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It's a lot of years of experience, book, seminar etc, condensed into a principle that gets you the same result, in a 10min video. Not just for artists, this will help you from anything like painting/drawing to clothing, graphic design, decoration etc. I didn't invent the principle, it's from old and new masters but I do try to make it much simpler and more easily digestible, one of those secrets/method most wouldn't know, so hush hush. cheers and happy holidays!   | ||
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Glider
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On July 06 2017 07:42 Dangermousecatdog wrote: In the traditional colour wheel, I was taught at school, that the opposite colour to blue is orange. Yellow is opposite to violet. Any 2 colors opposite on the wheel is most contrasting ("opposite") by definition and is the design of the wheel. But it's not what the principle is based on. Orange is not a Primary color. You get it by mix the primary colors, which is red leaning toward yellow side in video's principle. The principle (the two camps of blue and yellow) is not based on contrast alone. It is 2 primary colors that is most contrasting with each-other, and almost all other colors touches upon it, yet they are harmonious with each other. | ||
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Glider
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On July 06 2017 02:57 Archeon wrote: Good stuff, thanks for the heads up. Interesting that you differentiate between blue and yellow, since for me red or especially orange always felt warmer than yellow, but in terms of spectrum it makes sense (yellow being opposite to blue). Orange is pretty close to yellow anyways in terms of RGB. Sup Archeon, ye, that's why I devoted a specific part early on to say don't think about this in terms of temperature or color wheel or what is opposite and all that stuff. I get some ppl know orange is opposite of blue but that has nothing to do with the idea, orange is not a primary color. Just cuz two colors are contrasting "opposite" , doesn't mean they won't look good together. Which again, the video points it out, it's all about combining colors that looks good. You can have two colors very much opposite (maybe not directly) but goes decent well together, you can have two colors very close on the wheel but looks bad when put together. like for most, purple and brown is not a good combo, but some think they are both warm colors? u see how it gets confusing. Which is why I specifically mentioned don't think in terms of temperature. | ||
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Apom
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![[image loading]](https://i1.wp.com/therighthairstyles.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/17-violet-ombre-for-dark-brown-hair.jpg?resize=558%2C558&ssl=1) | ||
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Glider
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On July 08 2017 08:56 Apom wrote: Purple and brown are a good combo for hair though ? Thinking something like this : ok here are a few things to note: 1) color combination only plays a partial role of our aesthetic feeling toward an image or person, and is ultimately subjective (but the theory does apply to majority, if you only thinking about color) For example you could be someone that really really likes purple hair on a girl. When that happens, what color her cloth is, other less vibrant color in the hair, is less important in your eyes. A girl you have a crush on could be wear sunglasses that clash with her hair all day and she will still look amazing to you. In your picture there is a lot of other context at play beyond just color, If you were to just put blocks of color next to each other it would be a more color oriented test. So it's not so much as it works on hair (although in this picture it plays a part, but you wouldn't see someone dye their hair with vibrant brown and pink), more because all that extra context de-emphasize color effect a lot. also 2 other small points relating to that: a) the difference in nature of hair and clothe puts distance between the two colors if u were referring to that. (see my image below, the bottom row, your mind pairs up the color and valuate their combination effect much more strongly than your picture, since we group clothe together, and hair further away from clothe) b) the brown in your picture is not a very strong vibrant color (not sure if u are talking about the brown in her hair or clothe), neither is her hair in general, especially the shadowy part that's pretty much black at the top. The transition and low vibrancy decreases any color effect. (compare to 6 at very bottom right). You can test it out further by using mspaint and manually paint her hair as brown then purple, or purple, then her clothe brown, and you can see what a difference it makes. So it's not so much that it works, it's other effects like contrast, transition, context etc that makes the clash much less noticeable. It is subjective, but majority of people probably would not pick 6 as their favorite combination. My guess would be 3, 4, 1 looks ok to most, 5 is not clashing but the color might be too dull/boring for some (and brown isn't