Check out the rest of Jeremy's course covering painting light on Proko - www.proko.com/course/painting-light-101/overview
@Oblogonogo3 ай бұрын
that man is the best. color theory never clicked until I found his channel and he walked me through this
@snofixart3 ай бұрын
"They were all yellow" ColdPlay
@ritzyllama3 ай бұрын
im yellow dabba de daba die
@faroukb.84752 ай бұрын
Comment of the year
@ryleybrooks43212 ай бұрын
I cackled 😂😂
@Josh-dr3fjАй бұрын
"Look at the trees, tell me what youuuu see...they look green to me....but they were all yellow"
@iamvegeta2008Күн бұрын
Now the song lyrics makes sense...."I drew a line for you, it was all yellow" ;)
@manneaux44043 ай бұрын
My takeaway: Only orange and yellow exist all other colors are fake.
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Yes! This is the lesson. FINALLY someone gets it! 🤣
@philroydias53663 ай бұрын
Yup yellow of the sun and blue of the sky. No other colours are real!!
@theomnibenevolence2 ай бұрын
Technically orange is just a hue of brown, not its own base colour
@rexibhazoboa70972 ай бұрын
@@theomnibenevolencewhy isn’t it the other way around? Brown being a darker hue of the base color orange?
@theomnibenevolence2 ай бұрын
@@rexibhazoboa7097 im not sure man 😭
@Revanaught3 ай бұрын
I remember the moment that I understood color relativity and it broke my brain. I was recreating the Charizard sprite pixel by pixel and realized that it's mostly pink. Design as a whole looks orange, but it's majority pink pixels.
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Perfect example!
@machina53 ай бұрын
Which Charizard sprite?
@jim-df7sx3 ай бұрын
🗣🗣🗣 come back and tell us which sprite we want to see it too
@ivicamilica2 ай бұрын
I also want to know what sprite
@phoebecara43612 ай бұрын
OP which sprite was it
@MotoGreciaMarios3 ай бұрын
Awesome advice. What I find frightening is the obvious knowledge the old classic painters had over this thing, without any color circle, without any saturation analysis without any technology. They just knew what to do out of sheer talent and experience.
@m.l.28712 ай бұрын
i think a color circle was somewhat known they could paint it..
@pijoo_2132 ай бұрын
I think the old masters knew and studied a lot more science than we realize. They probably understood a lot of these things, they just didn't have the same technical terms that we do now.
@doloreszombory94152 ай бұрын
@@pijoo_213Yes, they had eyes and a brain and eventually figured out perspective and all kinds of stuff! 😲
@gabrielaribeiro615525 күн бұрын
They didn't have a digital colour circle but they did have physical colour studies. In europe, for example, from the Middle Ages until the XIX century, apprentices/students went through strict training for years before they were recognized as legitimate painters. They had to know how to prepare the paint, how to properly mix colours, different brush techniques, anatomy, composition, etc. It's honestly not that different from today - if you want to be a good painter you have to put in that same work. It's just some tools/materials and nomenclature that has changed.
@gabrielaribeiro615525 күн бұрын
Also, has others have pointed out in different comments, this particular knowledge of colour relativity is often more intuitively/easily understood and applied in material painting rather than digital. Having to constantly mix pigments to get different colours will "force" you to understand colour theory faster than if you're able to pick any colour you want with a click.
@skyesfallenxx2 ай бұрын
I guess one other tip from an artist currently in art school, is that the more you desaturate a colour, the more it will look like its complementary colour. For example, if you desaturate red to almost gray and shift it towards orange slightly, and then paint that new colour onto pure red, it will look like green despite being just desaturated/gray orange. If you desaturate orange by a lot and shift it slightly closer to red, then paint that new gray colour onto orange, it will look like a dull or silvery blue. This is especially useful when colouring skin. We've all had that moment where a shadow looks blue, but then you try to paint it and ohh now they look like they have a bruise! Try desaturation your skin colour and shifting it closer to magenta, then you will get that blue-ish shadow without making it look like the character has paint on their skin. I hope this helps at least one person out there :)
@gabrielaribeiro615525 күн бұрын
Very well put!
