Hey guys! Just wanted to clarify one thing that I don't think I did a good job explaining in the video: in the part where I talk about the too-blue pants and the too-red hair, I didn't explain that this rule really on applies if you want your character to look like it's in that setting. Being surrounded by lava or water would obviously make your characters look more red or blue because of the lighting situation in those settings, so you need to be careful with your color choices so that everything looks like it's in that color world. If even one color doesn't fit the setting, the whole ambiance is ruined and we do nOT want that! Otherwise, if you're trying to make your characters stand out, definitely go with contrasting colors. See you in the next vid! I'm trying to upload every Sunday and Wednesday, so crossing fingers that I'll see you in just a few days! Love you all and I have an amazing day
When mixing colors - for green for instance - use a yellow that has green in it(lemon yellow) and a blue that has green (cerulean blue). If you use a yellow with orange in (cadmium) and blue with purple in it (ultramarine) you will get a sickly green. The same goes when mixing other colors too.
I just found your channel and all I can say is thank you and bless you! I was in art from 68 to 80. Then I became a chef, just another form of art lol. I did that until 2012. Then I became disabled and after sulking for a few weeks I started getting back into art. Then we had another family issue, my son was injured in the Army. And now after being away for a few years, just dabbling in my sketchbook over that time, I am back into art for a year now. I absolutely LOVE your channel, your approach to teaching/helping/explaining. You make things easy in a real-world way. not like many who seem to be reading from a book. I will be watching your videos over the next few days and soaking up all the information I can. You are truly inspiring, thank you from the bottom of this old farts heart :) I can not wait for new videos :) Thank you again :)
Holy Guacamole, this video was very theraputic and helpful. Despite that for me it felt Simple...I suppose that shows how good you are as a teacher. THis helped me change my main character's color palette and now... I'm SUPER happy with how it came out, thank you!
Cyan magenta yellow are subtractive primary colors and red blue yellow are additive primary colors Additive = how light works Subtractive = how paint works which is reflected light
Emzun NO, red, green, and blue are the primary colors on a screen because those are the colors that all light is made out of; look up additive color theory. cyan, magenta, and yellow are the primary colors for subtractive color theory, as she demonstrated. If cyan, magenta, and yellow were not the subtractive color primaries, then a printer wouldn’t work, because you can not “add” light to pigment, you can only subtract (make black; to make it lighter, a lighter color is required). Do an experiment where you shine red, green, and blue light together, and you will see that it makes white. The reason why red, yellow, and blue were considered the subtractive primaries is because a long time ago people did not have access to cyan, magenta, and yellow easily. If you have ever mixed with cyan, magenta, and yellow paint, you will see how much more vibrant the colors turn out than red, yellow, and blue paint; it’s why printers are in CMYK and not RYB. A printer and a screen are NOT the same, because a computer uses light to create an image, and a printer uses pigment.
Love it. Also, girl your voice is sooo pleasing to listen to. I have this "problem" I'm obsessed with fall/earthy/dark tones and sometimes I think my art looks to heavy (don't know a better way to say this). And I don't know how to make it look lighter without ruining everything!
Thank you for your video, Biana! In the next video about lighting, could you please talk about the following rule : warm light->cool shadows and cool light->warm shadows? I found very confusing to mix complementary colours to follow it. Love you
Asdkjbsgb I don't 100% know if the next video will be about lighting, cause that's gonna be one hell of a beefy video to produce X_X But no worries, it is coming very very soon and I will definitely answer your question!!
Biana Bova yes please we need this! I fixed my issue about colors, but this thing about warm light and cool shadows... Etc, it's confusing, take your time, we're patient!
Thank you very much! I needed this information badly. For some reason, other UA-cam art teachers are stingy with certain art information. You either have to pay a package deal to learn more or find some other backdoors way to find it. I understand they have to make a living but sharing is caring, right? So thank you again for sharing!!
I have no clue if I'll get an answer since you posted this a while ago 😅 but do you know of any resource that can create what you showed in the video, a triangle with a color at each point and a gradient between each color showing how they mix. I think it could be really useful to color drop from to make sure I'm staying in my colors.
AHH thank you so much!! I'm so glad I came across your channel. I'm a photographer in high school but I took a color theory class at my community college through dual enrollment. Unfortunately, I had a really bad professor and didn't get much out of the class and I still wanted to learn more. I'm so glad I stumbled across this video!
OMGGGGGGGGGG OMMMGGGG 😍😍😍😍😍 I'M SPEECHLESS 😍😍😍😍😍 THANK YOU SO MUCH! BEEN WAITING FOR THIS😍😍😍 I'm smiling widely like an idiot as I watch it, especially that you mentioned my name *faints* 😂😂💓 because of you, I made huge improvements, my hero! 😭 this girl's heart can't take it😭
Biana Bova lol and I thought I was dumb, sounds like a lot of people suffered like me, I'm looking forward your next videos! You're such a great artist and a great teacher too!
