10 Colour Schemes You've (probably) Never Heard Of!

Struggling to pick which colours to use in your art? Have no fear, artist Jessie Chang is here! In this short colour theory lesson, she breaks down 10 basic and advanced colour palettes you can use to give your piece more character. 🌈 These colour combinations should be in every artist's toolbox, as they help define moods, emotions, and atmospheres! Let us know your favourite scheme in the comments below! 😎

🕓 Timestamps:
0:00 - Achromatic & monochromatic palettes
0:50 - Analogous palette
1:39 - Types of colour wheels
2:20 - Complementary palette
3:22 - Triadic palette
3:51 - Split complementary palette
4:46 - Double split complementary palette
6:05 - Polychromatic palette
7:17 - Tetradic palette
8:29 - Discordance colour scheme
10:24 - Outro

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[dullstar]

Watching her videos feel like a free Art lesson from an actually good teacher

[coreDesignix]

RYB isn't *outdated* when you're still working with physical pigments and I think that's an important note.

[SSWolfie]

Blue and orange is my favorite color scheme and i use it on my main oc that i draw and i'm very proud of it

[Jul._.]

OMG you just made a perfect rule for primary colors at 2:00
'Red, yellow, blue, that's not true'

[butterpiefnaffan]

It's not out yet but I would love to see this! I will help improve my digital art! ^^

[DragonFries]

I have obtained the forbidden art knowledge and have thus become stronger.

Also, on a serious note, how do you make every pallette I hate look so good??? Like, the dark yellow and light purple, I thought that was gross and impossible to make look good. But then you showed the examples and they are beautiful! It's honestly impressive how good you are at utilizing your knowledge.

[BasicallyIKilledTheCat]

Personally I love the combo of pale pink and pale green green… somehow makes me feel nostalgic

[leonineKelter]

To clarify a bit on the rgb/ryb/cmyk, NEVER use rgb for paint. Paint is color, and they mix backwards. While all all the colors mixed togeyher is white to rgb, because it's measuring the color of light, paint is measuring the color of objects we see like paints. Cmyk is the dots in old comics where they get printed out. Cmyk is the color scheme printers use to make colors, because it has a wider number of colors it can make compared to rgb or ryb.
None of them are 'incorrect'but also not all of them are right for either medium either. Don't Use rgb with physical paints, or vice versa.
Hope this helps ✨

EDIT: I am back and edited because this comic started to pick up in popularity and it was badly worded. Thank you for the corrections on cmyk! I'd recommend looking into the comments for a better explanation of cmyk :))

[Soggy_Speggetti]

I love monochromatic landscapes, those look so cool

[Me-tpeg]

2:40 red and cyan!! i just did art with these two colours, and i was kinda thinking they were complementary because of how cool they looked, but this makes so much more sense with the RBG colour wheel

[shiix]

it seems like i instinctively already use some of these color schemes without noticing, its cool to know that my brain is actually not just pulling random colors from god knows where

[bladeofgrass]

Tysm! I have not been super happy with how my art has been turning out lately because I struggle with color. This video will really help!

[furyking]

I've been thinking about getting into spray paint as an art medium for awhile now, and this has somehow made the concept less intimidating overall. Like I don't need a whole bunch of different colors to make something satisfying

[animanioid]

My old art teacher used to show my class these videos all the time, and i could never let go of the amazing references to games/animes i liked, like Kirby and Link in the beginning.
Recently, this came up in my recommended and i thought id stop by and share how much i enjoy your videos and creations. Have a wonderful holiday!

[scribble_nook]

FINALLY! I've been trying to find good lessons on color theory, and all the ones I found were still beginner level color theory. I actually learned new things in this video!

[dyldev]

I'm not too terrible with colour combinations but this will be helpful

[elsan]

I've been using polychromatic scheme in my art this whole time (I'm into psychedelic/rainbow aesthetic), and it's just today years old that I found out about the term 💩. It makes me ashamed of my fine arts degree, but at the same time kind of proud cuz I've managed to pull off that color scheme pretty well, when you've claimed that it's the hardest to organize.

[sirpigeoniii]

When you pulled up that Arowana fish image I got excited because I've drawn that fish before. I think with the same reference image.

[JamAttack]

one really cool color effect you can do with anything animated is take a polychromatic scheme, and adjust the brightness so all the values are exactly the same, then have each color cycle through the colors of the rainbow at the same offset from each other. It looks really freaking cool.