"Choosing Colors"

Learn color harmony with TikTok's Color.Nerd. A 40-minute interactive lesson on how to navigate the colorspace and create color combinations. For artists, designers, and more. Not your typical approach to color harmony!

[@heyihan9071]

Bravo. I am bingeing all of the videos I can of your colour theory lectures. Thank you.

[@sarabarbeau3241]

So much knowledge in this video. I am captivated by the amount of information. Thank you, I will need to rewatch this a few times.

[@vitorrizzato9536]

Time Stamps:
- Introduction: 4:29
- Section 1: 7:24
- Section 2: 34:54
- End of facecam issue: 40:38
- Reading comments: 53:17
- section 3: 58:12
- Exercise: 1:16:14
- More reading comments: 1:19:22

[@annieeatch9014]

Thanks for keeping this available for us in the uk

[@rasendekreativ]

Thank you so much for this! I'll be teaching color differently from now on!

[@ArgenAndJael]

Thanks for making this! I feel like the galaxy brain meme!

[@cathycarr8768]

Excellent communication of power of color! Thank you

[@AlexanderFeoktistov]

Thank you very much. ❤ That was very clear and helpfull

[@LePezzy66]

This was in the middle of the night for me, so I'll watch it today! Thanks for keeping it up!

[@tamarataylor2696]

I cannot thank you enough for sharing your knowledge with us. I've done a lot of learning about colour in the last year, and I wish I'd come across your TikTok channel earlier!

[@AmazingJane137]

Oh I want to learn more about Goethe’s theories. Thank you so much for this amazing colour class.

[@catarodriguez2264]

This is brilliant thank you so much

[@triciafirmaniuk8415]

My job is to help people create beautiful rooms with colour and I'm a visual artist/painter. Super helpful, thank you! Although I'm not sure how to make this simpler for decorating homes😂 certainly interesting in the context of painting!❤

[@rayglez2303]

Thanks. I'm Learning about color with your channel, many thanks.
In this moment, I don't understand completly how apply in some paint.
I have your 6.5 color wheel AND try to understand.
Can You analice a paint AND obtain his palette and give US your opinión about that?

[@lynnie57]

Nice work!

[@leon.online6993]

this was great

[@Milkbootable]

Thank you for putting all this on youtube, it really helps recontextualize a lot of things for me! Excited to try charting out some more color harmonies.
One thing that I'm stuck wondering right now though is: If we're to understand the RYB-based geometric color harmonies to be warped in actual perceptual space, then how do we look at the times they actually seem (subjectively, sure) to work out pretty well for images?
For example, sure, maybe Orange isn't the proper complement to that Blue but the ubiquitous Orange/Blue "complementary" poster does seem to work pretty well to my eye, so what gives? Is it artists/photographers doing something that works well despite a less than ideal color harmony? Is the "true" perceptual complement just too harsh, or am I just not familiar enough to them being used in contrast?

[@ColorNerd1]

The fact that RYB harmonies "work" just sort of proves that there's harmony to be had outside perceptual-geometric ones. RYB harmonies do not have an achromatic neutral point (they tend to have a warm brownish one) - does this make these harmonies aesthetically invalid? Heck no, but it also doesn't mean that red and green are suddenly maximum contrast (complements) just because you subjectively used them as two anchor points for your gamut.

[@Milkbootable]

@@ColorNerd1 makes sense, thanks for answering!

[@welldan97]

Thank you very much for these lessons. Absolutely amazing content! The delivery was great and well structured, I feel I understood much more about color combinations. That's what matters. I hope there will be more of such talks soon.
What do you think about cieCAM colorspace, is it a better cieLab or it's some different beast which should be used in other occasions?

[@ColorNerd1]

Thanks for the kind words. So, CIELAB is ok for a lot of applications, but CIECAM takes into account how colors appear in a "scene" or context. I think of CIECAM02 as a model that is better for artists working with pigments and subtractive mixing, because its hue angles (especially in blues and purples) better represent visually complementary hues as we experience them in context. Other people might disagree, but I came to that conclusion after reading Bruce McEvoy's work.

[@niyazdravkova8613]

Do you have any book or text recommendations on colour theory when painting ?

[@ColorNerd1]

"Color and Light" by James Gurney is great