I was curious. Having learned a good amount of music theory. How I would do trying to understand and learn color theory. You certainly made it super easy to understand
thanks :) I like the idea of deliberately choosing the focal point by choosing opposite color pairs or concepts like dark/light and so on..i guess the problem with drawing sometimes is that we don't plan ahead and just follow our intuition with coloring...but miss this part. and the painting won't work or do what we wanted it to do. :) Thanks for that.
Red yellow and blue are not the primary colours! Cyan Yellow and Magenta are! I don't know why this idea is so wide spread but you can not mix magenta or cyan (or a bright purple) with red yellow and blue. Try it if you don't believe me.. But there is a reason why printers use cmyk.
Thank you for bringing this up, let me share some information about the history of RGB and CMYK! Until very modern times, painters didn't have access to magenta or cyan because those pigments didn't exist yet. They were restricted to pigments that could easily be found in the natural world, like carmine red or ocher yellow. Coincidentally, the RGB color spectrum is also how natural light is created. We see this in rainbows and prisms. When these colors are mixed together, they create natural white light. Our modern computers emit light in order to show what's on the screen, therefore everything we see online is in RGB. So then why the heck do printers use CMYK? Because paper is not light AND paper is usually white. The creators of printer ink needed a new color wheel that when all the colors are mixed, they create a true black (since obviously, that's the most used color for printing). And because printers are so modern, they had access to the crazy pigments we see today like magenta and cyan. So! CMYK is just as cool as RGB but there's a reason we teach RGB over CMYK. CMYK really only refers to printing and has different qualities that make it less than ideal to teach about color. Now that we finally have access to CMYK colors (bless you technology) you're totally free to add them to your palette in addition to all the other cool colors in RGB! Hope this clears things up! And if you really want to go hardcore with extra color knowledge, here's a Wikipedia link to color space: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space
Biana Bova but RGB stands for Red Green Blue which are the colours our eyes can sense (with the thee types of cones in our retina). They are the primary colours for light. Pigment however works by absorbing light: so magenta is a pigment that absorbs green and reflects blue and green. Cyan absorbs red and yellow absorbs blue (that is an ultramarine blue). CMY is complemetairy to RGB. For example to mix red you have to mix magenta and Yellow since they blue and green so only red light is left over. (Tangent: I don't get why cyan and ultramarine are both called blue they are definitely different colours). That is why there are two sets of primary colours CMY mix into a pigment that absorbs all colours our eyes can see, so we perceive it as black. White paper reflects all colours so our eyes see white. I hope this is somewhat clear I should make a visual version of this some day to explain it better. It is quite complex and took me a while to figure out. But what you said on the history is totally true! Cyan and magenta pigments are not really found in nature so they used the closest thing they could find red and blue. But you can never mix a bright purple with red as red contains yellow which makes the purple muddy and desaturated.
Hey guys! Just wanted to clarify one thing that I don't think I did a good job explaining in the video: in the part where I talk about the too-blue pants and the too-red hair, I didn't explain that this rule really on applies if you want your character to look like it's in that setting. Being surrounded by lava or water would obviously make your characters look more red or blue because of the lighting situation in those settings, so you need to be careful with your color choices so that everything looks like it's in that color world. If even one color doesn't fit the setting, the whole ambiance is ruined and we do nOT want that! Otherwise, if you're trying to make your characters stand out, definitely go with contrasting colors.
See you in the next vid! I'm trying to upload every Sunday and Wednesday, so crossing fingers that I'll see you in just a few days! Love you all and I have an amazing day
Thank you for this! Ps, you did a great job explaining 💕
When mixing colors - for green for instance - use a yellow that has green in it(lemon yellow) and a blue that has green (cerulean blue). If you use a yellow with orange in (cadmium) and blue with purple in it (ultramarine) you will get a sickly green. The same goes when mixing other colors too.
I just found your channel and all I can say is thank you and bless you! I was in art from 68 to 80. Then I became a chef, just another form of art lol. I did that until 2012. Then I became disabled and after sulking for a few weeks I started getting back into art. Then we had another family issue, my son was injured in the Army. And now after being away for a few years, just dabbling in my sketchbook over that time, I am back into art for a year now. I absolutely LOVE your channel, your approach to teaching/helping/explaining. You make things easy in a real-world way. not like many who seem to be reading from a book. I will be watching your videos over the next few days and soaking up all the information I can. You are truly inspiring, thank you from the bottom of this old farts heart :) I can not wait for new videos :) Thank you again :)
Oml this is such a sweet and wholesome comment! Bless you :)
you still alive buddy?
first color theory video that didnt make me want to cry in confusion
I feel so much more educated after this video
Holy Guacamole, this video was very theraputic and helpful. Despite that for me it felt Simple...I suppose that shows how good you are as a teacher. THis helped me change my main character's color palette and now... I'm SUPER happy with how it came out, thank you!
