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1. An Introduction: Hi there, I'm Kesh. I'm an artist, illustrator, and a YouTuber, and I love drawing, cartooning, and illustrating. A lot of my illustrations and drawings involves a lot of colors, and choosing colors and getting those colors right. Let me tell you, it's a tough process, it's hard. Choosing colors can be hard at the beginning, but if you're armed with the appropriate knowledge that are practiced consistently, well, this whole process can be actually a lot simpler. In this particular class, I'll be going through my process of choosing colors that are actually practical and easy to do. Also at the same time, we'll be going over the basics of color, and the color theories, the color harmonies that are used often to make interesting and appealing illustrations. We'll go through all of that, which are very theoretical in nature, which are very on textbookish stuff. We'll take all of that and actually show people a very practical way to actually practice these things and constantly using their illustrations. That is what we're going to do in this class. This is a very practical approach to choosing colors, so stick with this class and go through it, you might find this a lot useful. I'll see you on the inside.
2. The Basics - Hue, Saturation and Value: Hey everybody. Welcome to this understanding colors class. We're going to be showing or going through my approach to choosing colors. I've got my own personal approach to colors, but we're going to mix this class with a bunch of other things like knowing some basics about colors. Not just colors, but mostly, say, certain basics that you need to know about color, so that we can move on to a little bit of color theory, color meaning, and color harmonies. Once we're done with that, we'll be going on my personal approach and some practical ways to choose colors because you learn all this color theory and things like that. What happens is you get the understanding of what it is and you get the ideas and the principles, but it's very sort for you to apply that in real life and in a practical way. I want to show you a practical way to apply that in a realistic fashion. That is the goal for this particular class. Let's jump right into it. The first thing would be, we're going to be covering three things, of course, basics, color theory, and my practical approach. When it comes to color theory, we're going to be covering two things, which is color meanings and color harmonies, so meanings and harmonies. Just don't get to say, what do you say? Confused about these terms and things like that just go with the flow. I'll tell you about it, every single thing, that is one. Let us start with some basics. You got to know the basics before we can move on to another thing. So three things, three valuable things that you need to know in order to understand the aspects of choosing colors. First step, hue, saturation, and value. If you're using Photoshop or if you're using Procreate or any other drawing application, this thing pretty much comes up in the menus. Hue, saturation, and brightness or something like that. We're going to go over each and every single one of them. First step, hue. What is hue? Hue is basically, what color is it that you are using or choosing. For example, is it red, is it blue, is it green? Whatever color. Any color. What is that? Someone asks you, "Hey, what hue is that?" That means, what color is that? That is hue. Hue is what color? Right color is that? That is hue. Saturation is the intensity of the color, how intense the color is. For example, if I choose red right here, let me just change my brush here for a second. Yes, done. If I choose red here, right here, I'm painting a big blob of red right here. Saturation is the intensity of the color. This red, right now the saturation it has the current level of intensity. If I change the intensity and want to select this, or I go to hue, saturation, and brightness. If I reduce the saturation, you can see, it pretty much loses the entire intensity of the color. This is like a very light intense red, that is a little bit of red in there, but pretty much there is nothing in there. If I bring it up a little bit, there are some more intensity. Now it's at 50 percent, that's the normal intensity. After that, red doesn't get affected too much beyond 50 percent so that's the idea. That is the thing. Saturation is the intensity of the color. If you reduce the saturation, it's going to completely lose its intensity and if you increase the saturation to the full bed, it means it has full intensity. That is saturation. Value, on the other hand, my friend is the brightness of the color, or if you just take away the saturation of a particular color, value is what determines the brightness of the color. For example, right here on this particular bar right here, hue, saturation, and brightness. If I increase the value right here, you can see the color is getting brighter and brighter and brighter, and what happens when you also increase the value is, the color also sorts of loses its intensity, but in a different way. If it's very safe, different compared to the way you mess with the saturation. If you reduce the saturation, it just loses intensity, not its value. If you say play around with the brightness and increase the value of a particular color, it gets lighter like this, which is going to almost white, or darker like this, which is just pretty much going to black. So these are