I loved this, wish I had found it earlier. I am 85 and a quilter and have always had a problem putting together colors for my quilt. Thank you so much, BTW I have many books on color and cannot understand one of them.
I feel you, Phyllis, I have similar issue with jewel macrame and matching the stone and the cords colours. So frustrating because when I select them, they seem to match but once the design grows, 80% of the time, I realize (after hours of knotting) they don't.
Also, a pro tip: Warm light has cool shadows, and cool light has warm shadows. You can notice this when you look at the shadow cast on the underside of your arm, the shadow will be different tones with light from a screen vs warm indoor light vs the sun. This will change if there's light bounce, like a really harsh sunlight on yellow stairs, the shadows may be warm because of the light bouncing off the top of one stair onto the shaded side of the other.
The reason why we get blue tone in sunny day/outdoor is because phenomenon called Rayleigh Scattering, which bounces blue lights mainly from sunlight. You can find this very obvious by checking some snow photographs; most of the shadows are blue. But you have to beware that this isn't always the case. because if you are in a room full of artificial lights or somewhere, or have a clothing with some vivid colors, then the bounce light will change. and some movies or photos actually edit the picture or artificially add contrasting color lights (fill light) to shadow because it generally looks good. In summary, color contrasted shadow looks good. but if you emphasize it too much, it might look cartoony. so in the case you are seeking for realism, you have to think further; color of the environment, light source, clothings or other objects, everything effects the scene.
Colour has always been difficult for me to understand. When I look at something I see the whole picture and cannot separate the different colours. Your video really helped me! I was trying to look at the images to guess the colours used and i could actually see them!!! Thank you! This is such a useful video I cannot even praise it enough!!!!
+Lady Slothbottom -- When I'm out in the field drawing or painting, the question I'm asked the most is... did you go to college or are you self taught?... my answer is always the same -- YES. Not much has changed over the years, I always thought our teachers were lazy & got paid for doing next to nothing. One big difference is that I didn't have the internet -- NO computers back in the early 70's, good thing the city had a number of fantastic libraries where I spent as much time as possible in the ART racks. For over 30 years ALL the commercial work I did was done by hand, I sure wish we had computers back then, the TIME it would of saved!! the things we could of done!! I retired 3 yrs ago, but I taught classes over the years & still do today. I always remembered what I went through in my student "daze" & refuse to play games with my students, I've always give it to them straight & they thanked me for it.
+Guilherme Gonçalves Dias Christ, I thought that stuff didn't go too far outside of my own school. Sad to hear that its more common than I thought. My classes mostly consisted of "work time" which is a waste of my time which is also a waste of money. *shakes angry fists at the sky*
I am studying film maker and communications, and no one explain the importance of colours! This is f**k essential... I thanks a lot of blender guru but at the same time, I am angry because this is free, and all what I pay wasn't explain like this
@@CryoFish utilization - the action of making practical and effective use of something. You can utilize something poorly and still be practical/effective in its use. Poor use, as you wrote, would imply ineffective or impractical use. It's kind of like the difference between poorly trying to do something and doing something poorly. One still implies a chance at complete failure, while one implies a success even if only barely.
1:39 I accidentally forwarded 10 seconds in the middle of the sentence, and I ended with an unintentional PERFECTLY CUT "but we rarely ever stop our childhood" I'm still trying to figure out the meaning, but I think this is god trying to speak to me
Being a cinematographer/photographer i knew most of this already but the stuff i didnt know actually really helped me understand colour more. Thanks a lot - gonna make my images look better. 😍
Understanding Colours. Note: These are colours on the Colour wheel SATURATION AND VALUE IN A NUTS: * Don't overdo it. * Use it to guide the viewer. * Use it to tell the story. * Use it to change the mood. * Draw attention to something. COLOUR HARMONIES: * MONOCHROMATIC: Only one color, Best for single subjects, Atmospheric. - Eg: Red. * ANALOGOUS: Three Colour adjacent on wheel, Easy on eyes, Peaceful comfortable mood, Seen in nature. - Eg: (Lime, Green, Blue), (Red, Pink, Purple), (Yellow, Orange, Red). * TRIADIC: Equally distant on wheel, Hard to pull off, Best for cartoon/surreal scenes. - Eg: (Red, Yellow, Blue), (Orange, Lime, Blue). * COMPLEMENTARY: Opposing colours on wheel, Very Popular, Naturally pleasing to eye, Use one colour predominantly. - Eg: (Red :20%, Green: 80%), (Yellow: 90%, Purple: 10%), (Orange: 10%, Light Blue: 90%), (Red: 85%, 75%, Green: 15%, 25%), (Orange: 92%, Blue: 8%). * SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY: Similar to complimentary, but one end extended, More creative freedom, Feels lively, joyous. - Eg: (Red: 20%, Lime: 15%, Light Blue: 65%), (Yellow: 35%, Lime: 25%, Purple: 40%), (Orange: 40%, Green: 35%, Blue: 25%), (Orange: 25%, Yellow: 35%, Blue: 40%), (Orange: 15%, Red: 10%, Light Blue: 75%), (Yellow: 60%, Pink: 10%, Green: 30%). * TETRATIC (DOUBLE COMPLEMENTARY): Two pairs of opposing colours, Best used for foreground/background, Never use 25% of each, Hard but pleasing. - Eg: (Orange - Blue, Red - Green), (Red - Green: 50% - 30%, Yellow - Purple: 10% - 15%), (Orange - Blue: 55%, 20%, Red - Green: 10%, 15%), (Orange - Light Blue: 7%, 23%, Yellow - Blue: 5%, 65%). SUMMARY: * Saturation: Don't overdo it. Best for highlighting areas of interest, or telling story. * Value: Use values of high contrast to draw attention. Use Color Harmonies for pleasing combinations. * Monochromatic: One color. * Analogous: Adjacent colors. * Triadic: Equally distant colors. * Complimentary: Opposing colors. * Split-Complimentary: One complimentary end extended. * Double-Complimentary: Two pairs of opposing colors. Don't Stress! NOTES & RESOURCES at BlenderGuru.com
Seven minutes in, I started taking notes. Excuse my French, but this is some good shit. Edit: I appreciate how he explains things in simplest terms but doesn't talk down to the viewer or act like they're dumb. A lot of teachers fail at this.
