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Xadrea โ Art Tutorial: Color Theory
Published: 2010-08-22 04:40:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 20298; Favourites: 380; Downloads: 690
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I've been planning since last year to do a color theory tut and now here it is!
fella is courtesy of ยขgreatLP
put together in the GIMP
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No, they are not the same. You may need to recalibrate your monitor to see the color properly.ย
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My monitor's colors are fine XD
I think it is becuase I can't see certain shades of orange.
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Curiously you picture is what I used to think.
The primary colours in paint are red, yellow and blue. If you mix yellow and blue you get green.
Then in a physics lesson I was told that
the three primary colours with light are are red, green and blue.
If you ADD red and green you get yellow.
Not sure how a digital art painting programme would work if you mix red and green.
Would you get yellow or brown?
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The physics of color are completely different from artistic conventions and pigment mixing. For example, why would it make any sense to put purple "next to" red on the color wheel when they are on the furthest wavelengths of the range of our sight? Only because blue pigment and red pigment happen to produce purple. 
I think digital art programs are built to "act" the similar to paint, not actual light. A quick experiment on Gimp yeilded brown from red and green, though I had to lower the green's opacity more than red. (They most certainly did NOT make yellow. XDDD) When I tried yellow and blue they didn't really blend, just overpowered each other.
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yes yes, that's perfectly true as well, but I'm being practical as in mixing paint, crayons, colored pencils ect...the basics lol
computer color is cmyk (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) so im not sure about that lol
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I've had this sitting in my inbox for awhile now, because I haven't had time to comment, but now I do!
This is VERY helpful, especially for people like me who have a tough time with colour theory (because I just plain forget about it when painting), and I thought there'd be more stuff like this in DeviantMentor (that's how I saw this; I'm in that group).
This is the first useful thing I've seen out of that group that fits with the idea of mentoring and learning. I joined that group to learn stuff like this, so your contribution is really something of a diamond in the rough for me. Thank you for adding this.
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im glad that you found this tut so helpful
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Nice theory!!! I Love it!!!
I'm gonna learn from more from the web you gave there.
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Nice theory!!! I Love it!!!
I'm gonna learn from more from the web you gave there.
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Nice theory!!! I Love it!!!
I'm gonna learn from more from the web you gave there.
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this is very informative. Thank you
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Ah yes you can also make tones by adding grey to any color. I learned that in color theory.
Thanks for sharing.
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yup sure can ^ ^ as long as you've got the full spectrum, you can mix as much as u want ^ ^
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This is great help^^ Do you know what colours compliment/contrast with brown please?? I'm stuck!
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it depends on the amount of blues reds and yellows are in your browns. For example a burnt sienna shade would compliment well with green or blue hues because there is a lot of red in that shade of brown. I hope that helps you out ^ ^
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Okayy, I'll remember that ^^ Thanks
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wat i never got was why most colors in programs like gimp and photoshop give a red/green/blue value, instead of red yellow and blue
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the reason they do that is because its the color model for the display of images in electronics like tvs for example, in this case a computer. rgb are the primary colors for light 
artistically speaking, the reason red yellow and blue are primary is because they are the only colors in the rainbow that don't need to be mixed to exist as their own hues ^ ^
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XD ohh ahaha yes, it helped me to remember the theory but it mmake me happy because of the colors and the artist fella
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oh lol yup fella is a cute lil artist no?
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This also follows the concept of the "Flower of Art" if you see my journal page 
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thank you 
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Its a pleasure and thank you, Much Love and huggles
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It means more rainbowsss!!!
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very nice way of showing the color wheel
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thank you for the tutorial
Even if i knew all of this already
Its going in my learning center folders
and it may be included in a up date to a news article series i will do time to time.
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any time
keep up the good work
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You can get a very vivid sierra brown by mixing together all three primaries
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For all the people who slept in 6th grade art class! (JK)
Nice tut!
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