three things that you need to know. Three little things that you need to know when it comes to the basics of color. Hue, meaning what color. Saturation, how intense that particular color that you choose is. What color means red, how intense the color is saturation, and the value, how bright your color is. These three little things is what that matters. That is pretty much the basics. Those are three things that you need to know. This is going to be a very simple class in the sense, you don't have to know too many things just in order to learn about choosing or going about the process of choosing a color. It's all about just playing with these three things, the hue, saturation and value. If you just remember these three things, at the end of the day, this is what that matters. These three stuff. That is the basics that we need to know. Let's move to the next one.
3. Color Theory - Meanings: Color theory. Most people are very confused about color theory, like, "Oh, my God, is that a theory to colors? What is that theory? Is that a theory to everything?" If we just boil down color theory to its core essentials, there are too many things to it, which I personally don't know. I don't study everything, every aspect of every little thing. My goal is keep it simple, just know the things that I need to know in order to get the results that I want to get. Color theory, that's two core essentials that I basically focus on, which is one, color meanings, and two, color harmonies. I'll get to that one by one. Meanings and harmony. First up, meanings. What does it mean? Color meanings. Every color has a particular meaning to it. Red means danger, blue means ocean, I don't know, skies or something. Green means nature, vegetation, and white means peace. Basically, color meaning is what each color means to you as an individual person, because individuals vary, and they have different meanings associated with a particular color. Each society, as a community, also has different associations with a different color. For example, black is considered as un-auspicious color here in India. They don't basically wear black during any auspicious ceremonies like weddings, and festivals, and things like that. Whereas in other countries, they wear black in a wedding. White is considered a symbol of peace in some place. White is pretty much constant as a symbol of peace everywhere. I think we're set on white. You get the idea. Saffron here, the color of saffron. Let me show you saffron for a few seconds. Something like this. Saffron means something that's "religious", or something that's related to materials that is not associated with this word. So that is saffron. Every color has its own meaning, and different individuals have different meanings to particular colors, and different societies have different meanings to particular colors. I just pulled up a simple meaning chart on the Internet. This is something I basically pulled off of the Internet. If you just Google it, just say, "Color meaning." These things come up. There are plenty of these things out there. If you look at this thing, each and every single colors apparently has a particular meaning to it. For example, red means intense, energetic, strength, danger, associated with food. I'll get to that. For me, I don't associate red with food. Orange means hot, aggressive, success, associated younger generations. Again, I don't associate orange with younger generations. Blue means trust, security, corporate, peaceful, faith, wisdom. Corporate, like what? There's a problem with these color meaning charts on the Internet. You've got to make your own color meaning things. You have to define the particular meanings for your own colors. That's why I just went ahead and just created my own little thing right here. This basically is the core primary colors, like the primary colors. Not the primary primary colors, but some of the colors that means to me. If you look at it, for me, yellow means something that's bright, something that's strong, something that's shining. That's what yellow means to me. That's why I use a lot of yellow in my illustrations. That's one of the reasons my illustrations look a lot brighter. That is a reason. Two would be, say, red, would be something like danger, and sharp, and gore. Blood and gore is something that comes to my mind if someone says red. Also, I use red often for illustrations where I try to give a mix of good and evil, meaning not just pure evil or pure good, but mix of good and evil, I use red. I'll give you an illustration example for that in a moment. For me, green means nature, veggies, and vegetation, things like that, something that's organic. For me, green stands for that. For me, blue simply means sky. I'm so associated with sky, with the color blue. For me, if I see blue, it means sky, Superman, or oceans. That's how blue works for me. It also means freedom. For a long time, I've associated the color blue with royalty, for some reason, European royalty. For me, in my mind, blue sits with that. Because my mom used to always call this color royal blue. I always associated blue, means royal, blue means the color of the European monarch families and things like that. Apparently, the color purple was the color of the royalty. I didn't know that for a very long time. I thought the color purple, in my head, my association to that was poverty, quite the complete opposite. For me, if I just see this color, if you ask me, "What does this represent to you?" I'd say, "Poor people," by