"Excuse my french" is a joke about "Faque" or something simulair pronounced as "fuck" meaning "seal" as in the animal. It doesn't apply to "shit". Thought I'd point it out
I'm not even an artist but I have watched this video multiple times. I really like the artwork showcased here especially 12:47. Gives me feelings of being in a warm house while the cold winter wind is blowing outside (which is why winter is my favorite season). But there's also feelings of a "coldness" within myself that is expressed in the complete disarray of this kitchen/workshop.
The dont stress part was important, I'm someone who ends up drawing a bunch of people made original characters, so sometimes you just gotta deal with what ya got and play around with that. But this was very helpful, definitely better than my uni lecturer going "Alright, go to adobe colour, and mess around until you find a palette". This actually gave me insight on *how* one can apply the colours, with good examples too!
Blender sensei: talks about how a art piece wouldn’t be as famous as it is if a parrot wasn’t in the image. Me not even noticing the small parrot and had no idea what the art piece was
Man I fucking love this guy. When he starts his lesson he goes straight at it. He doesn't start with some bullshit intro that takes 15 seconds, he doesn't blapper about unimportant, unrelated things in the beginning, he doesn't beg you for subscriptions, he makes good quality videos, and he presents it all in an interesting way.
+Andrew Price Yup. Your simple explanation with simple pronunciation and little emphasizing on topic with little loudness. That makes it really interesting and enjoyable to see and watch. BTW English is not my primary language. Thanks for the tutorial.
I love that you took the time to make this, but I would have liked some "bad" examples to know what not to do. Other than that, this was the clearest color theory explanation I ever heard!
I think the worst thing I've ever seen in my life in regards to color combinations is putting 100% saturation green text on 100% saturation red background. Good examples of bad color ideas: Making most of the background intensely vibrant and the foreground/subject dull and grey (unless it's for a good reason)... Making a complex element that dances around in hue jitter (like a blanket with red-orange and red-pink patches on a red background), basically making the colors "close but not the same" causes dissonance like playing two adjacent keys on a keyboard. unless you know what you're doing and making nice gradients or something. Also not accounting for luminance. Purple, blue, and red always look "darker" than yellow, orange, and green. If you're trying to get something to look "dark and deep", don't trust yellow, orange or green to do exactly what you want, and vice verse, don't expect purple, blue, or red to give you light and airy colors very easily. If you have two colors of the same value and saturation, and one is purple and one is yellow, they will definitely not look the same brightness.
Wow, after you mentioned UP, I watched the part where Carl looks at 'stuff we did' that Ellie put in the book. Now I suddenly noticed that at the start of the scene, everything is sad and grey. At the (happy) end of the scene, there is suddenly a lot more vibrant colours! Love that
As a CG beginner using it to enhance my artwork these videos are outstanding. Wish I had seen them years ago they explain what I didnt even know after teaching IT for 35 years. You should produce a ebook. Look forward to more videos.
in fact the color wheel that he use in this video is wrond and in the true one the opposite of red is cyan ( wich is a blue greenish color) the color wheel is wrong because he use red blue and yellow as primary color even thought they aren't its a commun mistake, he should've based his color wheel on the blue red and green or yellow magenta and cyan
The damn color wheel, the most important thing to learn in any form of art that no one teaches. This is very well explained for not just a CZcams video but a presentation quality. I come here every once in a while. Thank you.
Those were standard French infantry uniforms at the start of WWI. Once a few hundred thousand of them got shot by Germans wearing field grey, the French changed to a more muted look. They should have watched this video - it would have saved a lot of lives.
It's almost eight years after the original posting that I find this and think why didn't anyone else explain this so well. I've watched so many videos on color and how best to use it but now I finally understand how to use it in my own art. I love that you provide examples of how color is used well, nice job.
"Triadic" "Best for cartoons or surreal because it could come across as quite playful" >puts a painting of Jesus Christ up. "this is probably not the best example to put right after that" I giggled
Although, Jesus Christ is quite playful and has an amazing sense of humor! His being tortured and murdered for us to be able to get the "chance" for salvation was a dark and gloomy time, but He is now glorified in God! Glory and Praise be to God in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ!
@@jesusfirstto-the-pointendt4552 how can you believe that shit? Your channel is so wierd. I legitimately feel bad because most people and I could never be that stupid
@@jamess.7811 I'm not the one with all the belief or religious things, but i know people with or without it should be polite to others as an act of a fullly grown up human
I never trusted my art teachers when they said I was almost naturally good creating harmony with the colours I used in my artworks, but now I finally understood the logic behind what I thought looked nice together.
I've been trying to wrap my head around the right way to use color for a long time now. I knew about all of these different types of color palettes but your commentary on how to use them is really what brought my understanding to a new level. Thanks for that!
Wow thank you for this, I am so tired of watching the same “color theory” videos over and over again looking for more information to work with. I feel like I just read the cliff notes of an entire color theory course rather than reading the intro paragraph to one. 👌🏼
I've been taking art classes (I'm majoring in Studio Art) in college since August of 2014. You've been far more helpful than my professors. Their way of teaching is for the students to "just draw something" and bring it in for credit, but must of us end up being bashed for what we create. Thank you so much, you've earned a new subscriber.
That's terrible. I took a drawing 101 course in college. Professor was horrible and I ended up failing the class. It seems that YT is a better learning place (and free!) than college.
Miss Keylara Illustrations Maybe they expect you to already know those things. Idk where you live, but here in Germany we learned most of this in like 8th grade.
Nomadic Gamer Same, I failed the class, although mostly because I was not interested in it and also was really depressed. It didn’t help that it was an online class. It’s a shame because I do think having a teacher as a guide can be incredibly beneficial, but a lot of art teachers/professors are just sort of salty people who are mad they couldn’t break into the art world, I think.
7:31 "Color Harmonies! Sorry for blinding you there-" I felt that, 'cause im watching this in a pitch black room and that white screen suddenly popping up murdered my eyes lol (very good video though, I loved how you explained everything)
in fact the color wheel that he use in this video is wrond and in the true one the opposite of red is cyan ( wich is a blue greenish color) the color wheel is wrong because he use red blue and yellow as primary color even thought they aren't its a commun mistake, he should've based his color wheel on the blue red and green or yellow magenta and cyan
Thank you SO much for this video. There are 'basic colour theory' videos available in excess--ones that tell the same old same old stuff that we all learned in elementary school. But there's mighty few to go past that to actual application. This video will help me be consciously competent in using colour in my painting. Thank-you!
