Understanding Color

Why Color is so important, Saturation and Value and six Color Harmonies that work.

[mattstrott]

4 years of college and no one ever explained color this well. Thank you sir!

[damsel]

I loved this, wish I had found it earlier. I am 85 and a quilter and have always had a problem putting together colors for my quilt. Thank you so much, BTW I have many books on color and cannot understand one of them.

[pyraffin]

Also, a pro tip: Warm light has cool shadows, and cool light has warm shadows.
You can notice this when you look at the shadow cast on the underside of your arm, the shadow will be different tones with light from a screen vs warm indoor light vs the sun.
This will change if there's light bounce, like a really harsh sunlight on yellow stairs, the shadows may be warm because of the light bouncing off the top of one stair onto the shaded side of the other.

[KayBbyXOXOXO]

Seven minutes in, I started taking notes. Excuse my French, but this is some good shit.

Edit: I appreciate how he explains things in simplest terms but doesn't talk down to the viewer or act like they're dumb. A lot of teachers fail at this.

[fanimeproductionst.v.]

"If you remeber at the start of UP"

*Instantly burst out crying*

[xxSydneyFox]

Colour has always been difficult for me to understand. When I look at something I see the whole picture and cannot separate the different colours. Your video really helped me! I was trying to look at the images to guess the colours used and i could actually see them!!! Thank you! This is such a useful video I cannot even praise it enough!!!!

[filiplupinski]

8:08 monochromatic
9:06 analogus
10:27 triadic
11:44 complementary
14:37 split complementary
17:51 double complementary

[DasiaBlue]

I learned more in this video than 3 years in art class...

[YABSGlobel]

10 years later and this still has great value ❤

[Games-izzc]

Man I fucking love this guy. When he starts his lesson he goes straight at it. He doesn't start with some bullshit intro that takes 15 seconds, he doesn't blapper about unimportant, unrelated things in the beginning, he doesn't beg you for subscriptions, he makes good quality videos,   and he presents it all in an interesting way.

[ztsb]

Would have loved to see some "poor" utilizations of each different set.

[eightfake]

Being a cinematographer/photographer i knew most of this already but the stuff i didnt know actually really helped me understand colour more. Thanks a lot - gonna make my images look better. 😍

[tatoes-]

Blender sensei: talks about how a art piece wouldn’t be as famous as it is if a parrot wasn’t in the image.

Me not even noticing the small parrot and had no idea what the art piece was

[ElTuco]

This guy is awesome, english is not my primary language but i understood everything, thank you.

[DaltonHBrown]

I'm not even an artist but I have watched this video multiple times. I really like the artwork showcased here especially 12:47. Gives me feelings of being in a warm house while the cold winter wind is blowing outside (which is why winter is my favorite season). But there's also feelings of a "coldness" within myself that is expressed in the complete disarray of this kitchen/workshop.

[chozen]

This guy is so good at translating information to a teachable format.

[TNinja]

"Don't use 25% for Tetratic, it's chaotic"


I knew the Teletubbies were the epitome of chaos. Incarnate.

[tiamarie]

Even 7 years later, this is the BEST explanation and examples out there!! Thank you!!

[Annabel_Lee]

I've been taking art classes (I'm majoring in Studio Art) in college since August of 2014. You've been far more helpful than my professors. Their way of teaching is for the students to "just draw something" and bring it in for credit, but must of us end up being bashed for what we create. Thank you so much, you've earned a new subscriber.

[pink_doodlr]

I love that you took the time to make this, but I would have liked some "bad" examples to know what not to do. Other than that, this was the clearest color theory explanation I ever heard!