For anyone thinking of a career in graphic design as well this is great advice. RGB (Red Green Blue) are what you use for creating digital images / anything seen on screen. CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black) are what you use for print.
The RGB color model (additive color mixture) is for lights in general. The CMY color model (subtractive color mixture) is for pigments in general, this includes paints, inks, oils, crayons, filters, sand, and any kind of medium.
My german art school experience was r.g.b. With a slimy bullshit teacher who thought that bad grades would motivate me to draw and paint better. Fuck you, teacher
I remember when I was introduced to magenta. Oh boy. Best oranges and purples I had ever mixed in my life. It was my favorite color for ages just because of how it changed my color mixing game. I guess I never felt the need for cyan because it's in most palettes as "sky blue", but magenta was totally absent from all school supplies and my poor mom had to go out of her way to get me all my magenta art supplies for school. When I was finally taught proper color theory I felt my magenta "cheat" finally made sense. Now I just don't get why do we still teach Red-Yellow-Blue instead of Cyan-Magenta-Yellow. It makes colors so confusing and unenjoyable for so many people.
Your videos have inspired me. I've been painting and making art for years but wanted to learn more. After watching your videos I realized how little I actually knew about painting, I just did it. I've learned so much from these videos. I cant wait to watch and learn more.
Just wait until we bring up that color isn’t an inherent property light, and it just our brain making shit up so we can understand our bullshit reality
I see you are doing a lot of tutorials lately. I love it I can just say watch this video when my younger friends who just started at graffiti come to me for advice and want me to correct all their mistakes. its always nice but these videos can explain the essentials for everyone (advanced or not) in a really short time, I love it.
lol thanks, i try my best to make the videos as bite sized as possible, i know i personally dread seeing a tutorial thats like 20 min long for something that could have been 5 min lol
lol thanks man i appreciate it. i had been told long ago but it was never explained so i didnt fully understand why that was the case till i read a book about color
@@Theartistblock okay so you went over why red blue and yellow are not the primary colors and cyan magenta and yellow is but why do electronics use RGB (red green and blue) can you make a video on that please
Additive colours have different primary colours, they start with darker colour and when they combine or “add” together, there is more light coming through and they produce different colours, and instead of mixing secondary to get tertiary and so on, they adjust the amount of light released from each primary colour, they use rgb and to get black, there is no colour and to get white the values for red, green and blue are all set to 255, and if you decrease them you start to get grey, to get a desaturated colour, you need to get the desired hue, then figure out how to get the opposite of that colour, then increase those values until you get the desired colour
i guess as an art student cyan magenta and yellow is just shades of red blue and yellow in the end, in my head those colors were always a spectrum to borrow and mix as i please, i never seen the red blue and yellow primary color representation as definitive, more so describing cathegories of colors to mix to achieve other basic colors, and as someone who almst always painted with just burnt sienna, prussian blue, warmer yellow and magenta i found that to be sufficient to make any colors i wanted to see! But I can definitely see how this kind of thing can skip someone entirely and they lock into that boring red, ugly blue and cold yellow perspective
3:21 The blue contains violet and the cyan contains green, thus, violet disrupts the green and makes it muddy and cyan contains green, making the color more vibrant
@@sandiaconmelon3266 I know no one actually mixed blue and violet to make the blue but the blue itself has more of a violet bias (meaning it’s closer to violet), and that’s the kind of blue one gets when they mix cyan and magenta
Thank you for this info you explain things in a way i can understand...i tattoo and do graff and even my highschool art teachers could never put this info in away for my brain to absorb and retain i very much appreciate it!