Holy shit! IT WAS YOU THE WHOLE TIME!! I watched this video years ago and learned how to use colors effectively on my paintings. I didn’t notice the channel “Blender Guru”. Years later I started using Blender and watched your tutorials. And I stumbled into this video and saw a big and fat “BLENDER GURU” sticking right there!!!! It was you the whole time! You are the one who helped me the whole time!!
Guru, this video is being taught in my brother's film school, for composition and color theory. It is a required "read" for the students. Edit : My brother is a student in the school not the owner lol.
This is the best video on colors on youtube . The time research and effort put in to make this video possible is phenomenal and I am really thankful for you to sharing this with the world
Awesome presentation, subscribed! However (and this is a *personal* opinion), I feel videos like these could benefit from showing bad examples. For example, when you speak about not using 50% of each complimentary colour, it would be nice to actually see how bad that looks. I say this because often times I struggle with colour but I cannot see my mistakes. Hope to see more videos like this one though :)
Finally a video (and a person in general) that teaches not only what colors and color schemes there are, but how to use them and de dos and don’ts!! I’ve been making so many mistakes!! Thank you!!!!!
A 20 min video taught me more than a two hour lesson we just had at school (the subject was a little different, since it's web design, but we were still talking about color)
Thank you for not starting with complementary. You don't understand how my mind clicked when you started with monochromatic and worked your way up. I just perceived colors differently after this.
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I studied fine art for 4 years and I swear you explained this better than my degree 😂
When I went to school all the students knew more than teachers because they studied the subject before taking the class. Your art will speak for itself.
Rixton The great about art school (and also music school) is all about networking and teamwork building. But mostly networking. Unless you decided to self-employing job (AKA freelancer) you will pretty much find more difficulty to get to the industry rather than everyone else who attend college. And freelancing is hard. You basically compete with every fish who has same job like you. I mean a lot of fish. Even if you wanna be a painter, at least you gotta have some small community at your disposal or your work won't be get some exposure, let alone money. If you wanna be self thaught artist, go ahead. But don't ever dream you will get famous and rich pretty fast, let alone got applied to Pixar or Disney.
*_*one person states opinion*_* *_*everyone else states opposing opinion passive aggressively*_* *Me scrolling through the comment section:* Ohhheheh😂😂😂😂
Katime Oh also by the way this is not advice. Yet, I learned something new from mangaka American artist Lizbeth R Jimenez, she mentions that when she was in art school. Actually art professors or instructors do not teach you anything because you only teach yourself. However, you need criticism or feedback in order to grow as an artist. For example, you need to check in how much the plant, or flower is growing by taking measurements, and making sure they get well taken care of, so they can continue growing slowly. When you apply this to art, going to art class is not like you have to be taught this way. Lizbeth is an amazing artist who knows the basics. Because you have to teach yourself the basics or foundations of color theory, drawing from observation, how shadows and light works in the real world, and much more. Still the missing part about art is criticism and feedback. I know many people will hate this, but you cannot grow as an artist without any feedback, critique, or criticism. No matter if it is positive or negative.
Over 9 years ago this video dropped. As someone who is color blind, but loves to work with Blender. THIS was incredibly helpful. I've carried this knowledge to all my artwork.
Personnaly it's the base in almost 100% of my arts, canvas, miniature painting, etc I love colors theory and always try to push it further and play with it like disturbing people by for example using red and yellow and black and white, mixing yellow with black making what I call fake green that is all tje olive greens, camo greens, all have no or very little blue, by playing like this making a fake green with black and yellow maybe a bit of white, you can give the impression of having complementary colors (green and red) but in reality not at all witch will give a bery ambient, atmospheric art a bit like a half way of white and black or monochrome and normal , something where there is per example NO blue, which means no real green, no purple, but you can also play with the relations between color to give an illusion of green or purple by placing beside colors that have a lot of red and yellow while your fake greens, blues and purple will in fact be red-orange-yellow but so desaturated that they would be very grey in reality bit can gi e an impression of cold grey, purple, while they would be a bery desaturated red beside of a very yellowish color.. There s is plenty of cool things to do, I find this video because as I often do, I just wrote in the yt search bar "color theory". Play with colors, try things, experiment, I can write 2 or 3 more paragraphe of my actual ideas to play with colors but I stop here, you have to explore and find things, ideas by yourself, by learning bases sure, like this video, amd then practice and try things, let crazy ideas come in your mind and apply them 😉 it's not so hard I promise !
I'm only 14 so my aspirations will most likely change after a while but for now, my dream job is a costume designer. I love this video so much, it was really helpful, I feel like I've learned so much about color theory in just 20 minutes! Thank you so much
No wonder why I get stressful when I paint my projects during my highschool, I just chose different colors randomly, now that I know thanks to this video, I'd be able to get it right
i know this is an older video but the picture at 19:49 also has a great use of double compliments in the foreground as well. as you said, the hat and jacket compliment each other but there is also orange in his skin (orange is the most prominent color in every skin tone) as well as blue rim lighting. and just as a side not, once you start to take notice of the blue orange compliments in media, it's really obvious, especially in movies, to have a turquoise/blue color scheme. it's very pleasing to the eye.
Just wanted to say that although I attended art school eons ago color remained a tough issue for me, being more comfortable at drawing. But after seeing this video I'm now able to "see through" color schemes in a way that I wasn't able to before, and for this I'm deeply grateful. Many thanks!
You are one talented bloke. I don't know who you are or what you do, but you are a great teacher with a refreshing clarity on the subject. I'm not an artist, but... well, I have to stop saying that now because I am a web designer/developer. :) I've never THOUGHT of myself as an artist, but I am interested in design and particularly color my entire life so I was familiar with most of these concepts, but it's great to see an artist's take on it with some examples!
After this vid I googled about saturation vs. tint vs. shade because some comments indicated you weren't clear about it. Now I have the urge to paint !!! ^.^ Next time you should ask us to identify a couple colour schemes ourselves. I think it helps with information retention rather than just absorbing the information you're giving to us.
Great video!! Understanding how colors go together has always been a challenge, especially as it relates to editing my landscape photos. This will be a huge help! Thank you!