@aishwariyasweety243317 күн бұрын
Thats very useful! You are a good person:) ❤
@divinenonbinary2 ай бұрын
The confusion comes from using digital painting. Cuz with real paint mixing you would essentially desaturate color by mixing in the color that u perceive with your eyes and at no point need you to discover that it’s “actually” grey bc u r mixing those up relationally already one from another
@wiwita63Ай бұрын
Not to mention monitors display color differently so adds to the confusion as well.
@divinenonbinaryАй бұрын
@@wiwita63 very true. And the way palettes on the digi drawing software are all presented against said software/white background as opposed to mixing paint in relation to the painting itself
@MajorMaze24 күн бұрын
well as a rookie would still grab the green tube for trees and wonder why it looks shitty
@horyukinen23 күн бұрын
@@MajorMazevery true
@inexistence6313 ай бұрын
I feel like I've found a Holy Grail. This is precisely the issue I struggled on with color, and now, I feel enlightened. I will put this into practice immediately. Thank you.
@mimmidauria54052 ай бұрын
Same!
@batfiend2 ай бұрын
paint 📝everything 📝yellow 📝...
@skillz05.Ай бұрын
And orange
@00WatName003 ай бұрын
I also learned majority of my color relativity from Marco Bucci, and in one of his videos he said we don’t necessarily have to pick the exact color but as long as we move into that direction we’re gonna be ok. And that snapped something in my brain that when I tested it, it did look more like the color I was trying to go for! You’ve also proved it at 1:28 where the grass looked green but is actually orange, and if one noticed, it is going towards the direction of green somewhat desaturated etc. Very interesting, thank you for sharing free lessons like these Proko 💕
@emmas13662 ай бұрын
marco bucci's videos on color are fantastic
@asassin073511 күн бұрын
Wow, this will actually make my art bloom. I have long time like struggled to andorstand why when I colour pick the colour itself is fully opposite from what I tried, now I can actually do proper landscape study and just make it so much more better
@rubensmaximus3 ай бұрын
I work for more than 10 years as an artist and this blew my mind! Thank you so much!
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Wow, thank YOU!
@bondvabond3 ай бұрын
I've dabbled very lightly in digital art for a few years now and have never been able to fully grasp colour relativity, despite watching and attempting to apply several tutorials. Jeremy's explanation of this makes SO. MUCH. SENSE. Quick and easy with an actual practical demonstration of how it works and how to choose the colours yourself. Using the eyedropper + colour wheel to illustrate what he meant was a great choice. I've never paid for an art course before, but this is making me SERIOUSLY consider giving his course a shot, wow
@ez_is_bloo3 ай бұрын
I'm a colorblind artist (red and green in particular) so I just put the colors verbatim, adjust the opacity and hope for the best XD
@nawenyxar43783 ай бұрын
Wait I don't get it. So red looks like green/green looks like red or they just look brown? Dw if you can't explain, but I've always been curious...
@SheetLogarithm33 ай бұрын
@@nawenyxar4378 I have a red and green deficiency and the way I perceive them is that they're both red and green. Only when they're at their most saturated can I tell that a red is red and a green is green
@ez_is_bloo3 ай бұрын
@@nawenyxar4378 well there's different kinds of it. For me personally, it makes some shades of green indistinguishable from gold or orange, lime green being indistinguishable from yellow and teal being indistinguishable from grey. For the reds, it makes pinks indistinguishable from grey and dark reds indistinguishable from desaturated greens, yellows and browns. Coz of this I have a problem on identifying whether a color is green-shifted or red-shifted or just desaturated, or both hue-shifted+desaturated. I didn't think it was that bad until recently and people kept pretending I was faking it XD
@levelNeroZero3 ай бұрын
What does manga look like for colorblind people Do colorblind people see darkness different?
@gniewomircioek68453 ай бұрын
Can you show some of your work?
