UNLOCKING VIBRANT ART: Why your colors fall flat

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[@DanielaAlarconilustracion]

thank you for this video Tyler. I'm very poor but your free content makes it possible for me to keep studying and learning even though I couldn't afford formal education

[@pal1379]

1. Digital won't mix themselves 1:16 2. Color should be layered 4:05 3. Basic color mechanics 10:02 4. Tinting and shading 13:25 5. Colors lack appeal 15:49

[@captainofnumenor8221]

Thank you so much for these timestamps!

[@davsdf1]

thanks, this helped a lot. Video was boring as hell

[@Jake28]

@@davsdf1 agreed

[@cantabrian1009]

Ruan Jia's work is a great example of using colour notes within a piece. Provided the colour notes of any given area are in alignment with the values of that area, they'll fit nicely. I've found that this is also subject to the mood/narrative of a piece which informs colour temperatures. Great video.

[@bluedotdinosaur]

This is honestly one of the most valuable videos on the subject on youtube. The problem of flat color in digital illustration is a huge hurdle for artists to get over. And it's something alluded to all the time. But nobody has ever broken it down in quite this way. Seriously man, you're going to save lives here.

[@allanredhill8682]

Im currently doing quite a few studies too and what really helped me is to just use the roundbrush and lasso tool. By having only flat colors youre more likely to focus on things like sillouette/ shape design and your values. It makes things simpler and more focused in the practice

[@headfangs]

sometimes what I find that helps me get started for a color palette is to block in some basic colors on one layer-- as in, what the characters/objects would look like in a studio white light, then blocking in a second layer of "shade" colors in basic darker colors. Then I lock the pixels of both layers, and repeatedly duplicate those layers, covering either the base layer or the shade layer with different overlay/multiply/lighten/color or whatever else layer types according to what color light/shadows I'm looking to hit. if the shadows get too dark, I can duplicate the "shade" layer and bring in some color with a lighten layer, etc, or an overlay. if the shade and base layer don't feel as if they're gelling together as one image, I can put a layer over the top of the entire image to "unify" the colors. once I have it all together I smash all those reference layers into one composite layer and use it as a starting off point to actually color the image in. I think it's a good middle ground way of getting to know colors, especially if the prospect of just picking colors from scratch seems overwhelming.

[@user-ko1bg5wg8n]

Thanks, man! Really appreciate the tutorials!

[@fluffyboi758]

Love the energy that you have in this video and thank you for your wisdom!

[@nuniyoa]

multiply layers can be really helpful with stuff like this! not quite the same or as good, but decent in a pinch

[@alfredmanzano680]

Appreciate all the examples. This was great!

[@yezzzsir]

Great explanations with your examples. Thank you! 🙂

[@julianchancodave]

Thank you for the video. It really helps to get more explanations on how and why certain things look the way they do (good or bad). It just helps improve the overall understanding and how to improve. 😁

[@nicirochi0]

Valuable lesson as always!

[@zinzolin14]

Great tips to improve our colors and shading! Thanks Tyler 😁✌️✨🌈

[@corbeau.omnipotent]

Thank you so much for the advices ! you really unlocked my artwork problem

[@Absbor]

Thank you very much for the video. I often forget or am too lazy for many of these steps. So your video just gave me a reminder to do and to take time with my art. I use MS Paint and I've been layering colors for a long while now. Therefore, it's doesn't matter which art program you use as long as you can use it, have fun with it and create art with it in my opinion.

[@husainmanaf3249]

finally! this is the topic i need

[@arknark]

EXTREMELY HELPFUL, thank you! As I've been experimenting more with color lately, I have run into this exact problem. I will apply your lesson here, and practice practice practice. Thank you Mr. Edlin!

[@aizakkukun4985]

this video is really helpful I found myself suffering the same problems with my art, this does help a lot with what I can do with it

[@yuliaphyriam2937]

Hello, I just wanted to tell you that this video leveled up my art right away-- I truly love the results I got when I took this points into consideration. thank you so much ;w;)

[@helyphion]

whoa this is something I've noticed I've been struggling wirh recently, thank you so much for the free advice :)

[@radoartcraft]

Yeaa.. I do remember my moment when my mind just flick and i realized that my colors are mud. Careful with the color pick guys!