Oh Blender Guru... This is a very concise comprehensive presentation for me. I used to paint a "milkshake"; sometimes scary, I am must say. Recently, I became aware of the "3 color rule". Wow. Game changer for me. My perspective is considerably shifted. Thank you. Best day now.
Man this video is just perfect. The examples you show are perfect. My Color Theory teacher at college just showed the harmonies using the color wheel and very few examples with heavily saturated colors, that really doesn't justify the harmonies huh? My eyes hurt the whole class AHAHAH The examples where we can't barely notice the harmonies are the best, makes you pay more attention in the future. She didn't even explain right about saturation and value at all, just told us to paint some squares and that's it, I bet most of my classmates didn't learn how to use color at all. Anyway, thanks for the video, helps a lot!!!
Thanks for sharing this. I have no idea there were so many colour harmonies. I’d never hear of Tiadic and double complimentary. Really well explained and the examples were very helpful and demonstrated,
these kind of videos usually gets a lot of dislikes for some reason.. but this one didn't and im so glad because this is an awesome tutorial, ive learned a lot from it!
Hey, one thing I think you forgot to mention was how colour reacts to other colours in certain scenes. There is a proper term for it but here is an example: A "red" colour may look red in one scene but when that same colour is brought into a new scene it appears to be more grey or maybe even orange. - Sorry I can't think of the proper term for it but it's useful to understand this when picking colours so they do not end up being overly saturated.
"Don't use 25% of each"
Windows logo: 😓
oof
and UNO card
Google logo
The power rangers/Sailor scouts, megazoids, a star trek uniforms....
+3effa Fair enough, but it's not an art piece.
"Don't use 25% for Tetratic, it's chaotic"
I knew the Teletubbies were the epitome of chaos. Incarnate.
TNinja0
The windows logo:
i think you meant Google?
@@matsual Xbox and super nintendo controller button colors
what is this language?
Same man
I loved this, wish I had found it earlier. I am 85 and a quilter and have always had a problem putting together colors for my quilt. Thank you so much, BTW I have many books on color and cannot understand one of them.
That's fantastic!
patience 😌
I feel you, Phyllis, I have similar issue with jewel macrame and matching the stone and the cords colours. So frustrating because when I select them, they seem to match but once the design grows, 80% of the time, I realize (after hours of knotting) they don't.
♥️
I hope you’re still around Phyllis. I love you mom
Also, a pro tip: Warm light has cool shadows, and cool light has warm shadows.
You can notice this when you look at the shadow cast on the underside of your arm, the shadow will be different tones with light from a screen vs warm indoor light vs the sun.
This will change if there's light bounce, like a really harsh sunlight on yellow stairs, the shadows may be warm because of the light bouncing off the top of one stair onto the shaded side of the other.
The reason why we get blue tone in sunny day/outdoor is because phenomenon called Rayleigh Scattering, which bounces blue lights mainly from sunlight. You can find this very obvious by checking some snow photographs; most of the shadows are blue. But you have to beware that this isn't always the case. because if you are in a room full of artificial lights or somewhere, or have a clothing with some vivid colors, then the bounce light will change. and some movies or photos actually edit the picture or artificially add contrasting color lights (fill light) to shadow because it generally looks good. In summary, color contrasted shadow looks good. but if you emphasize it too much, it might look cartoony. so in the case you are seeking for realism, you have to think further; color of the environment, light source, clothings or other objects, everything effects the scene.
"If you remeber at the start of UP"
*Instantly burst out crying*
Fanime Productions T.V.
Same.
NOOOOOOOOO
“Don’t get too attached “
😔😂😂😂😂👌
Fanime Productions T.V. Facts! 😭
you lost me when you assumed I don't want my audience to be sick or nauseated by my piece
Jon Koller hahahaha 😂
Jon Koller 😂😂 well then.
Jon Koller gotta know the rules to break the rules.
every tumblr artist ever
You don't need colors for that. Just draw some vore
Colour has always been difficult for me to understand. When I look at something I see the whole picture and cannot separate the different colours. Your video really helped me! I was trying to look at the images to guess the colours used and i could actually see them!!! Thank you! This is such a useful video I cannot even praise it enough!!!!
Love that idea “using saturated colours everywhere gives your eyes nowhere to rest”
4 years of college and no one ever explained color this well. Thank you sir!
+Lady Slothbottom WHAT? But this is, like, essential stuff!
***** I hate when colleges do that. We pay them to teach us, not to hear them say to us to go search on the internet.
+Lady Slothbottom -- When I'm out in the field drawing or painting, the question I'm asked the most is... did you go to college or are you self taught?... my answer is always the same -- YES.
Not much has changed over the years, I always thought our teachers were lazy & got paid for doing next to nothing. One big difference is that I didn't have the internet -- NO computers back in the early 70's, good thing the city had a number of fantastic libraries where I spent as much time as possible in the ART racks. For over 30 years ALL the commercial work I did was done by hand, I sure wish we had computers back then, the TIME it would of saved!! the things we could of done!!
I retired 3 yrs ago, but I taught classes over the years & still do today. I always remembered what I went through in my student "daze" & refuse to play games with my students, I've always give it to them straight & they thanked me for it.
+Guilherme Gonçalves Dias Christ, I thought that stuff didn't go too far outside of my own school. Sad to hear that its more common than I thought. My classes mostly consisted of "work time" which is a waste of my time which is also a waste of money. *shakes angry fists at the sky*
I am studying film maker and communications, and no one explain the importance of colours! This is f**k essential... I thanks a lot of blender guru but at the same time, I am angry because this is free, and all what I pay wasn't explain like this
Would have loved to see some "poor" utilizations of each different set.
ztsb45 ME TOO
Same!
@@CryoFish utilization - the action of making practical and effective use of something.
You can utilize something poorly and still be practical/effective in its use. Poor use, as you wrote, would imply ineffective or impractical use.
It's kind of like the difference between poorly trying to do something and doing something poorly. One still implies a chance at complete failure, while one implies a success even if only barely.
15:32 there you go
I can donate 90% of my my render images for a "how to not use colors" video xD
1:39 I accidentally forwarded 10 seconds in the middle of the sentence, and I ended with an unintentional PERFECTLY CUT
"but we rarely ever stop our childhood"
I'm still trying to figure out the meaning, but I think this is god trying to speak to me
Omg the painting of the man in the red beanie, smoking a cigarette is absolutely amazing! I am blown away.