I use a color palette of the basic primary colors. (Cyan, magenta and yellow)
palette and arent primary colors red yellow blue
@@letssuitcase red yellow blue being primary colors is an old idea. Modern color theory recognizes cyan, yellow, and magenta as the primary colors.
Cyan magenta yellow are subtractive primary colors and red blue yellow are additive primary colors
Additive = how light works
Subtractive = how paint works which is reflected light
Emil Brown *red, green, and blue; in additive color theory, red and green makes yellow.
Emzun NO, red, green, and blue are the primary colors on a screen because those are the colors that all light is made out of; look up additive color theory. cyan, magenta, and yellow are the primary colors for subtractive color theory, as she demonstrated. If cyan, magenta, and yellow were not the subtractive color primaries, then a printer wouldn’t work, because you can not “add” light to pigment, you can only subtract (make black; to make it lighter, a lighter color is required). Do an experiment where you shine red, green, and blue light together, and you will see that it makes white.
The reason why red, yellow, and blue were considered the subtractive primaries is because a long time ago people did not have access to cyan, magenta, and yellow easily.
If you have ever mixed with cyan, magenta, and yellow paint, you will see how much more vibrant the colors turn out than red, yellow, and blue paint; it’s why printers are in CMYK and not RYB.
A printer and a screen are NOT the same, because a computer uses light to create an image, and a printer uses pigment.
A HUEge range of colours! lol
Caeruleum Art I too, chuckled, lol.
You have amazing HUEmour
I painted eggs in a pantone
this comment is _VALUEable_
Hope I don’t look to _SHADEy_
Love it. Also, girl your voice is sooo pleasing to listen to. I have this "problem" I'm obsessed with fall/earthy/dark tones and sometimes I think my art looks to heavy (don't know a better way to say this). And I don't know how to make it look lighter without ruining everything!
Thank you for your video, Biana! In the next video about lighting, could you please talk about the following rule : warm light->cool shadows and cool light->warm shadows? I found very confusing to mix complementary colours to follow it. Love you
Asdkjbsgb I don't 100% know if the next video will be about lighting, cause that's gonna be one hell of a beefy video to produce X_X But no worries, it is coming very very soon and I will definitely answer your question!!
Thank you! Don't worry, I'll be patient;)
GOSH! I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS TOO! YOU READ MY MIND
Biana Bova yes please we need this! I fixed my issue about colors, but this thing about warm light and cool shadows... Etc, it's confusing, take your time, we're patient!
Thank you very much! I needed this information badly. For some reason, other UA-cam art teachers are stingy with certain art information. You either have to pay a package deal to learn more or find some other backdoors way to find it. I understand they have to make a living but sharing is caring, right? So thank you again for sharing!!
I have no clue if I'll get an answer since you posted this a while ago 😅 but do you know of any resource that can create what you showed in the video, a triangle with a color at each point and a gradient between each color showing how they mix. I think it could be really useful to color drop from to make sure I'm staying in my colors.
awesome vid biana!!! this vid actually really helped me with avoiding muddy colors etc..
AHH thank you so much!! I'm so glad I came across your channel. I'm a photographer in high school but I took a color theory class at my community college through dual enrollment. Unfortunately, I had a really bad professor and didn't get much out of the class and I still wanted to learn more. I'm so glad I stumbled across this video!
Well presented Biana! Thank you!
Thank you! I feel like i needed this to actually understand color
OMGGGGGGGGGG OMMMGGGG 😍😍😍😍😍 I'M SPEECHLESS 😍😍😍😍😍 THANK YOU SO MUCH! BEEN WAITING FOR THIS😍😍😍
I'm smiling widely like an idiot as I watch it, especially that you mentioned my name *faints* 😂😂💓 because of you, I made huge improvements, my hero! 😭 this girl's heart can't take it😭
Batool Al-Nabulsi BRUH I NEED TO THANK YOU, YOU LITERALLY INSPIRED THIS WHOLE VIDEO 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for being such an amazing subscriber!!! 😭❤️❤️❤️
Biana Bova lol and I thought I was dumb, sounds like a lot of people suffered like me, I'm looking forward your next videos! You're such a great artist and a great teacher too!
I was curious. Having learned a good amount of music theory. How I would do trying to understand and learn color theory. You certainly made it super easy to understand
Yay! I loved your color theory videos...they have really helped me and I'm so excited for more insight 💕
thanks :) I like the idea of deliberately choosing the focal point by choosing opposite color pairs or concepts like dark/light and so on..i guess the problem with drawing sometimes is that we don't plan ahead and just follow our intuition with coloring...but miss this part. and the painting won't work or do what we wanted it to do. :) Thanks for that.
