Create your own Colour Schemes with ONE simple trick

Make your own colour schemes with this easy and straightforward colour theory trick that anyone can do.

Colour theory can be complicated but you don't have to fully throw yourself down the rabbit hole to use it. You can get great results in miniature painting just by dipping your toe in. That's what I show you in this colour theory video. By employing cold and warm colours you can restrict the paints on your palette, simplifying things for yourself and making your colour scheme more striking and memorable. A restricted palette ensures there will be relationships between the colours and nothing will appear jarring or out of place as your eyes are going to be seeing the same mix of paints throughout. Just in different ratios. This helps to reduce odd colour clashes and tends to make the miniature more readable as the details aren't going to end up swamped in a big mess of colour. Take your miniature painting to the next level and start employing a bit of colour theory. Using your own colour schemes will help to develop your style and make your painting feel unique to you.

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[AJDeLaRosa]

To anyone reading this - take it from me...having ALL the color options can be creatively crippling or worse lead to a really disjointed piece. This is fantastic advice for a really cohesive model. It also reminds me that I need to order more white sands...

[monsterdenminis]

Best easy to understand explanation of how to pick schemes ever! There are lots of videos on color theory but this step-by-step explanation of how to easily apply it is priceless.

[dougsundseth]

For this kind of exercise, I prefer a true white (though preferably a zinc white rather than a titanium white, because its tinting strength is lower), since I can make an off-white with white and whatever, but I can only get a true white with white.

Also, brown is usually a somewhat desaturated orange, so it can stand in for your warm color by itself if you want to restrict yourself to only 3 colors including white.

[elronman]

One thing I learned is if you mix white with your colors. You will get a bright version of your hue, which will allow you to see what dark color you actually mixed.
You can also do this by underpainting a dark color and layering over a brighter color. It won't show you the brighter hue of the underpaint, but it will mix a mid tone of the two colors. Important to note if you're painting things like yellow over black, because you will get cold yellows (due to the blue typically in the black), or the inverse where you will get a honey yellow over warm colors like brownish reds.
Not all colors work like this of coursh (mostly the warm values like red and yellow) but it's a nice trick to sneak colors in schemes into your paintjob.

[RoderickPommier]

Well, you’ve created a video I’ll reference forever. Thank you!

[BinxyBrown]

I've been doing this kind of on accident with my daemons and was feeling like I didn't have enough variety in colors. I think you showed me here that I'm just not taking my shadows and highlights far enough

[Ginoitaliano]

Genuinely, this is one of the best miniatures videos I've ever watched. It's short, simple, but touches on so much.

Seeing you work with so few paints was eye-opening, and the reasoning feels like it should have been obvious to me now.

Thank you so much!

[TheStoicArmyPainter]

is this the voice of an angel? very soothing <3

[adammueller]

You're a wizard Kujo! Thanks for sharing.

[billcurran]

This sounds like a great way to get more comfortable mixing colors. I think I may need to try this with my next mini.

[terryramsey]

SImple and powerful video, great way to think about colour choices!

[sophovot]

Kujo, I've been waiting for this video for 2 years. I'm so lost when it comes to painting without a color reference

[robinmartin]

you mean i don't have spend two hours shaking 20 bottles of paint?! BRILLIANT!

[redrooster]

This is such an important video!
I'm currently painting a Malifaux crew in the Zorn Palette. And before that a blueish black and white Zombicide Night Of The Living Dead. It's amazing and deeply satisfying what you can achieve with a limited palette.

[derekcutsinger]

Solid advice. Always enjoy your content!

[whiskeybrush]

Very helpful! I need to keep this in mind more!

[andrewamann]

An important note about limited schemes: stick to single pigment colors, if you can. The paint lines that are made for modelling hobbyists tend to be quite bad about telling you what they're using to get their colors, which can lead to some wonky results when mixing them.

A black (changing these up yields more differences than you might expect... Lamp black doesn't do the same thing as Mars black, which plays differently from bone or ivory black), a white (titanium white, zinc white, talcum white... Different tone, same idea as the black...), a couple of colors (red and yellow for Zorn, but jump around and try things, there's much to explore...), and maybe a burnt, or raw, umber, if you're feeling saucy.

Great video, and it's a topic that deserves a load of exploration. Happy painting, all.

[ZombieApocalypse]

Time to try this out on my next batch of Cryx skeleton guys from warmachine.

[neilbrown]

In less than 10 minutes, you explained it better than any vid I've seen. The examples were spot on. And never realised the sides were warm and cold colours. Doh!! 🙄

[edsa]

Brilliant video, also an impressive paint collection