This is extremely understandable. Basically add more range of a color in the area we wanna focus on and more contrast on the areas that are supporting it.
Please do make more on this topic. Everything I've searched and found lately is so basic and doesn't seem to address the issues I've been trying to fix in my art.
This is great. Just as a side note, I've taught Art in the UK (at your equivalent of High School) and this is an accessible and relevant way for students to not just understand colour theory but apply it.
I’ve seen a lot on analyzing the old illustrator values, but no one ever showed the strategy of color with the value range explanations. And I think you can reach a level where you get how many of them kept a narrow range of value except for the focal point, and sometimes see how a color can be thrown in, but I personally would never have looked at your work and been able to see you were using the same strategies. Really great explanation and I wish I had seen this before I the tons of info I’ve seen and read over the years.
Thanks for this. Color has always been a mystery. After watching just this one video, I was able to make a stupid simple (less than a minute) change to a piece I was working on that made it work so much better.
Brilliant! Thank you so much Kurt. I’ve been drawing and painting for 50 years, and I’ve never heard or seen these concepts explained so concisely and easy to understand. Bravo!
I will be honest. I was having a hard time understanding this when I first watched this. And it wasn’t you but me. I am a beginner. But I went back to your ‘how to color comics 2.0’ and came back here. It’s like everything is making so much sense now. I’m still figuring out this color thing part but this video is really helpful for choosing colors for my art.
I was just thinking to myself "I really should get back at drawing and painting. Back to the basics". And *boom*, RU-vid recommends me this video. It's been over three years since I last looked at the general direction of my tablet, so this series should be just what I need while going back at color theory and studying it
Wow that's so cool! I'm curious... Were you subscribed already? RU-vid seems to be recommending my videos a little bit more lately. Glad to hear it helped!
@@colorwithkurt I've been subscribed for a while now, but youtube does this annoying thing where it doesn't show me notifications, even if I have them turned on for specific channels. It also hides videos from my subscription page sometimes. So it was a nice surprise to see this one on my recommendations! For once the algorithm got something right :P
I completely identified with 0:17 and I feel you really nailed in this video. I already heard the "contrast" lession many times, but it's hard when you get into colors. Thankfully, you explained it very well, and I can finally get out of "just use complementary colors" mindset that I have. Please, please, keep this #Caveman Color Theory. So good.
This NEEDS to blow up!!! I've been trying to learn color theory for a few years and NOTHING has made sense the way did this. This is SO SO important for every single artist out there!!! Thanks so much for creating this amazing explanation!!! You deserve the absolute best, you just saved my art!!!
This video is a gem! I've struggled with light and color for the longest time, but every tutorial I found would reiterate the same abstract concepts that didn't help me in the first place. You flip the subjects in a fresh way which makes them easier for me to understand. Thank you for sharing the knowledge, hope you continue this series!
Extremely helpful. Finding this video was like finding a glass of lemonade in a desert of "color theory" videos and explanations on the inter-webs. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make more of these #cavemancolor videos! I'm bookmarking this one and eagerly waiting the next installment!
I teach visual communication and I’m constantly drawing histograms in the white board to explain value contrast. Your transition from the spikes to the values in the cover was genius. Fantastic video
I’m not an artist, but I do photo manipulation, this has helped me greatly understand this concept. I can now see, a microscopic world I was not aware of, but most importantly, I understand the components and how to put them to use. Will be re-watching. Subscribed!
I would like to see more. Everything you've gone over so far, is in my experience things that artists end up discovering intuitively just by experimenting. But if they can't explain what it is they've discovered, it is difficult to use intentionally and effectively.
Great video! I never watched any of your tutorials that I couldn't understand 🙂 I was told in my art academy that I had talent for color but only after watching your videos and courses I could plan it, as opposed it happening by chance. Looking forward to more of these!
This is an excellent explanation of how Value and Color relate to General Design Principles, such as Emphasis / Contrast, & Rhythm. The comparisons & line graphs help me understand how the concept of Rhythm & patterns applies to different aspects of the work (rather than just lines and shapes).
This clicked with me like no other tutorial on color has. Thank you so much please make more cuz I think we may think in the same wavelength. This was perfect
Oh this was fantastic! Color theory is a passion of mine, and while I have heard the concept of contrast explained 1000 times, I found your take on it unique and refreshing. It's so practical! I want all my art friends to watch this.
