ARTISTS! Learn how to find VALUE in COLOR correctly-100% explained! 🎨Color theory experiment 2020

After I dropped my Finding Value in Color with a Portrait of Bill Murray video last year, I received a few requests to further explain how I use value in color to create my colorful portraits. In this video, I explain how to find value in color in more depth. To go even further, I did a little experiment with a gray scale and value finder.

First, I painted my ten Lukas Cryl paints on a canvas and tried to find the value of each of the colors using my gray scale and value finder. Next, I took a photo of the colors and put it in black and white (mono or monochromatic). Then, I tested my guesses and was kind of surprised with the results.

I promise that this tutorial will help you further understand how to use value in color. If you have any questions, please put those in the comments below.

This is a prequel to a video I am posting tomorrow -further demonstrating my use value in color as I paint- with a painting of Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Please don’t forget to subscribe and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss the video!

For another look at my colorful portraits, please visit my personal Instagram page @jennariceart. Some of them are for sale! For inquiries about purchasing, please email or DM me 😊
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Music credit:

Atmospheric by Bynx (Zach Rice) aka my brother

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Thank you for watching!

Remember to stay peaceful as a calm mind is a creative mind.

Now- go get inspired, be an influence, and make something beautiful today.

Love and Light,
Jenna Rice

@jennariceart
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[sonyakhan]

This guide is AMAZING! I’ve seen so many tutorials on this and no one actually explains how to see value in color. They skip right over it. Thank you for this!!!

[haleyturner]

Ahhh! I’ve been watching videos on this topic for two days! FINALLY understand it after coming across your video. Thank you!!!

[lilycanfield]

I think you switched the key at the end.... the values written in grey were the ones you found when the photo was in greyscale and the red values were your initial guesses, weren't they? anyway, thank you for this video!! it's really starting to make sense to me now. i'm going to start practicing monochromatic paintings and then try this technique

[davevanfunk]

Great to know what to do with bright, saturated colors. THank for demystifying this.

[nancydubin]

OMG !! Thanks !! Just bought a grey scale to help me with getting a stronger "depth" in my pictures. Current pic Im doing is greyscale but obviously not picking or blending my greys correctly !!!

[mixfiletube]

A very good demonstration. Thanks a lot!

[GigisART]

Thank you!! Very 'value'able lesson.
What was the program you were using!

[edwarduribe]

great information. I am having trouble with values and this helped.

[georgianschipko]

Love the method. Very fast, very accurate. Thank you so much. I ve been looking for a tutorial like this for a long time.

[katz]

Great tips. Thanks so much for sharing !

[lizclark]

Great tool really helps me to choose the right colours.I would recommend this to any artist.

[cactus]

So, do you have a recomendation find value by only eyes... I wanna sketch with finelinner pen.. quickly sketch... so..I really wanna find value of 2 color in my view to decide how many cross harching for that color area... (Sorry if my English bad, English is not my native langugue!)

[deshalidezoysa]

Thank you for this video.I find it very interesting!

[dweaverart]

Great presentation on values in color! Thank you for sharing!

[aman_love]

may i know what is the name of the app you used to find the value?

[valeriachilders]

Great video. how did you adjust the white balance on procreate? thanks!

[stinar]

I feel like an idiot but how does finder help you determine value, when paint is opaque?

[khatzeye]

Why you totally looked like the emoji 😂 this was exactly what I need, thanks 🙏🏾 everyone else only seems to talk about black and white value finding 😅

[Yimengh]

Wonderful trick / tutorial for finding color values. Thank you!

[pratibhapradhan]

Jenna Rise, could you show an example of your work besides the ones that are there.?