CORRECTION: Adding white makes a TINT, and adding black makes a SHADE. I have this backwards in the video. Check out all Design Lessons here! ua-cam.com/video/p_qiIjPB3JA/v-deo.htmlsi=JFvb89tWZ9qqA23Q
One more correction, sorry. Some of the complimentary colors you showed were wrong. The compliment of Green is Magenta. The compliment of Red is Cyan. Green and Red are not complimentary colors. The color wheel that is most commonly used has an abbreviated light spectrum because it was developed in ancint times to accomodate the pigments that they had the ability to make paints out of, but it is not an accurate representation of the visual light spectrum. In the visual light spectrum, the three primary colors are red, green, and blue, which is why these are the colors available in screen pixels. Their secondary colors are Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta. In printing, Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow are the primary colors, because unlike monitor screens which emit light, pigments achieve color by blocking light. In olden times however, Cyan and Magenta pigments were not easily able to be found, and since painters could not use them, they were not represented on the color wheel. Their more commonly found approximations, Blue and Red got upgraded to being called “primary” on the old color wheel alongside Yellow. And they technically were primary, since you can’t make Blue or Red unless you have Cyan and Magenta, so they weren’t able to make those colors unless they found them in nature. Anyway that’s the history of the color wheel. That’s also why you’ll notice that Green and Magenta as well as Red and Cyan look so pretty compared to highly saturated Green and Red Best of all, Minecraft does have these colors in the 16 color concrete palette.
@@maximillion322This is true, technically, but it depends on the context too! I actually discuss this in more detail in the deep dive episode coming out in the near future. Since this video just covers the basics of color theory, I used the traditional primary color group, but we will be going in to additive vs subtractive, traditional and modern primary groups, and even different color spaces and some history in the deep dive. But overall you're correct! maybe it would be better for me to present it that way right out of the gate to avoid adding to the misconception, you've given me some good food for thought, thank you
The way I remember it is that shades are like colors with a shadow on them. Made darker. Though, annoyingly, the most common thing people think of with "tint" is dark tinted glass on cars, so it's understandable to mix up.
@@TheLoosestOfGooses well, the reason that the old color wheel exists in the first place is due to technological limitations that we don’t have anymore, so there’s no real reason to keep using it other than for the purposes of documenting history, as it’s just plain inaccurate when it comes to how color actually works. Teaching it as basic color theory is like teaching students in low level math that there’s no such thing as negative numbers, only for them to immediately have to unlearn that in order to actually progress.
As an illustrator, I've watched hundreds if not thousands of free and paid lessons. I have dozens of color theory tutorials saved. This is legitimately one of the best color theory tutorials I've ever seen. You've taken such a complex subject and explained it in a way that is so clear and easy to understand, even for people who have no background experience in illustration. I'm seriously impressed. I hope you're proud of these lessons because you truly should be.
Dude that was the first thing I said while watching this! I was like “oh this’ll be interesting” and quickly changed to “oh shit I actually need to take notes” haha. This was extremely informative!! :)
EXACTLY THIS! you've packaged this (really complex) information in such a digestible and helpful form, honestly one of the best guides on color theory, not even just for Minecraft!
I legit would look up color theory and only get basic color wheel stuff. I got more information from this video which I guess I intuitively caught on most of it but it was good to finally see it outlined in a good way like this, I think the 3D aspect helps a lot too.
Minecraft is actually a really neat way to explain these concepts of colour theory. In other mediums, people like to claim that there is some sort of trickery going on, but in Minecraft the vast majority of blocks don't change colour, so you can more easily demonstrate things like the way colours look very different depending on surrounding colours by relying on this fact.
@@TheLoosestOfGooses does dying leather armor get at that at all? I never use that feature, ever, but I know you can really go nuts with it. I just don't know if it actually follows the rules the way it should.
How the heck are you better at explaining color theory in minecraft than graphic design teachers in university? i always had trouble understanding color theory and you explain it so well!
1am, school night, supposed to be sleeping, not even dabbling in any kind of art, but i will gladly watch a 27-minute long video about Color Theory in minecraft
color theory sure is a nightmare thanks to stuff like different perceptions and optical illusions (for example, where 2 identical grays look brighter or darker based on what's around them)
That yellow to blue gradient is actually what a lot of color blind people see as the color spectrum as red and green are merged to yellow. The only nitpick is that the ice block has a bit too much green in it.
Fully black-white colourblind or "just" for example red-green kind, or Red-brown spectrum? Cuz if it's the latter, you can totally learn a lot still ;)
I'm a hobby artist and I've had trouble understanding all of this for so many years despite what other artists posted. I think the fact that you show many examples with pre-existing objects (AKA things I've already seen) helped solidify everything for me. Thank you!
Cool video! One thing to note is that complimentary and complementary are two different words, from "compliment" as in praise and "complement" as in something that completes another.
I think that would be: 2-4-1-3 (from warm to cool). The 2 is because it has a bit of yellow shade. And then 4 and 1. They are both grey, but the 4 is lighter, and as we used to a warm things being lighter than a darker things, 4 looks warmer than the 1. The 3 has light blue local color.
I'm a bit late to the party, but at 9:57, you talk about the confusion between two forms of 'complimentary'; it's actually spelt complementary when you're talking about opposites, so hopefully that will remove some of the confusion! Great video by the way, I've never been much of a builder but you've inspired me to have a go :D
I'm not the most educated on color theory, but out of all the tutorials I've watched about color theory this is probably the best one. If my friends ask me to explain color theory I'll definitely show them this video.
I’ve always gotten the gist of color theory, but never really understood, and I love Minecraft. 2:18 secs into the video and I already got a smile on my face because of how easy to understand.
I'm an experienced artist and I have watched SO MANY color theory videoes, but this is easily one of the best I've EVER SEEN. Additionally, due to the medium of.. minecraft, it's much better at keeping my attention fixed! You're also a very great commentator!