I learned more in this video than 3 years in art class...
That's the internet for you.
+Jorion Edwards Sometimes I wonder why school hasn't been replaced by the internet already.
VideoGuy Probably because of idiot traditionalists who say we need social interaction while blaming social media for all of our problems.
Crystal Lesbigem lol
Money
Tetratic: "Dont use 25% of each"
My brain: The Teletubbies.
😂😂😂😂😂 this got me dead asf
My brain was like: the windows logo
isnt 25% of each, but 100% of each
Haha, Wanted to give you a like, but it is at 500 right now. Don't wanna ruin the beauty of it :)
No wonder I hated watching those things...
Being a cinematographer/photographer i knew most of this already but the stuff i didnt know actually really helped me understand colour more. Thanks a lot - gonna make my images look better. 😍
Understanding Colours.
Note: These are colours on the Colour wheel
SATURATION AND VALUE IN A NUTS:
* Don't overdo it.
* Use it to guide the viewer.
* Use it to tell the story.
* Use it to change the mood.
* Draw attention to something.
COLOUR HARMONIES:
* MONOCHROMATIC: Only one color, Best for single subjects, Atmospheric. - Eg: Red.
* ANALOGOUS: Three Colour adjacent on wheel, Easy on eyes, Peaceful comfortable mood, Seen in nature. - Eg: (Lime, Green, Blue), (Red, Pink, Purple), (Yellow, Orange, Red).
* TRIADIC: Equally distant on wheel, Hard to pull off, Best for cartoon/surreal scenes. - Eg: (Red, Yellow, Blue), (Orange, Lime, Blue).
* COMPLEMENTARY: Opposing colours on wheel, Very Popular, Naturally pleasing to eye, Use one colour predominantly. - Eg: (Red :20%, Green: 80%), (Yellow: 90%, Purple: 10%), (Orange: 10%, Light Blue: 90%), (Red: 85%, 75%, Green: 15%, 25%), (Orange: 92%, Blue: 8%).
* SPLIT COMPLEMENTARY: Similar to complimentary, but one end extended, More creative freedom, Feels lively, joyous. - Eg: (Red: 20%, Lime: 15%, Light Blue: 65%), (Yellow: 35%, Lime: 25%, Purple: 40%), (Orange: 40%, Green: 35%, Blue: 25%), (Orange: 25%, Yellow: 35%, Blue: 40%), (Orange: 15%, Red: 10%, Light Blue: 75%), (Yellow: 60%, Pink: 10%, Green: 30%).
* TETRATIC (DOUBLE COMPLEMENTARY): Two pairs of opposing colours, Best used for foreground/background, Never use 25% of each, Hard but pleasing. - Eg: (Orange - Blue, Red - Green), (Red - Green: 50% - 30%, Yellow - Purple: 10% - 15%), (Orange - Blue: 55%, 20%, Red - Green: 10%, 15%), (Orange - Light Blue: 7%, 23%, Yellow - Blue: 5%, 65%).
SUMMARY:
* Saturation: Don't overdo it. Best for highlighting areas of interest, or telling story.
* Value: Use values of high contrast to draw attention.
Use Color Harmonies for pleasing combinations.
* Monochromatic: One color.
* Analogous: Adjacent colors.
* Triadic: Equally distant colors.
* Complimentary: Opposing colors.
* Split-Complimentary: One complimentary end extended.
* Double-Complimentary: Two pairs of opposing colors.
Don't Stress!
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Seven minutes in, I started taking notes. Excuse my French, but this is some good shit.
Edit: I appreciate how he explains things in simplest terms but doesn't talk down to the viewer or act like they're dumb. A lot of teachers fail at this.
Einstein once said something like "make things simple but not simpler"
"Excuse my french" is a joke about "Faque" or something simulair pronounced as "fuck" meaning "seal" as in the animal. It doesn't apply to "shit".
Thought I'd point it out
@@edwardvandermeer7455 Not "Faque" but "Phoque"
@@numero7mojeangering ah s'cuse my lack of French
@@edwardvandermeer7455 Don't be sorry, you just didn't know
8:08 monochromatic
9:06 analogus
10:27 triadic
11:44 complementary
14:37 split complementary
17:51 double complementary
Thank you!
Thanks
Thank you Captain!!
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thanks man
I'm not even an artist but I have watched this video multiple times. I really like the artwork showcased here especially 12:47. Gives me feelings of being in a warm house while the cold winter wind is blowing outside (which is why winter is my favorite season). But there's also feelings of a "coldness" within myself that is expressed in the complete disarray of this kitchen/workshop.
I like the one at 14:52
The dont stress part was important, I'm someone who ends up drawing a bunch of people made original characters, so sometimes you just gotta deal with what ya got and play around with that. But this was very helpful, definitely better than my uni lecturer going "Alright, go to adobe colour, and mess around until you find a palette". This actually gave me insight on *how* one can apply the colours, with good examples too!
Blender sensei: talks about how a art piece wouldn’t be as famous as it is if a parrot wasn’t in the image.
Me not even noticing the small parrot and had no idea what the art piece was
XD
pfdjsj right my attention turned to the mountain in the horizon
i saw the palms in front first
I saw the palm trees first but my attention was quickly drawn to the parrot
He is perfect parrot
sAME LMFAO
Man I fucking love this guy. When he starts his lesson he goes straight at it. He doesn't start with some bullshit intro that takes 15 seconds, he doesn't blapper about unimportant, unrelated things in the beginning, he doesn't beg you for subscriptions, he makes good quality videos, and he presents it all in an interesting way.
Even 7 years later, this is the BEST explanation and examples out there!! Thank you!!
if it's your first first time watching this video, have no doubt - this is the best video about colors you've come across
This guy is awesome, english is not my primary language but i understood everything, thank you.
+Andrew Price Yup. Your simple explanation with simple pronunciation and little emphasizing on topic with little loudness. That makes it really interesting and enjoyable to see and watch. BTW English is not my primary language. Thanks for the tutorial.
I'm in the same case, English is not my primary language and I also understood despite my modest level. His way of explaining is very clear.
my primary language is spanish
Same
English must be your complimentary language
I love that you took the time to make this, but I would have liked some "bad" examples to know what not to do. Other than that, this was the clearest color theory explanation I ever heard!
