The Secret to Painting the Right Color

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@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Check out the rest of Jeremy's course covering painting light on Proko - www.proko.com/course/painting-light-101/overview

@Oblogonogo 5 ай бұрын

that man is the best. color theory never clicked until I found his channel and he walked me through this

@manneaux4404 5 ай бұрын

My takeaway: Only orange and yellow exist all other colors are fake.

@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Yes! This is the lesson. FINALLY someone gets it! 🤣

@philroydias5366 5 ай бұрын

Yup yellow of the sun and blue of the sky. No other colours are real!!

@theomnibenevolence 4 ай бұрын

Technically orange is just a hue of brown, not its own base colour

@rexibhazoboa7097 4 ай бұрын

@@theomnibenevolencewhy isn’t it the other way around? Brown being a darker hue of the base color orange?

@theomnibenevolence 4 ай бұрын

@@rexibhazoboa7097 im not sure man 😭

@Revanaught 5 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.

@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Perfect example!

@machina5 5 ай бұрын

Which Charizard sprite?

@jim-df7sx 4 ай бұрын

🗣🗣🗣 come back and tell us which sprite we want to see it too

@ivicamilica 4 ай бұрын

I also want to know what sprite

@phoebecara4361 4 ай бұрын

OP which sprite was it

@snofixart 5 ай бұрын

"They were all yellow" ColdPlay

@ritzyllama 4 ай бұрын

im yellow dabba de daba die

@faroukb.8475 4 ай бұрын

Comment of the year

@ryleybrooks4321 3 ай бұрын

I cackled 😂😂

@Josh-dr3fj 3 ай бұрын

"Look at the trees, tell me what youuuu see...they look green to me....but they were all yellow"

@iamvegeta2008 Ай бұрын

Now the song lyrics makes sense...."I drew a line for you, it was all yellow" ;)

@MotoMarios 4 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.2871 4 ай бұрын

i think a color circle was somewhat known they could paint it..

@pijoo_213 4 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.

@doloreszombory9415 3 ай бұрын

@@pijoo_213Yes, they had eyes and a brain and eventually figured out perspective and all kinds of stuff! 😲

@gabrielaribeiro6155 2 ай 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.

@gabrielaribeiro6155 2 ай 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.

@skyesfallenxx 3 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 :)

@gabrielaribeiro6155 2 ай бұрын

Very well put!

@aishwariyasweety2433 2 ай бұрын

Thats very useful! You are a good person:) ❤

@carlosesegura7705 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much❤❤

@inexistence631 5 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.

@mimmidauria5405 4 ай бұрын

Same!

@00WatName00 4 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 💕

@emmas1366 4 ай бұрын

marco bucci's videos on color are fantastic

@divinenonbinary 4 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

@wiwita63 3 ай бұрын

Not to mention monitors display color differently so adds to the confusion as well.

@divinenonbinary 3 ай 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

@MajorMaze 2 ай бұрын

well as a rookie would still grab the green tube for trees and wonder why it looks shitty

@horyukinen 2 ай бұрын

@@MajorMazevery true

@awesomesauce1095 27 күн бұрын

exactly this!! only after picking up the habit of doing painting studies outdoors, did colour feel less overwhelming digitally to me. a digital colour wheel lays out all of the colours you can create in real life, but as opposed to irl painting--which forces you to understand how colours relate to one another in the process of mixing--digital painting does the entire mixing process for you. without the knowledge of how that process works, an important chunk of vocabulary is missing any time you try learning colour digitally. (which isn't to say digital colouring can't be an incredible tool and isn't it's own entire set of challenges. i spent most of my time as a kid learning digitally because traditional resources were expensive to replace and digital painting is infinite. it's just important to keep in mind where it comes from) so honestly, for anyone struggling with colour, maybe try to put down the digital art for a while, take some paints and observe whatever is around you!

@ez_is_bloo 5 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

@nawenyxar4378 5 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...

