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Color Theory Crash Courseby ~pronouncedyou

Resources & Stock Images / Tutorials / Traditional Art / Painting

This is a basic color tutorial. I'm sure a lot of you guys learned this in school, so it's basically a refresher course. Or it's more of a "put one foot into the door" sort of course. This is definitely no where near an end-all-be-all tutorial. I suggest everyone to look up multiple tutorials and draw from many places to learn. I encourage you to continue to investigate color theory, because we never really stop learning.

I've learned so much since writing this, and I hope you do, too.

Please note that I did not include every color combination ever, this was just mostly a general idea tutorial. Take what you learn and apply it to your own art. I know this is under traditional, but it is used for every type of art.

Thanks to everyone who responded to [link] ! I tried to include a lot of the combinations you guys liked.

~totorochic linked some great websites for reference:
[link] this is a link for color harmonies in popular logos
[link] and this is a color scheme chooser.

The greatest way to learn color is to practice a lot, so get out there and practice <3~

Please also note that this mostly uses RGB model as opposed to CMYK, which is vastly different. If you're into digital art, look up a CYMK model of colors!

I find that gouache is the best paint to use to learn color theory, so grab some and test it out for yourself.

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[Stock & Resources] Color Theory Crash Course by *pronouncedyou ( Suggested by ~Mauser712 and Featured by ^Elandria )

love 24 24

joy 17 17

wow 6 6

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

neutral 1 1

~kassieisabap Nov 16, 2012

this is really cool...

*airealataiel Nov 6, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

This is genius, extremely well put together, incredibly helpful, and simple but HIGHLY effective. Everything on here is useful, clearly visible, and easy to access and understand. This is exactly what I was looking for when I searched for color theory and I'm very impressed. Great job!

*Azley Oct 26, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Brilliant, thanks a lot!
I'll try this out with a new coloring - I'm always unsure how to pick good shade colors when I color something and end up stealing with the colorpick from other pics I like (