🎨 BASIC COLOR THEORY | YouTube Art School — Transcript

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1. 0:00whoa oh I'm Mark I used to be a senior
2. 0:03artist at Blizzard Entertainment and now
3. 0:05I teach art for a living in this new
4. 0:08episode of my yet to be award-winning
5. 0:10series I call YouTube Art School we're
6. 0:12going to significantly level up your
7. 0:14color theory knowledge in just a couple
8. 0:16of minutes because I know you have no
9. 0:18attention span so if coloring has been a
10. 0:21struggle that's about to end so let's
11. 0:24get
12. 0:26[Music]
13. 0:28started
14. 0:31all right classes in session pay
15. 0:33attention also this class isn't free
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18. 0:39Stealing that's better let's get started
19. 0:42this class is going to be a super
20. 0:44condensed and simplified version of what
21. 0:46I teach in my full art program but as a
22. 0:48short YouTube video I think you'll get a
23. 0:50lot out of it especially if you've been
24. 0:52struggling with colors first thing first
25. 0:55when we talk color theory we got to get
26. 0:57on the same page regarding the basics so
27. 1:00let's start with the chromatic Circle
28. 1:02this is the chromatic Circle and it's
29. 1:04specific to the colors of light for
30. 1:06digital art pigment colors have their
31. 1:08own chromatic Circle and it's slightly
32. 1:10different now here we have all of the
33. 1:13colors of the rainbow this is what white
34. 1:15light is made out of you add all of
35. 1:18these together and well you get the
36. 1:20color white what we see here is only a
37. 1:22fraction of all the colors that were
38. 1:23able to see in art because it only
39. 1:26represents the Hue of the color Hue
40. 1:29represents the position on the chromatic
41. 1:31Circle it's a light frequency basically
42. 1:34when we talk about colors we're really
43. 1:35talking about the Hue but also the value
44. 1:39and the saturation combined colors can
45. 1:42be bright or dark saturated or not and
46. 1:46of different Hues now we should also
47. 1:48quickly talk about color warmth because
48. 1:51there are colors that can be defined as
49. 1:53warm colors and others as cool colors
50. 1:56usually we'll split the chromatic Circle
51. 1:58this way to roughly indicate which color
52. 2:00is cool or warm but in reality any color
53. 2:04can take on any of the two rolls so here
54. 2:07for example red you know a typically
55. 2:09very warm color what happens when
56. 2:12another type of red is right next to it
57. 2:15yet is not maybe as saturated and might
58. 2:19have a bit of blue in it well in this
59. 2:21case that red takes on the role of the
60. 2:23cool color relative to the other red
61. 2:25because color warmth is relative always
62. 2:28remember this in independently those two
63. 2:31are clearly red warm colors but relative
64. 2:34to each other we don't perceive them to
65. 2:36be the same warmth and why bother
66. 2:38learning all of this well because color
67. 2:41temperature plays a huge part in how we
68. 2:43look at Art we're naturally attracted to
69. 2:46warmer colors and so they tend to get
70. 2:48our attention more easily as opposed to
71. 2:50cool colors think of it from the
72. 2:52perspective of our jeans and evolution
73. 2:55way back in the days when we were living
74. 2:56in caves and our most advanced
75. 2:58technology was fire a warm color like
76. 3:02yellow and you know red like fire that
77. 3:04meant life where were we most
78. 3:06comfortable well right next to a warm
79. 3:08fire in the middle of a cold night and
80. 3:11well today as artists you know we can
81. 3:13use that fact to guide the attention to
82. 3:15a particular part of a painting because
83. 3:18warm colors tend to attract attention
84. 3:21while cool colors tend to recede in the
85. 3:23background and of course all of this is
86. 3:25going pretty fast but if you're
87. 3:27fascinated by colors like I am we go
88. 3:29into to it a lot more in depth in my art
89. 3:31program you can learn about with the
90. 3:33link in the video description the
91. 3:34program contains among many others two
92. 3:37extensive classes on color and light
93. 3:39Theory and they're some of my favorites
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102. 3:58all right now that we have the base
103. 3:59basics down we have a drawing here how
104. 4:02the heck do we choose the right colors
105. 4:04for it let me show you a few color
106. 4:06recipes that you can try right now or as
107. 4:09they could also be referred to color
108. 4:11harmonies those are basically guidelines
109. 4:13to select a few colors that will ensure
110. 4:16they work together harmoniously it's
111. 4:19very easy to select a team of colors
112. 4:21that don't work well together it's too
113. 4:23easy a color harmony though is a way to
114. 4:26pick a great team all the time or in
