How to colour your Characters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Color theory is a vital part of art and design, highlighting the importance of choosing complementary colors for illustrations. Complementary colors, found opposite each other on the color wheel, create a captivating contrast that brings depth and intensity to your artwork. By using them thoughtfully, you can evoke emotions, set the mood, and make your illustration visually striking. So, embrace the power of complementary colors and bring your creations to life with an irresistible vibrancy.
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Thank you so much. As someone who struggles making and understanding color theory and how to apply it, this really helps.
Glad it was helpful!
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I agree! This is SO helpful!!!
Reminder: monochrome palettes with different shades are just as good!
Bro took a thirsty mommy and made it a school lesson
haha I don't know about that 😅
:/
I was your 200th like lmao
mommy?! that’s a supermodel skinny 23 year old with a six pack…
@@geeg4315it’s because she’s hot
Remember that if you don’t want the skin color to be the main color you can cover then with bulky clothes.
Interesting 🤔
I'd say try make the skin tone kinda unanimous to the clothes/hair/whatever and not make it too bright/contrasting
Or any clothes at all lmao
especially for the purple one
Or just have other colors that attract your attention more! A natural skin color will never be as memorable as, say, a bright purple jacket, or fluffy pink hair
As an artist, I can confirm that I know nothing about color theory.
Hahaha
me too
Same 😄💔!
Then you are a real artist?
@@yuihanimayou don’t have to know color theory to be a “real artist”
I DONT COLOR MY CHARACTERS 🔥🔥
haha really? Then they are black and white?
@@LucasPeinador yeah i just use normal pencil and paper i don’t like coloring my art
Me neither, every time I color my characters they always turn out looking weird. I also like how it looks with just black and white
But you'll never see your character's true colors. 🙁
@@k1ttiesaves same, i recently got alcohol markers so i *try* to use color more, but i usually only draw with my pencil and eraser
Ive noticed from some concept design artists that black, white or neutral colors are utilized to balance out designs, preventing the overall design from being too saturated or to add more interest in the focal areas
Someone told me we can optionally use white or black to set off the tone, and work with colors close to the set tone, and add accent colors to make the outfit/design more interesting
Interesting 🤔
bro casually drew bangladesh
Edit : and also palau hehe
Yes! I was thinking the same😂.
haha what? sorry I don't understand
@@LucasPeinador red dot in dark green , thats like a bangladesh flag
@@LucasPeinador one of those complementary colours. There was on with green rectangle with a red circle in the middle. That the exact flag of Bangladesh
And palau sorta 🇵🇼 though it’s a darker blue in the video than on the flag
Wait a second….that drawing he showed for like a split second at the end be like 🫣😳🥵
haha what?
@@LucasPeinador The one with the girl on top of a dude with a rocket head
.@@LucasPeinador The rocket and the fish globe head or whatever it was and put them in sussy mode. Great art, though.
I thought no one was gonna talk about it 😊
SHE WAS RIDING A ROCKET
Great information and simple breakdown. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Dude literally made me understand Color Theory in a minute than my teacher has in a few weeks 😭
haha that makes me v very happy
Does the skin color have to be involved in the color design or can it be neutral and only have the color scheme affect the clothing
However you prefer it as a creator... but the 20/80 rule is about the whole illustration 😉👍
Yeah, if you only draw people with natural skin tones, I'd imagine this would be very limiting.
I’d say if your character shows a lot of skin, include it in the color palette. If they’re fairly covered up (especially if they have a natural skin color) you can leave it out of the color palette or think of it as a tertiary color.
You could maybe just vary the colour temperature? Like keep it beige/brown, but nudge it a bit towards your main colour. e.g Main colour blue = cooler skin tone, main colour orange = warmer skin tone.
Why is nobody talking about her weird pose for the drawing 😂?
weird pose? how weird?
Not to mention the beginning. Y did he do that 😐
@@hacky_sackin whats wrong with the beginning?
@@LucasPeinadorI mean women simply do not sit like that lmao, not if we're just on our phones
@@pandakatiefominzi mean it doesn’t look like she’s just on her phone lol it looks like she’s taking a sexy mirror selfie. it looks like it’s a pose for like an only fans or smthn.
This actually helps a lot,thank you for the help i always struggled to colour my drawings abd this helps a LOT
Glad I could help!
Thanks. The extent of color theory education I received back in high school and even in college classes never explained how to use color theory, so thank you. They just went “something something tertiary, something something complementary, something something relative, that’s you need to know!” Our critiques only went as far as “did you try to use a color scheme in this”
Glad it was helpful!
How can I do this with more than two colors?
