The (Not) Rules of Color Relationships 2

Nathan Fowkes is back with a demonstration to illustrate the (Not)Rules of Color Relationships. In this video, Nathan illustrates how to get past complicated color rules and find the rich color relationships of nature and environments. Nathan's online courses can be found here: www.schoolism.com/online-art-...
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[@sheigepasa3201]

i used to believe these kinds of paintings are just some random lazy brush strokes, now i realize how far my capabilities really are from these masterpieces.

[@BobbyChiu]

Not everything is as easy as it seems when it comes to art, that's for sure! If you'd like, you can check out Nathan's courses on Schoolism which go in depth about use of color and light! :) ~S

[@bunnyfreakz]

Lazy brush strokes actually the key. You doing alot of of those fast study and painting.

[@sheigepasa3201]

@@BobbyChiu Thanks for the recommendation!

[@sheigepasa3201]

goodjob recommending this BEFORE premiere youtube!

[@DrawnbyYannan]

Ahhh thank you for putting into words what I had been noticing myself but didnt quite understand why. This was really helpful!

[@BobbyChiu]

Glad you found it helpful!! :) Thanks for watching! ~S

[@SpeedyPainterSoftware]

can't wait to see it! I love the art style of Nathan Fowkes!

[@BobbyChiu]

Hope you enjoyed it! :) ~S

[@SpeedyPainterSoftware]

@@BobbyChiu of course! I love the beautiful impressionistic feel of the painting that Nathan did in this lesson. I hope I will be able to put into practice those valueable hints in some of my future drawings.

[@filipemecenas]

Thanks !!!! The best color teacher i ever found

[@BobbyChiu]

Nathan Fowkes is one of the best teachers there is! :) Thanks for watching! ~S

[@filipemecenas]

@@BobbyChiu uhm ... Standing in the gigant shouder , thanks i will check it out

[@MurdokX]

Awesome video learned alot thanks!

[@BobbyChiu]

Great to hear you found it helpful! Thanks for watching! :) ~S

[@ahaks7269]

Beautiful video, I love how effective you explain things. Thanks for the deep insight!

[@BobbyChiu]

Nathan is an incredible teacher! He has a way of explaining things so clearly and simply, yet effectively!!! Glad you enjoyed this video!:) ~S

[@Agiranto]

Short and sweet. Thanks for the demo.

[@BobbyChiu]

Short, sweet, and informative! :) Thanks for watching! ~S

[@jabjab12]

Very insightful and enriching. Thanks Nathan.

[@BobbyChiu]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching! :) ~S

[@yt_corsair]

Waiting eagerly ❤️

[@BobbyChiu]

Hope you enjoyed the video!! :) ~S

[@shila0039]

Please it would be great to have more videos where nathan explains the rules of colors or composition. Or maybe how to use acrylics🤩🤩🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@BobbyChiu]

Thank you for these suggestions! Hopefully Nathan will be able to continue this (Not) Rules series and talk about everything you mentioned! :) ~S

[@shila0039]

@@BobbyChiu Thank you so much for taking note of my request❤️ and an even greater thank you for recording and showing us these amazing videos🤩 It would be great to be able to have more videos of natham or even kei acedera on the use of acrylic to illustrate . It's a fairly used fi painting method but you don't find many tutorials around (by illustrators) about how they use it personally, how to handle colors and their overlay or water. It would be really great if I did one or two video tutorials or the process that these 2 artists use it🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🤩🤩

[@SpeedyPainterSoftware]

I love the beautiful impressionistic feel of the painting that Nathan did in this lesson. I hope I will be able to put into practice those valueable hints in some of my future drawings.

[@BobbyChiu]

Nathan sure makes it look easy, doesn't he? :) Hope you find his tips helpful and good luck! ~S

[@SpeedyPainterSoftware]

@@BobbyChiu yes he does :) I really love his style. Yes of course I find them very useful. Thank you! And thanks for the amazing resources you and your great team always share with us :)

[@DazzlingAction]

simultaneous contrast... makes your grays brighter, makes you're colors temperature varied, makes you even more confused on how color is mixed.

