Hey guys, sARTdonic here. Time for your
completely unnecessary educational video! :P Yay! today we're gonna be talking about
color theory complementary colors are
colors that complement each other and
are opposite from each other on the
color wheel such as red and green blue
and orange and yellow purple and black
and white and I have a few over there
because why not
split complements are complementary
colors that aren't perfect complements
but they are found by taking the colors
to the left and right of the color that
would be contrasting with the original
color this is a great explanation below
I have purple and it's compliment would
be yellow so I have two colors that
would be to the left and right of yellow
and they also go well with purple color
meaning so darker and more subdued the
color is the more mature it seems the
lighter and brighter colors seem more
youthful color connotations not really
gonna read this off cuz that would take
too long
haha color contrast when two colors are
opposite from each other and yeah there
are complementary colors and a light
color versus a dark color is also a
contrast some examples in nature are
bees they have black and white stripes (*I meant black and yellow*)
so that predators don't eat them
I believe Tigers have stripes because
they want to blend in with the grass and
for some reason their prey don't have
very good eyesight so they can't see
that that's a tiger and the grass isn't
orange they can't see that I don't know
why
this is a butterfly
the bright colors contrast at the black
in the wings and they make sure that
predators can see that they should not
eat them it gives kind of a warning sign
and then we have peacocks which have
really bright blues to contrast with the
darker Browns and their feathers and
they have that contrast so that they can
attract mates how to use color contrast
you don't have to make everything
complement it's just a matter of
preference personally I use compliments
for everything like my avatar I use
yellow with the purple in my jacket she
can't see too well because tried to keep
a little more subdued and you have to
know it works well the other this looks
terrible you probably can't read it
this looks slightly less terrible it
still hurts your eyes this is color
contrast this is not color contrast this
is very bold this is bold color contrast
and I have to play around with colors
find what works best and some look
better than others and let's take a
short break after that that really hurt
my eyes and other things to consider
color schemes the primary colors go well
together focus on a specific color so
here I have the bright cool colors make
the black pop out and over here
I have this thing that I quickly did to
show that your eyes directly immediately
go to the yellow and it also draws
attention to this green over here
because it has a bit of yellow and it
stands out from the blue because it's
next to the orange and the warmer colors
contrast with the cooler colors and
that's
nice and thanks for watching
I really flubbed my way through that one
that's great
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