Since this is a color theory lesson it would've been really helpful if you'd have included your color wheel in you screen recording to help us understand what area of the wheel you were using, it's hard to understand what colors you were using without actually seeing them out of context and on the color wheel of your painting software
James, I've been watching your videos for years, and with this video you've solved a dilenma I've been having with color for a very long time. This video is probably the best thing to happen to my art in a while. Thank you, and please continue doing this kind of work!
Jus wanna come back after a year to let you know this one video and the understanding of saturation and hue relationship has been CARRYING my paintings since i watched this. TY
Glad your vids started poping back in my reccomended again. Been taking my first big break with drawing ever since i started nearly 3 yes ago and this vid helped me realise i miss it a bit. Rly pretty painting btw, keep on cracking!
I love these kinds of videos that explain color theory, since this kind of 'technical' knowledge is frowned upon in some art schools that tell their students to 'do as your inner child pleases'
My paintings always look very boring and the same for some reason and this here helped me figure out why. Also my brain hurts from trying to processes how cool colors can appear warm and vice versa.
The scenario that always helps me rationalize the color thing is nighttime. Since there's pretty much only blue wavelengths visible, everything shifts to that side of the spectrum
I noticed that in the warm palette example, the chin has a saturated red highlight, contrary to the rest of the highlights that are desaturated - is there a particular reason for that? Thank you for the video, it was very helpful!
That's a great point, I definitely made that part up! It was a while ago so I'm not sure what i was thinking other than possibly just wanting more saturated reds in there
I’ve just started oil painting with a limited palette and found this really useful, I’ll be doing colour painting in Procreate soon too! Thanks James, amazing video as always 🤙
However, is it still okay if you don't do your color shifts together with the value shifts? What if you keep the colors equally warm or cold across the values?
This is a really really really great video (as always), but would it be possible to add the automatic subtiles please ? I'm french and honeslty you have a vocabulary wayyyy ahead of what I can understand and I always press pause on all your videos to check the words I don't know otherwise I'm lost T.T Sorry for the bothering
@@nathandelprat2631 Je parle couramment anglais et je travaille déja un petit peu dans le milieu avec des gens en anglais, mais il est difficile de regarder dans le dictionnaire de nouveau mots pour justement devenir encore meilleur quand je n'ai pas la moindre idée de leur écriture. Je trouve ta remarque un peu.. bah pas très gentille pour être honnête.. :/ Je cherchais juste à avoir le maximum d'information pour bien faire mon travail et ton commentaire me fait l'effet que j'ai "qu'a apprendre l'anglais" - ce qui est mon objectif justement..
@@JulyRuliia Wouah je pensais pas que tu le prendrais mal désolé. Surtout ne te méprends pas je ne me serais jamais permis de te dire que tu n'as qu'a " apprendre l'anglais", on ne se connait pas donc qui suis-je pour estimer ton niveau en Anglais ( t'es certainement meilleure que moi XD). Non moi je parlais juste de progrès, la nuance est...plutôt énorme ^^ Et en vrais si tu comprends cold, warm et saturation ( ce qui j'en mettrais ma main au feu est ton cas), t'as déjà compris l'essentielle de la vidéo en le regardant faire. Le reste c'est que du bonus de vocabulaire qui à mon avis est facilement trouvable si tu cherches à progresser. Bref encore désolé pour mon commentaire qui apparemment était déplacé.
@@nathandelprat2631 Ah ok, autant pour moi ! C'est toujours un peu dur d'évaluer les propos de quelqu'un sur internet, je voulais pas te mettre mal à l'aise sorry.. Nan effectivement je suis assez d'accord avec toi, mais j'ai pris le temps d'étudier en profondeur les autres vidéos de ModernDayJames sur la perspective justement, et avoir une compréhension super poussé m'a énormément aidé ! Je suis le genre de personne qui aime vraiment comprendre les choses, comme ça je les retient bien (je passe ma vie à regarder l'étymologie des mots pour voir d'où ils proviennent) Mais je comprend où tu veux en venir ^^ Encore désolé pour le mal entendu, j'espère ne pas avoir été trop abrupte, et y'a pas de soucis :D ! D'ailleurs, j'ai cru tomber sur ton travail sur ArtStation nan ? Beau boulot :)
I know this video is out a while but I'm a little confused with the cold palette. Did you use red/warm in in the shadows because of the third red light from below. and would you have done it in 100% blue pallette if that wasnt there?
