Making Color Palettes in Procreate

1. Introduction: Do you search for stunning color combinations for your designs into the ears, or would you like to be unique? Set yourself apart from others? Stand out your color choices. You can accomplish this by creating your own color palettes. Hi, I'm Fran, teacher, self-taught artist and entrepreneur. Today, I would like to show you how to create palettes using your iPad and procreate. We will cover every step of the process, from finding inspiration to creating those beautiful palettes. In this class, we'll take a look at the ways master artist used color to create their palates, where you can find inspiration and how to make unique palettes using that inspiration. I'm glad you're here. Welcome to Francis Simone presents making color palettes in Procreate. First, we will do a quick review of color theory. Second, we will analyze the color schemes of several works of art, followed by a search for inspiration. Then we will create several sets of color palettes through various methods. You will use a simple illustration and create a variety of color palettes as a final project. By the end of this class, you will be creating pallets like a pro. All you need to take this class is the Procreate app, your iPad, stylus, and some inspiration. Your journey begins in lesson one with an overview of the class project. Let's get started. 2. Project Description: For the class project, I would like you to develop for different color palettes by choosing the colors that inspires you the most. You can use the provided floral bouquet or one of your own illustrations to create thumbnails with your new color palettes. I'd like you to post a JPEG or PNG image of your unique palettes, along with pictures of your inspiration in the class project area. To help you get started, I've included some class downloads in the resources section. There is a glossary of terms, a color theory, infographic, simple floral illustration to use in your project if you choose. Up next, we will be reviewing color theory basics. See you there. 3. Color Theory: This lesson is a quick overview of color theory. To learn more, please watch my basic color theory using Procreate class. Color theory is the science and art of using color. It explains how humans perceive color and the visual effects of how colors mix, match or contrast with each other. The color wheel is made up of the primary colors, red, yellow, blue. These are the first colors that all the others are made from. You cannot make primary colors by mixing any other color. Secondary colors, green, orange, purple, or violet, are made by mixing two primary colors together. The intermediate or tertiary colors are made by mixing wine primary and one secondary color together. The color wheel is also organized into two other groups, warm and cool colors. Warm colors consist of orange, red, yellow, and combination of these and similar colors. Cool colors are typified by green, blue, and light purple. Now let's talk about color value. The relative lightness or darkness of a color. The hue is a pure color. A tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases its lightness. A shade is a mixture of a color with black, which reduces the lightness. A tone is produced by either mixing with gray or both tinting and shading. Understanding shade, tone intents help you create designs that are pleasing to the eye, as well as being able to create multiple colors. A color scheme consists of a combination of colors using one or more of the 12 colors in the color wheel. By pairing different colors with each other, you can create endless color palettes to use and any composition. The monochromatic color scheme is made up of variations of one color. And analogous palette uses three hues that are next to each other on the color wheel. That complimentary color scheme uses colors that are directly opposite of each other on the color wheel. And the triadic palette uses three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel. With all the possible combinations of color, our palette choices are unlimited. Color theory is important to know because it allows us to understand how to use colors to create different effects in emotions and our work. This was a quick overview of color theory. To learn a more in-depth, please watch my class basic color theory using Procreate. In the next lesson, we will analyze famous artwork. See you there. 4. Art Analysis: Doing an art analysis we look at and study the work of others so we can understand and learn things that can help and improve our own art. In Claude Monet's paintings, we see his focus on nature and capturing the fleeting effects of natural light. Color palettes of his work were soft and glowing, which convey a more intimate feeling to the viewer. He often used analogous colors in his work. The Water Lilies series is an example. In water lilies, we can sense the beauty of nature through the soft blues and greens with cream and a bit of pink. The transitions from one color to the next create a sense of gentleness and calm. Analogous color schemes are often found in nature and are harmonious and pleasing to the eye. Claude Monet's work can be a great place to find inspiration if we want to convey a calm, gentle feeling in our work. Artist Vincent van Gogh, in almost all of his paintings, he used yellow and blue with different tints, tones, and shades. Since these two colors appear most often in nature, he used the power of complimentary colors in the color wheel to heighten the visual effect of simultaneous contrast. That's the way the two different colors affect each other. The theory is that one color can change how we perceive the tone in hue of another when the two are placed side-by-side, the actual colors themselves don't change, but we see them as altered. Using complimentary color pairings is a great way to create delightful experiences and evoke people's emotions. In addition, using a combination of warm and cool colors can help add visual depth. As we design. In this painting, van Gogh wanted the viewers to move their eyes around the painting, not just by the composition, but by the use of complimentary color. Georgia O'Keeffe is probably most famous for her paintings focused on enlarged flowers. The strong, vibrant tertiary color scheme she used in the paintings created a sense of energy and vitality. O'keefe was very creative in depicting the same thing using different palettes. This example, the paintings of Lake George. The shape of the subject matter is similar, but by using different color palettes, the painting create different emotions in us. The first painting conveys a feeling of calmness. While the second painting uses shades of red and green to express, express power and analogous colors, red against purple, blue with green are used to reduce the tension. Colors help tell the story and how we use color palettes will influence our reviewers. Evoking different emotions, heightening visual effects, and having viewers engaged with our art is our goal. The next lesson, we'll talk about finding inspiration. The first step in creating a color palette. See you there. 