Color theory explained

[@pikat]

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter: amzn.to/4cfLJbU My brush (you can also find the settings here to recreate it): pikatartist.gumroad.com/l/hardpaintbrush Using these links may earn me a commission. It doesn't cost you anything extra.

[@pezvonpez]

Cholor and Glight

[@brycegier]

Where can i find devin videos?

[@ozzi9816]

Very cool idea to make your brush a donation thing! If you ever have problems with making enough from ads and stuff, I don't think anyone would complain about a "donate for art materials here and there" system, if it helps you to keep giving amazing advice like this for free!

[@TheLethargicWeirdo985]

_But hey, that's just a theory, a colour theory! Thanks for watching!_

[@Tk01235]

5:03

[@duluozah]

Going to miss him a lot

[@bigverybigveryverybigveryv9829]

rip matpat, you won't be forgotten

[@ChillingWithChu]

*Thanks for painting! =)

[@Middusk9540]

If Matpat was an artist.

[@helbeglin]

4:40 SO THAT'S WHY MY DESATURATED PINKS LOOK BLUE, AND DESATURATED YELLOW LOOKS GREEN ON RED! IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!

[@methfield]

Second comment here, yes this is true, baller, this is my final message, goodbye

[@Sammy_47]

Color theory is alot of information that overwhelms me; I'm the type of person who can't read straight instructions....I need it broken down, not to mention have visuals so I can ask questions. Sometimes I feel so dumb 😔

[@apretzel3373]

No need to feel dumb! like others here, you're learning new things. People learn in different ways, maybe visuals and simplicity is key for you! Regardless of how you prefer to learn things, that doesn't make you stupid, you're just unique!

[@Sammy_47]

@@apretzel3373 thanks for that 🙂

[@Bladebrent]

Oh I have the same problem. Online text-based tutorials are bloody painful sometimes cause I swear I follow em word for word and something gets screwed up somehow. I dont think its being stupid; its just our brains learn in different ways.

[@Sammy_47]

@@Bladebrent I know when she started explaining the different types (hue, saturation and such), I could literally feel myself spacing out; I understand those as they're the basics, but the further she went I grew more and more overwhelmed.

[@ihrnoir]

Haha that's what I struggle with when learning, only reading or hearing won't be enough. I like to see how things are done (like a mix of practical + visual learning), it makes me understand more.

[@Iris-fp9vo]

I sh*t you not. I mysteriously woke up 20 mins earlier than I normally do and lo and behold. A new Pikat video. My body is tuned to consume Pikat content.

[@SUTAZZZ]

LMAO??

[@OtherKirby]

The part where you're walking yellow down to blue actually took me back to high school art classes, to concepts I forgot I learned because I haven't practiced or thought about them in so long. I've been bingeing color theory videos lately and haven't come across any that reminded me and made things click like that!

[@chwrleseyler]

no joke this was like the only video about color theory that i ACTUALLY understood from beginning to end, thank you sm

[@virtuosyc]

I'm most impressed by the fact that you are asking for so much feedback. That's something I feel like I need to do too, but I'm scared 😭

[@AFKDINOSAUR]

Same but I wouldn't even know who to ask!

[@pennylavendar6362]

I mean theyre getting actual useful constructive feedback from professionals. Most people are just going to get "roasted" by randoms.

[@celuthien]

@@MFDOOOOM Which server is that? I want in on Riot artist feedback 😮

[@dfcx1]

Two things that taught me the most about color theory: David Briggs's site The Dimensions of Color (the huevaluechroma one) and implementing RGB/HSB sliders for my drawing program. Different color effects are easiest to think of in different color spaces, so I've found understanding how they relate to each other very helpful.

[@guyclykos]

The chroma part was a surprise. Extremely useful. Now I won't be scratching my head on why my colors aren't popping or popping out too much.

[@avivagodfrey]

You're the second person I watch to very recently recommend that Light and Color book. I bought it. Now to find time to actually study. TTvTT (Color is soooo hard, thank you for this, your struggle gives me courage to bang my head against this wall.)

[@huntersoth3502]

Gawd damnn, the edit switching from the color wheel to the vinyl record once the music hit was fuckin’ killer

[@NormalMar]

Color is one of those things that Ive made progress in and then I realize how much more I have to learn and practice. Chroma was one aspect of color that I hadn’t even been thinking about! I also really appreciate how you present these videos with your mistakes and your ideas to problem solve and so on. It helps me understand the concepts better and it also helps me to not be so frustrated with my own mistakes.

[@_PumpkinButter_]

Wow!! This is the only video where I actually understand the color theory! Thank u sooooo much 😭😭👍

[@TheAverageStuden-t]

Mf its been only 3 minutes since it was uploaded 💀

[@duluozah]

Super human speed

[@TheAverageStuden-t]

Guys watch the damn video before saying first.