Lol no problem man I'm glad I can package the info in a way people can actually use it lol my ass took years to learn some of this stuff so I'm more than happy to share the info
Well, I for one have not been lied to, I already learned about CMY in school in the early 90's. But I still do not consider them my primaries for art. Why? Because just like generations of artists before me, I can work just fine with red, yellow and blue. The reason people run into problems with RYB is not because RYB are not the primaries, but because people, for some odd reason, gravitate towards warm RYB only, which will of course limit them. If you choose your RYB wisely for your purpose, it will serve you just fine and you will mix whatever it is that you need. Yes, I know, you cannot mix exact cyan or magenta, but you can get so close to it that people will not know the difference if they do not have a direct comparison, which is the case with many things in art. My main medium is watercolor, and while I do own true magenta and cyan, I do not keep them in my main working palette, because I plainly do not need them. Cool RYB, absolutely, but when someone thinks that they need spot-on CMY for traditional art, it is simply not the case. Thank goodness, cause it if were, we would have missed out on a lot of great pieces.
i don't get it... im trash at know what colors go together so much so i gotta call the wife when i buy markers and paint. so i get the whole "these are the tru primary colors" but what do i do with that to help match stuff better. ive never used a color wheel before
Oh dude I try to watch all your videos. You are helping me so much. Your lessons are great and teach me everytime. I'm loving your graffiti playlist. Please keep up the AWESOME job! Maybe you could help me with a good graffiti name? I'd like to send some of my work for you to critique. Really just wanted to thank you and let you know I'm a fan. 🤘💯
When I was younger I told my art teacher in school that I heard Cyan, Yellow and Magenta were the true primary colors She said that it isn't true and I shut up 😂😂
a huge part of graffiti is color, so the more you understand about how collor works then the better fill ins you'll have and the better you can manipulate your color combonations to make things pop more or less. This helps also for mixing colors too as descussed in the video. not knowing color theory is why most artists struggle with color and why most graffiti artists find fill ins hard at first. learning color theory is the solution to that proble,
The hardest part about using CYM as your primaries is that it's usually a little more difficult to find those, where Red, Yellow, and Blue fill up every primaries kit ever. Not impossible, and I love mixing CYM more than anything, but something to keep in mind if you look around in an art store. Also, sometimes it can be difficult to mix a good orange from CYM, so I like to add that and a brown onto my set of standard colours along with CYM, but that's more personal preference than anything :D
But markers and paint are two different mediums and work two different ways. There for you can't use something that works for ink and say it works for paint, your misleading people because fell for a hyped up lie. And tbh i trust the thousands of classical painters then a group of people on youtube imo.
Paint, markers, printer ink. They all use subtractive colors. Here are two videos producing all possible colors with each primary color system with paint: th-cam.com/video/_BHHf1-dmco/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/Ax9F622xwfs/w-d-xo.html If this somehow still doesn't convince you, just try it yourself. Until you do, what ever you say is what's actually misleading people..
For anyone thinking of a career in graphic design as well this is great advice. RGB (Red Green Blue) are what you use for creating digital images / anything seen on screen. CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Black) are what you use for print.
The RGB color model (additive color mixture) is for lights in general.
The CMY color model (subtractive color mixture) is for pigments in general, this includes paints, inks, oils, crayons, filters, sand, and any kind of medium.
Yellow Cyan Magenta
My Teacher punched it into my head.
German schools
its actualy cyan magenta yellow key (C.M.Y.K) or red green blue (R.G.B) C.M.Y.K is used by printers and R.G.B by screens
@@hgenix2493 You just said the same shit
@@hgenix2493 key is a black ink printers use. black itself isn't a primary color. (see color wheel at 0:50)
@@pip4349 cmyk is the official name of the color wheel tho
My german art school experience was r.g.b.
With a slimy bullshit teacher who thought that bad grades would motivate me to draw and paint better.
Fuck you, teacher
I remember when I was introduced to magenta. Oh boy. Best oranges and purples I had ever mixed in my life. It was my favorite color for ages just because of how it changed my color mixing game. I guess I never felt the need for cyan because it's in most palettes as "sky blue", but magenta was totally absent from all school supplies and my poor mom had to go out of her way to get me all my magenta art supplies for school. When I was finally taught proper color theory I felt my magenta "cheat" finally made sense. Now I just don't get why do we still teach Red-Yellow-Blue instead of Cyan-Magenta-Yellow. It makes colors so confusing and unenjoyable for so many people.
