Of all the color and value tutorial I found on the net, this is the first one that made me say "SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY I KEPT MAKING MISTAKES!!!" Seriously man THANKS a million for making this tutorial!! Now that I know how to do it, time to go back my drawing
Cause art teacher specially in university can't draw. I'm learning about animation in my univ right now, and i can tell you that. Many teacher didn't understand perspective, shape, form, or anything about art. They only have knowledge about the software that they teaching, about how to operate it, how to make silly editing stuff but not to make art itself. What a joke huh
something i've started to do: when picking colours with the default picker, look at the Lab values. the L represents the luminance value, how bright the colour is perceived. and to get a better understanding of what is perceived as light and dark, make a rainbow gradient and then on a layer above it, fill it with a neutral grey and set the blending mode to color.
You are SO GOOD at explaining these things, Sycra. I love your run-throughs and videos, even though I have books that say exactly the same thing, I learn much more from your videos. I think I´m one of those audio visual people who can´t f*ing understand written text! Thanks again for sharing
Many people told you that, but still: THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US! I learned from your videos much more than from an art class! You explainig everything in very simple and original way. Keep your amaizing vids up!
Thank you for sharing. I am a graphite artist trying to transision into digital media, and have been strugling with colors. The chart made it easier to relate to and understand.
You have a great knack for taking information( that seems intuitive for you) and turning it into visual knowlege for us..... thank you Sycra. I sincerely appreciate your efforts, Cheers,Barry.
It depends on the drawing style. Like Sycra said, it's mostly helpul for complex pieces. For example, when I speedpaint landscapes, I normally do this in greyscale only, as it's faster and I can concentrate on the contrast first. If you want to colour if afterwards this knowledge can be helpful. (I guess it's also helpful for people who draw mangas or other greyscale images as the observer can understand the actual colours better.)
This is probably the MOST helpful video illustration related i ever watched i studied and i mean hours upon hours invested on watching and reading about digital illustration THANK YOU.
In plein air (exteriors), shadows are hidden from direct light of the sun, but receives light from the sky and the surrounding ambient, so I use blue or violet for the up normal surfaces, and warm color for the surfaces pointing down. For interiors I use a mix of blue, and the complementary color of the object, to boost the color contrast.
THANK YOU, SYCRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Dude, I love you!!!! You have no idea, how long I've been looking for a tutorial like this. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SENSEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Thank you for the helpful, informative and clear tutorial. I'm so grateful for all the time you put into teaching. I am a complete novice to art, and I'm glad I stumbled on your videos right out of the gate.
I investigated a lot the color theory topic (traditional and digital), and the best material I found until now is the James Gurney Book "Color and Light" and the free online tool called "Gamut Mask Tool" it helped me a lot to understand and visualize the diferent color schemes and color strategies
Hmm... I personally use 2B and 3B leads with mechanical pencils. I sometimes use 4B but they're pretty soft, and HB, but with HB it's hard to get darker values. It also depends on the paper though... You can use 4H on comic book boards and it's about the same as HB on copy paper.
Love the way u explain color,easy to understand and practical. Wish u'd made more video of this kind. The other video about picking/choosing color was really useful,too. Thank you.
A good example is the "Millbrook Library by James Gurney" (google it =D). I use a high saturated blue or violet for the shadows in exteriors, normal blending mode. The opacity varies acording to each situation. The surfaces pointing down, does not receive the light of the sun, nor the light from the sky. They only receive the reflected light from the floor, so for better form describing use warm tone like in the "Millbrook Library by James Gurney". Also google for "Sorolla" for violet shadow =D
So from my understanding, each colour that looks good depends on the inherit value. Say we go to a 9 for the purely saturated yellow will make it look yellow. And when you use the brown looking colour of the yellow due to desaturation, the brown colour has a wider range of inherit value? Sooo desaturation of the pure hue will allow a wider range of inherit value?? Sorry, I'm new to colour... :P
I think its because its simply easier to see value on grayscale, if you wanna go straight into color you would need a really good grip of color saturation and how to transition them properly. On grayscale yo do cool looking stuff from the go, make an overlay layer and put some base color on top of it, if you got your values right it will perfectly adjust to the saturation of the color.
