Study THIS before you study color

Since values and color is something I've never been very good at, I'll be going on a journey to improve and hopefully get better at them. Hopefully documenting my progress and mistakes will also be useful to someone.

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Edited by @chashuu0

00:00 - Intro
00:39 - What are values?
01:51 - Grouping values
03:02 - 3 value studies
03:59 - First attempt
04:47 - Intent matters!
06:04 - Combining intent with my own taste
07:52 - Putting it all together
08:34 - Studying from paintings
09:13 - Applying what I practised
10:25 - Want to learn more?

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[taktec]

i was just thinking a minute ago "maybe i should finally learn values"

amazing timing as always

[メシャ]

art is so hard
you could study each individual component by itself for years
it's so overwhelming
this blows
thanks for the video, great stuff as always

[ObsessedwithZelda]

I theorize that Kinkade choosing to have values so broken up probably lent to the dream like quality that people like from those pieces. Nothing is super defined or sharp so it almost has the blurred effect despite it all being harder edges

[justinsmith]

I think this is one of the top art channels for actually understanding the fundamentals and various other aspects of art.

[xRaiofSunshine]

Another thing about values I learned is that certain colors might not look as bright and vibrant on certain values than others. Example: yellow often looks its best and “Yellowest” at a brighter value compared to a darker one. Blue looks its best at a darker one than a bright one. Red is somewhat in between :0 There’s a term for this, but I can’t remember it off the top of my head hehe 😅

Their vibrancy (or lack of one) can help you decide the tone and mood you’re going for with your colors.

[JohnSmith-esfh]

recently started to train like this and noticed, that i actually like the process of it, it's like if i don't have to be bothered about color at all and focusing more on the values, almost similar thing i was doing when i was making pixel - art for game. where picking right tones was making my drawings more readable and understandable and what most important my characters wouldn't blend with background

[ghwost.]

you're my absolute favourite vtuber/youtuber, especially when it comes to art advice!! you've really helped me, and honestly gave me motivation to keep drawing! 💞💞 keep up the great content, it's definitely helped a lot more than just me.

[padraicgillespie]

Man, great timing with this. I do 3D stuff and I've been struggling badly with composition trying to get really intense, poppy colors, but it kept coming out really bland and mushy even with a lot of post-processing to boost the contrast. Tried to apply the stuff you talk about here(the grayscale especially was an eye-opener) and I'm stunned how much it helped even though I didn't feel like I really knew what I was doing. Thanks!!

[stickbugz]

I love your videos so much!

As a mediocre artist that struggles with colors and saturation, your videos explain it in a way that I can understand! :3

my favorite part about your videos is that you amit your not perfect (unlike most videos just saying “get good lol”) so you explain things like an equal

never stop making these videos, you keep improving from your last! ❤❤❤

[zinbrew]

7:23 really like this bit of animation

[AnimatingGood]

Your the only artist that inspires me to study what I find difficult to draw and amazing video as always

[hiper_herlock]

damn, good video! This will probably help me a lot with my characters that i'm creating, because they had a problem with "blurry clothes" that never made them stand out. Now if you excuse me, i have to study this for 3 hours a day.

[octaviusthend]

"My favorite monster, Mizutsune" ABSOLUTELY BASED

[jovannydiazabad]

Alright good video pikat now hopefully you catch this cuz I'm spilling beans not many seem to. There's two types of brightness to judge in a composition one is the one you talk about whuch is values, now there's another one equally important and is tone/ perceptual brightness which is how bright a color looks in color not grayscale. For example a red at full chroma (255 of value in RGB) has a value of 30 when looked at in grayscale, but if we were to get thise two colors together we encounter that while the values are a 1:1 in grayscale that the 30% gray is darker, and that's where saturation comes in. Saturation is another way to make colors brighter or darker without actually affecting values at all. Compare again red with 30% gray then compare it to 50% gray you'll be surprised at how brighter red looks compared to its actual value in grayscale. Green you may have noticed is a very weird color and this is why, green has a value of 59 in grayscale, but is way brighter at max chroma/saturation with a lightness of L*=87 (Cielab value). So looking at perceptual colors is also important if not more, things like simultaneous contrast, color constancy, perceptual brightness, etc. Two resources I recommend are Handprint.com and Monika Zagrolbena (both her website and envato tuts+) as they both offer good art info about art, with Handprint.com being in my opinion hands down the best resource for everything color theory, and Monika I just discovered recently so harder to judge but she has also blown my mind and made me use rgb slider somehow

[星子-vz]

actually I needed this video you really make things easier to me

[Bluerocksinthepool]

wait... people need to squint to blurr their

[CharlotteStarlight]

To be honest, your videos are always SO INSPIRING! When I feel like I'm not good enough for drawing or I'm never gonna be better at art, your videos just inspire me so much. SO THANK ❤❤❤✨️

[walker_the_]

You have no idea how helpful this video is thank you I've been trying to make sense why my colour in my pieces look so terrible so defiantly gonna through this into the study sessions.

[AphelionDusk]

I just wanted to say, your art tips are always so helpful. You pace the information out well in really easy to take in chunks, and it's really helped me improve my own work in landslides!! Thank you so much for all your hard work in making these videos, you're awesome! :D

[Chromerottv]

the queen saves me once more. i literally started value studies last week and also did the same mistake of black and white versions of the piece i studied.