@syaning_3 ай бұрын
Omg Jeremy and Proko?? Yes pleaseee😍 Thank you for this lesson💕
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
He's one of the instructors in our Digital Painting Fundamentals class now! He's a champion of an educator and we're glad to have him.
@brandonstreete3 ай бұрын
yes proko thanks for bringing Jeremy dude is really a great teacher
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Agreed!
@ebusukuАй бұрын
0:15 Me, confidently: green yellow and orange
@saram344911 күн бұрын
The repainting segment has SAVED me. I’ve come across some tutorials on this general idea before but they never really explained the desaturation+relativity concept properly. Seeing it in practice with the slight shifts the either side of the yellow was immensely helpful!
@ochadeshita2 ай бұрын
This is quite possible the most valuable art video i've ever encountered on youtube.
@iamvegeta2008Күн бұрын
Thank you, THIS is exactly what I've been trying to understand for quiet some time. You gave the most precise, easy to understand explanation & demonstration for this.
@Jake-ut3po3 ай бұрын
Seen dozens of videos on this topic but it didn’t click the same way until now 🤩
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Jeremy's great at that kind of thing!
@lindatannockАй бұрын
Same!!
@JoeyStrombolli3 ай бұрын
Extremely amazing video and wonderful teacher, I've been an artist all my life and have never realized how important color relativity is! Not enough people talk about it! This video made it all click for me, and will forever change the way I make art. Thank you Proko for allowing people like me to access this kind of teaching free of charge, absolute life saver
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@PhoapishSir1803 ай бұрын
OH my gosh i LOVE proko and i LOVE COLOR RELATIVITY!!! I clicked as soon as i saw this video pop up on my feed!!! I love color so much and I love messing with them, especially with grays in more saturated environments. I love practicing eye picking colors to make them look like they fit into a deeply colored environment. And I love (attempting) to teach people this concept. Color is so fascinating!!!!!!!! Great work from the proko team as always!
@paulkap43693 ай бұрын
Picking the right color or just determining which color I would use, if I had to paint it, is soooo difficult for me! Thanks for this lesson!
@LE0NSKA2 ай бұрын
0:55 oh! it's complimentary - of course.
@kelpstorm2 ай бұрын
damn this was fascinating! i appreciate the actual method to pick the correct colours, i often see colour 'tutorials' where they show colours arent what they seem but they dont tell you how to go about picking the right ones instead. this seems pretty useful :D
@akant40233 ай бұрын
lets fucking goo finally, someone just explained it with images. It all makes sense now. Would love to see some blue range examples aswell.
@johncook89003 ай бұрын
Jeremy's old Gnomon course "Practical Light and Color" was what got me to do my first digital painting.
@bethlong30113 ай бұрын
Doing this with mixing embroidery thread for textile art has its fun challenges too!
@whysoodown89813 ай бұрын
Best explanation and demonstration of color relativity and temperature I’ve seen! Thank you :)
@cntom82333 ай бұрын
I knew about relativity and its tricks against the eyes. but I never grasped how to choose the colors and this video blew my mind!
@ara-md6by2 ай бұрын
I kinda understood color relativity because of Jeremy! Will forever be grateful
@jovannydiazabad612318 күн бұрын
Good job Proko having Jeremy here is a big win this past year he and Marco Bucci have been a big help
@carly74283 ай бұрын
My brain just 404 errored.
@RealisticBro7723 күн бұрын
This is the best art channel on KZbin
@ProkoTV23 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@Petpatrol222 күн бұрын
I have been working as a proffessional cartoonist for about 20 years now, thought I knew the basics of color theory, and this blew my mind just now. I just learned something new.
@PrivateLZG3 ай бұрын
Change your color selector to a model that has desaturated grey in the middle and its saturated hues in a circle around it. I don't know the name of it but that's helped me a ton when picking colors. If I want blue in a yellow atmosphere, I shift towards blue on the circle and get just less saturated yellow because I have to move through the middle which is grey.
@WinryRockbellElric4 күн бұрын
Digital art was so useful for helping me understand colour relativity! I love looking at the hexadecimal info :D
@CloudsAndDaysАй бұрын
I understood the concept but always struggled with implementing. I think you’re the first person I’ve found who’s actually explained how it’s done in digital media.