[@Merengil]

Thank you so much for that video! It's a bit complicated for lower level artists like me but it sure has a lot of quality content! I'll make sure to work on experimenting with colors more!

[@shuirei]

thank you this is very helpful!!

[@rbarrett111]

Great one! Thanks!

[@internetpsycho69]

thank you so much this was very helpful

[@boato]

Great video and great tips! thank you!

[@mikepolo2887]

Digital paint won’t mix itself - so true! Traditional painting almost guides you through, and with digital tools you have to manually do a lot of things that traditional paint does itself.

[@artunblock9433]

Great as always👍

[@liptonicetea393]

That was really helpful thanks.

[@katokianimation]

In RGB there are like 255 shades of blue to white. If you are trying to go darker it is even worse. While the screen is 1920 pixel wide at least. So you have to mix optically if you dont want to your image to be blocky.

[@huyenlethithanh7184]

omg your art video should get more attention

[@joaocardoletto]

Excellent video!

[@42VictorPessoa]

Ty for the video!

[@CubsYT]

One of the best quotes I've seen in a long time at 3:42 "Poof... That blue lit!"

[@briantriesart]

Super interesting! Thanks a lot! I'd love to learn to choose the correct color in the palette, and paint with the color I need directly rather than using PS tools. I am using a lot of tools but I feel I am cheating the painting. Thanks for your thoughts.

[@IzikDigitalArt]

That rim light on your head🙏🏻

[@jazzew]

Very cool, thank you for this understanding! I have improving to do with colours, but I've been doing better at make them stand out. I want to be able to do this with photo manipulation, 3D, digital art, and traditional! Ha ha! But I still make some things darker than I want to. So...work in progress, but I LOVE seeing lighting and colour pop the way those images do. :D

[@meowiestwo]

I am a painter (barely..) and don’t know how to do digital art yet but this is really helpful for me too. Thank you KZbin algorithm!

[@Kamil2142]

3:42 same just happened to me lol. Thank you!

[@grafzwerg]

i like how noelle got blue hair

[@josiahchayaperez7731]

Bro speaking to my soul in the first 20 seconds

[@madhusudana3827]

hi can you make a detail video of wacom tablet stetting and photoshop brush setting for digital painting..please

[@minelalalay4261]

great video as always! i wish you have classes for beginners

[@TylerEdlin84]

I do I now offer 1:1 mentorships to teach fundamentals. Just send us an email

[@DBresien]

“Wayyyyyy back in 2003”. 😂😂😂😅😅😅

[@TylerEdlin84]

Was a while ago right

[@chramelys]

Slap ✍️ on ✍️ random ✍️ colors ✍️. got it!

[@seansolorin8374]

what does it mean to add underpainting exactly? I'm still confused about what it's for and it's purpose since not everyone starts with an underpainting. I understand the layering part, but why layer if you can directly paint the colors you intend to have in the first place? Is it to create color variation/ color vibration or something?

[@TsubasaAnimations]

Underpaintings help unify your pallet and introduce some variation in the painting

[@mikepolo2887]

It is very difficult to guess the color correctly against white. Either quickly blocking in base colors or using the underpainting makes it easier to find the right color.

[@poosywoosy5553]

In the caption, I like the colors of the one you x'd out.

[@TylerEdlin84]

Yikes

[@TorQueMoD]

This is a great video, and advice so thank you for sharing! Your editing could use some work simply because there's a few times where you say something and then it repeats a few seconds later. Seems like you were rushing to get it done and didn't re-watch the video after editing.

[@MaisnerProductions]

how do you balance layering paint against overpainting?

[@TylerEdlin84]

It’s certainly hard but will come easier with experience. You do really have to step away enough and just take moments to analyze and reflect on a piece as you go.