@SheetLogarithm3 5 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_bloo 5 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

@levelNeroZero 5 ай бұрын

What does manga look like for colorblind people Do colorblind people see darkness different?

@gniewomircioek6845 4 ай бұрын

Can you show some of your work?

@rubensmaximus 5 ай бұрын

I work for more than 10 years as an artist and this blew my mind! Thank you so much!

@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Wow, thank YOU!

@bondvabond 5 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

@batfiend 4 ай бұрын

paint 📝everything 📝yellow 📝...

@skillz05. 3 ай бұрын

And orange

@asassin0735 2 ай 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

@syaning_ 5 ай бұрын

Omg Jeremy and Proko?? Yes pleaseee😍 Thank you for this lesson💕

@ProkoTV 5 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.

@ochadeshita 4 ай бұрын

This is quite possible the most valuable art video i've ever encountered on youtube.

@brandonstreete 5 ай бұрын

yes proko thanks for bringing Jeremy dude is really a great teacher

@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@saram3449 2 ай 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!

@Jake-ut3po 5 ай бұрын

Seen dozens of videos on this topic but it didn’t click the same way until now 🤩

@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Jeremy's great at that kind of thing!

@lindatannock 2 ай бұрын

Same!!

@LE0NSKA 4 ай бұрын

0:55 oh! it's complimentary - of course.

@bethlong3011 4 ай бұрын

Doing this with mixing embroidery thread for textile art has its fun challenges too!

@cntom8233 5 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!

@Petpatrol2 2 ай 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.

@paulkap4369 5 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!

@WidyCreep Ай бұрын

He actually spilled the secret… I use this method so much in my paintings it’s really powerful

@JoeyStrombolli 5 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

@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@ebusuku 3 ай бұрын

0:15 Me, confidently: green yellow and orange

@PhoapishSir180 5 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!

@artspiritsunayan5091 Ай бұрын

It's just stunning.... very knowledgeable content.. thank you sir❤

@akant4023 5 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.

@ara-md6by 3 ай бұрын

I kinda understood color relativity because of Jeremy! Will forever be grateful

@jovannydiazabad6123 2 ай бұрын

Good job Proko having Jeremy here is a big win this past year he and Marco Bucci have been a big help

@beristainbear3924 Ай бұрын

I thought I recognized this exact lesson cause I DO, I REMEMBER YOUR VIDEO FROM 2 YEARS AGO, your methodology and teaching is so AMAZING. I remember the wonders you did for me 2 years ago and im also very happy Proko picked you up. This genuinely come full circle. Amazing Really. Much Love!

@johncook8900 5 ай бұрын

Jeremy's old Gnomon course "Practical Light and Color" was what got me to do my first digital painting.

@iamvegeta2008 Ай 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.

@kelpstorm 4 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

@carly7428 5 ай бұрын

My brain just 404 errored.

@cutler559 2 ай бұрын

My jaw dropped. You explained it so easily but it was a BIG help. Thank you.

@CloudsAndDays 3 ай 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.

@whysoodown8981 5 ай бұрын

Best explanation and demonstration of color relativity and temperature I’ve seen! Thank you :)

@iQuitGirls99 2 ай 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.

@ProkoTV 2 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@RealisticBro77 2 ай бұрын

This is the best art channel on KZbin

@ProkoTV 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@friend9694 3 ай бұрын

this video just transitioned my fear of colors into a fascination.

@ProkoTV 3 ай бұрын

We couldn't be more excited for you about that!

@PrivateLZG 4 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.

@liyan00 2 ай 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.

@marshmallonman 4 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!

@user-uk9er5vw4c 4 ай бұрын

the paint in the final study is impressive, the author really implemented color relativity

@mah1ro267 4 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.

@MANIAKRA 4 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!

@ProkoTV 4 ай бұрын

Jeremy's great! He's been a fantastic addition to our digital painting fundamentals course.