exactly a pretty girly color - nothing against UPS), 1 is fairly generic and people might like it or dislike it a bit but majority shouldn't have too big of a problem with it. 4 is not clashing but might be a bit too vibrant for some. the top I just played with a few different combos for fun to show due to more context and low vibrancy the difference is not nearly as much as bot. Tho I did increase the vibrancy on her cloth/hair a bit in mid bot, and you can feel its' a bit more unnatural and clash a bit stronger. By comparison you can see your picture's hair do have a lot of dark brown, black, dark grey, red with purple tips. It is still definitely purple hair but there is actually a good bit of orange, brown, natural red in the the hair (only that picture wise), but they are very dark and transition is smooth, which comes back down to contrast and vibrancy again. You can test around use Photoshop eye dropper. all that context + lack of color vibrancy + smooth transition, serves to de-emphasize color combo effect a lot. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/Moh9flW.jpg) I mean I was in middle of a project and you see all these super heroes, and I dunno consciously or not, the suits/hair abide by the principle for almost all of them. Skin tone is skin tone, and as mentioned in video, pure yellow, blue, actually are neutral and can go with each other and other colors, especially other neutral colors. ![[image loading]](http://az616578.vo.msecnd.net/files/2016/10/03/636111262537295909-643101673_Marvel_Wallpaper_Heroes_1.jpg) now because it's a comic image so vibrancy is super high.. blue yellow, blue natural red are two big combos. Try to focus on characters with more than one color (aside from skin tone, but sometimes even skin tone abides the rules). Mystic in the front, blue skin, purple hair, dark blue /black clothe. Rogue, neutral green slightly toward yellow, yellow under dress and yellow hair (silver part is neutral). Even that random face in the middle, purple hair, pale pink skin. Cyclops, brown hair, yellow gear, red / bright yellow part in middle. Hawkeye, blue, purple. Venom on the front right, blue/dark purple, with tongue that's leaning blue-ish red. Iron fist, orange jacket/ yellow head band. w/e girl that is in front of him, mostly blue hair, cloth, and even grey-blue skin. some big guys in the back, right side, Galactus , blue cloth, pink and red/pink helmet. The guy to his left a bit, all yellowish with gold armor. Very left back (thanos?) purple. I mean I'm sure if one look hard enough they might find some opposite examples, but we can see 90% of those are in line. | ||
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i'm joking. great blog--always enjoy. | ||
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Glider
United States1353 Posts
On July 09 2017 07:25 FiveHundred wrote: then you are no doubt opposed to the bob ross titanium white -- opium/heroin/cocaine conspiracy? i'm joking. great blog--always enjoy. 1st of all I wouldn't dare opposing to anything Bob Ross. and 2ndly, I specifically mentioned in video white goes with anything, titanium white, opium white, cocaine white, w/e. LOL Besides bob Ross paints realistic nature scenes that is all so natural to us he can do w/e with color. If it abides by nature, we are used to it and we will not find any issue with it. | ||
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Archeon
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On July 08 2017 00:33 Glider wrote: Sup Archeon, ye, that's why I devoted a specific part early on to say don't think about this in terms of temperature or color wheel or what is opposite and all that stuff. I get some ppl know orange is opposite of blue but that has nothing to do with the idea, orange is not a primary color. Just cuz two colors are contrasting "opposite" , doesn't mean they won't look good together. Which again, the video points it out, it's all about combining colors that looks good. You can have two colors very much opposite (maybe not directly) but goes decent well together, you can have two colors very close on the wheel but looks bad when put together. like for most, purple and brown is not a good combo, but some think they are both warm colors? u see how it gets confusing. Which is why I specifically mentioned don't think in terms of temperature. Hi, by primary color you mean rgb 255/0 combinations? As in RGBCMY? Isn't Brown+Purple mainly a problem because they are actually far apart and esp brown is a low saturation color? I mean purple is blue+red and always feels very blue-ish to me and brown is a bit of red with a lot of green. Which I guess goes along with your point about yellow-color (brown) and blue color (purple) don't mix. Also agreed on on brown+purple being a no-go. The pic only works because this brown is very washed out and there's a lot of gradient. And it would still look better with red or black than brown. Also jeez @superhero-picture, who puts all of them into one picture? That had to be a lot of work and looking at it hurts xD | ||
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Glider
United States1353 Posts
