Color Proportion: How Great Artists Balance Their Illustration

[@cornshot9857]

Nice having someone just talking about a concept without the whole "do this not that" red arrow shocked face thumbnail. Been loving your recent videos! Gets me in the mood to observe on my own rather than seeking "tips"

[@AllenMakesArt]

The way you break down concepts is so helpful. The conversational pacing and concept repetition really make it easy to learn from you. Thank you for sharing your library of art books and your knowledge with all of us.

[@Jay34k]

What an amazing follow-up to the previous video! I highly appreciate your insight, expertise and wisdom. These are things that are better explained in a thorough and deep manner with plenty of examples, and that's exactly what you offer. Reiterating over such essential but complicated subjects is absolutely necessary to get a better understanding. I think it takes years for self-taught artists to start considering and internalizing these things, but this little lesson is such a massive shortcut. Can't thank you enough. Also, it was very insightful the last part about illustrations with several characters, it's something I sometimes wondered about, but you gave me a whole new perspective and tools to dissect that kind of illustrations.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Thanks for letting me know these are helping out! The reason I make so many of these long videos is that I honestly think you need to immerse yourself a bit and see it explained from a few different angles. The next step is to apply some of these concepts is the how to tutorials so we can explore them in practice.

[@Jay34k]

been learning quite a bit of new things with your videos for a week now, can wait to see this one too.

[@Two-Tone-Paper]

I really enjoy your video formats. The conversations are always really interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing your insights with us!

[@luvboug]

wake up babe, new color proportion video just dropped

[@surrcram]

On the topic of great artists' colors, J.C. Leyendecker always pops up in my mind as an illustrator whose works we're always against a solid color yet had great distribution of colors despite that, but I understand his draftmanship and brushwork was what set him apart from the rest. I'm leaning more into comic art in terms of style with an emphasis on linework, but color has always been one of the things I struggle with. Great vid, Tim.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Thanks for your thoughts! Yeah Leyendecker had great colors. I think he hade such great design in his images that they often felt natural despite being random assortments of things. A lot of his work was more tonal for a lot of the Saturday Evening Post work, but when he did use different colors it was amazing.

[@surrcram]

@@TheDrawingCodex I often wonder of a world where he did artworks outside the commercial landscape, but he really has a timeless look. Rockwell adored him! I read that he was working on a commission that he considered to be his best yet before he died, unfortunately he wished for his unfinished art and sketches to be burned in his will. Gosh, what a figure.

[@TheDrawingCodex]

@@surrcram Haha I did not know that. Burning the unfinished art is a great way to leave some mystique! Even thought a lot of those old Illustrators are now seen as 'working illustrators' and not artists... they were definitely just as crazy and passionate as the best the modern art world has been able to muster.

[@cloudynguyen6527]

Whenever I see that name, my mind pops up Team Fortress 2. I love that game so much I intensively study its style haha

[@virginiavaccaro7695]

Terrific.

[@LOREk.]

i hace little question about Line and Color Academy 2.0 when its gonnna relase its gonna be new payment ? or everyone that have line and color 1.0 get it for free? Thank you in advance

[@TheDrawingCodex]

Everyone who buys the first one gets the update for free. Same with the addition of the mini courses for each stage!

[@LOREk.]

@@TheDrawingCodex thx you =3