Maybe it's because my art education was pre-digital, but I've never heard the relationship between colour and value explained that way before. Thank you.
enjoying your videos, really informative,also, a suggestion for a video: "Lighting in interiors" there aren't many resources on this, and I'm thinking many people would be interested, me as well :)
It's interesting how this relates to the amount of energy the particular color of light have. It would seem that the higher the energy, the bigger the color range (blue and purple have high energy as opposed to red and yellow).
Hello Sycra. I have one question about this tutorial. From where you understood that dependency of which color may be in which values of darkness? Is it only from practical experiments with "color" mode that you've done? Or it's having some scientific/theoretical grounding?
Could you please link to the tutorial where you teach about how to color skin, from grey to colours. If you already have, could you link it to your video or something? =) Btw, I love your videos! =)
I want to ask a question that might really be stupid😂 So why do we bother to color in grey scale?? How does it help, why not just add the blue or red that we want right from the start
I have problem with painting with colour. I wish I knew how to do it but all my drawings are always just value then I'm too afraid to mess up the values by adding colour. Colour is just so alien to me, thanks for this please make more stuff on colour please. I need it!
In the future could you also do, a screen calibration. I'm having trouble with mine. I used Photoshop and Sai but after coloring a piece. It looks good on my laptop screen, but not so well on my tv monitor. Even when I look at my work after upload, on my cell phone it just doesn't look right. :/
Hi, many thanks for this & all of your other vids. They are extremely helpful & very much appreciated! I have a query which I'm hoping you can help with - What would be the best way to see the values of old master paintings in a program such as photoshop? Would changing the mode to grayscale be appropriate if one has to see the local colors' values & thus how they are perceived in relation to one another? Or would a luminosity blend mode be better? Many thanks!
your every video is awsome. i need more help from you please upload a vdeo about light and shadow made by sun in a scenery composition lke summer season evening, i want to say that light changing through moods explain the please.......thanks for videos
finally i understand the color/value relations oh my god ive never felt so relieved in my LIFE
Of all the color and value tutorial I found on the net, this is the first one that made me say "SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY I KEPT MAKING MISTAKES!!!" Seriously man THANKS a million for making this tutorial!! Now that I know how to do it, time to go back my drawing
Sycra your a genius! How come non of our art teachers taught us stuff like this?
Cause art teacher specially in university can't draw. I'm learning about animation in my univ right now, and i can tell you that. Many teacher didn't understand perspective, shape, form, or anything about art. They only have knowledge about the software that they teaching, about how to operate it, how to make silly editing stuff but not to make art itself. What a joke huh
something i've started to do: when picking colours with the default picker, look at the Lab values. the L represents the luminance value, how bright the colour is perceived. and to get a better understanding of what is perceived as light and dark, make a rainbow gradient and then on a layer above it, fill it with a neutral grey and set the blending mode to color.
You are SO GOOD at explaining these things, Sycra. I love your run-throughs and videos, even though I have books that say exactly the same thing, I learn much more from your videos. I think I´m one of those audio visual people who can´t f*ing understand written text!
Thanks again for sharing
You have no idea how much I'm going to improve in my skills as an artists thanks to your tutorials. Thank you so much.
how much did you?
it's been ten years
I am the ghost of the future-past
This is totally easy, and I can't believe I didn't think of it before. Thank you so much for this video!!!
I Just got to say it, the boy looks real derpy :^)
The boy is sinix btw
2:05 : perfect impression of me before I understood this xD Thanks for the help!
Damn
Many people told you that, but still: THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH US! I learned from your videos much more than from an art class! You explainig everything in very simple and original way. Keep your amaizing vids up!
Thank you for sharing. I am a graphite artist trying to transision into digital media, and have been strugling with colors. The chart made it easier to relate to and understand.