Please never stop making these videos, there very helpful! I'll try doing the "assignments" both in Minecraft and digitally drawing. Keep up the good work
This is probably the most helpful block palette video I've ever seen and breaks down color theory in an easy to understand way. Great for Minecraft builders but also i think a great video to help kids learn about color theory in a way that both actually makes sense and also is probably more engaging than the art teacher lecturing them in class when they just want to color and be creative 😂😂😂
I've genuinely sometimes wondered what contrast was, because it's everywhere, to my settings, and the other things in this video were useful too. I'm not an artist, nor a minecraft builder, YET.
I've been procrastinating to learn about colour theory for my art, so this video sounds perfect to me. Once I am done procrastinating to watch this video
The value and saturation throw the eye off a little bit, but if you look closely, 3 is the coolest color. The correct order, from warmest to coolest, is: 2, 4, 1, 3 3 is the closest to blue, while 2 is the closest to red. If you'd like to see for yourself, I recommend opening up Minecraft and arranging the colors in a run. It's easier to see the subtle differences in temperature between blocks if you line them up. Hope this helps!
Out off all colour theory videos I've studied from, THIS ONE IS THE BEST. You explained it so clearly and made it easier to understand. You're my saviour dude. Tysm.
Great video! I'm definitely sending this to all my art teacher friends. Kids love Minecraft, so these mini-videos would be great to grab their attention at the beginning of a lesson.
by the way, the fact that minecraft has always warm lights and cool shadows is an artifact of its rendering engine. replicating what you called "reflective light" (or, as we call it in the field of rendering, global illumination or indirect lighting or ambient lighting. it has lot of names) is really difficult without the use of ray tracing. so, a hack we do is assume that anything that's not being lit up has a base light value. and we use this base light value, which is darker than the direct light itself, to shade any block that isn't in light... this is important to give the illusion of global illumination because, without it, blocks would just be black unless theres light on them. (this is obviously oversimplifying it since the game also has ambient occlusion and also takes into account what blocks are in darkness and even the normal face of the block, but the basic idea is still true) the reason night looks darker than day in minecraft is not just because the direct lighting from the moon is dimmer, but also because the game darkens the base indirect/ambient lighting value. with this in mind, we can easily explain the warm lights cool shadows phenomenon in minecraft. it's simply that the RGB value for direct lighting (the sun) is warm because sunlight is warm. and the RGB value hardcoded as the indirect base lighting is cool. so, while temperature is the intended effect, you are right. the reason it's a color gradient from yellow to blue is specifically because the sun (direct) light has a slight RGB value tinted yellow and the indirect light has a slight RGB tinted blue. then the rendering engine does some maths to figure out the gradient between the two, hence the color gradient.
Going into the gray/saturation transitions and value/color relativity (is that the right word?) in the INTRO and doing it so well is so awesome and cleared some things up for me that I remembered seeing in a video a while back! I’m not finished watching yet but already considering sending this to some friends, because you explain things so incredibly well. You also bring up some good points in-depth that I don’t recall being brought up in my art classes. Considering the classes were fantastic already, this is on another level! Amazing work, and thank you for the incredible resource.
This was randomly recommended to me and I'm not sure why as I don't know anything about color theory, but I LOVED this video! This was super interesting and I learned a few new things today. Super cool :)
I've been building for so many years now, but still, this video was SO educational and helpful. It's always great to learn something new and the almost 30 minutes felt like 3. Great job, you're amazing.
This is really entertaining and super informative!! The demonstrations given made me thoroughly engaged; 27 minutes felt like 12 minutes. Definitely something I will be using as reference multiple times. I can't believe this stuff is available for free!! Awesome job 👍
Free? You should be getting a bill in the mail soon, I charge by the minute, and even though it felt like 12, you’ll be charged for 27! lol thank you though!
I'm currently studying grafic desing and visual arts and last semester our color theory teacher made us watch youtube videos instead of teaching or explaining anything at all. If she showed us this video I wouldn't be so mad, I've learned more with this than all my time at uni
@@ronenth I feel like a lot of people try to make color theory all mysterious, but understanding that it’s just a way to DESCRIBE color, not USE color can help a lot of people wrap their heads around it
i’m using talk to text so I hope this comes out well, but I think it’s important to mention the differences and spelling in the words, complimentary and complementary. To compliment something for being pretty well with it,uses the eye and to be contrasting from something this is the E.
i have literally no reason to watch this, i haven't played minecraft in years nor am i an artist of some kind yet i've watched the whole vid 👍 plus ur voice is very relaxing 😸
This is a really good tutorial I’d just like to add one piece, when he’s talking about saturation he’s actually talking about chroma. Chroma is the ‘purity’ of the color, being the most red there is. Saturation is just the strongest type of that color, which could be anywhere from black to the pure red. I imagine saturation with a printer, a highly saturated (black and white) print won’t have those grey patches, just super strong black. Great video! Edit: Sorry, one more! I believe he means “complementary”, like complete (instead of “complimentary”, like compliment). It’s called that because when complementary colors are used for each other they cancel out and create grey, ‘completing’ each other.
Yeah definitely wrong about the spelling haha a few people have pointed it out. That’s a great distinction to make with chroma and saturation! The reason I group it all in as saturation in this case, is because we don’t have a full color space to work with in Minecraft. I know GneissName has organized several color spaces of Minecraft blocks, and you could define the gamut and spectral locus according to that, but I don’t think it works as well to explain it when using only Minecraft blocks. I’m working on a deep dive into color theory that addresses things like this in color theory as a whole, not just in relation to Minecraft blocks. That is an important distinction though, you’re correct.
I've only seen the opening section so far, about the relative colors. As an artist, I ADORE that section. Yes I understand the subject decently but its always nice to review. You explain it in such a clear and easy to understand way that doesn't feel like I'm being lectured on a subject I already know.
