Hi everyone! Chiken here.
In the last class, we learnt about
light and shadows, and we even applied what
we learnt to a simple character portrait.
This lesson will just be an overview of color theory.
We will just be learning how different colors
work together, and how our mind interprets them.
There's a whole chapter dedicated to colors later on where we
will be going much more in depth into the topic.
So, this lesson will focus on the
basics, to allow you to understand why
we might choose certain colors over others.
So, there are three parts to a
single color and it's represented on procreate's color
picker here with these three bars.
The first one is hue.
So if you click here, this is hue.
Basically, it's what the base color is.
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If this was traditional painting, it would refer
to the color of the pigment itself and
the second "S", which stands for saturation.
It's just how much of the color is
present or how concentrated the pigment is.
And the third one, tone or "B" for brightness,
is how dark or light the color or how
much black or white is in the paint.
So out of the 3, I believe that tone
is the most important, because at the end of
the day, what makes the painting readable is the
tone, and it's what gives the painting volume.
Next, let's talk about color theory and how
to match colors according to color harmony.
Color harmony refers to colors that naturally look
good together, and procreate actually has a built
in function to help you with that, here.
Personally, I only utilize two of
them, which are complementary and analogous.
So, complimentary colors are colored colors
that are opposite the color wheel.
This was the first thing my art teacher taught
me back in school, and analogous are colors that
are close together on the color wheel.
You can play around with the rest, too.
There's triadic, Tetradic, and split complementary,
which is quite similar to complementary.
I just find that complementary and analogous
are the easiest to work with.
But let's take these two complementary
colors and make a color palette.
Yes, while the colors do go well together, if
we apply this color palette to a whole
painting, it can be a bit much.
And that's because they are both saturated
to the same degree, and they will
be competing for our eyes attention.
How we may fix this is by turning down
the saturation of one color, maybe to about halfway,
and this will work a lot better in painting.
Let's try and apply this to a character art.
I have the girl from the previous lesson here.
Let's say she has this bright red hair,
and the previous colors hiding under here.
Yes, the colors look nice together,
but this is a bit bright.
What we want to do is have one
more saturated color, and one less saturated color,
which is this new palette that we created.
It looks a lot nicer.
The hair becomes our focal point, and we actually
have a place to rest our eyes from the
bright, bold colors in her less saturated skin.
And same goes for the inverse.
If we want to make her skin the focal
point, let's just create a new color palette and
we'll turn down the saturation like this.
Her skin becomes the focal point, but we have a place
to rest our eyes in the dark green of her hair.
But if we want to create a color palette for
a whole painting, two colors is not quite enough.
We need a few more colors.
So how will we go about choosing those colors?
We can use both analogous and complementary
to create a new color palette.
Let's say we want to work with this orange
and this blue and we decide that the orange
is going to be our focal point.
So, let's expand on this blue.
Using analogous colors, we can come up with a few more
colors to add to our color palette and
they can be of varying saturations and brightness.
Just make sure that it isn't more saturated than the orange,
so that the orange will remain as the focal point.
And we have a pretty nice
and simple color palette here.
To expand on this topic, in design, there's 80/20 rule,
which suggests that in the design, color should be split
in eight to two ratio, in which the main color
that makes up 80% of the design is less saturated.
So that the accent color can stand up.
This is a character design that
I did using complementary colors.
I used purple and yellow.
And as you can see, the majority of
her design or the main color is purple.
About 80% of her and her accent color is yellow.
And if we just get the color wheel here, we can
see that the yellow is actually a lot more saturated than
purple, which really allows the yellow parts to pop.
So these 80/20 design rule can be
very useful when you're wanting to design a character,
but it can also be applied to when you're
doing a full illustration.
For the mission, create 5
different color palettes using the knowledge from today's lesson.
And that concludes our first
chapter, art basics and fundamentals.
I hope you learn something new about
art and found the exercises useful.
As always, if you have any questions or you want
me to clarify anything, Just leave it in the comments.
In the next chapter, we'll be looking
at anatomy and proportions. Starting with breaking
down the human body into shapes.