On July 11 2017 12:00 Archeon wrote: Hi, by primary color you mean rgb 255/0 combinations? As in RGBCMY? Isn't Brown+Purple mainly a problem because they are actually far apart and esp brown is a low saturation color? I mean purple is blue+red and always feels very blue-ish to me and brown is a bit of red with a lot of green. Which I guess goes along with your point about yellow-color (brown) and blue color (purple) don't mix. Also agreed on on brown+purple being a no-go. The pic only works because this brown is very washed out and there's a lot of gradient. And it would still look better with red or black than brown. Also jeez @superhero-picture, who puts all of them into one picture? That had to be a lot of work and looking at it hurts xD sup sup, color combination harmony has little to do with "distance" (not sure what you mean by far apart, color wheel far apart? contrasting colors?). For example a few good combinations that are pretty far apart are: black and white (technically not color), blue and yellow/orange, black and red. This is why i don't want people think too much into it and try to link the principle to color wheel or saturation or distance etc. It over complicate things. Just think yellow camp or blue camp, with the camp captains being neutral. When I say primary color I'm referring to the primary colors in classical color theory, in which there are only 3 primary colors:Red, Blue, Yellow. It has nothing to do with any particular computer system of coloring. I don't want to delve too deep into color theory, but every color under the sun is the result of some mixture of those 3 colors. Saturation is technically not dependent on the color, but a property of a color. When we refer to a color by a name such as brown, blue or w/e, fundamentally we are more or less referring to a particular range of light spectrum that is agreed upon by most people. But you can have brown that's high saturation, or you can have a brown that is low saturation. Think of it like this, if you have 3 tubes of primary colors: red, blue and yellow, you can mix them by the right amount to create what most people think of as brown, or within the range of brown. The result is always full saturation. If you then add black or white, that's when the saturation start to decrease, and value start to shift (depends on which you add in, black or white) This picture demonstrates some concepts pretty nicely. (Just think of Hue as another term for color) But again, u don't need to know and remember all that to make something harmonious, just the simple principle in the video would do. ![[image loading]](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dvHEX.png) | ||
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Apom
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On July 09 2017 05:58 Glider wrote: + Show Spoiler + On July 08 2017 08:56 Apom wrote: Purple and brown are a good combo for hair though ? Thinking something like this : ok here are a few things to note: 1) color combination only plays a partial role of our aesthetic feeling toward an image or person, and is ultimately subjective (but the theory does apply to majority, if you only thinking about color) For example you could be someone that really really likes purple hair on a girl. When that happens, what color her cloth is, other less vibrant color in the hair, is less important in your eyes. A girl you have a crush on could be wear sunglasses that clash with her hair all day and she will still look amazing to you. In your picture there is a lot of other context at play beyond just color, If you were to just put blocks of color next to each other it would be a more color oriented test. So it's not so much as it works on hair (although in this picture it plays a part, but you wouldn't see someone dye their hair with vibrant brown and pink), more because all that extra context de-emphasize color effect a lot. also 2 other small points relating to that: a) the difference in nature of hair and clothe puts distance between the two colors if u were referring to that. (see my image below, the bottom row, your mind pairs up the color and valuate their combination effect much more strongly than your picture, since we group clothe together, and hair further away from clothe) b) the brown in your picture is not a very strong vibrant color (not sure if u are talking about the brown in her hair or clothe), neither is her hair in general, especially the shadowy part that's pretty much black at the top. The transition and low vibrancy decreases any color effect. (compare to 6 at very bottom right). You can test it out further by using mspaint and manually paint her hair as brown then purple, or purple, then her clothe brown, and you can see what a difference it makes. So it's not so much that it works, it's other effects like contrast, transition, context etc that makes the clash much less noticeable. It is subjective, but majority of people probably would not pick 6 as their favorite combination. My guess would be 3, 4, 1 looks ok to most, 5 is not clashing but the color might be too dull/boring for some (and brown isn't exactly a pretty girly color - nothing against UPS), 1 is fairly generic and people might like it or dislike it a bit but majority shouldn't have too big of a problem with it. 4 is not clashing but might be a bit too vibrant for some. the top I just played with a few different combos for fun to show due to more context and low vibrancy the difference is not