I found it interesting with the temperature how while the purple is cool relative to the red, and warm relative to the blue, in context it felt warm and cool respectively. So yes, the purple is cool ~relative~ to the red, but it felt warm in the ~context~ of the red (and the opposite w blue). So fun trying to wrap my head around what I was experiencing to try and communicate it!
after watching so many videos explaining color theory, I can't believe color theory in minecraft is the video where I can finally deeply understand what color theory is 😭 I really thought I was learning from a professor while watching your video.. great job!! :DD
Thank you thank you thank you for explaining temperature, and the fact that lighting creates the opposite temperature shadow really opened my eyes on how to properly incorporate temperature in my shading. You finally explained to me why I see purples, greens and blues in skin color.
oh MAN i could go off about greens in skin tones. Traditionally, in western oil painting, when doing figures with lighter skin tones, the underpainting will be in black and white, and then a glaze of green (usually Terre Verte) was put over all the skin before doing an overpainting with the actual skin tones. You generally leave the shadows more transparent than the light mass, and these little hints of that green show through. After I learned and practiced that, everyone looked green to me lol
I don’t think I’ve ever sat through a video like this without getting distracted. This was honestly the best way of describing color theory ever and I am so glad I didn’t scroll past this.
Sorry if this comes off as weird, but your voice is so nice to listen to, its so soothing , and i js enjoy it , also i love how you explain this , so simple and understandable.
This was genuinely so informing, i felt myself almost get emotional with how kindly you explained everything in a way people of all ages would understand. Not even in a limiting way but instead freeing with how you said that part about the palettes Definitely gonna watch the rest of this series! You're doing awesome
I’m a 3D artist who uses Blender. The amount of insight that this video provides is incredible. Now I like playing Minecraft even more. So much to learn.
Brilliant! Exactly what I learned in college, but instead of spending 10 hours painting color sheets, and more on the card color dex to find colors look like other ones 😂 This is much cheaper, and faster. Nice job!
i thought i already knew enough about colour theory, but some of the info in here is pretty interesting - not just as a minecraft builder, but also as an artist in general 16:06 clay = coolest, cyan terracotta = 2nd coolest gray concrete = 2nd warmest light grsay concrete = warmest>????
haha you should check out the Deep Dive series I did, even I learned a lot making it, but thank you!! and yes! thats correct, although you could argue that gray concrete is warmer than light gray concrete because its leaning towards violets and red, where the light grey is leaning towards orange and yellow, but I would say the light gray is warmest.
Amazing video!!!!! I didn't know this channel and this video inspired me to do something similar, but in Portuguese. I'm a teacher and I believe that bringing content like this can be very useful in helping students think more, using something they are already familiar with (minecraft in this case). Once again, congratulations on the inspiring content. + 1 sub here.
Hey man. I don’t usually comment on videos but I loved this style of UA-camr. You remind me of an early etho and his super nerdy style that got him his following. Keep it up man, I’m rooting for you!!
16:20 i think 2 is warmest, it feels orange yellowy, then 4 which feels more green, then 1 kinda beels bluish/purplish, and lastly 3 looks more bluish to me
This is genuinely one of the most helpful and wonderful videos I’ve ever seen, you’ve done an excellent job explaining these things to me and now I understand color theory a lot better and have lots of awesome ideas of how to apply these, and I noticed some themes for example I tend to like to use triad color pallets :D
LITERALLY WHAT, this was explained genuinely so well, I've been trying to look around for good explanations on how color theory works && this helped a LOT
Hue, value and saturation all make sense, those are all real things that a computer could agree exists on an absolute scale but temperature sticks out massively to me, it seems really arbitrary like we could have just as easily decided that we measure it by how close things are to some other combination of colours and just called it something else like by deciding yellow is the warmest instead
I've been thinking about Minecraft and art, it's so wonderful that you've made this! While I'm familiar with these principles in the traditional, visual arts, it's so cool to see it in the context of Minecraft blocks! I also love that you're encouraging folks to create! It's so true that all these principles are tools, not rules!!
Man, thanks a lot. I was frustrated dealing with value and saturation until watched the video. Thats a really complex color guide i've ever seen. Minecraft is the great game, that larger than just a game
As much as I like some of the cool gradient builds that have come about from this color theory renaissance in Minecraft. These tend to only look good from a distance. When you treat something as it's average color, it won't make sense up close. I prefer focusing on the details of the build and making something have more depth rather than more color. If I want more color I use mods that adds in more stairs and slabs rather than trying for force blocks into a role they weren't designed for. That's not to say color theory has no use. I'm just talking about certain applications of it.
MY GOD THIS WAS AWESOME! How you don’t have more subscribers is beyond me. I especially like how you covered relativity in color temperature, because I feel like most art lessons don’t cover temperate colors (which is around yellow and green, as well as purple: they’re all temperate colors). And when I take a painting class next semester at university, I’m definitely gonna show my professor this video.
After forcing ourselves to never start another new survival world, my friend and I now are truly far along enough in the game to make this knowledge useful in survival. We have a farm for almost everything and now we can just build stuff.
This is an amazing tutorial for color theory basics in general. Thank you for making such a comprehensive reference! I can’t wait to use this to brush up on color theory for my illustrations!
The two types of compliment are actually spelled differently! The one that means saying something nice is "compliment" with an I in the middle, while the one that relates to colour theory is "complement" with an E in the middle ^^
thanks for this! always struggled with color theory but this helped me understand it a bit more :P the yellow -> blue and shading sections really helped :)
I didn't expect someone would teach ART using MINECRAFT, this is gold, i already watched Marco Bucci color theory tutorial, but, lets give a try to this one lol
@@TheLoosestOfGooses i liked how you taught, made me watch all art tutorials explained in Minecraft haha, i would like to watch the perspective ones, even if the game itself is perspective lol
You're great. I read somewhere before where you can truly see if someone has an understanding of a subject, if they are able to explain it in a way that others will understand and it seems you've suceeded! ❤❤
9:30 note, there's also a spelling difference between the two words despite them being pronounced the same which I think is where a lot of the confusion came from, *compl-i-mentary* things are those that go well together because they're similar, *compl-e-mentary* things are opposites of one another (so putting them together creates contrast which you might want as you said).