The concepts you connect these concepts with like basketball and the mountains is excellent. Would love to see your opinions and approach to grayscale coloring.
You are a GAWD!!! I've watched about a dozen vids on color theory and none have landed as good as this one. I opened this page about a week ago and just before I closed it, decided to watch it. I'm soooo glad, thx Consider yourself knighted...
I came across you first when I was deployed in 13.. your simple color tutorial( this it was a Wolverine pic) got me hooked.... but the spikes and picture example of contrast just nailed it for me, thank you for what you do sir
I really like this explanation. Terms, concepts and contrast were things I already knew, but among all the explanations I have heard, this is one of the clearest. I don't know if maybe my previous knowledge helped me not to be confused, but anyway I think it's a cool alternative way to explain it, which could help people unable to understand other types of colour theory explanations. Also, I like how oriented on practical use this is. I have learnt a lot of stuff on colour theory, but I still struggle actually applying that knowledge into a drawing in practice.
I'm saving this to review again later, it all seems so straightforward, but I have to try to implement it before I really know if I'm understanding it the way I think I am, thank you for sharing this
It's strange that I knew (i think) everything you mentionned, yet I learned things. Like it helped to make a shape in my head out of the knowledge I already had. It's great. I'll definitely watch part 2,3,4,5... etc Keep it up ! :D
Kurt, you are totally on to something great here. So much of what I learned about color centered on hue, with a little about warm and cold. I went to art school centuries ago and that was the best description of the interplay of hue, value, and saturation I have ever seen. Incredibly valuable! Your instincts are right on. Keep it up! Btw, you Clip Studio course is excellent, too! Thanks so much.
Incredibly constructed video Kurt, it did help a lot with some things that were blurry in my head, and I'm sure a lot of people coming here are going to feel the same, this is some really useful stuff, I can't thank you enough for all of those videos.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED!!!!!! I'm ok with color, but I always want to learn more. I also always have trouble learning, but this makes perfect sense to me. Please do more of this!!!!!!
Hell yes, more of this please! You managed to convey an aspect of contrast and color (and picturemaking in general) that is generally not spoken much of despite the vast number of tutorials available.
I love watching videos like this to get refreshers when i dont know what to draw. Creatively, stuff doesnt form in the page as it does in my head, and watching well put together stuff like this really helps narrow it down.
Made a lot of sense to me and is very insightful and helpful! I’m not a person who considered these principles on instinct sooo over the time u’ve been talking about these concepts in ur videos, I’ve been slowly training myself to think about it, and I can certainly tell an improvement in my art!!!
I come from a lighting design background, so I've been through more color theory lectures than you can shake a stick at, and I still always come away from them with a new piece of the puzzle to think about. Thank you!
Great explanation, Kurt. I’d definitely appreciate more like this. I’m still a little stuck on sorting out (or seeing, perhaps) what saturation is, but hue and value where abundantly clear. Nice job!
Episode 2 will help with a lot of this. This whole series is basically just trying to lay a foundation, and it's going to keep expanding every episode.
Color with Kurt cool, cool! Well you’ve laid a great foundation. The peaks drawn out was a great help. I recently heard “contrast creates interest” which this reinforced and I loved how you brought that to the other aspects of drawing. I think it can also apply to storytelling, which really helps complete the package. :) keep up the great content.
I finally know where my goal is for my colors, I still have to figure out the best way to reach it, but understanding these principles will make it so much easer to find the right path. Before this I was randomly picking colors, tried to follow color schemes, picked colors from other art, tried to study real life color science and I still could not figure out why it never looked the way I wanted it to look. I thought " I am using the same colors than this artist, so why does his colors look so good and mine do not?" But now I get it, it is so simple. It is like a light bulb going on over my head. Sure it will not always be easy to apply these principles but I am old enough to know I can get there with practice and experience. Thank you again, hope this gets a ton of views, you deserve it.
more like this please!! SERIOUSLY you took thre stuff people say to know and ACTUALLY put them into context of how they are used which is infinately more useful
Your video's help a lot. Thank you for taking the time to teach and doing it in a simple way that is easy to understand. I do hope you continue to do more vids like these.
i really appreciate this simplification of color theory and the way you dissect how youve applied it in previous work. your channel has helped me so much with my coloring decisions!!