@liyan0017 күн бұрын
Thank you for this! I understood the concept, but to actually see what is happening and the changes with the color wheel is really helpful.
@felipeguerrerocastillo28313 ай бұрын
What a clear way to explain these concepts !! Thank you so much !!
@Im_Banana_3 ай бұрын
This helped me alot with something ive been struggling alot with in painting, thank you, the way you simplified it really helped me understand, I seriously appreciate it:)
@こんでれやの3 ай бұрын
This made a lot of difference! Thank you so much! I learned so much from this video, i appreciate you!
@mah1ro2673 ай бұрын
Oh my god. Thank you so much for this. I knew this issue for years now but had no idea on how to do it correctly.
@HorswrangBasumatary3 ай бұрын
Got an idea about hues. Thanks for this explanation, it will stay in my head for lifetime now, yeh bebe
@leopardscanfly3 ай бұрын
Amazing lesson in such a short time format. Thanks Proko and Jeremy
@MANIAKRA2 ай бұрын
Amazing demo. Jeremy Vickery is a true colour and light master. So happy to see him still at it in a modern video!
@ProkoTV2 ай бұрын
Jeremy's great! He's been a fantastic addition to our digital painting fundamentals course.
@Tharmorteos2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I was stuck for years on this! my pictures always looked so cartoonishly colorful. Your video helped me a lot!
@marshmallonman3 ай бұрын
I previously heard about colour relativity from those illusions, but never put 2 & 2 together that this is the reason my paintings look off, or how to find the right colours. Thanks so much!
@iQuitGirls9925 күн бұрын
This reminds me of a video I saw on painting white (I’m not an artist by any description, excuse me if this is common knowledge in the art world), the “whitest” parts of it were basically brown but when the picture came together I could’ve sworn it was pure white.
@ProkoTV25 күн бұрын
Exactly!
@rakedos90573 ай бұрын
Best explanation on how to approach this!
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@andrewsissons8082 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video! This is something I thought about a lot as a photographer aspiring to become a painter. I can take a photo of a white wall as the sun sets on it, but if I were to paint it, I'd have to use the colour orange, which seemed simple enough until I started asking myself, "What colour is red brick at night? What colour is grass during a sunset?" This video helps a lot!
@wachinichu3 ай бұрын
Finding Color Harmony. And, I appreciate Mr. Vickery's persistent teaching spirit.
@marrow943 ай бұрын
Very fun video, thanks! These colour studies are super interesting!
@justA.3 ай бұрын
Very well explained, thank you Jeremy and thank you Proko for this collab
@djvertical3 ай бұрын
Wow! This is actually crazy. Such a cool video. Not sure why this came into my feed, but I’m so glad it did. As someone who dabbles with paint, I found this absolutely fascinating. Great upload! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@JackBond12342 ай бұрын
I've probably been pretty close to understanding this, but it never really clicked until now. I think this has been the missing piece of color theory I've been looking for. I love bright colors, so I tend to go for vibrant cartoony art, but even in cartoony art, if everything is saturated vibrant color, nothing stands out. I've seen a lot of art with beautiful contrasts, and I've wanted to try it myself. I've never thought about picking a dominant color, pushing less dominant colors to gray tones in the same family as the dominant, and only using saturated colors for highlighted trims. I can't wait to try this.
@mnap15953 ай бұрын
Enjoyed your last video on the same subject. Not sure why, but I could watch this topic over and over.
@user-uk9er5vw4c3 ай бұрын
the paint in the final study is impressive, the author really implemented color relativity
@lilapple11423 ай бұрын
I just finished a few color studies the other day and I noticed that I was running into this problem a lot. I wasn't sure what I was doing wrong so I just found ways to work around it. After watching this video everything just clicked, in my next few pieces I'm going to try this method to challenge myself and hopefully I'll see some improvement! :D
@alenb2098Ай бұрын
i've always understood this but could never pick right colours by myself. your video is the thing i've been looking for my whole life
@mimmidauria54052 ай бұрын
The video that made me understand color theory, THANK YOU!