He did provide some bad examples of his own older work near the beginning
I find looking at my own work suffices as the what not to do lol.
taskmasterblaster LMAO same.
I think the worst thing I've ever seen in my life in regards to color combinations is putting 100% saturation green text on 100% saturation red background.
Good examples of bad color ideas:
Making most of the background intensely vibrant and the foreground/subject dull and grey (unless it's for a good reason)...
Making a complex element that dances around in hue jitter (like a blanket with red-orange and red-pink patches on a red background), basically making the colors "close but not the same" causes dissonance like playing two adjacent keys on a keyboard. unless you know what you're doing and making nice gradients or something.
Also not accounting for luminance. Purple, blue, and red always look "darker" than yellow, orange, and green. If you're trying to get something to look "dark and deep", don't trust yellow, orange or green to do exactly what you want, and vice verse, don't expect purple, blue, or red to give you light and airy colors very easily. If you have two colors of the same value and saturation, and one is purple and one is yellow, they will definitely not look the same brightness.
i am willing to be the bad example
Wow, after you mentioned UP, I watched the part where Carl looks at 'stuff we did' that Ellie put in the book. Now I suddenly noticed that at the start of the scene, everything is sad and grey. At the (happy) end of the scene, there is suddenly a lot more vibrant colours! Love that
As a CG beginner using it to enhance my artwork these videos are outstanding. Wish I had seen them years ago they explain what I didnt even know after teaching IT for 35 years. You should produce a ebook. Look forward to more videos.
11:49 I finally understand why redheads with green eyes are very beautiful.
in fact the color wheel that he use in this video is wrond and in the true one the opposite of red is cyan ( wich is a blue greenish color)
the color wheel is wrong because he use red blue and yellow as primary color even thought they aren't its a commun mistake, he should've based his color wheel on the blue red and green or yellow magenta and cyan
Like Jessica Rabbit! 😁
@Jakub Maly Yeah but it's actually wrong. It's supposed to be yellow magenta and cyan.
Which ultimately gives the same color wheel
I love paintings that make you feel almost a little.. Nostalgic? Just like its a whole new world.. I dont even know how to explain it.
Dream Pop a whole neW WOOOOOOOOORLLD
Dream Pop totally know what you mean omg, I have a tag especially for works that make me feel like that
That happens to me too! It also makes me go to a place in my mind that never exsisted but I want to go to
***** Gosh you're right, those paintings are amazing
Thank you, this is the best presentation of color and color combinations that I have ever seen.
The damn color wheel, the most important thing to learn in any form of art that no one teaches.
This is very well explained for not just a CZcams video but a presentation quality.
I come here every once in a while.
Thank you.
I'm pretty sure "those dudes with the gnarly red pants" is the best thing I have ever heard.
Those were standard French infantry uniforms at the start of WWI. Once a few hundred thousand of them got shot by Germans wearing field grey, the French changed to a more muted look. They should have watched this video - it would have saved a lot of lives.
Imma timestamp this bc I like it too 6:23
Oh no I'm replaying it too much
I didn't even notice them till he pointed them out tbh
@@baboosrandomvids5390 Same. I was looking at the dog actually :|
Awesome, 1 semester of college explained in 23 minutes!
Thank you
Is being used in our AP Art History class.
and 13 seconds lol!
Lol
1st semester of which course ... What are you studying in college (name of the course ?)
فرحان باشا I'm taking ap art history in September what is it like?
This is the best explanation of color theory I have seen
It's almost eight years after the original posting that I find this and think why didn't anyone else explain this so well. I've watched so many videos on color and how best to use it but now I finally understand how to use it in my own art. I love that you provide examples of how color is used well, nice job.
"Triadic"
"Best for cartoons or surreal because it could come across as quite playful"
>puts a painting of Jesus Christ up.
"this is probably not the best example to put right after that"
I giggled
😂😂😂
Although, Jesus Christ is quite playful and has an amazing sense of humor! His being tortured and murdered for us to be able to get the "chance" for salvation was a dark and gloomy time, but He is now glorified in God! Glory and Praise be to God in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ!
@@jesusfirstto-the-pointendt4552 how can you believe that shit? Your channel is so wierd. I legitimately feel bad because most people and I could never be that stupid
@@jamess.7811 Do you ever heard of showing respect to others?
@@jamess.7811 I'm not the one with all the belief or religious things, but i know people with or without it should be polite to others as an act of a fullly grown up human
I never trusted my art teachers when they said I was almost naturally good creating harmony with the colours I used in my artworks, but now I finally understood the logic behind what I thought looked nice together.
I've been trying to wrap my head around the right way to use color for a long time now. I knew about all of these different types of color palettes but your commentary on how to use them is really what brought my understanding to a new level. Thanks for that!
I have been looking for an article or a video that explains the color harmonies for days.
Your video is a treasure to me.
Your voice is very soothing.
great narrating.
Me watching this video to make my art better: 👍
Also me being color blind: 👍
Just remember the positions of them on the wheel and you can't go wrong. 😉
@@GMNGChristian oh it can still go very wrong, trust me
@@AnaOhKay Lol I don't know enough to be confident in a rebut so I believe you 😂
Wow thank you for this, I am so tired of watching the same “color theory” videos over and over again looking for more information to work with. I feel like I just read the cliff notes of an entire color theory course rather than reading the intro paragraph to one. 👌🏼
Me : looks at dog
him : It draws you to the guys wearing red!
me :oh i diddnt notice them.
Me again, :oh look thats a pretty lake
them : PARROT
I've been taking art classes (I'm majoring in Studio Art) in college since August of 2014. You've been far more helpful than my professors. Their way of teaching is for the students to "just draw something" and bring it in for credit, but must of us end up being bashed for what we create. Thank you so much, you've earned a new subscriber.
That's terrible. I took a drawing 101 course in college. Professor was horrible and I ended up failing the class. It seems that YT is a better learning place (and free!) than college.
Miss Keylara Illustrations Maybe they expect you to already know those things. Idk where you live, but here in Germany we learned most of this in like 8th grade.
maybe I slept through art class, but I can't remember much of this stuff coming up in class XD
@@roselightz_3027 as a German seventh grader, I look forward to learning that so I can finaly improve at my coloring XD
Nomadic Gamer Same, I failed the class, although mostly because I was not interested in it and also was really depressed. It didn’t help that it was an online class.