this thing. Poverty is what comes to my mind when I see the color purple. Also of course, you can play with it in the royalty sense. Bland is another thing that comes to my mind when I look at the color purple. These are all the meanings that comes to my mind when I look at these particular colors. You have to define the own meaning of the colors. These things are important because if you're using colors in your illustration piece, this meaning come into play. For example, I have an illustration piece right here. This is based on an Indian mythological god, and he represents a mixture of good and evil, so I use the color red but not red-red. If you look at this thing, it's pinkish, very intense, very saturated red. That's another reason. I've jacked up the saturation on this thing so much so that I can show the intensity of the anger in this particular piece. I want it to be to your face. Let me just show you an example. If I reduce the saturation of this thing, is this intense? Probably not. If I have it this intense, or probably this too much, this intense, it plays to it. That's why I said hue, saturation, and value, those three things really matter so much because you've got to know this. This particular thing means anger, and devil, and strong. I've used the color red in such a way for this particular illustration piece. For this piece right here, green. I've used reds but not red-reds in this piece. If you look at this, these are very pink, they're pretty much pinks. Very light, desaturated versions of pink is what I've used right here for this particular illustration piece because I want to show wealth, and that's one of the reasons I've used green for it. There's a word in Tamil, that's my language, called [inaudible] means abundance. That is what I was trying to represent, the abundance of knowledge, or abundance of wisdom, abundance of peace. That is one of the reasons I used the particular colors in this illustration piece like this, and nothingness, having it plain. This entire piece right here, this particular area, this whole particular thing is playing with the reds, but very light desaturated versions of reds and purple. I've accented that, very key word, accents, color accents is something that I've used if you look at this. If you look at the color wheel right over here, these colors exist on this particular end of the color wheel, and I've accented that with greens and yellows. This is called a complementary color scheme, which I'll come to during color harmonies. But right now, this is an example. Right here is another illustration piece. I want to represent warmth and freedom and things like that. I used a lot of blues in this entire piece and I've complemented that blues with reds and things like that. That is the whole idea behind this whole thing. That's what color meaning is. You've got to choose particular colors for your illustration pieces in order to represent the meanings that you have associated with that particular color in your head. Of course, meanings can change over time. But play to your strengths, play to your current intuition, and choose colors accordingly. Take meanings into consideration. That's what I'm trying to say here. That's color meanings. That is one. We're done with Part 1 of this whole color theory thing. We move on to Part 2 which is color harmonies.
4. Color Theory - Harmonies: You have right here is a basic color wheel. This is a very basic simplified version of color wheel. This just represents the hue. I've removed the value out of the scale. If you look at a normal color wheel right here, this particular right here, this whole thing is the color wheel and inside it you can see value is built into it. Right here again, select the value and right here saturation so this whole thing is built into this thing. I can go ahead and choose the version of red or any other color of different value and different saturations. That's the point of the color wheel. Right here I have a simple one. Here is a slightly more complex version of the color wheel right there, and here's a slightly more complex version of the color wheel, so just this thing. It's got too many colors and of course now the value is being represented here, but not the entire spectrum of value from extreme darks to extreme whites, but a decent range of values. What we're going to do is I'm going to talk about color harmonies. What color harmonies means is basically there are certain rules and principles that they have been already established. If you use those particular principles and combinations, you can have pre-determined ways to choose particular colors. If you had to put that in way more simpler words and simpler terms color harmonies meaning, principles that have been already established with certain colors or certain groups of colors which will go harmoniously well with each other. Maybe I should put that elegant definition on the screen right now. That's what color harmonies means. They've already been established colors of groups, and they go harmoniously well with each other, and there are some rules and principles to that. Let's get into that, that is one. First step, I'm going to be discussing five color harmonies right here. The first color harmony rule would be the monochromatic color scheme. Monochromatic color scheme meaning if you have a blue, you just work within the spectrum of blue, meaning different colors, saturation, and values of blue. These are all blues, but of different colors, different mix of