@subhrapratimsharma28253 ай бұрын
I think this illusion holds mostly true for screens. If I am actually painting a sunset, I won't use orange-brown to paint the leaves. I'll use green and blend it with brown to make it darker or something.
@kad1v3 ай бұрын
This concept is universal. When you paint with a limited palette the colours look harmonious and you have to use color relativity to bring variety.
@cyberlivion83633 ай бұрын
Green and brown makes a yellow hue. Screens are not different from real painting. The same knowledge is required.
@paullarkin29703 ай бұрын
additive vs subtractive color mixing is totally different
@subhrapratimsharma28253 ай бұрын
I should try your suggestions and learn a bit more about this. Thanks.
@Not_Even_Wrong3 ай бұрын
@@subhrapratimsharma2825 thanks to smart phones it's pretty easy to study today. Although in paintings the effect is often pushed a bit because it tricks the eye into perceiving the light color more intensely.
@stinky_little_cephalid2 ай бұрын
Dear god this video damn near made me cry. Earned yourself a like and sub. You have altered my life in an irreversible manner. I hope you understand the gravity of what you've just done.
@rdendelacruz43323 ай бұрын
WHAT THE.......THIS IS SO USEFULL!...THIS IS AWESOME TOO!....thank you for this!
@noiJadisCailleach3 ай бұрын
Always knew Jeremy would be in Proko one day... And this is that day! Congrats guys!
@remygallardo73643 ай бұрын
I like to keep a layer off to to the side where i can test color combinations before committing to painting something because I know once I begin working on rendering I want to keep going. Just big blocks of color mark ups like you're blocking in an oil canvas and see how the temperatures and relativity works together and adjust accordingly so the blobs look like what you're going for. Then you can just color pick from that and know you have a solid palette.
@cheekyvixen9445Ай бұрын
This is really helpful. Thank you for making this video.
@jt_manic3 ай бұрын
awesome knowledge! I’ve been doing color picking by “moving in the direction of the color” I’m aiming for based on where I start in, or as you describe “leaning in”. I think I picked this up previously but don’t remember when/where. Good to reinforce that idea! thanks ☺️
@JoshAshConceptArt3 ай бұрын
Wooo great to see Jeremy here, he is one of my favorite teachers!
@AzureSymbiote3 ай бұрын
I am very grateful you showed us this. This will be extremely useful.
@arprickvr2 ай бұрын
I've never felt as blown away as I'm right now!
@Astryca3 ай бұрын
Nice to know how to do this practically! To get a similar effect ive just used gradient maps, but this is really cool!
@Shsy75732 ай бұрын
I just don’t understand how, in that example painting, you’re saying that the bush in the far, far background is supposed to be looking like it’s purple. I don’t see purple at all. It just looks grey to me.
@wiwita63Ай бұрын
They are looking grey but they tend to lean toward a specific color, like a row of grey squares but each one is slightly different that the others, one might lean more toward red/orange as in it generally looks warm, while another one leans more toward blue/purple and looks cold, even though they are still in the grey area, so essentially your brain is tricking you into thinking the rock is a very desaturated color but it's probably just orange with other colors surrounding it. Or it's an issue with how your phone/computer displays colors, different screens display colors differently so when there is a minimal difference between colors you might have trouble seeing it on your device.
@grayhollow61072 ай бұрын
when you painted that "purple" tree in the painting study my understanding of color was instantly flipped on its head so fast I couldn't help but laugh out loud and put my head in my hands. I could almost feel my brain rearranging
@lanigirognithemos3 ай бұрын
Very interesting! When I'll finally feel good enough with drawing to attempt painting seriously this will come in very handy!
@holyalpaca750Ай бұрын
This is actually amazing thank you so much
@ConcealedWeapon2 ай бұрын
Very powerful principle even for photography. Thanks!
