This information has also been incredibly helpful in combining ties and dress shirts and with helping my wife pick out rugs and furniture for the home.
I truly hope you never reach burnout and keep the videos coming. This is quickly becoming my favorite channel. BTW I am a professional graphic artist, having worked for Marvel and Disney since the late '80s. Great job on this subject. Awesome work.
😁 Thanks!!! I have the exact same hope 😅 but I'm having so much fun at the moment and this is a good sign for the future 😉! Woooooooooooooooo awesome 😍😍😍😍😍!!! I need to see your works!!! (but now I feel a bit under pressure 😅😅😅)
Just watched this video and I have to say you explained in concise detail what I've struggled with over the last year, even while watching other mini painter videos. The idea behind chroma, hue, and saturation always kind of weirded me out and you helped me understand it! I'm going to go for a monochrome paint job to see if I can really understand it!!!
Glad to see you do a video on color theory and it's importance. I've posted your channel to several forums to spread the good word and get you some traffic. So far every video you've done has been solid and of benefit to the community.
I just found your channel when researching Blanchitsu and you've quickly become an invaluable source of information. Thank you! Great to have this more artistic POV that is lacking in the wider community.
The Real Color Wheel is an amazing resource, wow, the amount of effort the author put into it! Thank you so much for teaching us the theory to use tools and systems like this. For me, I am trying to make the ultimate, 90's, 'Eavy Metal Blood Angels recipe with a modern take using airbrushes and oil panel lines. Your videos are so helpful!
I have watched a bunch of videos on this. didn't do it for me. Even paid for a couple of classes, also didn't really work for me. I didn't just pass the class, I did well. But, honestly didn't feel like I really got it. Somehow your video made things click. Thank you so much I think I'm finally starting to get it.
Awesome!!! Simply awesome!!! I'm so happy to hear it 😊😊😊 And I plan to explore these concepts more in depth in the next future! And for any other curiousity and explanation I'm always here 😉
Great video! Thanks a bunch! I have recently taken the decision to move in to camping-car full time and live and work in there. At the same time, I want to continue painting miniatures. Obviously, it is nearly impossible to bring all my material with me, so I decided to go down the route of learning to mix my own colours from the basic colours, red, green, blue, white and black. I have a long way to go, but I am slowly getting there!
There are like 100 videos out there explaining the exact same thing. Your video really is the outstanding one which does not only explain everything in a way I can easily understand, but also entertains me! Great job again, best miniature painting channel on youtube!
Excellent overview. As an ex art student and painter by trade I say you explained this better then any art teacher I have ever had. Thanks for the videos!
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Good, happy to make your day! I had a 26 year break in painting miniatures and started again last winter. I immediately noticed not only that my brush work was ofcourse better since painting bigger scale abstract stuff for years but that understanding more on theory had made my mixes and shadings better. But you south- europeans have always been the masters of this. :D as we know. Haha.
This video is life changing for mini painters- plenty of folks touch on this in videos but you gave us a great historical context for why this is so important. Found the stuff on Newton & Goethe fascinating- thank you for such a great video!! Also you are a hero for including a bibliography :) I had never heard of analogous or split complementary schemes or even considered monotone for models. Can't wait to try out those ideas :)
Thank you sooooooo much 😍!!! It's very important for me to explain how and why things work in a certain way; can be the chemistry of a paint, the theory behind an harmony or its historical context... when you know why it's easy to transfer that knowledge or skill in every context or situation! Again, thanks a million 😘
Received this morning my color wheel. Can't wait to put the theory into practice. I feel way more confident to try color scheme now that i have a color wheel at hand. Before I was always refering to existing art concept of the minis.
Loved the video lesson! Thank you for taking your time and effort to inform about this topic. I would love to see more about how you can use the colour circle to blend. How the thought process is to minimize misstakes and loss of paint and reuseability to reblend an old colour theme and continue/repair a model/piece.
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM looking forward to it! Just watched the video where you used oil paint as washes and "blanchitsy" (sorry forgot the word) the miniature. It blew my mind! I have to ask father inlaw about it since he is a painter and work with all types of paints depending on mood, theme and function of the paint. Gonna see if i can learn a thing or two!
@@robinwesterlund5563 😊 I have to do a video also about that! I use so many different paints and products to achieve different results that I have material for dozens of videos 😅
Thanks!!! It's important to understand the evolution of our perception of colour and there's so much more to tell especially about why we associate a colour to a certain sensation! This is all in the history of painting!