[@pqpodeioojhin7531]

Why ?

[@teath_]

THANK YOU. none of these "Firsts" are genuinely learning anything. Ive been excited for these videos as i wanna refresh my knowledge- my FIRST reaction?? TAP THE VIDEO AND WATCH!!

[@TheAverageStuden-t]

@@pqpodeioojhin7531because i said so:)

[@kedr_supermarket]

nah

[@TheAverageStuden-t]

Im getting lobotomy kaisen flashbacks ever time i see the word nah

[@lmaowers9018]

This youtube art account is less than a year ,quite new , but it consists of great high quality videos and i can easily imagine this account getting a million subscribers and will be one of the favorites youtube creator of artists, since its also entertaining and educational.

[@CantonWhy]

I might need to watch this video a few times. Thanks Pikat. I've been hiding in greyscale for a long time.

[@swgman]

I love your tutorials pikat, especially the fact that you learn with us!

[@randomnoises8726]

I'm really glad you emphasised and explained chroma in a way that makes sense, because that's made me realise why I sometimes try to make a colour weaker yet it still feels too strong or gives me a bit of eye strain. For example, it seems if you use a blue or purple of medium value and you don't want it to stand out in a low saturation work, you really have to desaturate it big time. If you dont, the chroma of it will kind of stand out, but you wont really recognise it because you are technically using a low saturation blue. I'll have to experiment and investigate more to make sure I know exactly what I'm talking about, but this has put the idea in my mind and given me something to go on. Most videos kind of gloss over chroma like its not important and it leads to us ignoring a big part of the picture whenit comes to colour balance so i appreciate this.

[@Aiaeyehdh6]

HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE FIRST ACTUALLY HELPFUL COLOR THEORY VIDEO IVE FOUND THANK YOU

[@vonfoxula]

I just want to say although you’re clearly far more experienced than I am, you think about art the same way I do, so anytime anyone asks me for art advice I just give them the link to your KZbin channel because you explain everything a lot better than I could. (Also I love your videos and I still do learn quite a bit from watching them, or they help strengthen skills I’m already working on so thank you)

[@hams066]

I remember being there when you talked about chroma on stream and I didn't understand it at all, but this video really helped! I love the way you structure and explain things. Also, a lot of the times artists make things sound really easy, but once I try them myself they might actually be really difficult and then I feel like a complete failure for not being as good as them LOL, but you always include your own struggles and what you could improve upon and man, that helps so much! Another compliment goes out to chashuu0 for editing this video because it looks fantastic :3

[@TheLegendaryGrabMaster]

You are one of my favorite youtubers, I love how you explain things, and your mentality about art, love spend time just watching your videos

[@y0nei]

Great video, I'm not an artist myself but one of my favorite activities is admiring digital art of others and their styles. You all put so much effort into this just to please eyes of others, that's also one of the reasons I despise AI generated art. And that burger art looked extra nice!

[@trstmeimadctr]

When I wanted to take up art as a hobby, I had a hard time going from thinking about it like a scientist to thinking about it like an artist

[@qinram]

I’m also very mathematically minded in how I think. How did you go about bridging that gap?

[@HootingLance]

Of all the art tutorial vids that don't work great when just listeng only, like a podcast, this sure is one of them

[@EmBeRStudiosLive]

These thumbnails are so GOOD! Gambare auntie Pikat

[@shuum44]

i love the term like walking towards blue, it really put it into words, thank u

[@nicho.7400]

Watching your videos really makes me want to draw more so I find myself coming by every now and again when I need a small push to just get things started

[@Trishpaytaxes]

This video is severely underrated! I always wanted to learn about color theory, but never understood why colors were so important in the first place, or what was important about emphasizing specific colors. This video explains it so well! Thank you so much! I've been looking for a video like this for ages ❤ Edit: Okay, to be completely honest I skipped to the end before watching the beginning. Now, I'm watching it over and you explained everything about colors so well! Not just the importance of them and emphasis, but everything! I have to check out your other videos ❤

[@Foervraengd]

Applying color theory is imo essentially utilizing optical illusions to make things look appealing - color relativity wih the greys on the blue and orange squares are the easiest and best trick to harmonious colors in a painting, both digitally and traditionally. I love using grays/low saturated tones for bounce light or reflected light instead of blues (im a blue hater). I have painted using the Zorn palette both in oils and in clip studio and they work awesome for skin tones in both mediums.

[@hallokween]

i love the bloopers lol. and thank you this is really easy to grasp through the video!

