Do warm lights actually create cool shadows?

In this video, I'll discuss how warm lights don't magically create cool shadows and vice versa.
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[@romaroalte2645]

This is an amazing explanation I've never heard before in many tutorials. Great!

[@inory5460]

5 years old video - still very helpfull! thank you :D

[@samanthalewin6210]

I didn't know this! I akways painted shadows blue and wondered why the colours looked wrong!

[@EPWillard]

i was excited to learn about a new colour scheme but the answer turned out to be "use greys".
all jokes aside this is very helpful especially the part about how shadows take on the colour of secondary light sources. it never occurred to me that the blue sky is an ambieant light source because the sun is... the sun.

[@brayanrodriguez7096]

Even if I knew this before, I didn't know how to apply it, but your explanation with the saturation color wheel helped a lot!
Thanks! ;D

[@_nehalennia]

this is exactly what i needed for the point of my art experience i am at right now.
Especially the part where you explained that there is a faster way to get to the blue if you just cut through the middle instead of going all the way around. It just helps me mentally to visualise the right colours that i need a lot more than what i did before

[@TimothyCHenderson]

This is the benefit of still painting from life with physical media. It keeps you honest regarding colour and shadow.

[@ZethKeeper]

I always follow the principle you described here. The tone of the shadows determined by environment, and if that environment has only one temperature in colors, well, shadows and light will be the same temperature. But the shadows will be less saturated and I'll have to work my focus with some other tricks, like mentioned earlier saturation, strategic rendering, air perspective and particles (dust, smoke and sparkles, if scene has them). Actually, I did that even I just started, just unknowingly.

[@frankwest1168]

The bounce light of red ground thing blew my mind.
Great video.

[@koiturnbull5700]

Watched again after a year. Better understanding the 2nd time after my own journey into color. Thanks a lot, Bro!

[@PramodShetty]

Please help me with your 1 year knowledge.
Colors are just local colors + color of the light. So how does the knowledge of cool and warm colors help at all. For example in Mars, you wont see a shadow leaning towards blue, no matter whether you put a blue light or a yellow light on the subject.
Am I right?

[@wavewatcher_]

I wish I had seen this ages ago!!
Thanks for that!

[@pasofinogal]

Excellent! Thank you. Best explanation I have ever seen on shadow colors.

[@mattsartstory2379]

This is my most favorite video you’ve done! Though, I haven’t watched your video on highlights. Very well done and explained. Great topic and concise.

[@mr_bukhary]

Thanks! So helpful!

[@marks2708]

This is a great great video Kurt. Wow. Thank you.

[@jessicaz576]

Incredibly helpful - thank you so much

[@anne-marieolivier8318]

Such an informative video!

[@spyroskontogiannis1701]

Thanks a lot!! Really really valuable tutorials and great explanation! (Love the electronic drums too!)

[@TheGoblinoid]

This helped me a lot, thank you.

[@realamericannegro977]

You explain the most complex things in the simplest non infuriating way possible.

[@howchen8529]

This solved a long struggle of mine

[@sagewiseloner6355]

I loved it

[@cemredemir2116]

great video man, thanks

[@WingMaster562]

I wanna see cool light and warm shadows

[@xmoreno3366]

Wonderful ❤️ ❤️

[@realamericannegro977]

The first example looks like the art in Resident Evil 8. I wonder if her worked on that game.

[@viccreator4062]

cool informative video, i love nesskain

[@omnesilere]

you're picking shadows and calling them lights! 3:47

[@colorwithkurt]

Oh no

[@PramodShetty]

Thats how I see it. Colors are just local colors + color of the light. So how does the knowledge of cool and warm colors help at all. For example in Mars, you wont see a shadow leaning towards blue, no matter whether you put a blue light or a yellow light on the subject.
Am I right?

[@colorwithkurt]

If you shined a weaker blue light into the shadows on Mars... strong enough to overpower the brighter red from the sky, you would have blue shadows. Warm and cool is always relative as well. You can have "warm" colors that are less saturated that appear cool next to warmer colors. It's never absolute formula.

[@davefaulkner6302]

Great video on color temp with lots of good points. However you missed the cool light blue patch on the underside of the hat on the right. But this was colored at the discretion of the artist and not a true rendering. If we saw a real photo of that lighting situation we would probably see a red light reflection under the hat.