How do I choose colors? Caveman Color Theory Ep 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- I've been obsessing about finding new and simpler ways to explain how color theory works in art. I believe this video introduces some new angles to explain some very old art ideas. Please let me know in the comments what you think! -- Kurt
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0:00 Introduction
0:47 Creating distinction
2:21 The Value Spectrum
5:00 Weaponized storytelling
7:12 Inverting these ideas
8:17 This works for saturation
9:29 So does hue...
10:56 Recap
12:02 "Caveman" color explained
13:12 Does this make sense?
#cavemancolor - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
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.
Thanks! Episode 2 will explain further with more help regarding applying these ideas.
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
These would be a group of really interesting episodes.
Yep! I don't think I can even get past the basics for at least two or three more episodes.
seeing it as spikes and the flattening out the colour wheel was super useful for a visual learner. thank you.
I like the idea of breaking down color theory in a more intuitive manner, I'm in for a series.
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
Kurt, I find this video way more helpful than many other videos that talk about figuring out how to color! So thank you very much, sir!
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*, TH-cam 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? TH-cam 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
Thank you so very much for these lessons! Loved the intro and the ending too!
And I actually laughed out loud when I spot that "©disney (don`t sue me)" on the bottom! LOL
#CAVEMANCOLOR
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.
Yes, it makes sense. Very interested in hearing more.
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 could have really used this explanation 12 years ago during college. This is great.
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!
Wow. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that.
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.
That's very kind. Thank you so much. I'm glad it clicked. I'm so much more excited about episode 2 now that I know I'm not crazy!
This made a lot of sense and I'm definitely looking forward to more! Really good practical explanation of how color can be applied!
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.
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!!!
Haha... Thanks so much
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
Thanks so much! I'd love to pick your brain sometime.
Color with Kurt anytime! That sounds fun
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 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!
Very kind. Thanks! More to come for certain.
It's amazing, easy to understand and comforting for beginners. Please do more #cavemancolor !
This one video taught me more than my Digital Color Painting class that cost me $4000. Unbelievably simple to follow and super insightful- thank you
Glad it was helpful!
very good! I really needed this class. I get very confused when I get to the part about adding color to the illustration. Really saved me!
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).
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!
Thank you, Kate. Working on episode two now. :)
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.
Very cool! More to come here. It's just getting going. :)
This absolutely make sense to me, but the way you explain it... it opens that whole new area in my head i never realized. Love this!
So fucking helpful. Thank you! You have opened my understanding of art.
very useful video, this made me less confused about color.
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 love this so much. Thank you.
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.
That's what I'm trying to show in this series. Thanks so much.
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.
This is so much more helpful than I expected. You deserve hundreds of thousands more views. I don't get why this hasn't blown up.
I can see the analytics. YT literally rarely even fronts a video to non subscribers. I'm shocked you found it. :)
@@colorwithkurt And I'm glad I did. Thank you!
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.
Wow, thank you so much. Please tell them to watch! :)
This is gold. Tip notch advice. Will be saving this in a Playlist for art lessons.
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.
Kurt you are my hero.
This is probably the best video I've ever seen on this subject, thank you Kurt!
Makes perfect sense. More videos like this please!
This has literally been one of the best tutorials on color that I have seen. Thank you so much for making this video -- can't wait to watch the next!
Thanks so much.
possibly the best (of many) color theory video i have watched. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
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!!!!!!
I feel like this video has been life changing. Thanks Kurt. Color theory is one of my many weaknesses, but I see the "Light".
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
Awesome! Thank you for your service, and I'm glad things are still clicking. :)
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.
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
Man do that series, this content is amazing.
Yes! More of this please.
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.
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.
Nice approach to color, and nice way to teach it. You have my vote to make more content on this topic.
Interesting bind of color and composition theory ! Thank you 😊
Well, it made a lot of sense, I understood everything. Awesome video, Kurt, looking forward to the next one
This is fantastic and easy to understand, please make more! I've needed a video like this for years!!
Thanks Kurt, more pls!
this is pretty much what I was looking for ! I think it came up as very comprehensible
Great explanation! Thank you so much! Definitely interested in watching more on the subject
Yup. This was great, more of this series please!!!
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.
Thanks! Whether you work in grayscale first or just think in grayscale, it's how to get the best results. The values come first.
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!
This is just amazing!
The best and most clear explanation I've seen. Thank you so much Kurt!
Yes please more of this 🙏
Great video... quickly becoming my favorite art tutorial TH-camr!
Please make a full series! This was really helpful🙏🏾
Great video! Love how you keep simplifying these principles. More please!
Thanks, Linda! Hope you are well. :)
this is absolutely FANTASTIC. thank you so much. definitely going to keep an eye out for the next ones.
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
Episode 2 will add a lot more info on applying it. I just had to get the rough concept out there first. :)
Great video, very well explained. Would love to see more like this!!
This is great, very interested to dive further into this series. Thank yoh for taking the time to create it
Extremely helpful.! More please. 😍👍
This makes things clearer for me. Awesome help! Thanks
This is awesome. More info about lighting please. Thank you so much for this.
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!!!
This was excellent Kurt
I think this was a great explanation of color theory! Thanks for sharing! Can’t wait to use this in my next project!
Please make more!! You are a god send
you just make everything different, thank youuu
This is excellent. Such a great way of describing these principles
I wanna more, plsss
This is so easy to understand!! Thanks for this video, like.. for real, it saved me hahah
Thank you! I have a black and white comic that I would love to color but whenever I try it never looks quite right. Looking forward to applying your theory :)
Excellent as always Kurt. Thank you!
Thank you for this Kurt. I have ADHD and I always watch videos at two times speed. Yours is the first that I’ve watched on regular speed in a long time. Not to mention the fact that you made things a lot easier for me to understand. With my condition we can be very creative but sometimes certain concepts can only be understood when explained in a certain way. And in this case that would be a more visual way. Direct into the point. Not too much in the way of anecdotes or long-windedness. There was one part when you were showing the grayscale. I’ve seen other videos talk about starting off in grayscale and then using that and replacing each tone with a color. I understood the general lighting concept but could not understand what I was supposed to do at the point between that and changing colors. Just in the few seconds that you were covering that it became clear. Or at least, clearer than it had been. Thanks again.
Side question: did you play ball in school?
Thanks so much! I'm glad it helped.
I was a starting point guard for my school from 5th grade through 10th! :)
Really helpful. Thanks, man. I've been kicking myself for not being good at coloring comics.
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.
when you put it that way it makes it more digestible.
Thanks!
Great lesson. I really want more.
Awesome video bro and hope to see more about this subject.
Wow, this is very clearly and well said. Thanks so much from a total beginner!
Hey man! This is so amazing. I've learned a lot from it! Thank you very much!
Loved this. Made lots of sense and I learned a ton. Please do more.
how i wish i knew this earlier, when it's explained this way I suddenly understand 🤩
Great video, easy to understand. It really helped so, thank you!
Kind of late for the party but I would love to see more videos like this talking about color theory!! They are extremely helpful! Your videos have helped me a lot to start working digitally and understand how color/value works! Bought your CSP course and helped me a bunch!!
best way I've heard it explained. more please!
Thanks. More to come!
KMR does it again. Amazing video, dude.
Thank you, Tim! More to come.
Great video, I'm looking forward to seeing more of this!
Another great video! Thank you! Your break down and explanation was extremely helpful. Very understandable. I appreciate it!
Excellent video