[@EBMaster9000]

Colors are always interesting to learn about... Even if I'm not an artist myself, this was helpful and I have a few friends that I can share this to!

[@lunalienray]

Hue shift in my understanding is that hue usually shift toward yellow in lighter area and shift toward purple in darker area. This apply mostly to daytime sunlight. Walking through color is a new idea for me. Will probably try to apply that when I have a chance.

[@janialove7]

I'm gonna use this video to do a color study this weekend so I'll come back with an update in like 3 or 4 days from now

[@mechabunnyzilla]

your practices are so encouraging, I really needed to practice more and seeing your work has helped me tons, thank you :) also ugh hate how AI slowly makes internet useless, can't trust stuff you find on a search engine anymore!!!

[@loleo123]

Thank you for making learning digestable and most of all FUN ^^

[@YaToGamiKuro]

YOUR VOICE IS SMOOTH its actually calming hearing

[@ergohash2517]

you are the best new channel i found. absolute fire content and presentation.

[@Meedup]

I can see big improvement on these studies versus something like your last frieren illustration, in such a short time! congrats

[@eddie749]

Been following you on twitter for a while and just found out that you have twitch and youtube now too. Thank you for the amazing tutorials!

[@Gonsoi]

i've seen a lot of color theory videos, and it's the first time i hear about chroma, is an interesting phenomenom

[@dado8467]

Ahhh, nothing beats reviewing the good ol’ foundamentals with Pikat!

[@MissSun23]

amazing video! your streams are so entertaining too. thanks for all the tips :D

[@danysercia]

This is so incredibly useful!!! Thank you for sharing!!

[@SanguchitoPapa]

I LOVE YOU PIKAT I NEEDED THIS VIDEO

[@dailydoodle42]

I like to think of warm and cool as: If you desaturate a warm color, it gets cooler, if you desaturate a cool color its gets warmer. Also a good thing that I would add to this video is that if you desaturate a color it gets lighter in value and vice versa!

[@Jus10Ed]

9:13 *aggressively pats*

[@RaiginAnimator]

5:17 thankyou I just finished a draw like a sir video and was wondering how it would work.

[@warrenbradford2597]

I am already familiar with warmer and cooler colors. I will use the coloring theory to improve my coloring skills.

[@Absbor]

I can't see 3D, I can only imagine it (which obviously doesn't always work). So I have to learn color theory more intensive to find a good middle ground... or at least make my artwork more appealing despite not seeing and/or understanding what i'm doing. Thank you for the video.

[@willbrashear]

This is a nice video, the only issue I see is when a digital artist wants to hop into the realm of traditional art. Think of Chroma as a Pigment. Chroma is the purist color, not the intensity which seems to be the common thought. Adobe also adds vibarance in the mix that affects only warm colors. For example, you can not add white to red to make pink digitally. You only make more saturated or less saturated red. However, if you take a white crayon or a titanium white (oil paint) to a red you get pink (which is somewhere between magenta and fuchsia). This is more of the pigments reacting. This is also important if you want merch to look similar. That is why white with printed colors can be replaced by the paper/t-shirt/object color to make all of your colors change. (This is really the difference between additive and subtractive color which I won't go into here. It is important to note, that color affects emotions and have emotions. There is a reason why when you see red your body automatically starts raising your heartbeat. There is a reason yellow and green combinations are excluded from restaurants generally (it generally makes you think of vomit so Blimpies and Subway are outliers in this regard). Even white seems to be cleaner or black is more expensive when dealing with packaging. So that's one thing that you want to keep in mind when wanting to invoke an emotion in the viewer. The Adobe stock was using HDR to artificially put the cooler colors into the shadows. As an artist working with colors, I do this graphic design as well or exaggerate the backlighting to make the subject pop from the background. This is also done in classical animation so don't be afraid to do this. However, in a color study, this is very bad and you want pretty pictures that are accurate to how we see colors. Finally, as a guy who did food photography, if you want to make your food paintings stand out then you want an angle that makes the viewer look like they are sitting at the table about to take a bite out of it. The reason we know this is simple, go into a grocery store and walk down the aisles. Go to the commercials you see and what food pops the most. It is always that moment you are about to pick the food up and look down. Those companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars to psychologically figure out the best angels to get the biggest amount of sales. It is why you always see layers of lasagna or the insides of a cake. They also show some of the best color relations to food. So this will help when you go to draw some more of the food-related angels. Also very cool drawing of the poke-burger. Sorry for the mini-lecture, I do hope it helps on your color journey.