@@TheLoosestOfGooses Sorry, I didn't mean to sound overly critical or anything. just that it's a very common and understandable mistake...! Other than that it's a really really good collection of little lessons and you have a great skill for giving practical examples too! I feel like I could definitely implement a lot of what you taught here (And this is coming from a redstoner not a builder lol)
Good video! About shade and tint, I believe it's the opposite though. A shade would be darker and a tint would be lighter. A tone would be when you mix your color with gray EDIT: i've just seen you pinned the erratum already
This video has helped me understand color theory a bit more. I will definitely be coming back to take notes and try to build using the principles in the video.❤
A little tip, if you're seeing flashing black lines when trying to figure out the local color of a block, increase the mipmapping setting in video options!
thank you so much this is seriously exactly the kind of lessons ive been looking for! many of the color theory videos i find online are only about complimentary colors and color palettes. your sections on relativity and hue are perfect :)
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CORRECTION: Adding white makes a TINT, and adding black makes a SHADE. I have this backwards in the video.
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One more correction, sorry.
Some of the complimentary colors you showed were wrong.
The compliment of Green is Magenta. The compliment of Red is Cyan. Green and Red are not complimentary colors.
The color wheel that is most commonly used has an abbreviated light spectrum because it was developed in ancint times to accomodate the pigments that they had the ability to make paints out of, but it is not an accurate representation of the visual light spectrum.
In the visual light spectrum, the three primary colors are red, green, and blue, which is why these are the colors available in screen pixels. Their secondary colors are Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta. In printing, Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow are the primary colors, because unlike monitor screens which emit light, pigments achieve color by blocking light.
In olden times however, Cyan and Magenta pigments were not easily able to be found, and since painters could not use them, they were not represented on the color wheel. Their more commonly found approximations, Blue and Red got upgraded to being called “primary” on the old color wheel alongside Yellow. And they technically were primary, since you can’t make Blue or Red unless you have Cyan and Magenta, so they weren’t able to make those colors unless they found them in nature.
Anyway that’s the history of the color wheel. That’s also why you’ll notice that Green and Magenta as well as Red and Cyan look so pretty compared to highly saturated Green and Red
Best of all, Minecraft does have these colors in the 16 color concrete palette.
@@maximillion322This is true, technically, but it depends on the context too!
I actually discuss this in more detail in the deep dive episode coming out in the near future. Since this video just covers the basics of color theory, I used the traditional primary color group, but we will be going in to additive vs subtractive, traditional and modern primary groups, and even different color spaces and some history in the deep dive.
But overall you're correct! maybe it would be better for me to present it that way right out of the gate to avoid adding to the misconception, you've given me some good food for thought, thank you
The way I remember it is that shades are like colors with a shadow on them. Made darker.
Though, annoyingly, the most common thing people think of with "tint" is dark tinted glass on cars, so it's understandable to mix up.
@@TheLoosestOfGoosesalso, blue actually has the darkest value among the colored blocks, not red
@@TheLoosestOfGooses well, the reason that the old color wheel exists in the first place is due to technological limitations that we don’t have anymore, so there’s no real reason to keep using it other than for the purposes of documenting history, as it’s just plain inaccurate when it comes to how color actually works.
Teaching it as basic color theory is like teaching students in low level math that there’s no such thing as negative numbers, only for them to immediately have to unlearn that in order to actually progress.
As an illustrator, I've watched hundreds if not thousands of free and paid lessons. I have dozens of color theory tutorials saved. This is legitimately one of the best color theory tutorials I've ever seen. You've taken such a complex subject and explained it in a way that is so clear and easy to understand, even for people who have no background experience in illustration. I'm seriously impressed. I hope you're proud of these lessons because you truly should be.
Aw shucks 😅 thank you so much!
Dude that was the first thing I said while watching this! I was like “oh this’ll be interesting” and quickly changed to “oh shit I actually need to take notes” haha. This was extremely informative!! :)
@@cakelover7070 thank you so much!! :D I’m stoked you got so much out of it
EXACTLY THIS! you've packaged this (really complex) information in such a digestible and helpful form, honestly one of the best guides on color theory, not even just for Minecraft!
I legit would look up color theory and only get basic color wheel stuff. I got more information from this video which I guess I intuitively caught on most of it but it was good to finally see it outlined in a good way like this, I think the 3D aspect helps a lot too.
The yellow-to-blue gradient section really opened my eyes.
Good! That was a big revelation for me too when I realized it
Think of it like having 2 complementary neon lights on a white wall :)
@@Wemzii0 that’s a cool way to think of it!
Time please
Is it a triad or what?
Minecraft is actually a really neat way to explain these concepts of colour theory. In other mediums, people like to claim that there is some sort of trickery going on, but in Minecraft the vast majority of blocks don't change colour, so you can more easily demonstrate things like the way colours look very different depending on surrounding colours by relying on this fact.
It is! There’s some principles I can’t really do in Minecraft, but most of it translates really well.
@@TheLoosestOfGooseslike what principles?
@@CatwaiiYT color Mixing is the biggest one haha
@@TheLoosestOfGooses you can mix colors using beacons and colored glass blocks, but it isn't that good
@@TheLoosestOfGooses does dying leather armor get at that at all? I never use that feature, ever, but I know you can really go nuts with it. I just don't know if it actually follows the rules the way it should.
How the heck are you better at explaining color theory in minecraft than graphic design teachers in university? i always had trouble understanding color theory and you explain it so well!
I don't know! You only know something as well as you can teach it, so I practice explaining stuff a lot lol
I was thinking the exact same thing LoL, 2 years og graphic desing, nono, 30 minutes minecraft video, OH YEAH
@@WBR44totes fr bruh 😎
If you removed the Minecraft blocks, this is a first-semester art class! This is super solid! Thanks!
second semester starts soon!