5. Finding Inspiration: Finding inspiration is the first step in creating a color palette. Inspiration is everywhere, color is everywhere. Just look around you. I find nature to be most inspiring for me and I take a lot of pictures when I travel. I also find inspiration in books and gardening magazines. There's always a pile in my house somewhere. I'm always looking for color, especially when I'm out shopping at the fabric store, the home goods stores, or even the grocery store. I have a Pinterest board of palettes. I like. Sometimes I searched through Pinterest for nature, fashion or food to find ideas for pallets. When looking for inspiration, look for combinations of colors that inspire you or that you're drawn to, or even just a single color. Don't think about an end palette. Just look for what you're drawn to. Start with your wardrobe and home decor. Those probably contain colors that you really like. In the next lesson, we'll take our inspiration and turn it into a color palette. See you there. 6. Palettes from Pictures: In this lesson, I'm going to show you how to create color palettes from photo. I started with a ten by ten Canvas. Now we're gonna go to Canvas, drawing guide, edit drawing guide, and move the slider all the way to the right so that you'll have four squares. Next, we're going to insert our inspiration photos. You're going to select, Add, insert photo and choose your photo, then resize it to fit in one of the squares. Do this with all of your photos. I'm going to zoom in on my first picture and then I'm going to tap the color circle on the right, open the pallets, tap the plus sign to create a new palette. I named my pellets something I remember hopefully this was a picture of a wall mural I took. So I'm going to name the palette miracle. When starting to pull colors from my photos, I use color schemes is the basis for my palate. The first one I'm going to use as complimentary. So I'm going to be pulling red, green, blue, orange, and some neutral colors. I press my finger on the screen, a circle of color appears. As you move it around, you can pick the colors. The last color your views will always be on the bottom of that circle. That kinda helps when you're picking the tints, tones, and shades of various colors. There are a couple of ways to do this. In this example. After I choose a color, I'll make a mark and then add it to the palette by tapping the empty square. I'm going to speed up the video while I choose the colors. Sometimes I forgot to add the colors to the palette. So when I finished picking colors, I will add them to the palette. I actually prefer this method, but it's a personal choice of how you put your palettes together. The next picture, I'm going to choose a monochromatic scheme. Actually, I'm going to pick a number of them because then I can mix and match later because they'll all go together beautifully. This is a great picture to pull from as it offers lots of colors and ranging in a range of tints and shades. You can see I've picked my colors and then added them to the palette named stained glass. For this next picture, sunset, I'm going to try to follow an analogous color scheme of red, orange, and yellow. Starting with the red, I'm going to zoom way in and you can see that the pixels have a wide variety of color. I can easily choose a range of reds from this little section. For this, I'm just going to put my color choices directly into the palette to avoid zooming in and out as I'm picking colors. Now, I will do the same with yellow and orange. Depending on your project, you should try to pick light, medium and dark tones of all the colors that gives you a wider variety to work with in your palate. I'm going to try to pick some neutrals from the sky. I'm going to now move the color from the palette to my canvas to be consistent. For this demonstration. For this last example, I wanted to show you one of the tools that you can use that's in Procreate. We're going to tap the color circle and then the plus sign at the bottom tab, new from photos. This will open your photos so you can choose a picture and the program creates a palette from the photo. It's pretty handy. However, it may not pick the colors you would like to use. I'm going to pick the colors as I have before. And then we can see how the two pallets compare to each other. For this scheme, I'm going to choose the triadic colors of red, yellow, and blue. Okay, let's compare. As you can see, they are similar yet the colors I hand-picked seem a bit more vibrant. It's a great tool yet, I think having the ability to pick your own specific colors is a definite advantage when creating color palettes. In this lesson, we have learned how to use our inspiration photos to create our color palettes. And the next lesson, we will use the color palettes we created in a piece of artwork. See you there. 7. The Project: For the class project, I would like you to use the four different color palettes you made to color an illustration of your own or one that I provided. I have done two examples to share with you. The first is a large illustration of a floral bouquet using the palette like path Theatre, I create it. The second example is for smaller versions of the BK, which were colored using the four palettes that I made. This is the version that I'd like to see you post to the class. So go to the downloads to get your template or sketch your own illustration. I am looking forward to seeing all the beautiful color palettes that you create. 8. Final Thoughts: Congratulations on completing making color palettes using Procreate. I hope that you've learned a bit about color theory, analyzing artworks, searching for inspiration, and creating your own unique color palette. I would love to see your color palettes. Please be sure to upload a picture of your completed project to the class gallery can be found under the projects and resources tab. Click the green button that says Create project and upload your photo. If you'd like to share your project on Instagram, please tag me at Francis Simone design so I can comment and like your post, you can also follow me here on Skillshare by clicking the Follow button. That way you'll receive an e-mail when I launched my next class. Is there something you'd like to learn them procreate? If you have ideas for our class, please let me know in the class discussion. I would love to create classes just for you. I hope you will continue to grow and learn. Thank you for joining me. I'm glad you're here.