Argh color is so confusing 😫😫 I understood most of what was being taught up until the painting phase. I had the colors set out but once I’m painting I get confused of what the intended use for each color is and feel like I’ve messed up somehow
helloo i just want to ask if the rules about desaturated warm color becomes cooler. still applies if the drawing is not heavily dominant with either warm or cool color? what if it the drawing has bits of every color
Hey always love your tutorial list on gumroad been planning to purchase it but, will you put it up on artstation too? Since it's easier to purchase from there. Thank you
I was trying to make it warmer without making it too saturated of a red. You could have used a grey though. I think at the time I just thought that looked better!
@@moderndayjames oh!!! I was just wondering because other artist usually just use a darker version of that color. I like yours better though👍🏼. I’m using procreate as of now...what did you mean by an opacity brush???
do you mean cool like cold? or cool like...awesome dude haha Pinterest is a good place, also if it is cool as in cold, just edit the photo! mess about with levels, hue saturation etc until you get something you like, it's just reference so you don't have to worry about being too precious with it
I just picked a midtone in either blue or red. You could do this a different way where you lay down the compliment or a vibrant base coat so that you get some color harmonies as well. Try things out!
Can you check on your definition on tone? Mixing opposite colors of the wheel will result into one value of neutral grey. Wikipedia defines tone as mixing the pigment with neutral grey of any value, so everything between a shade and a tint is a tone. You can visualize it as the triangle from the color wheel add on in PS, the upper line is tints the lower line shades and the whole are in between tones.
@@moderndayjames I've been seeing your vids since I started art, heheh. I'm still new to color and I liked the way you explained it. And then I saw like 4 more videos about it after this one and abused my tiny baby brain.
Amazing lesson James, a huge thank you!
Thanks so much Adam! I'm trying to incorporate a little more painting on the channel
Since this is a color theory lesson it would've been really helpful if you'd have included your color wheel in you screen recording to help us understand what area of the wheel you were using, it's hard to understand what colors you were using without actually seeing them out of context and on the color wheel of your painting software
I think that almost defeats the point of the lesson though since the colors you're seeing may not actually be what they are, so to speak.
@@sambridges4670 and...that's exactly why they wanted to see the color wheel picking in real time...
th-cam.com/video/gwLQ0cDb4cE/w-d-xo.html
@@sambridges4670 what defeat? It's a learning, not a test...
James, I've been watching your videos for years, and with this video you've solved a dilenma I've been having with color for a very long time. This video is probably the best thing to happen to my art in a while. Thank you, and please continue doing this kind of work!
Jus wanna come back after a year to let you know this one video and the understanding of saturation and hue relationship has been CARRYING my paintings since i watched this. TY
Wish i could see your color palette when painting. I really need to understand where to place all this saturated and desaturated colors
Watched a lot of videos about colour temperature, no.ones explained it better than you have in this video- massive thank you for this
thanks so much! I'm really glad it's helped
Glad your vids started poping back in my reccomended again. Been taking my first big break with drawing ever since i started nearly 3 yes ago and this vid helped me realise i miss it a bit. Rly pretty painting btw, keep on cracking!
Thank you. This is very helpful.
thx for this video.I have finally understood how to draw the same things but with different light sources
I love these kinds of videos that explain color theory, since this kind of 'technical' knowledge is frowned upon in some art schools that tell their students to 'do as your inner child pleases'
Amazing Lesson DUDE FOR REAL
Thanks for the help james!
this is invaluable man.Thankyou so much
Mixing color with semi-transparent brush helps. It's kinda how traditional color-mixing works.
