stop being a noob and learn some easy color theory

[elarielo]

garbaj: just look at the image in black and white and...
me: *nods in colorblind*

[Mazurecki]

>my entire feed is balatro
>finds a video about color theory
>looks inside
>balatro

[NovianLeVanMusic]

I’ll never get tired of hearing the soothing, “Heyyy everyone, Garbaaaaj here.”

[Soul-Burn]

Learned this grayscale trick from people criticizing the color palates in Concord's character designs. Even when every character is its own color, each character has very muted colors that are hard to differentiate.

[SanoKei]

It's basically all contrast, even if you used random colors, as long as the contrast rule is applied, it should look halfway decent. There's a great video of the theory where a guy paints in random colors in monochrome. It's fascinating.

[Mixa_Lv]

0:09 Not to be rude, but this picture made me actually check if my screen's night mode was turned on. The orange tint is very strong.

[Leadvest]

I thought this was going to be about unifying a palette, because the base tone of the card piece seems to be an autumn orange.

[DefinitelyNotJody]

2:50 pippa jumpscare. Did not expect to see the yabbit here.

[constantinhirsch]

TLDR of this video: „Don’t make everything too bright. Use some contrast.“
From the title I had hoped to learn something about color selection as well, but this video is only about brightness.

[sea_ferret]

see now this why garbaj the goat. "yo this look peak. i made it btw" so true queen. feed that ego.

[Topcatyo.]

Contrast is such an overlooked aspect of art. It’s important not just for color-theory, but also composition.

It’s funny, this contrast rule is applicable to a lot of different types of art.
I think of it the same as with music. Mixing engineers will always tell you, 80% of getting a song to sound good is getting the volume of all of the instruments right.

[aguyontheinternet]

today we learn that turning colors almost transparent makes them harder to see

[thewackerly]

2:47
"Look at this picture I made and intentionally removed the contrast from to make it look bad"
"Let's increase the contrast"
"It looks less bad now"
Revolutionary

[KiloDepartment]

Cave Story (and other works by its developer) work as a great example of this too! Everything important is bright, and everything else is darker!

Oh btw: Have you ever vertically mirrored an image you have drawn? Apparently it can make any piece of art feel like it somehow worsened.

[unadventurer_]

It makes me really happy that you open this video with giving yourself props for what you created. It's so easy and knee-jerk for us to dismiss the quality of the things we make, so good on you for feeling rightfully confident. Because you are right, this is great

[FRNKD]

Keep in mind that when working with colors you are affecting the brightness too and black and white removes all saturation and with that all value variation attributable to hue variance.

To get an accurate black and white representation of the real values, you need to add a black layer set to 'color' blending mode on top of your artwork.

[potapotapotapotapotapota]

so what you are saying is that I should draw some very basic drawings and then just bump up the contrast and then I can be the next archibald prize winner

[oddish.]

I'm in the process of designing a personal website and have been having trouble getting colors to look good together. But the info you shared will be very useful. Thanks!

[PVTParts-euzl]

Hmmmm I think what you're getting on about is value. It's one of the art fundamentals, however, some colors tend to have darker and lighter values even if the difference is just in the hues. For example, blue hue like colors can tend to be darker in value compared to others. It starts to get even more complicated when it comes to balancing values and color, I can't remember what it was actually called but there's this thing where values and colors pop out even more depending on the values and colors of the backdrop.

[namanienie]

One of the only creators I have notis on for