Your videos have inspired me. I've been painting and making art for years but wanted to learn more. After watching your videos I realized how little I actually knew about painting, I just did it. I've learned so much from these videos. I cant wait to watch and learn more.
The first time I learned about this my mind was blown!
lol just wait till we talk about why purple is bullshit and just eye magic lol
Just wait until we bring up that color isn’t an inherent property light, and it just our brain making shit up so we can understand our bullshit reality
Appreciate the knowledge , graffiti is becoming more fun each time I draw. Love the color knowledge! Keep it up.
I see you are doing a lot of tutorials lately. I love it I can just say watch this video when my younger friends who just started at graffiti come to me for advice and want me to correct all their mistakes. its always nice but these videos can explain the essentials for everyone (advanced or not) in a really short time, I love it.
lol thanks, i try my best to make the videos as bite sized as possible, i know i personally dread seeing a tutorial thats like 20 min long for something that could have been 5 min lol
This vid is what I really needed. Thanks. Now I have to figure out how to apply this to my graff
u r literally my biggest art inspiration
Always bringing new value to the series.
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KA-BOOOM! ...that was the sound of my mind being blown.
I can never get enough of color theory vids,good stuff man.
lol im glad so many people are enjoying this, it's turning out really well
Yea i kinda knew this before a friend of mine told me but you did wayyy better job in exploring this thanks alot man
lol thanks man i appreciate it. i had been told long ago but it was never explained so i didnt fully understand why that was the case till i read a book about color
@@Theartistblock okay so you went over why red blue and yellow are not the primary colors and cyan magenta and yellow is but why do electronics use RGB (red green and blue) can you make a video on that please
Additive colours have different primary colours, they start with darker colour and when they combine or “add” together, there is more light coming through and they produce different colours, and instead of mixing secondary to get tertiary and so on, they adjust the amount of light released from each primary colour, they use rgb and to get black, there is no colour and to get white the values for red, green and blue are all set to 255, and if you decrease them you start to get grey, to get a desaturated colour, you need to get the desired hue, then figure out how to get the opposite of that colour, then increase those values until you get the desired colour
i guess as an art student cyan magenta and yellow is just shades of red blue and yellow in the end, in my head those colors were always a spectrum to borrow and mix as i please, i never seen the red blue and yellow primary color representation as definitive, more so describing cathegories of colors to mix to achieve other basic colors, and as someone who almst always painted with just burnt sienna, prussian blue, warmer yellow and magenta i found that to be sufficient to make any colors i wanted to see! But I can definitely see how this kind of thing can skip someone entirely and they lock into that boring red, ugly blue and cold yellow perspective
awesome video important topic whenever i tell someone this theyre always surprised, even some writers who have been at it for a while lol
3:21 The blue contains violet and the cyan contains green, thus, violet disrupts the green and makes it muddy and cyan contains green, making the color more vibrant
? the violet is not in the blue color, it is cyan and magenta
@@sandiaconmelon3266 I know no one actually mixed blue and violet to make the blue but the blue itself has more of a violet bias (meaning it’s closer to violet), and that’s the kind of blue one gets when they mix cyan and magenta
@@justtheletterV274 try to add a bit more of cyan
Dayyyymnnn, this information is crutial! My whole artist life was a lie nawwwwwh :((
Grim you're the best,💯. Love from philly bro
Thank you for this info you explain things in a way i can understand...i tattoo and do graff and even my highschool art teachers could never put this info in away for my brain to absorb and retain i very much appreciate it!
Lol no problem man I'm glad I can package the info in a way people can actually use it lol my ass took years to learn some of this stuff so I'm more than happy to share the info
You're doing great grim!
