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bmpmp3 · 15 days ago

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and i do feel bad when people ask me to teach them colour theory because it is true that colour theory quite literally is just: complementary colours + if you mix a bluish red pigment with a reddish blue pigment you'll get a brighter purple but if you mix a bluish red pigment with a yellowish blue pigment you'll get a grayer purple.

in my experience colour theory as we know it is kinda built on the physical world (additive with light and subtractive with pigment and dyes) rather than the digital so the purpose of it is less "what colours go together" and more "what can you do with the limited colours of materials you have access to in the meatspace and how can you manipulate them". from what i can tell, the world of digital colour theory is pretty young if not nonexistent currently, possibly in part because of how different screens and software can be from eachother. you can use some physical colour theory techniques to help (complementary colours can make things stand out, analogous colours can make things look cohesive, etc) while the technical parts (single pigment mixing) are not as useful outside the physical realm...

all this to say like half of my art is just ultramarine blue with colder quinacridone red (magenta or rose usually) because i am too lazy to do anything else other than a slightly shifted to the side complementary colour scheme #TheLazyArtistsPalette

#interestingly a lot of my classmates even tho they worked analogue #they would actually draw their rough drafts digitally. like they would do a full digital painting and then paint it via oils etc #which isnt a bad way of working but its very far from me who barely visualizes anything clearly before i draw anymore LOL #my planning involves: maybe drawing a shitty little thumbnail in the corner of a piece of paper to work out the poses #and then going right in no thoughts head empty style hjkdhkfdlfds #but i felt so bad like they kept asking how i did colours. and i kept having to tell them that i fucking hate mixing paint #more than anything i will not mix a paint unless im doing watercolour #and even then if i have to mix more than two pigments i start getting mad #so all my acrylic paintings are just raw unmixed colour. its easy to keep to a limited cohesive colour scheme #when ur only using like 2-3 bottles of paint HFKJDSHJFKSd #like they didnt believe me. girl im not joking. i heart shortcuts. artists need to be lazier. hashtag get lazier with art

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