@@TheLoosestOfGooses - We look forward to it! : )
1am, school night, supposed to be sleeping, not even dabbling in any kind of art, but i will gladly watch a 27-minute long video about Color Theory in minecraft
time well spent in my opinion!
As an artist who loves minecraft, this makes me incredibly happy to see color theory explained in minecraft
it makes me happy to do it!
Why is a guy talking about colors in Minecraft so damn interesting?
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Wow ur here too?
@@hisashikurokku I am here indeed
@@hisashikurokku when will bro realise i'm EVERYWHERE
color theory sure is a nightmare thanks to stuff like different perceptions and optical illusions (for example, where 2 identical grays look brighter or darker based on what's around them)
There are some seriously tricky situations when dealing with color 0_0
Just as much as it is a nightmare, it allows for some pretty cool tricks like were shown in the video, so I'm also grateful for these illusions!
That yellow to blue gradient is actually what a lot of color blind people see as the color spectrum as red and green are merged to yellow. The only nitpick is that the ice block has a bit too much green in it.
Me who’s colourblind and never played minecraft: _”ahhh yes, very helpful, good to know”_
haha well thanks for checking it out !
Fully black-white colourblind or "just" for example red-green kind, or Red-brown spectrum?
Cuz if it's the latter, you can totally learn a lot still ;)
i’m classically trained in cartography and i have to say… it’s crazy how many places we can apply color theory! loving your channel
Thank you!!
I've always been fascinated by the colour of cartography. Can you share some of your knowledge?
I'm a hobby artist and I've had trouble understanding all of this for so many years despite what other artists posted. I think the fact that you show many examples with pre-existing objects (AKA things I've already seen) helped solidify everything for me. Thank you!
Woo! I’m glad I could help!
Cool video! One thing to note is that complimentary and complementary are two different words, from "compliment" as in praise and "complement" as in something that completes another.
I think that would be: 2-4-1-3 (from warm to cool).
The 2 is because it has a bit of yellow shade.
And then 4 and 1. They are both grey, but the 4 is lighter, and as we used to a warm things being lighter than a darker things, 4 looks warmer than the 1.
The 3 has light blue local color.
You’re correct! But remember, value doesn’t necessarily affect temperature. 4 leans towards yellow, and 1 leans towards blue
Nice to know I'm right, I just looked and guessed lol!
I did some research on color theory recently and I want to dive in deeper. So this video is super helpful. Thank you Goose!
You bet! Deep dive episodes are coming soon 🫡
I'm a bit late to the party, but at 9:57, you talk about the confusion between two forms of 'complimentary'; it's actually spelt complementary when you're talking about opposites, so hopefully that will remove some of the confusion! Great video by the way, I've never been much of a builder but you've inspired me to have a go :D
I'm not the most educated on color theory, but out of all the tutorials I've watched about color theory this is probably the best one. If my friends ask me to explain color theory I'll definitely show them this video.
That means so much to me 🥲 thank you!
I’ve always gotten the gist of color theory, but never really understood, and I love Minecraft.
2:18 secs into the video and I already got a smile on my face because of how easy to understand.
Ayy I’m Glad to hear!
this helped me a lot to understand the meaning of "relative" in a colour theory sense, thank you so much! :D
Im so glad I could help!
I'm an experienced artist and I have watched SO MANY color theory videoes, but this is easily one of the best I've EVER SEEN. Additionally, due to the medium of.. minecraft, it's much better at keeping my attention fixed! You're also a very great commentator!
hey Im so glad you liked it! That means a lot to hear, thank you!
bro how is a Minecraft color theory video the way i can finally understand color theory
incredible work! so glad this popped in my recommended
Please never stop making these videos, there very helpful! I'll try doing the "assignments" both in Minecraft and digitally drawing. Keep up the good work
Ay thats awesome! Ill do my best haha
This is probably the most helpful block palette video I've ever seen and breaks down color theory in an easy to understand way. Great for Minecraft builders but also i think a great video to help kids learn about color theory in a way that both actually makes sense and also is probably more engaging than the art teacher lecturing them in class when they just want to color and be creative 😂😂😂
I really had hopes that this would be accessible and useful to kids and adults! Thanks :D
I've genuinely sometimes wondered what contrast was, because it's everywhere, to my settings, and the other things in this video were useful too. I'm not an artist, nor a minecraft builder, YET.
YET!
I've been procrastinating to learn about colour theory for my art, so this video sounds perfect to me.
Once I am done procrastinating to watch this video
Haha get to it!!
16:22 2 and 4 are warmer but 2 is the warmest. 1 and three are cool, but 1 is the coolest
The value and saturation throw the eye off a little bit, but if you look closely, 3 is the coolest color.
The correct order, from warmest to coolest, is: 2, 4, 1, 3
3 is the closest to blue, while 2 is the closest to red.
If you'd like to see for yourself, I recommend opening up Minecraft and arranging the colors in a run. It's easier to see the subtle differences in temperature between blocks if you line them up.
Hope this helps!
Out off all colour theory videos I've studied from, THIS ONE IS THE BEST. You explained it so clearly and made it easier to understand. You're my saviour dude. Tysm.
@@poetryuo I’m honored! Thank you for checking it out!
Great video! I'm definitely sending this to all my art teacher friends. Kids love Minecraft, so these mini-videos would be great to grab their attention at the beginning of a lesson.
