easier for you?
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wonderful tutorial !
Especially the color sheme and type, really helpful !
and the sphere usually have bounce light, doesn't it ?
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Yeah it does, for this part of the tutorial I purposely left it out. Beginners don't need to worry about it all that much until they are comfortable with the idea that things have value.
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I see
Very nice tutorial anyways
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I have a color wheel, but I think my mom will kill me if I keep stealing it. Besides, this is much more informational! Thank you!
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I've been looking for something like this for a very long time, especially in combination with shading in complimentary colours. This is very very useful, thank you very much for sharing.
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glad you found it so useful.
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This is really helpful and handy thanks to the color wheels! Thank you !
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Thank you again for explaining color schemes--I never remember these things X_X
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Looks good.
Can get a color wheel that can make the different types of color schemes easy to see. I have one and use it a lot.
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So many typos, I'm horrible at spelling and grammar, will fix it though, thanks.
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Now you make me want to do a tetadic scheme piece of art.
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That purple haired lady makes me think about Cillian Murphy in "Breakfast on Pluto".
These are really useful!
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I was just thinking the EXACT same thing, but I thought it was from
Peacock (where he also dresses like a woman)
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[link] That's from BoP, great movie. I haven't seen Peacock yet, but I inted to.
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Yes, there should be, but I did that on purpose.
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