Thanks 😁!!! Oh yeah, I'm having a lot of fun with the videos 😊 (and I need to find a better balance with other things because I'm enjoying the RU-vid experience too much 😅)
Mind blow! . You're gonna get sick of seeing my comments lol. From watching your videos, and implementing what you've talked about, I've noticed a HUGE improvement in my painting. So many things I never considered. Thank you so much for all your tips, in depth and interesting videos, and for starting the channel in the first place. Keep up the amazing work! ❤️❤️
Thank you for yet another great video, one of the best colour theory explanations I've come across possibly because you don't assume that we all know the basics. Keep up the good work I need all the help I can get 😆
As a commission painter I should know all of this .. I don't ... I know the basics obviously but never really went too far into the details of it all .. This is a great video, I'll have to watch t a few times for it to sink in -Thanks!!
That's an excellent video!! Thanks!! In 15 minutes you summarize days of works that I have in the past! In my opinion, it's a must have to all new painters, but also for everyone who want to refresh their knowledges!!! Can't wait to see the next video :)
Thanks a million buddy 😊! I wanted something easy enough to avoid overwhelming a new painter but deep enough to catch the attention of the veterans (quite a difficult balance 😅). With time I hope to expand and develop better all the single parts 😉
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM That was very challenging, but in my opinion, you have succeed quite well to this exercise!! :) One thing that I understand lately, it's how to extract myself from the theory and start playing and having fun with color... May be it can be an idea for an other video? ;)
@@oliviert.4253 Thanks 😉 Nice idea! This stuff is so totally under my skin that I didn't think to the theory-practice jump! It's definitely something to explore... I'm thinking to start immediately with the next painting video explaining better the reasoning behind certain choices of tones and why I built a scheme in a certain way...
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Good idea! The development you are considering is good because it follows a logic step by step improvement. I think that the idea that I propose to you would have a place after all of that! I am a pure product of the university, and I think it was this intellectual formatting that led to my blocking between theory and practice, and it took me a long time to get threw it! So, maybe I'm not alone in this case, for one reason or another ^^
@@oliviert.4253 I've been in the same spot and I perfectly understand what you're saying! My background in reality is 10000% scientific and when I started delving into art and painting techniques my mindset wasn't the best for the task 😅 The good thing is that we can overcome all these problems with a good amount of practice 😊
MarcoFrisoniNJM - I did though. Real colour wheel you shown is nice, but lacks the nifty movable bits :) Personally, I know if I just print a wheel on paper, it’s gonna get crumpled and lost.
Thank you Marco - I'm eagerly awaiting the video that explains the layout of, and how to use the True Color Wheel. I went to the website but it was very technical and a bit confusing, the layout of the webpage was a little hard to follow. I couldn't find much else about it on the web either (maybe I missed it though). Cheers!
Great videos. Tip: the Adobe colour website alows you to create all kinds of palettes and select different mono, duo, trio etc. colour schemes that are balanced/limited according to your preferences. Second: I'm a classical painter first and foremost and learned to paint the way a painter like Lucian Freud does. They tend to work from a brownscale basis, adding colors as tints. Filling whole areas with one paint colour (like done in comics) is absolutely not done, and the stroke of the brush itself is part of the expression. As in: you want to be economical with your brush strokes and think about them individually. A paint in the ... at first, but once you get it, it makes painting a much more deliberate proces, and you can really see in the final work if someone was deliberate in their work, or just filling areas. Great channel, going to watch much, much more! Keep it up.
Love your video’s as you go over topics that are very important but don’t get a lot of coverage. Keep it up 👍 (Would love you to do maybe further reads on these topics or books that are good for miniature painters)
Wow, I really love that Syl'Eske, and would love to have my army look similar. Could you maybe make a video how to paint a slaanesh model with that scheme? I am fairly new to mixing colors and not just buying the color I want from GW XD. That's why I am asking because my attempt today at the skin on a deamonette really failed
Hi! Sure!!! And a very good choice because the tones for that model are precisely a crazy mix of colours 😅😅😅 (I hope to be able to recreate it again 😂)
I really enjoyed this video and what to nail colour theory. But a question I have is that with so many ways if using the wheel being acceptable doesn't any choice of colours fall within colour theory?