@@LunaBoo12 thank you!! I hope they can get some use out of them
by the way, the fact that minecraft has always warm lights and cool shadows is an artifact of its rendering engine. replicating what you called "reflective light" (or, as we call it in the field of rendering, global illumination or indirect lighting or ambient lighting. it has lot of names) is really difficult without the use of ray tracing. so, a hack we do is assume that anything that's not being lit up has a base light value. and we use this base light value, which is darker than the direct light itself, to shade any block that isn't in light... this is important to give the illusion of global illumination because, without it, blocks would just be black unless theres light on them. (this is obviously oversimplifying it since the game also has ambient occlusion and also takes into account what blocks are in darkness and even the normal face of the block, but the basic idea is still true)
the reason night looks darker than day in minecraft is not just because the direct lighting from the moon is dimmer, but also because the game darkens the base indirect/ambient lighting value.
with this in mind, we can easily explain the warm lights cool shadows phenomenon in minecraft. it's simply that the RGB value for direct lighting (the sun) is warm because sunlight is warm. and the RGB value hardcoded as the indirect base lighting is cool. so, while temperature is the intended effect, you are right. the reason it's a color gradient from yellow to blue is specifically because the sun (direct) light has a slight RGB value tinted yellow and the indirect light has a slight RGB tinted blue. then the rendering engine does some maths to figure out the gradient between the two, hence the color gradient.
@@fruitygranulizer540 that makes so much sense! Thank you for laying it out for us :D
Why is that Minecraft seems to be the most fitting art lesson engine lmao
It’s such a good platform! I love this game so much
Going into the gray/saturation transitions and value/color relativity (is that the right word?) in the INTRO and doing it so well is so awesome and cleared some things up for me that I remembered seeing in a video a while back! I’m not finished watching yet but already considering sending this to some friends, because you explain things so incredibly well. You also bring up some good points in-depth that I don’t recall being brought up in my art classes. Considering the classes were fantastic already, this is on another level!
Amazing work, and thank you for the incredible resource.
oh my god the color spheres done in minecraft genuinely gave me whiplash
This was randomly recommended to me and I'm not sure why as I don't know anything about color theory, but I LOVED this video! This was super interesting and I learned a few new things today. Super cool :)
@@desvelarse hey thanks for taking the time to check it out even though it was something new :D
Really neat video, I knew a bit of color theory but seeing it on the game was nice to put into perspective
Glad you liked it!
I've been building for so many years now, but still, this video was SO educational and helpful. It's always great to learn something new and the almost 30 minutes felt like 3. Great job, you're amazing.
Thank you so much! YOURE amazing
This is really entertaining and super informative!! The demonstrations given made me thoroughly engaged; 27 minutes felt like 12 minutes. Definitely something I will be using as reference multiple times. I can't believe this stuff is available for free!! Awesome job 👍
Free? You should be getting a bill in the mail soon, I charge by the minute, and even though it felt like 12, you’ll be charged for 27! lol thank you though!
I'm currently studying grafic desing and visual arts and last semester our color theory teacher made us watch youtube videos instead of teaching or explaining anything at all. If she showed us this video I wouldn't be so mad, I've learned more with this than all my time at uni
Send your old teacher an email and tell them they're a bad teacher lol
also thank you :)
@@TheLoosestOfGooses dang, might as well do that hahaha she deserves to know the truth 🙏
Man, these types of videos should have millions of views. It was a great video, it got me engaged all the way to the end, thank you! 👍
psshhh maybe one day lol thank you!
16:19 I'm thinking 2, 4, 1, and then 3! Though 1 and 3 was super hard omg.
this was so helpful - not just as a minecraft builder but as an artist. thank u youtube for recommending this and thank u goose for this video :D
You’re welcome!
The end of the temperature section with the spheres and sea lanterns has made me completely rethink how I do shadows and shading
Thank you so much for this video! It's great to hear color theory in context of the art medium.
Thank YOU for watching it!
The fact that this guy explaining color theory in fucking minecraft is more understandable than most color theory tutorials I've watched previously
@@ronenth I feel like a lot of people try to make color theory all mysterious, but understanding that it’s just a way to DESCRIBE color, not USE color can help a lot of people wrap their heads around it
@@TheLoosestOfGooses i see i see
Besides that, great video my dhde
@@ronenth thank you :)
i’m using talk to text so I hope this comes out well, but I think it’s important to mention the differences and spelling in the words, complimentary and complementary. To compliment something for being pretty well with it,uses the eye and to be contrasting from something this is the E.
Oh thank you! Speling is not my forte lol
@@TheLoosestOfGooses lol i just think it might help people understand the difference if they’ve never heard “complement” especially for color before
i have literally no reason to watch this, i haven't played minecraft in years nor am i an artist of some kind yet i've watched the whole vid 👍
plus ur voice is very relaxing 😸
@@_royalqueen_2411 hey glad you liked it!! Learning is for everyone haha
This is a really good tutorial I’d just like to add one piece, when he’s talking about saturation he’s actually talking about chroma. Chroma is the ‘purity’ of the color, being the most red there is. Saturation is just the strongest type of that color, which could be anywhere from black to the pure red. I imagine saturation with a printer, a highly saturated (black and white) print won’t have those grey patches, just super strong black.
Great video!
Edit: Sorry, one more! I believe he means “complementary”, like complete (instead of “complimentary”, like compliment). It’s called that because when complementary colors are used for each other they cancel out and create grey, ‘completing’ each other.
Yeah definitely wrong about the spelling haha a few people have pointed it out.
That’s a great distinction to make with chroma and saturation! The reason I group it all in as saturation in this case, is because we don’t have a full color space to work with in Minecraft. I know GneissName has organized several color spaces of Minecraft blocks, and you could define the gamut and spectral locus according to that, but I don’t think it works as well to explain it when using only Minecraft blocks. I’m working on a deep dive into color theory that addresses things like this in color theory as a whole, not just in relation to Minecraft blocks. That is an important distinction though, you’re correct.
I've been neglecting color theory till I saw this video
I’m glad I could get you into it! I got some stuff kind of wrong in context in this, but I’m clearing it up in the next video I’m working on
I've only seen the opening section so far, about the relative colors. As an artist, I ADORE that section. Yes I understand the subject decently but its always nice to review. You explain it in such a clear and easy to understand way that doesn't feel like I'm being lectured on a subject I already know.
thats awesome to hear! Im glad it resonated with ya even though its just reviewing stuff
I found it interesting with the temperature how while the purple is cool relative to the red, and warm relative to the blue, in context it felt warm and cool respectively. So yes, the purple is cool ~relative~ to the red, but it felt warm in the ~context~ of the red (and the opposite w blue). So fun trying to wrap my head around what I was experiencing to try and communicate it!