BLESS YOU FOR THIS VIDEO BIANA I LOVE YOU
Ana Júlia Vieira LOVE YOU TOO ❤️
This is exactly what i looked for!!! Thank you soooo much! 🧡 You really helped me a lot!
Film colorist here. Subscribed. Your info is so insightful and inspiring
Great points especially the examples! I dont paint but this helps me understand colors in makeup as well. 😊
You are good teacher...thanks for this lesson and good job
are there any good books that cover this in more comprehensive detail?
i know this is from 2 years ago but you earned a sub you’re so funny and i learned a lot :)
Thank you!!!
Thanks for sharing, just what I was searching for
This was so helpful wow. Thank you!
I love this. Thank you for this video
That's face of what the fuck am I doing? XD
A Artist animations the video is a disorganized mess, the thumbnail is a rainbow hot mess, I'm just trying my best here 😅
Great video!
Loved the video, very interesting & unique perspectives!!!
noticed the Murakami shirt! super cute!
I just need Torriku Sotaru coloring-
this is so useful
in my opinion,with character design this doesn't apply to example hair you sometimes want natural hair or staff like contrast colours and shading.
Yeah like in anime
So helpful! Thanks!
This makes so much sense!! Thank you :D
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hey! do you have any recommendations for books on color theory?
I had to do a double take! My mother is German and her name is Beate! Pronounced in the same manner as yours!
Red yellow and blue are not the primary colours! Cyan Yellow and Magenta are! I don't know why this idea is so wide spread but you can not mix magenta or cyan (or a bright purple) with red yellow and blue. Try it if you don't believe me.. But there is a reason why printers use cmyk.
Thank you for bringing this up, let me share some information about the history of RGB and CMYK!
Until very modern times, painters didn't have access to magenta or cyan because those pigments didn't exist yet. They were restricted to pigments that could easily be found in the natural world, like carmine red or ocher yellow. Coincidentally, the RGB color spectrum is also how natural light is created. We see this in rainbows and prisms. When these colors are mixed together, they create natural white light.
Our modern computers emit light in order to show what's on the screen, therefore everything we see online is in RGB. So then why the heck do printers use CMYK? Because paper is not light AND paper is usually white. The creators of printer ink needed a new color wheel that when all the colors are mixed, they create a true black (since obviously, that's the most used color for printing). And because printers are so modern, they had access to the crazy pigments we see today like magenta and cyan.
So! CMYK is just as cool as RGB but there's a reason we teach RGB over CMYK. CMYK really only refers to printing and has different qualities that make it less than ideal to teach about color. Now that we finally have access to CMYK colors (bless you technology) you're totally free to add them to your palette in addition to all the other cool colors in RGB!
Hope this clears things up! And if you really want to go hardcore with extra color knowledge, here's a Wikipedia link to color space: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_space
Biana Bova but RGB stands for Red Green Blue which are the colours our eyes can sense (with the thee types of cones in our retina). They are the primary colours for light. Pigment however works by absorbing light: so magenta is a pigment that absorbs green and reflects blue and green. Cyan absorbs red and yellow absorbs blue (that is an ultramarine blue). CMY is complemetairy to RGB. For example to mix red you have to mix magenta and Yellow since they blue and green so only red light is left over.
(Tangent: I don't get why cyan and ultramarine are both called blue they are definitely different colours).
That is why there are two sets of primary colours CMY mix into a pigment that absorbs all colours our eyes can see, so we perceive it as black. White paper reflects all colours so our eyes see white.
I hope this is somewhat clear I should make a visual version of this some day to explain it better. It is quite complex and took me a while to figure out. But what you said on the history is totally true! Cyan and magenta pigments are not really found in nature so they used the closest thing they could find red and blue.
But you can never mix a bright purple with red as red contains yellow which makes the purple muddy and desaturated.
So mixing colours is basically subtracting light wich is why CMY are so much brighter than Red and Blue, as they are secondary colours.
RBG are the scientific primary colors
CYM are the artsy primary colors
Searching for friendly color wheel for all kinds of people.
Love ur video
Thank you!
Do I spy some haypeep back there?!
u look just like zendaya omfg
I AM new, hiii!
*OwO Advanced*
WHY IS THERE MORE THEN ONE COLOR WEEEEEELLLL!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
u dumb
FinNote I just cackled at your comment
Colors ARE wierd 💀
Thakyou so much for the information. Plus youre cute so its easier to watch 🤤🤤🤤
there are no ugly colors only people judging colors to be ugly ;D so...I'd say people are mostly ugly hahha
And youre a fucking dumbass, what about that dickhead?😟
clearly you've never seen chartreuse.
The he** was not needed , the presenter is a bit intimidating I am sorry to admit
Long winded
how people find time to watch so much talking ?
no life mainly