Are your colors boring? Try this digital painting exercise!

Spice up your colors with this fun and easy exercise! Can be done in most digital painting programs. Learn how color - hue, saturation, and temperature - plugs into painting fundamentals like values, edges, and composition.
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[marcobucci]

Color reveals begin at 5:00 :)
I'm using Photoshop CC, but you can follow these same steps in most digital painting apps. Happy painting everyone!

[CBs-House]

I took a composition class about 10 years ago and the teacher was showing us Frazetta paintings. We were like wow yeah, that's cool and stuff, and he was talking about values, and then he said "that sky is GREEN, people." We simply had not even noticed that the sky in the Frazetta painting was green. It totally worked and we didn't even notice.

[EyeTea]

“Just have fun abusing that color wheel”

[feloniousbutterfly]

I like how with the old man painting, even though the colors look pretty random, they not only give off an emotional element to the painting, they give him an aura. I think the clash of colors there give a sense that this man is disgruntled, a mess of emotions and thoughts, and I even think it suggests sensory effects too. I can almost smell the image because of the different conflicting colors. Sweaty skin on an uncomfortably hot day, the polystyrene of his jacket, the damp, rank alleyway, sun beating down on dirty pavement. Fascinating that something so random can give you a supernatural sense of the character and overall image.

[haileyboileau]

for anyone that uses procreate: change your layer to "luminosity", abuse the color wheel, and then reveal by changing it back to "normal"

[cwells.pottery]

I did this in art class 13 years ago! We used a sodium lamp as our only light source, which made all of the paint gray-scale. It was so fun to take the covers off the windows at the end.

[OfficialXAF]

the style of the paintings along with the non-standard 'human skin' colors makes these look a lot like Disco Elysium character portraits. really good!

[loic]

i only have notifications for one channel and it’s this one. every single video’s a gem 😭

[Iyentra]

This was an intensely satisfying emotional and visual experience

[akhiro]

usually when i watch art videos i know some of what is being taught
but I always learn something new when I watch Marco's videos

[fatimaspages]

Wth this is the coolest tutorial I've ever encountered XD

[A.Witting]

Everytime Marco posts a new video it is like opening a present!
I tried something similar to this once, only I was painting with acrylics and was wearing deeply red shaded sunglasses from a flea market. Interesting result, but won't advise it though. My vision was green for hours after taking off the shades.

[SpikePrivate]

Remember Kids: Love with your heart...

[kuroro]

This so cool! I really needed that exercise. I'm always so disappointed in my coloring, not because it's bad, just because it's dull, no matter how hard I try to get the values right, I get stuck in the colors I want to lay down and the feeling of the painting. This is such a good exercise, thanks man!

[Shilag]

Would never have seen this if not for Captain D. Super interesting video, even for someone who has the artistic ability of a toddler.

[Cavegeckosol]

I am kinda relieved because I pride myself as a colorist. If it turns out all this time that I had the "easiest job, " I would feel like I wasted time. I am glad that color choice is still important to evoking feelings and being part of a design. It is still an important choice to make.

[dylanduke]

Finally figured out the feeling I was getting from the painting at 6:32 is - it reminds me of the moiré effect when taking a picture of a screen of some kind. Very cool

[UnrealZii]

Another way to do this is to go into your graphics driver settings, and change the saturation to 0 or -100 so that your entire screen is monochrome.

This is better in my opinion, since you won't even know what color hue you'll be picking from either!

[maracachucho]

Kinda reminds me when I used to play with clay as a kid, I would sometimes mix different colored ones and they would go from looking like a rainbow to uglier dark tones. This is something in between.

[lukeoreilly]

The YouTube algorithm is crazy. I watched Captain D's video about colour with footage from this in it, kinda wanted to watch this video but didn't want to track it down, then hours later this is on my home page. Neat!