What exemplar way of explaning, thank you very , very much !
thankyou james it really help me a lot
How talented this guy can become
4:25 round edges use round brush for smooth transition. Hard edges use hard brushes for quick transition and focal point
Blur the edge u don't want ppl to look at
This is so awesome
Incredible lesson.
Thank you so much this helped me so much
Well hello there, I already like it without even knowing what it's about
Same here :D
BWAHAHAH YOU CAN NEVER GO WRONG WITH MODERN DAY JAMES
Awesome video! Thank you.
It's been a long time... Thanks for the upload.
Hey i like your pic, where did u get that?
My paintings always look very boring and the same for some reason and this here helped me figure out why. Also my brain hurts from trying to processes how cool colors can appear warm and vice versa.
The scenario that always helps me rationalize the color thing is nighttime. Since there's pretty much only blue wavelengths visible, everything shifts to that side of the spectrum
This helped a lot thanks!
Better teacher than most of famous chatter.
And they said TH-cam is the only school you'll need:)
as someone who's stuck with getting the values right in grayscale, this is mind blowing for me!!!
Bruh, now I am stuck in transition between grayscale to color now after learning to paint in grayscale.
Excellent video! I learned quite a bit of new stuff from this, thank you.
I noticed that in the warm palette example, the chin has a saturated red highlight, contrary to the rest of the highlights that are desaturated - is there a particular reason for that? Thank you for the video, it was very helpful!
That's a great point, I definitely made that part up! It was a while ago so I'm not sure what i was thinking other than possibly just wanting more saturated reds in there
This first one is very cool 😉
I’ve just started oil painting with a limited palette and found this really useful, I’ll be doing colour painting in Procreate soon too! Thanks James, amazing video as always 🤙
Amazing lesson thankyou
Great video lessons 👍🏻. I think this brush (4:30) very hard.
However, is it still okay if you don't do your color shifts together with the value shifts? What if you keep the colors equally warm or cold across the values?
This is a really really really great video (as always), but would it be possible to add the automatic subtiles please ? I'm french and honeslty you have a vocabulary wayyyy ahead of what I can understand and I always press pause on all your videos to check the words I don't know otherwise I'm lost T.T
Sorry for the bothering
Bah c'est bien comme ça tu progresses en anglais ;) ce qui est très utile dans ce milieu...
@@nathandelprat2631 Je parle couramment anglais et je travaille déja un petit peu dans le milieu avec des gens en anglais, mais il est difficile de regarder dans le dictionnaire de nouveau mots pour justement devenir encore meilleur quand je n'ai pas la moindre idée de leur écriture.
Je trouve ta remarque un peu.. bah pas très gentille pour être honnête.. :/
Je cherchais juste à avoir le maximum d'information pour bien faire mon travail et ton commentaire me fait l'effet que j'ai "qu'a apprendre l'anglais" - ce qui est mon objectif justement..
@@JulyRuliia Wouah je pensais pas que tu le prendrais mal désolé. Surtout ne te méprends pas je ne me serais jamais permis de te dire que tu n'as qu'a " apprendre l'anglais", on ne se connait pas donc qui suis-je pour estimer ton niveau en Anglais ( t'es certainement meilleure que moi XD).
Non moi je parlais juste de progrès, la nuance est...plutôt énorme ^^ Et en vrais si tu comprends cold, warm et saturation ( ce qui j'en mettrais ma main au feu est ton cas), t'as déjà compris l'essentielle de la vidéo en le regardant faire. Le reste c'est que du bonus de vocabulaire qui à mon avis est facilement trouvable si tu cherches à progresser.
Bref encore désolé pour mon commentaire qui apparemment était déplacé.
@@nathandelprat2631 Ah ok, autant pour moi ! C'est toujours un peu dur d'évaluer les propos de quelqu'un sur internet, je voulais pas te mettre mal à l'aise sorry..
Nan effectivement je suis assez d'accord avec toi, mais j'ai pris le temps d'étudier en profondeur les autres vidéos de ModernDayJames sur la perspective justement, et avoir une compréhension super poussé m'a énormément aidé !