Hey Marco great and informative video, will put into practice as well as your other tips of your other videos. Love your style I'm trying to incorporate it into mine :P
What is your view that Cyan, Magenta and yellow are actually the true primary colours? The colour wheel becomes abit of a miss information then red/yellow/blue is not really true as these colours can not create cyan/magenta but cyan/magenta can create blue and red
It's precisely something that I want to discuss in the next video about Color Theory 😉 But I needed first to talk about the basic stuff to have a solid foundation to do work on!
Yes I'm a bit confused since cyan and magenta are the colours that cannot be made up with other colours. Red is magenta + yellow in some ratio and blue is cyan + magenta also in a certain ratio.
@@mirparx I printed mine at the highest quality possible for my home ink jet printer and I didn't have notable losses in values or saturation. Btw it's more a reminder and reference so even with some differences from the digital version it's still totally fine
It's super random I know, but once you know it, it just weirds you out 😅. Worlds collide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ir10qmckKFk.html
Why haven't you considered they CMYK (Cyan magenta Yellow key) for the basic colors. You can for example Blue with magenta And Cyan but no the other way arround. I invite you to investigate the CMYK.
I know it very well 😉 but in this first video I had to find a balance between not scaring the new painters and give something interesting to the veterans staying in 10/15 minutes to avoid boring to death the viewers 😂 so something had to be left behind 😉
I really want to learn this stuff, but being colourblind (green and red) I have always struggled with colours; how to identify them, shades, etc. I always get really lost and confused when trying to tackle the subject.
Thank you for this video! After watching this I thought to myself to use this concepts for basing my miniatures. For example if I paint blue space marines, then the base should be the opposite of the color wheel for maximum contrast right? So for blue something yellow/orange desert like would be good right?
Hey Marco, noob question, do analogous color schemes work or do they just blend together from a distant? For example if I wanted a blue armored Orruk Ard boy, could I use purple for their skin and then a light turqouise for their should pads and face plates? When using analogous schemes do you still suggest adding in some contrast with a complementary color, such as a orange color in my above example?
Hi! In general I think that an analogous scheme works better for display models... For gaming pieces is better to go for the maximum contrast possible because they are meant to be seen from a certain distance. But it's more a matter of personal taste than anything else... 😉
@@MarcoFrisoniNJM Ty for your thoughts. I'm trying to use the basics of the color wheel to come up with an original Iron Jawz paint scheme. Thanks for your help!
hello, i tried to use the link for the real colour wheel (RCW), but it failed several times. I searched the comments to see if it was a FAQ, but I couldn’t find another person who had the same issue. Is there a new hyperlink available RCW I could use? Thank you for all the videos!
Now real question here: why did you decide to edit in, very subtly, at 14:39, one second of "Murder Train" (from How I Met your Mother)? What was your thinking process??? This is now my favourite video ever XD
Pitty you cant find color mixing wheels other than RYB based. We all know RYB color mix is wrong. Red and Blue can be created by mixing Yellow with Magenta and Yellow with Cyan respectively. Yellow, Cyan and Magenta cant be created by any amount of mixing. That is why CMY color (or RGB as secondary) color wheels should be used and is by printers. But saddly RYB is all we get in art stores.
@@michelecappannari2442 Facebook é impazzito 😅 Ho passato anni al Lovecraft, i miei migliori amici sono tutti lí e tecnicamente sono ancora un membro del direttivo 😉 Peró sono in Irlanda da un paio d'anni e non ho ancora avuto l'occasione di rifare una serata circolo 😭
@@michelecappannari2442 molto molto molto volentieri 😍!!! L'anno scorso ero a Sligo sulla costa ovest ed era brigoso tornare, ma adesso sono a Dublino e a prendere un aereo ci vuole un attimo quindi capiterà più spesso di venire a trovare gli amici 😉
Could you maybe redo the video and use the CORRECT basic colors, which are cyan, magenta and yellow? Because you can't mix cyan or magenta from red, yellow and blue, but you can the other way around.
It is not accurate that primary colors cannot be made by mixing other two colors. Just look into your printer inks (cyan, magenta, yellow). learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/elements-color/primary-colors/
If you search realcolorwheel free links will point you at cmyk tiffs of various sizes, rcw realcolorwheel white background will get you to one similar to the one in the video
Thanks a million man!!! Ironically me neither 😂 I have a 10000% scientific background but the passion (obsession 😅) for this "hobby" pushed me to explore, read and study better everything even remotely connected to miniature painting 😊 Ps: I love your work buddy 😉😉😉