saturation, and different brightnesses. It's just working within a same spectrum, that is monochromatic color scheme. I'm going to give you some examples for that. One, this is a frame or a screen grab from the film, Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch. If you can look at this frame right here, this is basically a monochromatic color scheme. Everything in this particular illustration piece is just playing within the same spectrum of blue. You have right here a lighter blue and slightly darker ones. These are very darker, very desaturated, low value blues and every little color in this particular thing plays within the spectrum of blue and a little bit of greenish blue or turquoise or whatever you may call it. Of course I don't I don't know the names of all the colors, I just call it the blues the blues, the greens greens. I have a mental picture of the blues and greens that I have in mind, so yeah, I keep it simple in terms of the naming of the colors so that is one. Here is another example right here of the movie Red. A screen grab from the movie Red, and you could see every little thing in this illustration piece has been built with red, just red, different kinds of reds. This is like an orange, slightly less saturated and more higher value red. This is a pure clean read right here, it's slightly darker version of red and very low value red. This entire piece is built with red, so that is one. These are, , examples from real life. Let me show you an example from my drawings. This thing is built with various versions of this. If you look at my color wheel, this entire piece was colored with just anywhere from this. Different values, different kinds of yellows, different kinds of browns, and things like that. Of course, I've played a little bit to this side as well but this one is a simple example. What I'm going to give you more, real life examples and some, what do you , cartoonic examples as well so you'll know the difference. That is monochromatic color scheme using pretty much the same colors, or single color, different values and different saturations that is monochromatic color scheme, so that is one. Next up, we have the most commonly used color scheme by me, which is the complementary color scheme. I have tons of examples for this but yeah, I'll come to this. Complementary color schemes is basically you have the color wheel right here. Using, , colors on the opposite end of the spectrum is the complementary color scheme. If you look at the color wheel right here, you have a detailed mole color wheel. If I'm using , certain colors right here, I complement that with , colors on the opposite or sort of on the opposite. It doesn't have to be exactly opposite, opposite, that's what people get confused on this thing. It can be slightly opposite. This is an exactly opposite, slightly opposite to each other, or some like this; red and green or red and blue. Red and blue is a very common complementary colors. These colors complement well with each other, they go on the opposites of each other. That is called complementary color scheme, using colors on the opposite end of the wheel or opposite sides of the wheel. Here is an example of the complementary color scheme. A person who uses complementary color scheme in large in my opinion, which would be Michael Bay in this Transformer movie. This is called the blockbuster look. If you look at the color wheel, these colors exist on the opposite end of the spectrum, like blues and oranges or they call teal and orange. That is the blockbuster look right there. If you look at this whole thing, there's a lot of teals and lots of oranges and yellows, so this cool and warmth play right here. These particular colors, this whole blue is on the cooler end of the spectrum, and this particular car right here is on the warmer end of the spectrum. This is an example of the blockbuster look of the complementary color scheme using colors on the opposite end of the spectrum. Here's another example. You have Mr. World War Z, Brad Pitt right here, running with all his beautiful hair. If you look at this thing, this is like a different version of the blockbuster look. Slightly more desaturated because it's part of the film and exist. You have the blues shirt right here, they have especially consciously made the main character wear blue because they know this color of the human skin is on the warmer side of the spectrum, and they knew they were going for a slightly brighter look, but a desaturated look, so that's the difference. The World War Z, the movie is very bright looks but very desaturated to giving it a very dim and a dark appearance because this is zombie movie. You have the blues, and you have the warmer colors and same goes with the soldiers and the people running around him. You can see lots of plays right here, the guns, the blues on guns, the shadows, and the warm plays on the uniforms right here, things like that. These are also examples of the complementary color scheme. Here's an example of the complementary color scheme in my own drawing. Of course, this can also be taken for another color scheme, which I'll explain later called the triadic color scheme, but I'm using reds against blues. This is a very common thing that I do, reds against blues and here's another illustration that I made. The tariff shows the complementary color scheme, which is this one, which I've shown you guys. This exists. The character has colors playing on this side of the spectrum, the center of the