Je suis le genre de personne qui aime vraiment comprendre les choses, comme ça je les retient bien (je passe ma vie à regarder l'étymologie des mots pour voir d'où ils proviennent)
Mais je comprend où tu veux en venir ^^
Encore désolé pour le mal entendu, j'espère ne pas avoir été trop abrupte, et y'a pas de soucis :D !
D'ailleurs, j'ai cru tomber sur ton travail sur ArtStation nan ? Beau boulot :)
@@JulyRuliia Comme tu dis pas de soucis ;) Oui c'était bien le mien merci beaucoup ! Je te retourne le compliment :)
NIce! Can't wait to try this teqnique
Thanks!
I know this video is out a while but I'm a little confused with the cold palette.
Did you use red/warm in in the shadows because of the third red light from below.
and would you have done it in 100% blue pallette if that wasnt there?
Argh color is so confusing 😫😫 I understood most of what was being taught up until the painting phase. I had the colors set out but once I’m painting I get confused of what the intended use for each color is and feel like I’ve messed up somehow
Really helpful!
Gracias
In the warm skull, shouldn't it be more saturated reds for the highlight and desaturated reds for the shadow??
if you look at the reference, theres a neon light that makes the shadows way more saturated
Ohh you're right, thanks for answering!
helloo i just want to ask if the rules about desaturated warm color becomes cooler. still applies if the drawing is not heavily dominant with either warm or cool color? what if it the drawing has bits of every color
Sir Which software do u use for your digital painting?? May I use smudge tool for colour blending in digital painting??
Hey always love your tutorial list on gumroad been planning to purchase it but, will you put it up on artstation too? Since it's easier to purchase from there. Thank you
Excuse me, but are there subtitle on the gumroad please?
Are you now uploading your gumroad tuts?
its an abridged version, but I have a whole bunch of animation tutorials planned
he just doesn't care anymore! and that's how you should live your life too! go nuts!
What software do you use for all of this amazing stuff?
Why did you use brown for the shadows??? Why not a darker blue???
I was trying to make it warmer without making it too saturated of a red. You could have used a grey though. I think at the time I just thought that looked better!
@@moderndayjames oh!!! I was just wondering because other artist usually just use a darker version of that color. I like yours better though👍🏼. I’m using procreate as of now...what did you mean by an opacity brush???
Hi, You know if the content in this TH-cam channel and his Gumroad store are the same?
Really great content!
The gumroad has some extra tutorials that are not timelapsed the way the youtube content is.
Oh thanks, i'm thinking in buying the whole damn store.
You're insane!
Yess
Where do you find your awesome references? It can be so exhausting searching for cool references with cool lighting.....
do you mean cool like cold? or cool like...awesome dude haha
Pinterest is a good place, also if it is cool as in cold, just edit the photo! mess about with levels, hue saturation etc until you get something you like, it's just reference so you don't have to worry about being too precious with it
Nice video! How do you pick your base colours before starting the painting process?
I just picked a midtone in either blue or red. You could do this a different way where you lay down the compliment or a vibrant base coat so that you get some color harmonies as well. Try things out!
Can you check on your definition on tone? Mixing opposite colors of the wheel will result into one value of neutral grey. Wikipedia defines tone as mixing the pigment with neutral grey of any value, so everything between a shade and a tint is a tone. You can visualize it as the triangle from the color wheel add on in PS, the upper line is tints the lower line shades and the whole are in between tones.
can you share your brush?
I advise you to find a tutorial on how to create your own brush. its better you learn how to create them whenever you need them
I'd just create another layer in overlay mode and paintbucket it with orange lol.
Yeah dont do that
@@yoyolol22 it's a good technique. just paint over it a little bit to make it looks less awful
letss gooo
blew my sock off
oh dang look who it is! Thanks for popping over to the youtube channel
@@moderndayjames I've been seeing your vids since I started art, heheh. I'm still new to color and I liked the way you explained it. And then I saw like 4 more videos about it after this one and abused my tiny baby brain.
fastest fingers of the west
Almost
@@mioki-leaf2 the south won this one see you next on the next video
@@zundez1340 xD I'm not the champion this time sheriff, it was SEAN all along !
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