[@jeanbarque9918]

Proud to discover that I'm on it since .. cannot really say as it's a process of thinking .. and cannot really choose a period where I really realised the "problem" of trying to recreate what you think you see when in fact it os technically, precisely, something else. But I am quite proud of having making this important (primordial) step by myself 😎. If it can help somebody: to recreate colors in these/ThisKindOf condition(s), I've got tio for you: isolate the color of what surrounds it, whatever you want but you jave to isolate it, you can put pieces of paper (of a most neutral possible color and if it isnt totally neutral, keep in mind the new relation) amd don't hesitate to compare it, to take a mome t to think about it and try to recreate it on a random support like any white surface). Isolating the color is primordial, take color illusions that you can find on internet, you can concentrate as much as you want, you'll never be able to see the real color and be totally shure that it is the exact color. But isolate this blue or yellow square of a rubicube, isolate it and you'll no longer see it blue or yellow, you'll see the real color that is grey for both (in this example, some may have the ref 😉, beautiful pictures with a little girl, the two colors that are clearly yellow and the second blue are both the exact same grey but you need to isolate them to see it). So isolate the color since the moment there is a particular relation

[@museofthe70s]

See you guys at 4pm

[@BobbyChiu]

Hope you enjoyed the video! :) ~S

[@lpie1887]

I watched this tutorial and stayed up till 7 in the morning doing nothing but pumping out digital paintings back to back and it only ended when I passed out from exhaustion so it's safe to assume this video is laced with cocaine

[@BobbyChiu]

Hahaha, now THAT'S dedication! We'd like to assure everyone that this video is safe for viewers of all ages and is not laced with anything except great advice and knowledge from the wonderful Nathan Fowkes :P ~S

[@pardismack]

07:00 : Cardi B Thanks Bobby. You and Nathan are great instructors and artists 😁

[@BobbyChiu]

Thanks so much for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching! ~S

[@masterklep]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Need more! 🌹💗

[@BobbyChiu]

We hope Nathan will continue this (Not) Rules series! Thanks for your support and for watching this video! :) ~S

[@ThatFluffis]

i love the not ruuules :D

[@BobbyChiu]

Thank you! We hope to add more videos to this series!! :) ~S

[@Joel-wj2gi]

I may have missed it but how do you choose an underpainting color?

[@ladyseshiiria]

How do you decide on colors in such a huge palette? If color changes based on surrounding color. Should we be testing like you show in the beginning with a box test.

[@nfowkesart]

If you don't mind going back to the part one of this talk, there's an exercise at the end that I think could be helpful. It's listed on both Bobby's channel and mine.

[@greggreen6532]

So what do you suggest for the oi painter to begin and proceed. Simply being aware doesn't suggest a structured method of beginning then proceeding. Pre mix on palette? Develop an all inclusive grey then add color in a series of values? What should the physical realities of real paint mixing look like before you begin? Thanks.

[@nfowkesart]

Good question, online attention is limited of course so I try and keep these KZbin videos in digestible bites. Forgive the pitch, but I do have a landscape painting course that covers this. It's fairly inexpensive for self study if you have any interest. www.schoolism.com/online-illustration-classes/landscape-sketching-in-watercolor-and-gouache-nathan-fowkes

[@greggreen6532]

@@nfowkesart Oh bugger. Is this a new course? One further question is that I see it is a lot of watercolor and gouache. Will I be able to apply this to oil? I''ve seen the preview and the simplification of the underpainting is appealing if that is what you said. I rarely glaze with colour if ever and what I'm looking for are those initial shapes that await an overcoloring of higher value and saturation if needed. Will that be explained? Two years ago I subscribed to Schoolism and studied all of your courses which were invariably excellent. Brilliant stuff generally and I have been trying to reverse engineer them into what this Landscape seems to be all about. What difficulties might I experience in translating this to oil if any. Your lessons were what dragged me into Schoolism in the first place. If you could answer this few questions I would greatly appreciate it. All the best. G

[@dwintster]

Been waiting for this demo, unveiling the mysteries of art one at a time. Still hoping to get a composition workout from you when you have time. I had gone over the lesson on balance and for the first time the steel yards that every composition book references made sense. You taught me that its more than just about the juxtaposition of size in relation to the center, its about relative variety and familiarity of the subjects.