color wheel, and I'm complementing that with colors on this side right here, yellows and greens. This is how I basically use complementary colors to create more appealing illustrations and another example would be this one. Blues and reds. You can never go wrong with blues and reds. Blue skies, blue oceans, and playing with red characters in the waters, red fish, orange fish. It's slightly purpleous chest, these treasure chests and a pinkish roofs. You can never go wrong with a good old-fashioned red and blues and the complementary colors. That is one. That is complementary colors for you, so let's move on to the next one. Next up is the analogous color scheme. Right here you've got the analogous theme. What is analogous color scheme? Basically, this is something I use also as well, a lot, which is using a couple of colors on the same side of the color wheel. This side of the color wheel right here, if you look at this color wheel right here, I use the analogous colors right here, sometimes I use a lot from here. I should use a lot more blue my illustrations they don't tend to be more on the red side of things. Using two or three colors on the same side of the color wheel is the analogous color scheme. Let me show you some examples. This is a painting by Vincent van Gogh, analogous colors, green, steel, blues, things like that. A good example of analogous piece. Here's an example from me, my drawing, the ZHC piece. This thing uses a lot of analogous colors right here. Everything in this piece, I started with reds and then went on to purples, then went on to certain kinds of slightly blues and indigo colors, and things like that for the shadow. This is a good example of the analogous piece also. Some oranges here and there, pinks, very devalued red for the smoke and things like that, meaning I've increased the value, not devalued, increased the value and turned into a pink thing. I've also accented this entire piece with little blues here and there on the wings and on the eyes like the complementary color, but very little accents. But this is mostly an analogous color scheme piece. Here's an example from the real life, which is from the movie Her, by the guy who acted in Joker, I forgot his name, Joaquin Phoenix. This entire piece if you look at it exists on the yellows and reds and oranges end of the spectrum with little touches of green, but existing on one side of the color wheel, right here. If you look at this right here, this is where this whole thing exist. They're also complimented right here, if you look at the windows with little bits of greens and yellows, accent colors. Accent colors basically use a little bit of those colors in your pieces, but not too much, but they are like an accent. They are like salt thrown on a dish or something like that, you don't throw too much salt, you don't use salt as an ingredient or pepper as an ingredient, but you just sprinkle on top of it. That's what accent colors are, you've got to understand that one. That's analogous color scheme. Using colors on a particular side of the color wheel, two or three colors, you can even go four if you're ambitious, so that is analogous color scheme. Another thing I want to tell you guys before moving on to the next one, which would be the split complementary color scheme is, you don't have to take these things like a solid rule. These are just guiding principles and use this thing as a foundation and as a base, then you work on top of that, I'll talk about it more in the practical section of this very whole thing. Split complementary color, this is also something that I use. Basically, you choose a couple of colors on the same side of the spectrum and you complement that with another touch of color on the other side of the color wheel, split complimentary colors, so that's what it basically is. For example, an example of split complementary colors would be this deeper piece right here. This deeper piece, this entire piece is made with oranges and yellow, but I'm complementing that color, accenting that color, a little bit more than accent in this particular case with blues, things like that. That is what split complementary color scheme is, so this is how this whole thing works. Here's another example of the split complementary color, another piece of mine. There you go. Warmer ends of the spectrum, the face and the necklace and the ornaments and things like that, and I'm complimenting that with blues. That is a good example of a split complementary color scheme. More than an accent is what split complementary color is, so that is the idea of the split complementary colors. We have the last but not the least, which is the triadic color scheme. Basically you just go on haywire like a cartoonic human being and using very color on the every three ends of the color wheel. To give you a proper definition of the triadic color scheme, you're using three opposite ends on the color wheel, three opposite ends. You're using touches of color from each of that forming a triangle, hence the name triadic color scheme. All these things form shapes, so that's another thing that you want to remember. Using shapes within a color wheel or on a color wheel to determine the colors for your illustration. Triadic color scheme example, these are usually mostly used in cartoons mostly because it works well, it's very bright, you're using all the three colors. Here's an example, RGB, the basic three colors, red, green, and blue, I've used all three on this particular piece. Red, green, and