@wachinichu 5 ай бұрын

Finding Color Harmony. And, I appreciate Mr. Vickery's persistent teaching spirit.

@felipeguerrerocastillo2831 5 ай бұрын

What a clear way to explain these concepts !! Thank you so much !!

@jianxiuya 3 ай 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

@Tharmorteos 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I was stuck for years on this! my pictures always looked so cartoonishly colorful. Your video helped me a lot!

@HorswrangBasumatary 5 ай бұрын

Got an idea about hues. Thanks for this explanation, it will stay in my head for lifetime now, yeh bebe

@WinryRockbellElric Ай бұрын

Digital art was so useful for helping me understand colour relativity! I love looking at the hexadecimal info :D

@andrewsissons808 4 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!

@leopardscanfly 4 ай бұрын

Amazing lesson in such a short time format. Thanks Proko and Jeremy

@Im_Banana_ 5 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:)

@stinky_little_cephalid 4 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.

@こんでれやの 5 ай бұрын

This made a lot of difference! Thank you so much! I learned so much from this video, i appreciate you!

@JackBond1234 4 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.

@mimmidauria5405 4 ай бұрын

The video that made me understand color theory, THANK YOU!

@Nihilp 21 күн бұрын

this video is seriously well done! seen a lot on this topic and this is the only really clear! super !

@arprickvr 3 ай бұрын

I've never felt as blown away as I'm right now!

@yugi9710 Ай бұрын

Amazing stuff ! As a total beginner I used to paint on a white background which is no really helpful and will make it difficult to start picking colors. Always slap in some color as a starting point, warm or cold, ideally a medium value, and not too saturated. Even if you are just using charcoal or pencil it's always nice to speread in some medium value as a background instead of pure paper white.

@remygallardo7364 5 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.

@rakedos9057 5 ай бұрын

Best explanation on how to approach this!

@ProkoTV 5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@lilapple1142 5 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

@alanaprogmetal 4 ай бұрын

My brain just had a cardiac arrest while watching your video 😦..... I'm a beginner in painting and I appreciate so much, such important and valuable information.

@mnap1595 5 ай бұрын

Enjoyed your last video on the same subject. Not sure why, but I could watch this topic over and over.

@djvertical 4 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! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@sampokemppainen3041 4 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.

@julmaass 4 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?!

@philroydias5366 5 ай бұрын

I just started watching lighting mentor videos and what a coincidence to see him on proko🎉😮

@renatobfa 4 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.

@grayhollow6107 4 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

@marrow94 5 ай бұрын

Very fun video, thanks! These colour studies are super interesting!

@JoshAshConceptArt 5 ай бұрын

Wooo great to see Jeremy here, he is one of my favorite teachers!

@nickmccollum1196 5 ай бұрын

4:45 - good example of why you should utilize color relativity

@justA. 5 ай бұрын

Very well explained, thank you Jeremy and thank you Proko for this collab

@noiJadisCailleach 5 ай бұрын

Always knew Jeremy would be in Proko one day... And this is that day! Congrats guys!

@ConcealedWeapon 4 ай бұрын

Very powerful principle even for photography. Thanks!

@AzureSymbiote 5 ай бұрын

I am very grateful you showed us this. This will be extremely useful.

@jt_manic 5 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 ☺️

@subhrapratimsharma2825 5 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.

@kad1v 5 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.

@cyberlivion8363 5 ай бұрын

Green and brown makes a yellow hue. Screens are not different from real painting. The same knowledge is required.

@paullarkin2970 5 ай бұрын

additive vs subtractive color mixing is totally different

@subhrapratimsharma2825 5 ай бұрын

I should try your suggestions and learn a bit more about this. Thanks.

@Not_Even_Wrong 5 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.

@liquidfur2 Ай бұрын

One of my biggest challenges is getting clients to understand that colors don't have a lot of meaning until you put them next to another color.

@Sunrise_eliza333 3 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🧐)