[@nfowkesart]

Thanks D! I am indeed doing workouts for both composition and environment design! The only bad news is that it will take me quite awhile to get them together while I juggle personal and professional projects.

[@dwintster]

@@nfowkesart No worries, being an artist has instilled the virtue of patience into my very soul.

[@cromaticos4497]

Waiting 😍

[@BobbyChiu]

Hope you liked the video and got a chance to check out the live Q&A! :) ~S

[@cromaticos4497]

@@BobbyChiu Thank you So Much Bobby :), your tips are great! i will try more with color. regards from Argentina

[@cromaticos4497]

Thanks Nathan Fowkes for the Video

[@SamHoyekGuitar]

Hey Bobby, where did the stephen silver character design courses go on schoolism? I was just about to go onto lesson 2 :( what happened?

[@BobbyChiu]

Unfortunately, we have retired “Exploring Character Styles”, “Fundamentals of Character Design" and “Character Design Workout with Stephen Silver” from our library as Stephen has started his own art school! It’s really cool and we’re very excited for him! 🙂 If you check out his social media pages, you can find more information about his new school. I hope this helps! ~S

[@tannieb4204]

No matter how much i try to learn about color theory and relationship i dont know why i’m still not getting better at coloring my digital pieces

[@BobbyChiu]

Check out Nathan's "Designing with Color and Light" course on Schoolism! Nathan goes into a lot of detail about color theory and how to use color and lighting effectively in your paintings. Thanks for watching this video! ~S

[@tannieb4204]

I’ll go check it out thank you so much!!

[@sajeevsoman7813]

👍❤️👍

[@BobbyChiu]

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 ~S

[@MrRath-gn4ng]

Ok, but how can I use this knowledge effectively?

[@rafabar6652]

The point of this video is to help people acknowledge that there are more subtle way to aproach a color and in fact it's might be closer to reality than just simple blue/orange relations or stuff like that. So you can use this knowledge to expand your color choices and to experiment with it.

[@MrRath-gn4ng]

@@rafabar6652 Thank you for your answer, I just feel kinda lost after watching the vid. I'll do the exercises of part 1, and hopefully that'll help me. The video is of course great, but I personally would like more in depth theory shown and explained.

[@rafabar6652]

@@MrRath-gn4ng Yea, what I find the most annoying but also most exciting is that we can't really understand art if we don't try it out and encounter problems by ourselves and try to solve it. What we hope for is a great teacher that can teach us what important problems to look for. Nathan, for sure, is one of them. Good luck!

[@ethan2163]

Try mixing some desaturated colors with one another. You'll find that you can bridge colors and make them stand out better. The video just points out the subtlety that can come with color use. Marco Bucci's ten minutes to better painting on color is a pretty good video on this subject.

[@MrRath-gn4ng]

@@ethan2163 yeah, I watched it and I honestly had a little breakthrough with my color use before watching this video. Your Tip about mixing with desaturated color is pretty nice, thank you!

[@Nerf_Jeez]

"So let's now take this cool blueish color and put it next to an actual cool blue and.. Oh no, it's actually a bright warm saturated magenta variant"

[@1-year-old628]

omg this video makes me feel I am color blind

[@yeoldegrayCat]

My biggest mistake is not playing around with colors, oof.

[@BobbyChiu]

Don't be afraid to play around with color! There's so much to learn through playing with colors, you might be surprised! Good luck :) ~S

[@aelion7761]

Color theory gives me headaches.