[@aff77141]

I'm glad to know my innate disrespect for anything vaguely authoritative and binary led me to never like the colors I got with eyedroppers and helped me avoid some of this

[@bobc4d]

what do you recommend for one who has ZERO art background, training, drawing - other than doodling, I have a good 3D eye and understand perspective. I have been going through your Pateron videos but find myself hop scotching around from one thing to another without focus. I am more interested in inorganic and hard surface than organic. Should I start with simple landscape and keep adding objects to it, rocks etc. and continue until I feel comfortable with that, I guess keep variations of the same theme?

[@TylerEdlin84]

Best place to start is to draw and paint you own original images if they are very very simple like my sphere examples, or draw and paint from observations. Set some objects up or take a picture and then work from that

[@bobc4d]

@@TylerEdlin84 thank you Tyler.

[@Eliany1999]

I think my biggest issue is I don't trust myself lol, so I don't trust myself to "step" out of the box, if my reference picture looks blue to me I'll use just plain blue and panic when I notice it looks flat because theorically, I know using different, bolder or just mixing other colors will fix it but what colors? I always struggle with that part

[@user-fx3nb7jr5o]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@jadux2]

Your video is great And if you add some background music it will become more good

[@TylerEdlin84]

Nope won’t do it, I use to and for years people just told me to remove it, :(

[@MEOWASIA]

Well, since I mostly draw cartoons. I choose flat colour so often 💀

[@schlafenKind]

He sounds like a teenager. I think that makes the video better.

[@TylerEdlin84]

I’m 40

[@ImTyzn]

Beasty

[@Fenisto]

Just layer colors. Simple.

[@Mrfortune_Artz]

WTF TOP G IS DOING ART

[@your_favorite_jackalope_ba1325]

i intentionally make my colors flat in honor of my girlfriend

[@AlvaroALorite]

Just paint like you are on shrooms boi

[@modlio745]

15:25 it was better with the colours he went with originally, ngl

[@TylerEdlin84]

Ngl I strongly disagree.

[@modlio745]

@@TylerEdlin84 I'd be surprised if you didn't disagree, considering your choice of colours for the overpaint..

[@coltlgdm]

@modlio745 Bruh. He already stated he didn't add stuff or any additional details on the artwork of course the first one will look better because its detailed. But its the colors we are talking about here Look at the values on the second one how the image pop after he add/change the colors. Best trick is to zoom out or look far away from your screen.

[@modlio745]

@@coltlgdm I still think the first is better. If you disagree that's cool, it's just my opinion. Didn't think that I would need to clarify this considering art is subjective, but eh. I like the muted colours, it compliments the illustrative artstyle and gives it a distinct feeling. The bottom line for me is that everything doesn't need to be an explosion of colour. The muted colours and simple lighting just look better to me.

[@coltlgdm]

@@modlio745 poor choice of words then, you "prefer" the first one and nothing's wrong with that. To each their own, perse. But that doesn't mean it was "better" And he's teaching people who are interested to learn. You gotta learn the theory first, before you build an art style, experiment other form that suits you. Muted colors or not, values on the first image was flat. Look up Guweiz artwork. That's a good example of muted colors, with great values.

[@elvysoto]

hey, tyler, i think your videos are great and very insightful, take my opinion with a grain of salt, i mean no hate: I think you could choose examples out of your own paintings instead of your student`s, i dont think youre ill intended in any way but to me it kind of feels like youre roasting them for making "bad artistic choices"

[@TylerEdlin84]

I need to get examples with flat color and many students have examples of them. It’s not about roasting. If people only see good or great examples it’s harder to convey ideas.

[@JstJaybeingJay]

Whoaaaa...... Jerry Seinfeld does art.

[@Frietuurs]

Thanks Andrew Tate

[@intensevideogame]

I don't actually care so I'm not gonna watch the video, but in the thumbnail the one you described as right looked so painfully generic, while the one you described as wrong looked beautiful. I'm just saying

[@TylerEdlin84]

Cheers thanks for stopping by

[@rutgervandesteeg]

best comment ever

[@HalfWarrior]

I think Tyler knows what he’s doing; I’m just saying.