You have a great knack for taking information( that seems intuitive for you) and turning it into visual knowlege for us..... thank you Sycra.
I sincerely appreciate your efforts,
Cheers,Barry.
It depends on the drawing style. Like Sycra said, it's mostly helpul for complex pieces.
For example, when I speedpaint landscapes, I normally do this in greyscale only, as it's faster and I can concentrate on the contrast first. If you want to colour if afterwards this knowledge can be helpful.
(I guess it's also helpful for people who draw mangas or other greyscale images as the observer can understand the actual colours better.)
Thanks so much mate, this is easily the best tutorial on value and colour, it's been confusing me for an entire year.
This is probably the MOST helpful video illustration related i ever watched i studied and i mean hours upon hours invested on watching and reading about digital illustration THANK YOU.
In plein air (exteriors), shadows are hidden from direct light of the sun, but receives light from the sky and the surrounding ambient, so I use blue or violet for the up normal surfaces, and warm color for the surfaces pointing down. For interiors I use a mix of blue, and the complementary color of the object, to boost the color contrast.
I feel like I've acended to another lvl of consciousness...
THANK YOU, SYCRAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Dude, I love you!!!! You have no idea, how long I've been looking for a tutorial like this. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SENSEI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
1:55 "No... Why...' - I'm crying from laugh x'D
Your videos are gold. Coming back all the time. Thank you ^^
This is the best explanation EVER! Thanks!
very useful, thanks! the most importantant tip I got from you here is that each color has a particular value range;
I just started the gray scale method a few weeks ago, and had this exact problem. Thank you so much for clearing this up to me!
Thank you for the helpful, informative and clear tutorial. I'm so grateful for all the time you put into teaching. I am a complete novice to art, and I'm glad I stumbled on your videos right out of the gate.
This video is like.. mind boggling. This is incredibly helpful, thank you so much Sycra!
I investigated a lot the color theory topic (traditional and digital), and the best material I found until now is the James Gurney Book "Color and Light" and the free online tool called "Gamut Mask Tool" it helped me a lot to understand and visualize the diferent color schemes and color strategies
Hmm... I personally use 2B and 3B leads with mechanical pencils. I sometimes use 4B but they're pretty soft, and HB, but with HB it's hard to get darker values. It also depends on the paper though... You can use 4H on comic book boards and it's about the same as HB on copy paper.
Thank you so much! This is probably the video I've learned most from, amongst all of your uploads! I feel enlightened!
This is a brilliant explanation - thanks for doing this video.
Love the way u explain color,easy to understand and practical. Wish u'd made more video of this kind. The other video about picking/choosing color was really useful,too. Thank you.
The kid is hilarious, my face went really weird when he popped out under the sentence
Thanks for the tutorial!
A good example is the "Millbrook Library by James Gurney" (google it =D). I use a high saturated blue or violet for the shadows in exteriors, normal blending mode. The opacity varies acording to each situation. The surfaces pointing down, does not receive the light of the sun, nor the light from the sky. They only receive the reflected light from the floor, so for better form describing use warm tone like in the "Millbrook Library by James Gurney". Also google for "Sorolla" for violet shadow =D
Every color has an inherent value. This is the key.
I learned something today, good tut.
So from my understanding, each colour that looks good depends on the inherit value. Say we go to a 9 for the purely saturated yellow will make it look yellow. And when you use the brown looking colour of the yellow due to desaturation, the brown colour has a wider range of inherit value? Sooo desaturation of the pure hue will allow a wider range of inherit value?? Sorry, I'm new to colour... :P
I think its because its simply easier to see value on grayscale, if you wanna go straight into color you would need a really good grip of color saturation and how to transition them properly.
On grayscale yo do cool looking stuff from the go, make an overlay layer and put some base color on top of it, if you got your values right it will perfectly adjust to the saturation of the color.
Maybe it's because my art education was pre-digital, but I've never heard the relationship between colour and value explained that way before. Thank you.
i finally understand a little bit of the art world now
such a clear and concise explanation, thank you!
