Mood and Colour
Added 2023-12-09 14:50:05 +0000 UTCSuper happy to share some logic behind my choices, how I arrive to a colour scheme, why, and some tips to paint everything and make it look right. Please take these ideas as just my ideas, lots of these are my personal views. Try lo learn and steal as mush of these ideas from other painters that you admire, and you will come up with your own voice.
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Thanks mate. 1) The one I showed you is the Real Colour Wheel, and I guess it's based on pigments. The best way to experience it can be printing because I suspect the picture I found was based on RGB that works for screens basically. A good notion to know is that we can never compete with nature, we have a limited range eve more limited than screens so we can play with contrast, to show a dark thing we surround it with light or to show saturation we put desaturation next to it, and so on. In general the other colour wheel we find online works, I don't really seek the perfect opposite to be hones, in my mind I think in terms of primary colours and secondary, the in between stuff for me, it's a matter of my taste more than logic. 2) Here I'm talking about the surroundings in general, Absolutely the face has a lot of red and in a green environment it will look a bit greyish. Of course, you can choose to contrast the face and make it even more red in that situation, if you will. I suggest trying these stuff to really figure it out, put a miniature you painted on a coloured surface take a picture and after that put it on a white sheet of paper and take another and see the differences, if you want to see it even better you can remove the background(I have this app "PhotoRoom" that seems to work pretty well).
Antonio Pulvirenti
2023-12-12 17:40:46 +0000 UTCFirst of all, this work is amazing and it's exactly what I was looking for - so thank you! I'm hoping you expand on what constitutes each mood - grimdark, magic, etc! I have a few questions about some parts of what you shared. 1) The color wheel on page 5, 7, 9 has some colors expanded (like green) whereas other colors are shrunk (red). I've heard that there are different color wheels that exist, but why did you choose the wheel that you picked? Is it based on the medium we use (acrylics)? Also if we shift the size of each color than other colors appear as the opposites. For example, I've always thought that the opposite of red is green, but in that color wheel it's blue, etc. 2) On page 9 you talk about painting red armor: "if the grass on the base will be a cold green, the face will be slightly desaturated". Could you help me understand why green grass would desaturate their skintone? Would it happen to all skin colors or just the ones that have red in them? Does this effect only occur with someone having many red elements (like wearing a red armor)?
Yuliy
2023-12-12 15:42:55 +0000 UTC