Still pick a primary color, then pick 2 secondaries that are equidistant from your primary color on the color wheel. They can be close to your primary or far, but they should be the same distance. Then if you want more than 3, divide the space between your secondary colors (from the side that doesn’t have your primary) into equal segments. Between each segment is a new color choice, so that all of your secondary colors will also be equidistant from each other. ((But only the first 2 secondary colors are equidistant from the primary)
But be careful, since the more colors you add, the busier and more complicated the drawing gets. It’s also a good idea to give your secondary colors a hierarchy. Still prioritize your primary, then pick a secondary for 2nd priority and so on. For example, if you have 3 colors, color your piece with 60% for your primary, 30% for secondary-1, and 10% for secondary-2
You use a bit of a different method and divide it accordingly.
This really helped, especially the 80/20 part, thank you!😊
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much! I often have an idea of what color I want for my characters, but I dont want it so that the hair is the same colour as the clothing
Happy to help 👍
Us traditional artists: “Yes, we don’t have a color circle to exactly get the opposite shade- but we’ll get there, someday.”
haha good luck 👍
bro really said “no one knows how to use complementary colors” like complementary colors are a recently discovered artifact that nobody can use
A lot of people don't know how to use them properly... in what ration and in what way... so...
The jumpscare,j thought it was a random nsfw going to pop on my screen but its a rlly good lesson that helped me a lot lol
haha happy to hear that 👍
Do you understand the Bangladesh comments? lol
hmm no?
@@LucasPeinador Look up the Bangladesh Flag, then you might understand
This actually makes sense to me
haha awesome, happy to help
aw the 80 20 theory
Yeah of course 👍
I get complimentary colors have their strengths, but I will die before I dare to taint my mainly purple designs with yellow. I just won’t do it
hahahaha 😅🤣 I understand completely 👍
in interior and graphic design, there’s a 70-20-10 rule: 70% is the main colour, 20% is a secondary colour and 10% is the accents.
Yes, that is also a very good distribution 👍
Bro putted Bangladesh flag in the video , 🇧🇩🇧🇩
really?
KAKYOIN
what? 🤔
@@LucasPeinadorit's from Jojos bizarre adventure
It's kinda funny to think about the fact that in reality everyone is orange but in different shades
interesting 🤔
Please draw more shrimp they are cute
haha I will publish a shrip on my IG in a few days 👍
I paused it on the wrong time 💀
haha really?
You are so underrated 😭 I like drawing chibi but now I find mixing emoji interesting!
Thank you so much 😀
Damn shawty lookin goOOood!🗣🗣
happy to hear that
“But nobody knows how to use them”
*laughs in art scholar*
haha
Anyone know some good halftone brushes for ClipArt Studio?
No, sorry
Dang this is so cool! Thanks ! Can you tell us how you deal with Art block?
Thank you 👍 Will make a video in the future 😉
Bangladesh 🇧🇩 jumpscare
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The intro tho 💀
haha what?
You know what you did ,nice "hook "
So none is gonna talk about the 5th link?😂
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Y E S .
I’m not good at art, but I understand color theory very well!
🙏 And you explained what I couldn’t explain PERFECTLY!
haha thank you very much
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THE NAME OF THIS SONG!?!
sorry I don't remember
Your army style is so creative j love it!!
👍 Thank you very much
tldr it depends on the placement
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Jokes on you I can’t make creative enough characters, I just draw ones that already exist!!
hahaha 😅
Thank you!! That's me! I don't know how to use complementary colors! 👋
Great, happy to help 👍👍
I wouldn't go with 80% and 20% explanation, if you ask me. I would rather say "use complimentary to highlight something you want to avert attention to." Your explanation is still good, though.
👍 thank you for sharing
As an artist, I can confirm that this was very helpful and I'm saving this video for future reference
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‘Everybody knows about complementary colors’
Me looking at the Bangladesh flag 🇧🇩
haha
does the skin color necessarily need to have the same color as the main color, or can I use different ones?
It depends on what you want
@Lucas Peinador oh ok! thank you for the video. It was really helpful
Bro secretly made bangledesh
what?
You actually made my flag but you crossed it >:(
What? What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with any flag or any politics... it is an art tutorial
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@@LucasPeinador Bangladesh 🇧🇩
me making a character design i like for months on end, and never even avtually giving them colors; 😁😁😁😁
haha I believe in you 👍 you can do it
Sus
what?
@@LucasPeinador the rocket guy and the astronaut
Can you draw me a Profile picture please i want to change my old one
haha is this a joke?
@@LucasPeinadorI think not:(
Cool!!!
Thank you, happy you like it
Only time I had a physical reaction from a drawing (on TH-cam)
haha
Where do I go to get your set?