@ItsAkile3 ай бұрын
Amazing breakdown to get started
@cutler559Ай бұрын
My jaw dropped. You explained it so easily but it was a BIG help. Thank you.
@sidrum10102 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for this free class! :3
@Sunrise_eliza3332 ай бұрын
Oh it suddenly makes sense, it reminds me of a theory that someone told me before… thank you so much anyway, it helps a lot!❤ (The whole thing is like “filter” function we always applied during photo editing🧐)
@ugandahannah3 ай бұрын
This is the most helpful video on color and design I've seen so far! Unlocks a whole new world!
@Ammar-x1w3 ай бұрын
You guys are really good at drawing .
@philroydias53663 ай бұрын
I just started watching lighting mentor videos and what a coincidence to see him on proko🎉😮
@renatobfa2 ай бұрын
If you take a picture on the real world and see it from a unbalanced monitor, it will show a bunch of blues and greens by the nature of how blue biased our cameras and monitors are. But, if you change your white balance to a more neutral one and calibrate your monitor to show white color aproximating a very well lit white piece of paper (which will require to take out something like 30~40% of the blues from the monitor, perhaps some green/red as well) this will make that ilusion of yellowish grass being green a little bit more easily apparent. But yeah, besides this, grass and tree foliage on the real world is often yellowish. The third factor I wouldn't discart is that old paintings tend to yellow and darken a bit as they age, because of the oil paint getting yellow itself but also the varnish on top getting dirty and old. Sometimes at lot darker and warmer. So there is that too.
@julmaass3 ай бұрын
Best color theory video I’ve seen. I understood it intuitively but not until you started SHOWING that I realized how extreme color relatively can get . Who knew a desaturate orange can look green . Wut?!
@antonioblanco30863 ай бұрын
So nice. More content like this please
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Noted! 🫡
@sankzu2 ай бұрын
This is nuts!!!! Thank you so much❤
@sampokemppainen30413 ай бұрын
I think it was Mike Hoffman's painting tutorial where he pointed out that muddy color that can be used to tone the backgrounds. I guess it is clever thing.
@heckensteiner47133 ай бұрын
The three images with the lego figures all wearing the same color shirt is destroying my brain along with my whole perception of reality... and I love it!
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
🤯
@whyistheskyyellow86812 ай бұрын
This actually helps so much, i am enlightened
@aaronsaulters34263 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@ProkoTV3 ай бұрын
Thank YOU!
@natkaweski14433 күн бұрын
my mind is blowing!
@joshuagabsart3 ай бұрын
The ocean is taking all the blue waves from our eyes irl, so there’s no blue left anymore haha.
@doloreszombory94152 ай бұрын
When I learned to paint back in the ‘80’s, on actual canvas with real paint, our instructor had us make a simple view finder. It was just a small square cut out of a playing card-sized piece of cardboard (I think it was black) and if you weren’t sure about the color of part of a still life you would just isolate that color by looking at that small spot through the view finder, usually about a foot or two away from your eye. You would then not be influenced by the surrounding colors. It was very helpful for truly seeing color while painting. I don’t think I would enjoy painting on a computer screen while looking at a digital image, but your idea seems similar to how I was taught. Does this work for trying to answer the blue dress or yellow dress question that was going around years ago? 🙂
@_Adrian_Llarena_3 ай бұрын
I always use the eyedropper tool to know what the actual color of my reference is. Judging the colors using my eyes alone is difficult as my brain plays tricks on me. A mountain with trees on a distance looks bright blue-green to me but my color sample says the color is actually gray. It is easier for me to paint because of the use of technology where I can color sample an reference for a more accurate color. I wonder how classic painters have come up with this knowledge by just observing and only using their eyes without the help of technology. It just amazes me.
@emmajdoodles24063 ай бұрын
this blows my mind! ive drawn and painted for years and always struggled with some aspects of colour but this explains it so well! is this something that could be applied to traditional art and if so how?
@granitethor45622 ай бұрын
really helpful, gotta test it with my marker
@Art.20Abs.4GG3 ай бұрын
Is it normal to see every color as brown from the beginning on?