hey everybody this is Angelic Cactus from
Kid Hero studios and this is going to
be a quick video explaining some basic
color theory so to start off let's
briefly go over warm and cool colors the
basic warm colors are red yellow and
orange they might make you think of warm
things such as fire the basic cool
colors are purple blue and green
it might make you think cool things like
water and snow sometimes people are
confused about our purple goals because
it's made of red and blue which red is
warm and blue is cold
however Green is also made using blue
and yellow so it's made using warm
and so they can both be sorted
in to a category and they both go into
cold so now let's make the color wheel
to start off we have the primary colors
red blue and yellow most color wheels
put red at the top computer screens use
red green and blue or RGB and printers
and many online art studios use cyan
magenta and yellow or CYMK K stands for black, however traditional color
theory red yellow and blue are the
primary colors used to make all the
other colors, mixing all the primary
colors together results in brown
anyhow let's add some color to the color
wheel as it's not all that colorful at
the moment red and yellow make orange
so we'll put orange between red and
yellow and blue and yellow make
green so we add green between those two
and blue and red make purple so we put
purple between those two and now we have
all the colors that are between the
primary colors now we'll do this one
more time
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so here I explain, the same thing that I just did again. the colors in between are mix of the two colors they are in between
now let's talk complementary colors, the
colors across from each other
are opposites. red is the opposite of
green, purple is the opposite of yellow
and blue is the opposite of orange.
complementary colors go well together
and can be nice color schemes,
examples of famous art pieces using
complementary color schemes are
self-portrait by Van Gogh which uses the
blue and orange color scheme and the old
guitarist by Pablo Picasso which also
uses blue orange. on a side note mixing
complementary colors results in brown as
you are mixing all of the primary colors. the next color scheme we're going
to do is triad,
*like the primary okay*
um... these are three colors equally spaced
apart they make a triangle as
represented by the magenta and green
lines I had a lot of difficulty in
finding famous aren't featuring this
color scheme so please comment one if
you know of it, so the next color scheme
we're gonna do is monochromatic this is
using different shades, tones, and tints
of one color, tint is made by adding
white ,a shade is made by adding
black and tones are made by adding gray.
an example of this color scheme can
be seen in Pablo Picasso's Guernica, this
is technically an achromatic color
scheme but I had trouble finding
anything else. the only difference
between achromatic and monochromatic is
achromatic is Gray's blacks and whites
while monochromatic uses color,
the next two color schemes are a bit
more complicated. and now analogous
is a color and the colors to the side
of it, so it could be green blue and blue
green or as the example shows green
yellow and yellow green and yellow, or red, red orange, and orange
an example of this is water lilies by
Monet he uses green blue green and blue
finally let's talk about split
complementary. for this you pick one main
color and then do the colors to the side
of its opposite, for
example red, blue green and yellow green
or blue, red orange and yellow orange, an
example of this may be sunrise by Monet
who appears to use ,depending on
your photo, orange, blue green and purple
blue. so for this part I wasn't really
sure what it was gonna do.
but I decided on this drawing I found.
it's just an old character this is
on application ...or a website that
converts all of your drawings into
bitmap so it looks a little (that's an understatement)  pixelated
I'm sorry about that anyways. um, if
you've watched anyone critiquing
characters they probably brought up color
theory or said that their eyes were
bleeding, you know
depending on whether they were polite or
not. these color schemes can be used not
only in full pieces but also in
characters. a good thing to keep in mind
is also the tint shade and tone. this
comes up a lot especially in online art,
in order to make a good character
aesthetically pleasing it's typically a
good idea to not use full saturation
color, instead tint shade and tone the
colors to get a nicer looking character
who is easier to look at . You can only do
one of these, like you might only tint if
you want to pastel character, or you can
use a combination of tinting shading and
toning. and in character design it's
generally a good idea to stick to a few
main colors that's why color theory can
be useful and to make a piece look more
well-put-together.  You can use the same
exact color spread throughout the piece.
put some look... okay sorry started reading
information for me... oops.   thank you so much for
watching!
correct me if I got anything wrong in
the comments and I hope that this helps!
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