I made it - here is the link to my store: shop.lucaspeinador.com/products/lp-brushes
@@LucasPeinador thanks
"everyone knows about complementary colors but no one knows how to use them"
me and all artist i follow that have been doing that for years: i don't exist! I'm an illusion!
haha
Those brushes are insane bro
Thank you very much - the link is in my description (if you would want them)
This is sort of the case with my main oc, she has red hair with yellow tips and yellow wings on her head but the rest (eyes, clothes and accessories) are blue and/or white
awesome 👍
i spot genya's demon form👀
haha what?
@@LucasPeinadoroh i meant about the color complementary thing,since the character Genya Shinezugawa from demon slayer consists of purple,when it was revealed that he could temporaly turn into a demon,the tips of his hair and his eyes would turn yellow! I was actually a bit curious as to why that was but now i know!
Man just drew my countrys flag, 🇧🇩
Hahaha those are some nice colors
@@LucasPeinador yeah
Oh shit not a gacha kid 🤦
The pictures at the end,What where that men and women doing…?😬
Think I’m traumatized now:)
👍 haha you are welcome
Hey what setting do you make your layer so the colors wont leave the lineart?
I make masks
Well my character in an indie series I'm working on is based on a spider and his pallete is mainly black but has some red and yellow and white and the eyes have yellow and white in them but what colour should his eyes be
that's pretty cool 👍 uff it sounds like you already have a lot of colours.... I usually like to work in 3s
i've been using complementary characters to color almost all my ocs holy schist
awesome 👍
as an Bangladeshi, the Bangladesh flag always felt wrong.
haha what?
@@LucasPeinador the 2nd picture you drew while showing wrong colour decisions is actually the flag of Bangladesh, a south Asian country
Shit I was too focused on hot girl to actually learn anything. From what I heard, it sounded helpful.
hahaha 😅🤣 It is nice to be hones 👍
the second complimentary color you showed looks exactly like my country's flag
really?
Me Accidentally pausing out the wrong time only to see 2 ppl Making out😢😶
hahaha 😅
What software did you use and how were you able to do that swipe effect. At the moment im using ib paint😅.
I used photoshop and procreate, but I think you can also do it in CSP
Mommy sorry mommy sorry MOMMY
haha what? I don't understand
My man just used the JoJo color changing at one point
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My team of analagous colours rn:
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no one's gonna talk about the 2nd picture when he showed is brush☠️
haha what?
I just pressed complimentary color on procreate and then it worked.
haha that's cool 👍
i thought that was the bangladesh flag for a second
haha really?
Go with a 90/10 ratio to not make it too obvious. An art teacher in highschool taught me that about clothes.
that is a bit of a weird proportion, but if it work for you, then that's great
Why zoom out from pantie? 🤔 U hiding something? 🤣
haha
people who wanna draw full clothes: 😐
haha
What pen r u using?
do you mean what brushes?
@@LucasPeinador no what apple len
🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ BANGLADESH REFERENCE
yeah, I heard that
Я иногда в таком шоке с того, сколько всяких специфических штук с отдельными названиями на каждый чих существует в интернете... Флин каждый раз откапывает что-то настолько для меня незнакомое (именно с точки зрения того, что это, оказывается, целое направление музыки, потому что сами-то картинки, да и даже какие то треки почти без просмотров на ютубе попадались, конечно), что я в шоке. Надеюсь, этот канал никогда не исчерпает темы для обсуждения
sorry I don't understand
my character has my clothes taste so its all bright colors with black hair and they dont have eyes lol
haha interesting
I've seen some characters with 2 main colors representing them
yep that is it 👍
YOU CANT TELL ME HOW TO COLOR MY CHARACTERS!! PURPLE IS NOT A SKIN TONE!!!
Emm why not?
I use three colours and split them up about 60 30 10
cool 👍 if it works for you then that's great
the main color of my character; yes
haha
Uhm… did u really drawed a 🔥 with a astronaut and a 🚀? ;-;
hmm I guess
I just Saw an astronaut mommy and a rocket daddy doing 🔞 ,😶
haha I guess 👍
"What is the main color for your Character?"....
Black.... and white...
haha is that meant to be a joke?
@@LucasPeinador No, that's genuinely what is with my characters 😭 practically all of them
Ain't no complementary colors to gray 😂😅
haha isn't there?
Thank you, i struggle with complementary colors
Happy to help!
My character has red hair and gray clothes ._.
that's okey
Ayo whats bangladesh and palau doing there
haha what?
why is her pose like that
why not?
What was the name of the app?
Photoshop
@@LucasPeinador thx
Where was your mind when you drew this character?
haha that's a good question
not me just bolting to the comments after seeing the bangladesh flag lmao
hahaha
Bro who’s the baddie 🥵🥵
Haha my character 😅
also think about desaturating one of the two colors
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