nearly as much as bot. Tho I did increase the vibrancy on her cloth/hair a bit in mid bot, and you can feel its' a bit more unnatural and clash a bit stronger. By comparison you can see your picture's hair do have a lot of dark brown, black, dark grey, red with purple tips. It is still definitely purple hair but there is actually a good bit of orange, brown, natural red in the the hair (only that picture wise), but they are very dark and transition is smooth, which comes back down to contrast and vibrancy again. You can test around use Photoshop eye dropper. all that context + lack of color vibrancy + smooth transition, serves to de-emphasize color combo effect a lot. I mean I was in middle of a project and you see all these super heroes, and I dunno consciously or not, the suits/hair abide by the principle for almost all of them. Skin tone is skin tone, and as mentioned in video, pure yellow, blue, actually are neutral and can go with each other and other colors, especially other neutral colors. now because it's a comic image so vibrancy is super high.. blue yellow, blue natural red are two big combos. Try to focus on characters with more than one color (aside from skin tone, but sometimes even skin tone abides the rules). Mystic in the front, blue skin, purple hair, dark blue /black clothe. Rogue, neutral green slightly toward yellow, yellow under dress and yellow hair (silver part is neutral). Even that random face in the middle, purple hair, pale pink skin. Cyclops, brown hair, yellow gear, red / bright yellow part in middle. Hawkeye, blue, purple. Venom on the front right, blue/dark purple, with tongue that's leaning blue-ish red. Iron fist, orange jacket/ yellow head band. w/e girl that is in front of him, mostly blue hair, cloth, and even grey-blue skin. some big guys in the back, right side, Galactus , blue cloth, pink and red/pink helmet. The guy to his left a bit, all yellowish with gold armor. Very left back (thanos?) purple. I mean I'm sure if one look hard enough they might find some opposite examples, but we can see 90% of those are in line. Wow, thanks for the lengthy answer!! When I said "brown" I was referring to the hair only. I think I would qualify the vest as green(ish). I knew a girl who died her hair brown, purple and blonde, and that's what I immediately thought about when you mentioned the brown/purple combination. It looked pretty good imho (and no, I didn't have a crush). The picture is just something I pulled from Google search for illustration purposes, I'm really honored you elaborated so much on it ^_^ | ||
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Archeon
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On July 11 2017 21:51 Glider wrote: sup sup, color combination harmony has little to do with "distance" (not sure what you mean by far apart, color wheel far apart? contrasting colors?). For example a few good combinations that are pretty far apart are: black and white (technically not color), blue and yellow/orange, black and red. This is why i don't want people think too much into it and try to link the principle to color wheel or saturation or distance etc. It over complicate things. Just think yellow camp or blue camp, with the camp captains being neutral. When I say primary color I'm referring to the primary colors in classical color theory, in which there are only 3 primary colors:Red, Blue, Yellow. It has nothing to do with any particular computer system of coloring. I don't want to delve too deep into color theory, but every color under the sun is the result of some mixture of those 3 colors. Saturation is technically not dependent on the color, but a property of a color. When we refer to a color by a name such as brown, blue or w/e, fundamentally we are more or less referring to a particular range of light spectrum that is agreed upon by most people. But you can have brown that's high saturation, or you can have a brown that is low saturation. Think of it like this, if you have 3 tubes of primary colors: red, blue and yellow, you can mix them by the right amount to create what most people think of as brown, or within the range of brown. The result is always full saturation. If you then add black or white, that's when the saturation start to decrease, and value start to shift (depends on which you add in, black or white) This picture demonstrates some concepts pretty nicely. (Just think of Hue as another term for color) But again, u don't need to know and remember all that to make something harmonious, just the simple principle in the video would do. Thanks for the detailed explanation. Yeah when I was talking about brown as a low saturation color I meant mainly in terms of rgb or cmy that it's a mixed color often with low values in two values that make the color less saturated. Sorry that wasn't put well. As someone who has a slight achrocromacy (color blindness) I tend to split colors into high and different and low and similar values on RGB (brown is basically less saturated red on the computer, f.e. a52a2a). By distance I meant mainly in terms of angle on a color wheel/v value in HSV. But yeah even curly brown+purple are still only ~90° apart from each others, so your theory covers that way better than any distance related guess. | ||
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