blue and yellow because I'm a yellow man, I like yellow stuff. Here's an example of the triadic color scheme. Here is another example of the triadic color scheme. Right here, blues, reds, and a bit of yellow on the opposite end forming a triangle on the color wheel, that is an example of a triadic color scheme. Yellows, I'm using certain pinks and using turquoise color. See right here, right here, right here, triangle, triadic color scheme, you get the idea. Here's an example, it's is not triadic, triadic, but is using warmer oranges with little bits of green accenting. This can also be taken as split complementary, but here little bit of blues for the accents, that's an example of the triadic color scheme. These things are basically the principles that I use in terms of color theory for choosing colors, I keep these things in mind when I'm choosing colors for my illustration piece. With that said, I don't follow these things by the book, this is very, very important. If I follow these things by the book, my illustrations or drawings won't look the way they look with proper colors. I usually use these things as a foundational guiding principle and then I use my own ways to choose the colors that I want for my illustration piece. I'll now get into that particular part.
5. How I Choose Colors - A Practical Approach: Here I have some pictures. I have some pictures that I usually take on my phone. When I'm going around in the world just looking at stuff, looking at things, and if I find an interesting color combination, I say, "Man, that salad bowl that I ate this morning looks very interesting. Maybe I should take a picture of that and register that in my mind." Here's a picture of that. I was coming home to Chenai from Bangalore, and I saw this particular interesting scenery and I thought this had beautiful colors in it, so I had to take a picture of that. I went to a temple once, and that street was so filled with colors like this. Look at all the beautiful color. This is what I love about India. The range of colors in this single thing is just amazing. I take a picture of that. Then here's a picture I took on a beach once. I thought that was interesting. Sunlite, in night, that usually never happens. I thought that was an interesting scheme right there, complementary colors. Look at this, warm and cool, complementary scheme. Even right here, cooler colors mixed with stay very warmer colors, or a majority of warmer colors and with little blues as an accent here and there. That is how interesting. This is a rapper, someone gifted me something. I remember this wrapper being very interesting. I was like, "Man, I should take a picture of this wrapper." This is a good example of a triadic color scheme. See, once you learn the basic color scheme and the color harmonies, you start noticing that in real life and things like that. Once I take pictures of these things, I study these things, and I make notes of it in my head literally. You have to, when choosing colors, here's a practical approach to choosing colors. This is how I do it, and this is how you can do it as well. You have to form palettes in your head. Meaning, you have to treat choosing colors like cooking or food that you eat. You have a certain taste for certain cuisines and food. Some people like Chinese, some people like Japanese, some people like Mexican, some people like Italian, some people like Indian. You have these taste palettes in your mouth. You say, create palettes throughout your entire life. You say, "You know what I like? This particular Mexican dish. I like this particular Italian dish, I like this particular Indian dish." You are forming your own palette of food and ingredients. Certain people like certain ingredients, like some people like pepper more than chili. Some people like chili more than pepper, like me. Some people like rice more than other grains. Some people like meat, or some people like chicken or pork, some people like cheese over mayonnaise or peanut butter. I don't understand why you don't like peanut butter, I love peanut butter. I love peanut butter and cheese, not together, it tastes really bad. I'll tell you that, I've tried that once. You have this whole ingredients. You have this whole palette in your mouth. You build that up over life. Like that, you have to build palette of colors over time by observing the simple things in life. For example, let me bring that whole thing up. If you take this illustration piece, I'm noticing the salad, I'm going, "Oh, you know what? That's a nice orange. Oh, wait, that's a nice green right there. That's a good bunch of greens. I choose another green, Oh, wait, slightly more saturated, orange, and a bit of red strolling there. That is nice." See, this right here, I have a palette of colors. This goes in my head. This, I remember, this, I understand. You have to do this thing. This is work. You don't just get to choose nice colors without doing any work. You got to do the work so that you can choose nice colors for your illustrations. Like that, if you look at this entire thing right here, I like this blue, this is a very nice blue, and it's also a combination of different grays, and a bit of white and a bit of green, a slightly more darker green. If you looked at this, this is another palette that I've built up by observing things in real life. I take note of that, and I make note of that, and I use that in my illustration. This is in the middle of this thing. Blues and grays are fantastic color