115. 4:29this case pick a good color palette all
116. 4:31the time there are many color harmonies
117. 4:34many more that I'll show today but we'll
118. 4:36look at a few of my favorite ones that
119. 4:38also happen to be pretty easy to use now
120. 4:41the first and simplest color Harmony is
121. 4:44called monochromatic color Harmony and
122. 4:46it's exactly what it sounds like it's a
123. 4:48color palette made up of all the same
124. 4:50Hue but not necessarily the same value
125. 4:53or saturation and just in general too
126. 4:55don't stress out too much if you're not
127. 4:56following like 100% of the recipe just
128. 4:59like your real like cooking recipe
129. 5:01you're always free to add some extra
130. 5:03spices or whatever adjust it based on
131. 5:05your preferences anyways a monochromatic
132. 5:06color palette might look something like
133. 5:09this it all looks basically the same
134. 5:10color except I did make some choices
135. 5:13here to adjust the saturation and values
136. 5:16to create more contrast around my focal
137. 5:18point aka the face of the character and
138. 5:20the focal point by the way being simply
139. 5:22what the artist wants the audience to
140. 5:24notice first right by introducing colors
141. 5:27with darker and brighter values around
142. 5:29this area and by adding more saturation
143. 5:31to my colors most people will tend to
144. 5:33look here first and then notice the rest
145. 5:36after because the rest has much less
146. 5:38contrast in value and saturation
147. 5:40contrast is exciting no contrast not
148. 5:43exciting and this will be the focus with
149. 5:45the other color harmonies to always try
150. 5:47to arrange the more visually exciting
151. 5:49colors in your color palette around your
152. 5:51focal point again it's not just about
153. 5:53the colors that you choose it's how you
154. 5:55use them moving on to the second color
155. 5:57Harmony then one you might might have
156. 6:00never heard of before a diet Harmony not
157. 6:03a diet or not a dad Harmony a diad this
158. 6:07one will be a combination of two colors
159. 6:09that are separated by one color on the
160. 6:11color wheel these two colors for example
161. 6:14now since we have more than one color
162. 6:16just like having more than one character
163. 6:18in a drawing or in a movie a hierarchy
164. 6:21sets in some colors just like characters
165. 6:24are more dominant than others and as a
166. 6:26result attract more attention like we
167. 6:28saw with the monoch itic Harmony we can
168. 6:30adjust the saturation and the values of
169. 6:32our colors depending if we want them to
170. 6:34pop or to be more discreet now I'm
171. 6:37choosing here to go with red as the lead
172. 6:39color for my red and orange color
173. 6:41palette since it's naturally a slightly
174. 6:44warmer color than orange and hopefully
175. 6:46we remember that warmer colors attract
176. 6:49more attention AKA they make great lead
177. 6:51colors and then I'm going to take that
178. 6:53orange and desaturate it to cool it down
179. 6:55and make it more discrete from here if I
180. 6:58were to use this color palette to color
181. 6:59color something I'd used the vibrant red
182. 7:01around my focal point since it's now the
183. 7:03lead color the lead color will often be
184. 7:06brighter more saturated and warm in
185. 7:08temperature and the same lead color will
186. 7:10be the one that I feature most around my
187. 7:12focal point if I did the opposite and
188. 7:14made the colors away from my focal point
189. 7:16stand out more it'll more likely than
190. 7:19not create a very weird vibe when we
191. 7:21look at this like we're being
192. 7:23misdirected kind of I keep wanting to
193. 7:26look over here because that's where the
194. 7:27colors have the most contrast but
195. 7:29there's nothing worth looking at there
196. 7:32there's a lot of psychology involved in
197. 7:34color theory which is a big part of why
198. 7:36it's so fascinating to me now the third
199. 7:40Harmony is the complimentary color
200. 7:42Harmony this is one of my favorite
201. 7:44because it's the most contrast we'll
202. 7:46ever have in a color Harmony this one
203. 7:47might be more familiar but we'll go
204. 7:49ahead and select two colors directly
205. 7:51opposite on the chromatic Circle we just
206. 7:53discussed ways to come up with a lead
207. 7:55color and a secondary color so this will
208. 7:57apply here as well but another thing
209. 7:59thing we can do too is play with the
210. 8:01amount of each color not just the
211. 8:03contrast between them whatever color I
212. 8:05end up choosing as the lead color I like
213. 8:07to keep it in the shorter Supply on the
214. 8:09drawing to create a sense of Rarity
215. 8:12Rarity or scarcity is eye-catching it's
216. 8:15science and that's going to be the end
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