Understanding Colour Harmonies Redux

Why did we redo this video? We realised we could explain some things better and we had feedback about audio quality. We are hoping that extra info helps you with your understanding.

Colour harmonies are usually treated in two ways, wait whaT? or I hate them. However, it doesn't have to be that way we breakdown what colour harmonies and how to use them, with simple language and visuals so anyone can understand.

We hope this video was worth your time because, we put a lot of work into these videos, like too much time... so we hope you like them.

Timestamps ⏱
0:00 Foreword
0:25 Intro
1:46 Monochrome Harmony
3:12 What's the difference?
5:56 Complementary Harmony
6:39 Split Complementary Harmony
7:19 Tetradic Harmony
9:10 Square Harmony
9:41 Analogous Harmony
10:31 Extended Analogous Harmony
11:29 Adjacent Complementary Harmony
12:10 Shades
12:48 Outro
13:20 End Credit Joke

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Timestamps ⏱
0:00 Foreword
0:25 Intro
1:46 Monochrome Harmony
3:12 What's the difference?
5:56 Complementary Harmony
6:39 Split Complementary Harmony
7:19 Tetradic Harmony
9:10 Square Harmony
9:41 Analogous Harmony
10:31 Extended Analogous Harmony
11:29 Adjacent Complementary Harmony
12:10 Shades
12:48 Outro
13:20 End Credit Joke

[TheAukel]

Your colour theory advice has absolutely upped my painting ridiculously. I think the comment you made about not wanting things to look like a clown is the reminder I need every time. Thanks.

[theguywhogotdonuted]

Grahhh i need to binge watch every singke vids of yours, theres too much thing to learn 😭

[philipgriffiths]

As a newbie I really found this video a great help to understanding why I was really pleased with some of my paint jobs & then totally unhappy with others. To the point I ended up stripping one model four times before I got the effect I desired. It is must viewing for anyone starting out to help them understand what works & more importantly... why!
Thank you so much for this. Big thumbs up from me 👍

[artistpoet]

Liked, shared and bookmarked. This was a great!

[MrFiremagnet]

Watching this video gave me feeling that Neo had after all of the martial arts were downloaded to his brain.
"I know Paint Fu"

[The-Avien]

Guys great video. I’ve seen this topic covered by a lot of channels but you managed to give it a simplification that other channels seem to miss. Great video as an intro to colour theory.

One piece of feedback - the thing where you move between topics or headings and you say the topic together - please stop doing this :P
Might just be me but it grates on me.

Otherwise love your guys dynamic and your videos keep getting better so keep up the great work

[aaronwindham]

Thank you for this video, some of your other videos are not as geared towards me, but this one especially I have no actual art background and no creative interest in this outside of painting for minis so I really appreciate you guys doing this video. It helps me especially

[chaoticpainting]

Thanks for revamping an already amazing video! You guys are top notch when it comes to color theory!

[exmalobonum]

So happy you guys got recommended by Poor Hammer. I would not have found your channel without them and this is by far the most helpful content of this variety! Really nice work!

[ShockArclte]

I had missed the part about the tropical fish on my first viewing. One of the hurdles of Tyranid color schemes for me is that it seems difficult to achieve a good color harmony while also appearing natural (the exceptions being monochromatic and analogous.)

But I had completely forgotten about tropical fish! So wildly contrasting color harmonies can exist naturally! I just needed to find better reference animals!

[masterrace]

This needs to be an essential watch to new beginners

[salientrogue]

Probably the best video I’ve watched for understanding color schemes for painting

[robk]

You're so clever, defining an often intuitive but often under appreciated tool, in our choice of paint.

[SWATDRUMMUH]

Now I realize that the army mainly comprised of shades... I would have to look into browns and yellows (maybe blues) to get an earthy ash and charred bone look for my army

[abgea]

More informative with a shorter video we are truly blessed to live in such times. I love that Sunny snd Cal cover a topic for the length which is appropriate not like some other youtubers which strech a 3 minute video idea into 15 minutes. Thanks for valuing our time.

[ObiWAAAGHKenobi]

Mate, this apothecary is looking great. Around 2-3 years ago I attempted to paint a white scar, despite my best efforts however the white continued to look chalky and terrible, for an ‘amateur’ you do seem to possess a true natural skill and supremacy with a brush .
Best of luck to you and Bruce

[chapaxe]

I have been trying to paint a good compmementary color scheme but could not underdtand why i failed. I watxhed your previus video a couple of time to finaly understand that i was using the wrong saturations on my minis. Thus video confir it thank

[awdsaef]

What did i stumble into? That energy is so damn cool! Live the video!

[Ash-sfgr]

Thanks for revamping this one, the orginial never found its way to me. Beautifully explained. Genestealer and flamer examples really tied their respective harmony explanations together with a nice bow for me.