combinations. I've not used that a lot. I'm going to probably use that in my next illustration piece. Basically, I want to base my next illustration piece on this particular color palette, blues, grays, whites, and greens. How good is that? Actually, since I've also known color theory well, I think this illustration piece would also do well with a little touch of yellow. Look at that, it's so beautiful. Actually, I'm going to turn this palette into this, like that. This is how this thing works. You build a palette over time by just looking at all these things. That's how you do it. You build a palette for the foods that you eat, the ingredients that you prefer in your dishes and your food, like that, you build a palette in your head for the colors around the world. You do that, and you use that in your illustration piece in combination. You can also go ahead and use this pre-existing palettes that other people make as well. There are these Instagram profiles that are out there. One is Color Hunt, color.hunt on Instagram. You can go ahead and look at all these beautiful palettes that they have for each and every single color, or combinations of color. This is how you build palettes by observing things in real life. You can also observe this particular thing. When I looked at this particular thing, I went, "Hey, you know what? I like this pinkish play right here." They're mixing that up with very warm colors that complementing these colors. Again, complementary color scheme. I'm going right here. Blues and yellows, a good example of complementary color scheme, like teal and orange plays on the same end of the spectrum. This is slightly different, warm, a bit accented blues, things like that. This is an analogous color scheme play right here. Playing on the same end of the spectrum. This particular end of the color view. Like that, you build up palettes in your head. I'm going to show you how do you play with colors. We are in the last part of the class, and I have three colors right here, red, blue, and yellow. This is how I basically go about choosing colors. First of, for my illustration piece, I go ahead and choose my first color. I go ahead and choose, say, red. I look at this red. If I say, choose a random color like this particular red. It is not red. So probably I choose this one, and I'm going, "Okay, you know what, Keisha? This red is fine, I may have to work on that particular color." What I'll do is I'll keep that in mind and go ahead and choose my next color, as for that. If I choose, say, blue right here like this, and yellow right here like this, and I go ahead and look at this and say, "You know what? I'm looking at my reds and I'm choosing one, Oh, this red is not nice. This red doesn't feel right." Because I've observed too many good illustration pieces, and good works, and good combinations of colors to go like, "This doesn't feel right." What I do, I select this particular red and play with it. I go to hue saturation and brightness, and maybe I should change up the hue a little bit, slightly softer. Because this is too bright, as in my face. I don't want that for this particular piece. Slightly change it, right there. Maybe I should increase the value as well. "Oh, this is softer, this is nice, this is more brighter, more love." I like this yellow as well, but what I do is when I'm choosing my second color, I always try to play that particular color to my first color that I chose. This doesn't play well with each other. So what I do, I want to again modify this. I'm going to hue saturation and brightness and I'm going, "Yeah, that is nice." I'm just making slight adjustments right here. Very slight. I'm just changing the percentages right here a little bit. I'm also increasing, say, the value of it but a bit increasing it. Playing on the same end of the spectrum. I want to also to go ahead and look at this blue and go on, "This blue doesn't look nice. Maybe I'm just going to choose a color that goes well with these two colors that I've chosen." What works good? "Hey, you know what? This green is very very nice." I'm going to use that particular green right here. I like this saturation of this green, it is a very nice green right here, and I am going to take this yellow, I want to keep it aside. I'm going to take this green and this red, I want to keep it together, and I like this combination. Maybe this thing needs a little bit of work. Just a tad bit of hue, just changing the hue 51 percent saturation, this works well right here. But this particular yellow that I've chosen as my third color for this piece, it doesn't feel right. This doesn't look good. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to select that. Play with it, change the colors. What works well with this piece? Actually, this is very very nice. I'm going to take that, I want to use these two colors as the primary color of my particular illustration piece. Like this, and use red as an accent color. This is playing on split complementary color scheme. Look at that. That is the palette that I have for an illustration piece if I do anything. That is one. Like that, you need to play around with colors and see what works and what doesn't. With keeping these color theory examples and principles in mind and the whole idea that color is like a palette that you have for foods and ingredients, and you build a palette over time that is sort unique to you. That my friends is how you choose colors in a practical way bit by bit. Yes, we're done with the class.
Kesh