Temperature can get tricky! Especially with the Purple-Magenta range
after watching so many videos explaining color theory, I can't believe color theory in minecraft is the video where I can finally deeply understand what color theory is 😭 I really thought I was learning from a professor while watching your video.. great job!! :DD
Haha thank you!! I got some stuff kinda wrong and I clear it all up in the deep dive videos I’m working on! Coming out soon
Thank you thank you thank you for explaining temperature, and the fact that lighting creates the opposite temperature shadow really opened my eyes on how to properly incorporate temperature in my shading. You finally explained to me why I see purples, greens and blues in skin color.
oh MAN i could go off about greens in skin tones. Traditionally, in western oil painting, when doing figures with lighter skin tones, the underpainting will be in black and white, and then a glaze of green (usually Terre Verte) was put over all the skin before doing an overpainting with the actual skin tones. You generally leave the shadows more transparent than the light mass, and these little hints of that green show through. After I learned and practiced that, everyone looked green to me lol
I don’t think I’ve ever sat through a video like this without getting distracted. This was honestly the best way of describing color theory ever and I am so glad I didn’t scroll past this.
Hey that’s awesome! I’m glad you liked it so much :D
This is the best video of all time, I'm literally going to direct every person that asks me about color theory again to this /gen
@@mystic_ryder5196 dang thank you!!
Sorry if this comes off as weird, but your voice is so nice to listen to, its so soothing , and i js enjoy it , also i love how you explain this , so simple and understandable.
@@roblox-editor103 thank you! a lot of people have been telling me to do an audio book haha I would love to
This was genuinely so informing, i felt myself almost get emotional with how kindly you explained everything in a way people of all ages would understand. Not even in a limiting way but instead freeing with how you said that part about the palettes
Definitely gonna watch the rest of this series! You're doing awesome
Thank you so much 🥹
The advice at the end about worrying about what other people think of your art can be applied to a lot of things. Good advice. 👍
So true!
Man, this trully is an amazing lesson, i have a degree from art school and shit has never been explained to me this well. Please never delete this.
its not going anywhere if I have anything to say about it!
I’m a 3D artist who uses Blender. The amount of insight that this video provides is incredible. Now I like playing Minecraft even more. So much to learn.
Hey awesome! You should check out the design video too, very applicable to 3D design
Brilliant! Exactly what I learned in college, but instead of spending 10 hours painting color sheets, and more on the card color dex to find colors look like other ones 😂
This is much cheaper, and faster. Nice job!
Hey thank you!!
@@TheLoosestOfGooses welcome!
i thought i already knew enough about colour theory, but some of the info in here is pretty interesting - not just as a minecraft builder, but also as an artist in general
16:06
clay = coolest,
cyan terracotta = 2nd coolest
gray concrete = 2nd warmest
light grsay concrete = warmest>????
haha you should check out the Deep Dive series I did, even I learned a lot making it, but thank you!!
and yes! thats correct, although you could argue that gray concrete is warmer than light gray concrete because its leaning towards violets and red, where the light grey is leaning towards orange and yellow, but I would say the light gray is warmest.
Amazing video!!!!!
I didn't know this channel and this video inspired me to do something similar, but in Portuguese. I'm a teacher and I believe that bringing content like this can be very useful in helping students think more, using something they are already familiar with (minecraft in this case).
Once again, congratulations on the inspiring content. + 1 sub here.
That’s what it’s all about! Tag me in one when you post it so I can check it out
Hey man. I don’t usually comment on videos but I loved this style of UA-camr. You remind me of an early etho and his super nerdy style that got him his following. Keep it up man, I’m rooting for you!!
Haha thank you! Humbled
16:20
i think 2 is warmest, it feels orange yellowy, then 4 which feels more green, then 1 kinda beels bluish/purplish, and lastly 3 looks more bluish to me
This is genuinely one of the most helpful and wonderful videos I’ve ever seen, you’ve done an excellent job explaining these things to me and now I understand color theory a lot better and have lots of awesome ideas of how to apply these, and I noticed some themes for example I tend to like to use triad color pallets :D
Ayyy that’s awesome! Thank you for taking the time to check it out
LITERALLY WHAT, this was explained genuinely so well, I've been trying to look around for good explanations on how color theory works && this helped a LOT
@@lemonclementine5158 I’m glad it helped! I made a couple mistakes, and I’m correcting them in the next video, keep your eyes out
Hue, value and saturation all make sense, those are all real things that a computer could agree exists on an absolute scale but temperature sticks out massively to me, it seems really arbitrary like we could have just as easily decided that we measure it by how close things are to some other combination of colours and just called it something else like by deciding yellow is the warmest instead
Temperature is a particularly relative measurement of color, but no less important than the others
I've been thinking about Minecraft and art, it's so wonderful that you've made this! While I'm familiar with these principles in the traditional, visual arts, it's so cool to see it in the context of Minecraft blocks! I also love that you're encouraging folks to create! It's so true that all these principles are tools, not rules!!
TOOLS👏NOT👏RULES!👏
I can't believe I'm high af and learning about color theory from a minecraft video
It’s a crazy world we live in 🤙
The fact that you don't have at least 1M subscribers surprised me. But judging by the quality and usefulness of this video, you definitely deserve it.
@@_Choco_ thank you very much :) maybe one day!
I don't play Minecraft so much any more but goddamn this video has helped me so much with understanding colour theory for my art!!
Im glad it helped! The goal was to make it useful, regardless of the medium
Man, thanks a lot. I was frustrated dealing with value and saturation until watched the video. Thats a really complex color guide i've ever seen. Minecraft is the great game, that larger than just a game
Ay I’m glad I could help!