It’s a shame because I do think having a teacher as a guide can be incredibly beneficial, but a lot of art teachers/professors are just sort of salty people who are mad they couldn’t break into the art world, I think.
7:31 "Color Harmonies! Sorry for blinding you there-"
I felt that, 'cause im watching this in a pitch black room and that white screen suddenly popping up murdered my eyes lol
(very good video though, I loved how you explained everything)
Same
Finally, a video that explains this in a way that doesn't make my brain bleed.
you videos are gift to the internet, THANK YOU
This guy is so good at translating information to a teachable format.
Spider man is red.
Green goblin, Mysterio , lizard, Doc Ock, etc are all green.
Coincidence? I think not.
So money is evil 😱no wayyyy 😂😂😂
Also consider Griffindor vs Slitherin.
Kurohei consider Griffindor color vs Slytherin.
in fact the color wheel that he use in this video is wrond and in the true one the opposite of red is cyan ( wich is a blue greenish color)
the color wheel is wrong because he use red blue and yellow as primary color even thought they aren't its a commun mistake, he should've based his color wheel on the blue red and green or yellow magenta and cyan
@@spell105 you know that the cmy and the rgb color wheel are obsolutly the same right?
Thank you SO much for this video. There are 'basic colour theory' videos available in excess--ones that tell the same old same old stuff that we all learned in elementary school. But there's mighty few to go past that to actual application. This video will help me be consciously competent in using colour in my painting. Thank-you!
19:03 I used to have a story book about fairies and every single page the art style looked like this. It was sooo pleasing
Holy shit! IT WAS YOU THE WHOLE TIME!!
I watched this video years ago and learned how to use colors effectively on my paintings. I didn’t notice the channel “Blender Guru”.
Years later I started using Blender and watched your tutorials. And I stumbled into this video and saw a big and fat “BLENDER GURU” sticking right there!!!!
It was you the whole time! You are the one who helped me the whole time!!
Guru, this video is being taught in my brother's film school, for composition and color theory. It is a required "read" for the students.
Edit : My brother is a student in the school not the owner lol.
lmao
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nobody said your brother owns a school, you delusional little timmy
I use this video every semester to teach color theory, it's my favorite
This is the best video on colors on youtube . The time research and effort put in to make this video possible is phenomenal and I am really thankful for you to sharing this
with the world
This is GREAT! Such a great tool for helping me bring my art to the next level. Thank you for making this video!
"You might think this is complimentary, but there are actually two pixels of red riiight there."
"Also please ignore all that blue in the other image. If you ignore the blue it's split complimentary.
🤣
@@Jacob-yg7lz Yeah I think the info is good in this video but some of the examples given were a stretch.
I'm color blind and this was not what I expected
Joe Driver No your not joe
Maybe Jason is
Kennedy Ozemwogie ... oh my God I am so glad you pointed it out .. if it wasn't for you I would have went the rest of my life thinking I was
No problem joe/jason
Kennedy Ozemwogie ... so since you're replying on my post .. why do you feel the need to come on and make a claim when you don't know me
One of the best tutorials for color theory. Thanks.
the effort of writing up your notes & making an in-depth video are both really helpful. thanks!
I feel like I've been trough a few CG classes in 23 minutes. Thanks, great video.
Awesome presentation, subscribed! However (and this is a *personal* opinion), I feel videos like these could benefit from showing bad examples. For example, when you speak about not using 50% of each complimentary colour, it would be nice to actually see how bad that looks. I say this because often times I struggle with colour but I cannot see my mistakes.
Hope to see more videos like this one though :)
It's funny in those early "bad" works, in 2020 that style is now considered its own art.
Finally a video (and a person in general) that teaches not only what colors and color schemes there are, but how to use them and de dos and don’ts!! I’ve been making so many mistakes!! Thank you!!!!!
A 20 min video taught me more than a two hour lesson we just had at school (the subject was a little different, since it's web design, but we were still talking about color)
Thank you for not starting with complementary. You don't understand how my mind clicked when you started with monochromatic and worked your way up. I just perceived colors differently after this.
I studied fine art for 4 years and I swear you explained this better than my degree 😂
This was ridiculously helpful. Thank you so much! ^^
Totally agree! :D
***** again STOP!!
can't agree more!
Who needs art class?
Just watch CZcams.
When I went to school all the students knew more than teachers because they studied the subject before taking the class. Your art will speak for itself.
Rixton
The great about art school (and also music school) is all about networking and teamwork building. But mostly networking.
Unless you decided to self-employing job (AKA freelancer) you will pretty much find more difficulty to get to the industry rather than everyone else who attend college.
And freelancing is hard. You basically compete with every fish who has same job like you. I mean a lot of fish.
Even if you wanna be a painter, at least you gotta have some small community at your disposal or your work won't be get some exposure, let alone money.
If you wanna be self thaught artist, go ahead. But don't ever dream you will get famous and rich pretty fast, let alone got applied to Pixar or Disney.
True.The best is schoolism,or skillshard,even tho it's on internet.
*_*one person states opinion*_*
*_*everyone else states opposing opinion passive aggressively*_*
*Me scrolling through the comment section:* Ohhheheh😂😂😂😂
Katime Oh also by the way this is not advice. Yet, I learned something new from mangaka American artist Lizbeth R Jimenez, she mentions that when she was in art school. Actually art professors or instructors do not teach you anything because you only teach yourself. However, you need criticism or feedback in order to grow as an artist. For example, you need to check in how much the plant, or flower is growing by taking measurements, and making sure they get well taken care of, so they can continue growing slowly.
When you apply this to art, going to art class is not like you have to be taught this way. Lizbeth is an amazing artist who knows the basics. Because you have to teach yourself the basics or foundations of color theory, drawing from observation, how shadows and light works in the real world, and much more. Still the missing part about art is criticism and feedback.
I know many people will hate this, but you cannot grow as an artist without any feedback, critique, or criticism. No matter if it is positive or negative.
Thank you man for making our lives easy. Me as a juvenile designer always need to learn more about making art better. Cheers
Over 9 years ago this video dropped. As someone who is color blind, but loves to work with Blender. THIS was incredibly helpful. I've carried this knowledge to all my artwork.
Thanks for that "don't stress" part. Colors have been overwhelming me for a while x)
I’ve always found the use of color in my drawings to be very daunting and overwhelming, but this video was so helpful. Thanks!