I love this video. This is great
Very useful. Thanks for posting the video tutorial!
enjoying your videos, really informative,also, a suggestion for a video: "Lighting in interiors"
there aren't many resources on this, and I'm thinking many people would be interested, me as well :)
dat mustard yellow.
It's interesting how this relates to the amount of energy the particular color of light have. It would seem that the higher the energy, the bigger the color range (blue and purple have high energy as opposed to red and yellow).
Thank you so much.... this really helped ☺️
Another fine example from you, Sycra.
Sycra, a.k.a Art Jesus, thanks so much for this video. It has helped me soooo much. (I know im here a bit late)
Hello Sycra. I have one question about this tutorial. From where you understood that dependency of which color may be in which values of darkness? Is it only from practical experiments with "color" mode that you've done? Or it's having some scientific/theoretical grounding?
Thank you Sycra, you have helped me so much.
Could you please link to the tutorial where you teach about how to color skin, from grey to colours. If you already have, could you link it to your video or something? =) Btw, I love your videos! =)
I see what you mean. I'll have to try that when I have the chance. Thanks.
Excellent video and lesson topic! Thank you!
brilliantly explained. Thank you.
Excellent demonstration, thanks for the great upload
I want to ask a question that might really be stupid😂
So why do we bother to color in grey scale??
How does it help, why not just add the blue or red that we want right from the start
Superb!!!
This was very informative! Thank you🙏🏾💙
Helpful and clearly explained. Thanks!
Really like this video, very helpful. Really trying to get use to colors. Thanks :)
I have problem with painting with colour. I wish I knew how to do it but all my drawings are always just value then I'm too afraid to mess up the values by adding colour. Colour is just so alien to me, thanks for this please make more stuff on colour please. I need it!
This was super awesome and informative thx sycra! :)
Thanks Sycra!
Very usefull information.
You just opened my mind, Thanks!
such an awesome explaination!
Should I bother about it and use it somehow, if I am drawing drawings directly in color from it's beginning without greyscale stage?
this was enlightening,thank you Sycra :)
Thanks I'll give it a look.
In the future could you also do, a screen calibration. I'm having trouble with mine. I used Photoshop and Sai but after coloring a piece. It looks good on my laptop screen, but not so well on my tv monitor. Even when I look at my work after upload, on my cell phone it just doesn't look right. :/
look at the grey bar under the paint wheel at 8:26
Thank u
Thank you Very much for this tutorial!
This was fascinating!
You saved my life
Great Man, you've solved the confusion
Very good info!
so, you always create a value scale drawing first and then add a color layer on top? How Is the top layer not hidding the value scale?
Dude, you're so frickin helpful
Woaaah you defintely changed the way i ll draw this is so usefull !! :D Thank you so so much!!
woah! that was MAGIC!!!
very helpful information as always!.
now i understand the value! tnx!
Huh, I kind of new this instinctively, but nicely explained. Gnomon do great DVD on this.
Hi, many thanks for this & all of your other vids. They are extremely helpful & very much appreciated!
I have a query which I'm hoping you can help with - What would be the best way to see the values of old master paintings in a program such as photoshop? Would changing the mode to grayscale be appropriate if one has to see the local colors' values & thus how they are perceived in relation to one another? Or would a luminosity blend mode be better?
Many thanks!
Amazing drawing !!!!
Thanks, this was really helpful.
Very nice!
Manga studio does not have a Color blend mode :(
What is the best mode to use then?
Finally it all makes sense. :D Thank you!!
thank you. Very useful
great lesson
Just Awsome !!!
Cheers. I see what you mean.
Have you done a video yet on how light and value can be a means of distance and form?
I like this tutorial
gez this is a crazy explanation on value :D so awesome
dat boi
ótimo vídeo !!!
your every video is awsome. i need more help from you please upload a vdeo about light and shadow made by sun in a scenery composition lke summer season evening, i want to say that light changing through moods explain the please.......thanks for videos
Regardless of the saturation in each value?
Good Video on Color Value.. Sharing on Google Plus.
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