Well, I for one have not been lied to, I already learned about CMY in school in the early 90's. But I still do not consider them my primaries for art. Why? Because just like generations of artists before me, I can work just fine with red, yellow and blue. The reason people run into problems with RYB is not because RYB are not the primaries, but because people, for some odd reason, gravitate towards warm RYB only, which will of course limit them. If you choose your RYB wisely for your purpose, it will serve you just fine and you will mix whatever it is that you need. Yes, I know, you cannot mix exact cyan or magenta, but you can get so close to it that people will not know the difference if they do not have a direct comparison, which is the case with many things in art.
My main medium is watercolor, and while I do own true magenta and cyan, I do not keep them in my main working palette, because I plainly do not need them. Cool RYB, absolutely, but when someone thinks that they need spot-on CMY for traditional art, it is simply not the case. Thank goodness, cause it if were, we would have missed out on a lot of great pieces.
i don't get it... im trash at know what colors go together so much so i gotta call the wife when i buy markers and paint. so i get the whole "these are the tru primary colors" but what do i do with that to help match stuff better. ive never used a color wheel before
Oh dude I try to watch all your videos. You are helping me so much. Your lessons are great and teach me everytime. I'm loving your graffiti playlist. Please keep up the AWESOME job! Maybe you could help me with a good graffiti name? I'd like to send some of my work for you to critique. Really just wanted to thank you and let you know I'm a fan. 🤘💯
hell ya dude shoot me a DM on insta asking the same question and I'll hit you back with some help
When I was younger I told my art teacher in school that I heard Cyan, Yellow and Magenta were the true primary colors
She said that it isn't true and I shut up 😂😂
lol hopefully she listened to you and didnt hit you with a detention lol
You were right, the problem is that art teachers are sealed to what the pupils say and don't listem to them. Teachers today commonly mislead pupils.
More on colors, please!
can do , ill certainly get more in depth
Changed my life fam... nah good looks 👌
Wowie colourblocks still work even in sixth grade
you explained this better than my physics class
lol damn time to become a teacher in a school lol
mind. blown.
At my school they said it is magenta but for the blue well it’s still dark blue
Aw shit gotta buy new paint
got me at 0:55 💀😂
Lmao needless to say I had a bit of fun with editing lol
This video shocked me, I can t believe that red blue and yellow aren't primary colours
Oh word
I don't really understand how i can apply it for my graffiti pieces :/
a huge part of graffiti is color, so the more you understand about how collor works then the better fill ins you'll have and the better you can manipulate your color combonations to make things pop more or less. This helps also for mixing colors too as descussed in the video. not knowing color theory is why most artists struggle with color and why most graffiti artists find fill ins hard at first. learning color theory is the solution to that proble,
@@Theartistblock oooh okay, I see now
Woof thought it was
Yellow-green violet pink
Guess it's gray hahahah
Petition to change the name of either yellow-green or light green to lime?
🎨🖌️🇫🇮Thanks👌
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Again nobody was texting you :(
lol thats it no one loves me confirmed :(
@@Theartistblock Nah.. we just don't know yo number bro 😂
The hardest part about using CYM as your primaries is that it's usually a little more difficult to find those, where Red, Yellow, and Blue fill up every primaries kit ever. Not impossible, and I love mixing CYM more than anything, but something to keep in mind if you look around in an art store.
Also, sometimes it can be difficult to mix a good orange from CYM, so I like to add that and a brown onto my set of standard colours along with CYM, but that's more personal preference than anything :D
I mean they are "traditional primary colors" ffs lol that is why they are so easy to find.
I'm the first comment again😂🤣
dam.. jus saw this sorry for blowing ur shi up
But markers and paint are two different mediums and work two different ways. There for you can't use something that works for ink and say it works for paint, your misleading people because fell for a hyped up lie. And tbh i trust the thousands of classical painters then a group of people on youtube imo.
Paint, markers, printer ink. They all use subtractive colors. Here are two videos producing all possible colors with each primary color system with paint:
th-cam.com/video/_BHHf1-dmco/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/Ax9F622xwfs/w-d-xo.html
If this somehow still doesn't convince you, just try it yourself. Until you do, what ever you say is what's actually misleading people..
This video shocked me, I can t believe that red blue and yellow aren't primary colours