Personnaly it's the base in almost 100% of my arts, canvas, miniature painting, etc I love colors theory and always try to push it further and play with it like disturbing people by for example using red and yellow and black and white, mixing yellow with black making what I call fake green that is all tje olive greens, camo greens, all have no or very little blue, by playing like this making a fake green with black and yellow maybe a bit of white, you can give the impression of having complementary colors (green and red) but in reality not at all witch will give a bery ambient, atmospheric art a bit like a half way of white and black or monochrome and normal , something where there is per example NO blue, which means no real green, no purple, but you can also play with the relations between color to give an illusion of green or purple by placing beside colors that have a lot of red and yellow while your fake greens, blues and purple will in fact be red-orange-yellow but so desaturated that they would be very grey in reality bit can gi e an impression of cold grey, purple, while they would be a bery desaturated red beside of a very yellowish color..
There s is plenty of cool things to do, I find this video because as I often do, I just wrote in the yt search bar "color theory".
Play with colors, try things, experiment, I can write 2 or 3 more paragraphe of my actual ideas to play with colors but I stop here, you have to explore and find things, ideas by yourself, by learning bases sure, like this video, amd then practice and try things, let crazy ideas come in your mind and apply them 😉 it's not so hard I promise !
I'm only 14 so my aspirations will most likely change after a while but for now, my dream job is a costume designer. I love this video so much, it was really helpful, I feel like I've learned so much about color theory in just 20 minutes! Thank you so much
you’ll do well you already seem smart being here at 14
This lecture is so brilliant. I'm watching this video in South Korea. And it inspires me. Thank you so much for this amazing lecture.
I just can't focus on the lecture when that mermaid is obviously storing air balloons in her chest
So she won't drown...
water balloons
I went looking for this comment hoping someone thought the same haha
No wonder why I get stressful when I paint my projects during my highschool, I just chose different colors randomly, now that I know thanks to this video, I'd be able to get it right
Best video on internet, after taking blender lessons I just recognised it is from Blender Guru..
What an amazing video for understanding color theory. Great examples to show all the color contrasts. Love that. 🌈
6:25 I noticed the dog first....I didn't even realize the soldiers!
6:40 i didnt notice the parrot
same lol
i think this is because of the composition
Yeuujin is also one of my favourite artists
I noticed the woman in the front
i know this is an older video but the picture at 19:49 also has a great use of double compliments in the foreground as well. as you said, the hat and jacket compliment each other but there is also orange in his skin (orange is the most prominent color in every skin tone) as well as blue rim lighting. and just as a side not, once you start to take notice of the blue orange compliments in media, it's really obvious, especially in movies, to have a turquoise/blue color scheme. it's very pleasing to the eye.
Great examples of how colors are used in the various art works. That was quite educational.
Thanks! Clear, to the point info, and articulate. Great examples. A good teacher you are.
Just wanted to say that although I attended art school eons ago color remained a tough issue for me, being more comfortable at drawing. But after seeing this video I'm now able to "see through" color schemes in a way that I wasn't able to before, and for this I'm deeply grateful. Many thanks!
You are one talented bloke. I don't know who you are or what you do, but you are a great teacher with a refreshing clarity on the subject. I'm not an artist, but... well, I have to stop saying that now because I am a web designer/developer. :) I've never THOUGHT of myself as an artist, but I am interested in design and particularly color my entire life so I was familiar with most of these concepts, but it's great to see an artist's take on it with some examples!
After this vid I googled about saturation vs. tint vs. shade because some comments indicated you weren't clear about it. Now I have the urge to paint !!! ^.^
Next time you should ask us to identify a couple colour schemes ourselves. I think it helps with information retention rather than just absorbing the information you're giving to us.
Great video!! Understanding how colors go together has always been a challenge, especially as it relates to editing my landscape photos. This will be a huge help! Thank you!
Oh Blender Guru... This is a very concise comprehensive presentation for me. I used to paint a "milkshake"; sometimes scary, I am must say. Recently, I became aware of the "3 color rule". Wow. Game changer for me. My perspective is considerably shifted. Thank you. Best day now.
Man this video is just perfect. The examples you show are perfect. My Color Theory teacher at college just showed the harmonies using the color wheel and very few examples with heavily saturated colors, that really doesn't justify the harmonies huh? My eyes hurt the whole class AHAHAH The examples where we can't barely notice the harmonies are the best, makes you pay more attention in the future. She didn't even explain right about saturation and value at all, just told us to paint some squares and that's it, I bet most of my classmates didn't learn how to use color at all. Anyway, thanks for the video, helps a lot!!!
my teacher has been trying to teach us how to color for a whole year,and u explained everything so well in 23 minutes
Thanks for sharing this. I have no idea there were so many colour harmonies. I’d never hear of Tiadic and double complimentary. Really well explained and the examples were very helpful and demonstrated,
The beest video so far on explaining how to use color. Thank you so much.
these kind of videos usually gets a lot of dislikes for some reason.. but this one didn't and im so glad because this is an awesome tutorial, ive learned a lot from it!
I need this
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I thought it needed more Pikachus.
Profile pic goes with this
I "needed" this
Here just beautiful face,und kind and beautiful people.I don't need.I Do reasoning Ingrid .
I appreciate how thorough your videos are so I'm subscribing.
That very first piece is pure gold in every single level. I can't stop staring at it 😍
Hey, one thing I think you forgot to mention was how colour reacts to other colours in certain scenes. There is a proper term for it but here is an example: A "red" colour may look red in one scene but when that same colour is brought into a new scene it appears to be more grey or maybe even orange. - Sorry I can't think of the proper term for it but it's useful to understand this when picking colours so they do not end up being overly saturated.
It's called land effect... you can check it out in Vsauce!
OLBICHL
Ah okay, thanks!
5:05 thats one hell of a sexualised pixar/disney style mermaid :)
THICC
@illana partidai or the Lenny face
Mermaids are suposed to seduce men and drown them to their deaths, was Disney who did Wrong.
@Renato Bonfanti, Those are fucking Sirens.
It was drawn by a dude. Ofc
Thanks for learning me about this whole 'Understanding Colours'.
I have been struggling with colour for a very long time and this video just explained it to me so so so well, thank you.😊
Freaking love those videos where you explain how artistic effects work. Thumbs up to you!