Color Theory - A Beginners Guide

My Digital Art for Beginners Course: bradsartschool.com
You've drawn some pretty pictures but now it's time to add colors. Here are some tips and tricks (and the principles behind them) that will help you get started. If you're a beginner artist or illustrators this takes you through the steps of coloring your art. If you are looking to color comics or paint a landscape color is an important tool.
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Primary color (color models) Subtractive (for color printing) - CMY(K is Key for black) Subtractive (traditional pigments of paint) - RYB Additive (photo/digital) - RGB

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Thank you for this. This made the whole topic of colouring a whole lot less scary to me. Now... If you could do a video on shading... maybe... Whatever you do, Very good video. Have a great day.

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I would say for shading wherever there is overlapping make it a little dark like a shadow hope you understand.

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[@Chris-Dodge]

Never thought saturation and contrast played a part as well. Learned something new.

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Hes back! Also, color theory is so important, thanks for making this

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Out of everything I have read on color, your simplification of it was perfect and made the most sense. Thank you. 💖

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Wow. You make things so simple and easy to understand and yet add so much more detail than I thought I knew about the color wheel. I appreciate you taking the time to do these videos!

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I just want to say- Thank you sooo much for creating your videos! I learned and understood soo much about color theory in this one. I used to be confused with it before, and being a starting artist- you make life easier and brighter. Thank you so so much!

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im 42 and took art all through school and a couple classes in college and this was really fun. Im getting back into drawing and your video was very creative and fun to watch and i picked up some new ideas i forgot about and didn't know. thanks!

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i really love how brad explain about how we can use the contrast of saturated color to stand out, usually tutorials i saw don't recommend to use saturated colors at all and that makes me really sad. my art uses saturated colours, yet i always receive compliments about how i color or my pallettes. seeing tutorials which don't recommend them at all makes me think that my art is wrong and not good.

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this guys videos are a god send. every other art teacher on youtube is so pretentious and has no clue how to actually break down how to do these basics. they NEED to be dumbed down. thank you so much brad. i've learned more today watching all your videos than i ever had in all the years of trying to find help in other creators that say things along the lines of "don't draw what you see draw what you feel". thank you for actually knowing how to teach people.

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Wow this is one of the best explanations of color theory I’ve seen. It’s basic but to the point and not over done.

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Love this new series pretty much. Thanks tons for doing such a effort, Brad. Always get some new insights with your ways of presentation

[@LauraCBush]

Loved the clear and simple explanations of color wheel and the important subjects of hue,tint, value, saturation, contrast , intensity and how to apply the different versions of them . I understand,

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I’m going into a Art class that focuses on color this upcoming fall semester and I’ve gotta say, this video was EXTREMELY helpful in steering me in the right direction. I genuinely feel like I’m going into the semester with a ton of knowledge from this 11 minute video lol, thank you🙏🏾

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I am so grateful to you and your works. I can finally learn the whole process without getting confused.

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Thanks for this guide. I got to know so much more about colours and now I can apply this to my drawings

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The complimentary color like was amazing! Yes that's a compliment!

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I've been following your tutorials in my journal and it's helped so much, thank you! 😊

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you make this so easy to understand and so fun.. i appreciate it.

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This is so good, the vocabulary of it all-value, hue, color, saturation, the artist terms that no one really, really explains. I do have to go over it again though, maybe write it down to review it again because I did get a tiny bit confused then I was drawn back in, if anyone understands what I mean. So yeah this was awesome.

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this was the most helpful video of the color wheel ever!! other videos just make things too complicated and mention too many jargon without explaining anything. thank you for this!!!

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This is by far the most informative -- and fun -- video on color theory that I've seen!!! Thanks!

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I have never learned color theory the way I learned from you, Sir Brad. You're awesome. Please continue doing more.

[@neB282]

Hey! A little bit of info to add to this video is that red and blue aren’t true primary colors, magenta cyan and yellow are, it may seem weird but think about it, yellow and magenta make red and cyan and magenta make blue! Printers can print the color red, blue and almost all other colors but the inks they use are C M Y K Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black (Don’t ask me why black=k)

[@neB282]

Also CMYK gives more vibrant colors in art (unless it’s glass art or some other type of light art then it will make white) try making a vibrant purple or green, then compare it to the same but using CMYK! It looks much better in my opinion!

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Yay he's back!! Please continue to make these videos which are very helpful for a beginner like me!

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The ring w/ the square is my fav colour wheel

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This is an AMAZING video! I never understood colour theory until now. I will recommend this to any artist who wants to understand colour theory.

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