[@cringesuperhell]

God, chroma always has me overthinking when I try to plan values in a piece. Definitely something I want to get more familiar with so I don't get trapped in color picker hell lol

[@Blossom_Animation-19]

I don't even know what I watched...I just love her talking about art

[@naavsi5954]

0:30 appreciated

[@JustAnAverageToast]

THATS JUST A THEORY, A GAMEEE THEORY. Thanks for watching

[@anaomid4422]

Great video!!! I'm not even an artist i just like hearing you talk

[@Bloomkyaaa]

I recommend everyone go buy one of those lil color wheels, it has *everything* you need. I keep one on my desk and use it for picking colors.

[@frukola64]

I feel so dumb because only today i learned about chroma and i try to keep my values as high contrast as possible. Great video you're so real for stealing from ai

[@Lady_Delinquent02]

1:19 i lovve this song 😖

[@RaiginAnimator]

I’ve watched this and other colour videos 10x now And I’ll Be back for 11 next time I practise. :))))))))))))

[@SwiftRespite]

4:23 you really thought I needed all the guards at the hexgates?

[@KeybBot]

New pikat video yay

[@ninhnguyen4360]

4:44 Really thank you very muchhhhh..... love you. keep drawing

[@Inkwell]

This thumbnail goes hard 🦑✨great video

[@GamesBacon]

Your videos are so fun!

[@CherryArgus]

That thumbnail is unbelievably cursed, also GREAT VIDEO!! It's really helped how I think about color!

[@spectacularspider-man4886]

Doing gods work, thank you

[@Kokofishie_lover]

I've been waiting for so long. Now I can finally rest.

[@crucible1084]

6:29 great use of clodsire

[@cartoonhyperfixated]

I love the art on the thumbnail

[@Tharros95]

Must be nice to have access to friends who are some of the best artists in the industry

[@gira4664]

Legendary video big thanks for the knowledge

[@shybie2798]

ngl the blue and yellow bit explains the infamous internet dress so much

[@soulkeeeper]

Pikat try not to be the goat challenge (impossible)

[@drendraleigh4722]

One never stop learning about color theory

[@joaoalmeida99]

I cant, her videos are too good

[@kawaiineko365]

Love your videos *-*! Could you please make a video related to gesture/figure drawing? Massive thanks 🌺

[@suzuyahaise401]

This helped me so much

[@KaedeNamidaa]

1:18 AYO IDENTITY MENTIONED??

[@CoolPsyco]

my head hurts... i dreaded the moment i try to apply this in practice

[@Matthimeo]

I hate how google search has been utterly ruined by how much it boosts ai images. I’m back to going to the library or specific Pinterest boards when I want to find good references.

[@sizzlingyolk24]

this helped me so much, thank you!!!!!!!!!

[@meowmauda]

That was so helpful!! Could you probably aslo introduce us to values? 😇

[@thatbigbear6438]

What I'm currently struggling with is understanding which colors to pick, when coloring lines in a drawing. It's pretty difficult, especially when there are multiple colors touching the same line. It feels impossible finding the right color to paint these lines, and somehow some artists manage to pick the perfect color for the whole outline of a drawing

[@matxp6085]

Talk about pencil configurarion would be cool. A paint pencil/ sketch pencil/final line pencil etc...

[@Pandanubex]

good video pikat

[@VisMed_artist]

When she said walk towards blue... i damn near lost my mind...... it was like it finally all clicked into place. The sky was orange because the blue sky had walked that far towards the yellow sun........................................................................................ meaning there was that much light defusing behind the clouds it appeared as it did. *mind explodes*

[@reneybarra4646]

Have no idea why I’m watching this when I’m colorblind, but here I am

[@inertchip5780]

Suddenly everything about colour makes so much sense....

[@johnschwartz-sy3vz]

yo pikat can you make a vid on how to draw character in perspective? also i want to start learning anatomy but idk where to start

[@GravityGuardian-s2r]

Thanks

[@noped9613]

best art teacher in KZbin 🔥🔥

[@coneg2714]

it's obnoxious how much ai generated stuff is on adobe stock now. there's a setting to turn it off but even then stuff that's clearly (and even claims to be!) ai generated slips through. but anyways, the color study process looks fun and i think i may try to figure out recreating that brush in procreate since it looks nice

[@flexforthetube]

I'm glad I subbed to your channel. That is all~

[@HopperYTRealChannel]

How do I apply color>?

[@vicenteisaaclopezvaldez2450]

"We're not gonna talk about the electromagnetic spectrum" Thank you 😣

[@Flash_of_Stars]

my knoledge expands

[@_van_guildo]

The AI shit got rent free inside my head, I can't believe it THE IMAGE EVEN HAD THOSE WATERMARKS FROM PHOTOGRAPHY PICS, WHAT THE HELL

[@beadyblue]

YES PIKAT!