As much as I like some of the cool gradient builds that have come about from this color theory renaissance in Minecraft. These tend to only look good from a distance. When you treat something as it's average color, it won't make sense up close. I prefer focusing on the details of the build and making something have more depth rather than more color. If I want more color I use mods that adds in more stairs and slabs rather than trying for force blocks into a role they weren't designed for. That's not to say color theory has no use. I'm just talking about certain applications of it.
Personally I prefer small detailed builds too.
MY GOD THIS WAS AWESOME! How you don’t have more subscribers is beyond me. I especially like how you covered relativity in color temperature, because I feel like most art lessons don’t cover temperate colors (which is around yellow and green, as well as purple: they’re all temperate colors).
And when I take a painting class next semester at university, I’m definitely gonna show my professor this video.
Im honored! tell me how your uni class likes this vids haha
After forcing ourselves to never start another new survival world, my friend and I now are truly far along enough in the game to make this knowledge useful in survival. We have a farm for almost everything and now we can just build stuff.
Wooo!! GIVE IN TO THE CRAFTING
This is an amazing tutorial for color theory basics in general. Thank you for making such a comprehensive reference! I can’t wait to use this to brush up on color theory for my illustrations!
Thank you so much for checking it out!
bro is better than my actual art teacher.. wtf 😭😭
Welcome to class!
This is genuinely so easy to understand snd super helpful. If I had the money I’d give a super thanks but kinda broke rn lol
@@Amethyst.i don’t worry about it! Education should always be free, but I really appreciate the kindness!
The two types of compliment are actually spelled differently! The one that means saying something nice is "compliment" with an I in the middle, while the one that relates to colour theory is "complement" with an E in the middle ^^
Someone pointed this out already haha thank you though!
thanks for this! always struggled with color theory but this helped me understand it a bit more :P the yellow -> blue and shading sections really helped :)
glad it helped you out! thanks for watching
you're like a kind teacher. if discord wasn't banned in my country (yt is too but we don't talk about that) I would've did all of the "homework"
Hey well thank you so much for still checking it out! If you do the homework, just let me know in the comments haha
I didn't expect someone would teach ART using MINECRAFT, this is gold, i already watched Marco Bucci color theory tutorial, but, lets give a try to this one lol
let me know how you feel it compares, id love to hear your thoughts
@@TheLoosestOfGooses i liked how you taught, made me watch all art tutorials explained in Minecraft haha, i would like to watch the perspective ones, even if the game itself is perspective lol
really cool vid! I dont play mc much but this will def help with art!
16:13 gonna go with 2, 4, 3, 1
I hoped it would be useful to anyone, even if they dont play, so thats awesome to hear.
Almost! 3 is cooler than 1, so its 2413
@@TheLoosestOfGoosesyes , I guessed the correct order
I learned more from this than my advanced drawing/painting class in high school…. Great video man :)
@@foodog1902 haha I’ve been hearing that a lot! Thank YOU
This video deserves all the views, good job and your color theory is spot on!
You're great. I read somewhere before where you can truly see if someone has an understanding of a subject, if they are able to explain it in a way that others will understand and it seems you've suceeded! ❤❤
You only know something as well as you can teach it!
9:30 note, there's also a spelling difference between the two words despite them being pronounced the same which I think is where a lot of the confusion came from, *compl-i-mentary* things are those that go well together because they're similar, *compl-e-mentary* things are opposites of one another (so putting them together creates contrast which you might want as you said).
Yeah I know :/ lol a lot of people pointed that out. There were a couple errors in here I wish I could edit. Thanks for watching!
@@TheLoosestOfGooses Sorry, I didn't mean to sound overly critical or anything. just that it's a very common and understandable mistake...! Other than that it's a really really good collection of little lessons and you have a great skill for giving practical examples too! I feel like I could definitely implement a lot of what you taught here (And this is coming from a redstoner not a builder lol)
@@Imperial_Squid haha no it’s not a problem, always call out mistakes! I want this all to heed good solid info
Good video! About shade and tint, I believe it's the opposite though. A shade would be darker and a tint would be lighter. A tone would be when you mix your color with gray
EDIT: i've just seen you pinned the erratum already
This is super high quality and educational! I’ll definitely be applying this to non-Minecraft art as well :) you should have more subscribers
Thank you! Its definitely applicable to any kind of visual art :D
haha thanks, it happens one person at a time!
This was genuinely cool! As someone who is attempting to get better at pixel art, this will be very useful!
You’re a very good teacher. Everything was straightforward and easy to understand. Subbed!!
@@Rovant I’m glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
Why did this teach me more about color theory than those like 1 hour videos
This video has helped me understand color theory a bit more. I will definitely be coming back to take notes and try to build using the principles in the video.❤
Awesome! Thanks for checking it out
This came up on my recommendation and was so helpful! It definitely refined some concepts I struggled with especially the Hue and Saturation!
Absolutely incredible video! Color theory is something I always struggle with and these combined lessons are extremely helpful
A little tip, if you're seeing flashing black lines when trying to figure out the local color of a block, increase the mipmapping setting in video options!
Ahh thank you, too late for the screenshots but still very helpful
Dude earned himself a subscriber had me entertained informative and really felt like I was with bob ross for a second there, thanks for the video.
Im so glad! wait till we get to the deep dive episodes, they get wild haha
well be there 🤝 @@TheLoosestOfGooses
thank you so much this is seriously exactly the kind of lessons ive been looking for! many of the color theory videos i find online are only about complimentary colors and color palettes. your sections on relativity and hue are perfect :)
Glad you liked it! I kind of got some stuff wrong so I’m doing a deep dive updated video soon 🫡
@@TheLoosestOfGooses will be tuning in! earned a new sub 🫡
If I concentrate really and give myself a smidge of eye strain, I can take the temperatures of the shadows that you talked about. 20:38