There are basic ideas when it comes to colors you should know as they are often use in reference to colors. Keep in mind that, the names of Tertiary colors are Primary Color + Secondary = Tertiary Color Name. Complementary ColorsComplementary colors are colors that exist across from each other on a wheel no matter. If you were to rotate the axis, the same would still apply because it is across from it. Mixing them will also make brown, so purple + yellow would make brown and so on... Painting TermsChroma
Hue at it's highest Chroma. Take yellow which is the intense in light values but then there's Blue which is most intense in very dark. Chroma is color's purity, intensity, or saturation. Greys have a low chroma while bright red is high in chroma. Hue It's distinction of colors on the color wheel. Giving general names to colors like Yellow,Blue,Red,Green,Orange,and Purple. If you take the color of gold you would know it's under the hue called " Yellow." Things get a big messy when you add heavily mixed colors or colors that trick your eye due to influence of the palette. Value It is lights and darks of something using absolutes, they only change the lightness/darkness of the colors not hue or chroma.
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Color is something we don't realize how important it is until we try painting something complex. Old masters valued color a lot back then as there was under 20 pigments that existed during that time so the usage was very limited. During the impressionism time period new pigments started to appear so those artists decided to use them to their advantage. Now days, we have art we can do on the computer something you would think artists today would use to their advantage. The question to ask yourself is rather or not you use this expansive art technology to do just that? Before you hop into depths of color, value, and lighting you must first understand basic information about them then build up from there. First thing to go over is why we see color to begin with. Why we see color?The different wavelengths within the visible region are responsible for the different colors we see. The acronym "ROYGBIV" helps us to remember the colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Note that these are in reverse order on the figure below. Violet is the most energetic color and red is the least. Then why do objects have color? Colored objects look the way they do because of reflected light. When sunlight is shined on a green leaf, the violet, red and orange wavelengths are absorbed. The reflected wavelengths appear green. How does this apply to art?To understand this then you will begin to understand there are things called absolutes in colors. These are pure grey,black, and white. They don't exist.... We may see colors that represent themselves to be these colors but in reality they are really some other color that is numbed down or mixed to hell. Should we use these colors in our work if they never truly existed? What does that mean for the other colors?
​Some Notes: Feet are a little more complex than what we give them credit for. They are easy not to draw often because we have socks, shoes, and other means to cover them up. You want to really pay attention to the toe angles in which they are facing so that way they look tucked together like a normal foot vs all spread. Toe nails are little more tricky because they for one foot each nail is not like the other. Feet are generally 1 and 1/3s of hand size which hand proportion size is about right size to spread your hand over your face to cover most of it. No you do not have cancer, don't fall for it! (it's a joke)
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