Basics: How To (Pick) Colors (+ speedpaint & voiceover!) 

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COLORS (0:42):
Primary Colors (colors you can't create by mixing other colors)
Secondary Colors (colors created by mixing two primaries)
Tertiary Colors (colors created by mixing a primary and secondary)
Complimentary Colors (colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel
SHADING (2:10):
don't just add white/black to go lighter/darker
(1) Lights = Saturated, Shadows = Desaturated OR
(2) Lights = Desaturated, Shadows = Saturated
(1) Lights = Warmer, Shadows = Cooler OR
(2) Lights = Cooler, Shadows = Warmer
SPEEDPAINTING (6:22)
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This is my first tutorial video that I've done, so it's definitely really rough around the edges, so please bear with me! I'll get a better microphone in the future;;
I get asked a lot about what I'm thinking while picking colors, and how I decide what palette to go with, and to be honest, it's a lot of gut feeling and spur-of-the-moment decision making. Most of the time I just roll with whatever color I put down randomly, and if it doesn't look good, I either work on it some more or scrap it.
Hopefully this video even remotely begins to explain the basic foundation of how I think in terms of color theory. I don't talk about much (I don't even understand how I managed to make a 14 minute long video) but of the things I do talk about, I think they're extremely important to understand and internalize before moving on to actual coloring technicalities.
If you want to see the tutorial images alone, you can find them on my tumblr!
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Photoshop Color Wheel Extension: Coolorus (www.coolorus.com/)
Program: Photoshop CS6
Recording Software: Quicktime Player
Editing Software: iMovie
Music: "Parting of the Ways - Part 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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