we are going to be talking about advanced color schemes i'm giving you guys a university education
for free i've talked about normal color schemes in the past like the very basic color schemes
so i'm not going to go too intense with the basic ones i'm just going to go over them
again so this one is achromatic achromatic is really easy achromatic just means there
is literally no color so some people would say like oh this is monochromatic this is actually
not monochromatic this is achromatic which means that there is no hue whatsoever so this is black
and white next one that's considered basic is the monochromatic scheme which is just one
hue so if i were to just kind of continue with this it's the same blue right if i chose
this blue it's the same one right i don't shift anything on the hue wheel at all i just change the
value so it's just the value of the same hue is shifting over and over that's what monochromatic
is so monochromatic does have hue achromatic does not have right achromatic has like absolutely no
color to it whatsoever it's completely black and white but monochromatic next color scheme that
you've probably heard is is analogous analogous is basically just a few colors on the wheel next to
each other it's usually three or more so if we have red the next color might be an orange and
then if i want a little bit more then it's like the red orange and i should do it a bit more then
it's a yellow orange i shift a bit more and it's like a yellow it's like if we're moving in one
direction across the color wheel so they're all kind of clumped together they usually look really
good together it's the same deal anywhere on the color wheel say if you started with blue we might
start shifting over to towards the green so if we go blue cyan green that kind of general direction
or if we go in the other direction we could go blue violet magenta red kind of that general
direction right but they all have to be next to each other those colors tend to look really
really nice next to each other it's very hard to mess up an analogous color scheme like you can't
there's almost no way to mess up an analogous color scheme and that's why a lot of people
like them but they can get really boring so it just depends on what you want complementary this
is the one that i love complementary colors are colors that are directly across from each other
this wheel over here is an rgb wheel so not an ryb which is the one that you are probably used
to right in school they teach you the color wheel one of the primary colors red yellow blue that's
not true red yellow blue are the color of the primary colors of your ryb color wheel which is a
very traditional outdated wheel generally when we work with digital work we look for the rgb wheel
instead so your primary colors are now red green and blue and then the same with cmyk which is the
the contemporary artists wheel which your primary colors then would be magenta cyan and yellow
we're working with rgb right now though so complementary are the colors that are directly
across from each other on the wheel my favorite complementary combination with rgb is red and cyan
a lot of people don't like red and cyan i love red and cyan so it's two colors that are directly
across each other on the color wheel and generally even though they're complementary we wanted to
make sure that they're fairly balanced so they're not too harsh on the eyes so usually you want one
color to be kind of dull a little bit darker the other color to be a lot brighter that brighter
color will be will be generally where your eyes will go to first because it is a lot brighter
and will be used in a lot of smaller amounts think of any kind of oh my god what's it called
think of any kind of concept art that you'll see in like video games if you think of like god of
war all that fun jazz if you look at any of their concept work the color scheme that you'll see the
most often is a the complementary schemes and it's most likely going to be yellow blue yellow blue
orange cyan kind of around that area it's always going to be that where the orange or the yellow
is like a very small amount so everything else is going to be like a dull dark blue that's a very
common scheme you'll notice that that's like the concept artist's favorite scene ever so triadic
are they'll make an equilateral triangle on the color wheel most people when they think triadic
they think of the ryb wheel which you know would be like red yellow blue would be a triadic scheme
that's a traditional triadic scheme technically a more modern one would be magenta cyan yellow
if we go off of the contemporary artist's wheel so it'll make an equilateral triangle it'll be
either your three primaries the three secondaries three of your tertiaries because there is more
than three tertiary colors okay the last one is split complementary this is the cmyk wheel so
this is what it looks like in terms of where the colors go so split complementary so you know how
normal complementaries work so if we had cyan and orange directly across from each other instead of
being directly across you go across and then you split it up so you get these two colors so instead
the three colors within this scheme would be cyan yellow orange and red so that would be your color
scheme instead of directly across one another it would take one and then split it off that's your
split complementary so your split complementary if i were to take this color scheme it's the
same deal with complementary you got to pick your colors that are a little bit brighter and those
will be your accent colors all the others remain underlying colors so those are our basic schemes
so this is the new stuff this is the stuff that you get in university education
i love these schemes i was a really big fan of them the first one we're gonna be talking
about is my absolute favorite i'm a huge fan of this scheme this first color scheme
is called the double split complementary it's a little bit more advanced it's a little bit more
intense so double split complementary if we have blue or cyan and orange again this time if we took
blue cyan or cyan blue i guess and then yellow orange this is our double split so double split
is taking two of the adjacent colors it makes like a kind of thin x on your color
wheel right it creates this nice balanced sort of deal all right so double split complementary
is very similar to a split complementary but both sides are split so it creates this thin
x across the board um so it's a little more nuanced a little bit more detail then adds
more depth to your pieces overall if you're just working with a complementary you're just working
with two colors split complementary you get three but you know it's still not in depth enough
but double split is the one that most game artists use you'll see that a lot a lot of
game artists love double split and they work with this scheme so it's these four are the ones that
they use the most and double split is a lot of fun you get like a really nice kind of nuance really
you get a lot that a lot with medieval kind of fantasy games i think that dark souls uses that
a lot too but you get that really nice kind of like contrast between these two colors and it
really feels like they clash against each other but like in a really nice way but yeah so double
split if i create a palette based off of this if you'd like to support the channel in the
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the next scheme this one is really hard to work with i had to work with this one during school
and my prof was like you gotta learn how to organize it i'm like sir how do i organize this
scheme so this scheme is the polychromatic scheme this scheme sucks i love it but like it sucks i'm
not kidding this color scheme is every color under the rainbow so a polychromatic scheme if i was to
take a look at this wheel it would be yellow green cyan blue magenta orange that would be your color
scheme it'd be using all six of those like right across the wheel so this is the polychromatic
color scheme it's a star on the color wheel and it uses all primaries and secondaries so this
one is extremely colorful obviously and tough to get right and that's because the polychromatic
scheme requires you to have a good sense of how to balance your colors out because if you don't
then your colors will feel like rainbow vomit and that's like not what you want right so you want
your colors to feel organized and knowing how to organize your colors takes a lot of knowledge with
color theory and like balancing your color temperatures or whatever so polychromatic
one of those schemes that i don't recommend using until you're like pretty familiar with
pretty familiar with your colors the next one is tetradic this one's a really cool one this one's
weird so a tetradic scheme is a slightly wider double complementary slightly wider so if i took
this scheme that's in front of me right if you took the wheel you know how split complementary
was like you pick one and then there's two extras on the other sides right this time it creates a
wider x so if we took these colors across from each other if you went complementary and then
took their splits on either sides that's what the tetradic scheme is so tetradic is these
funky colors on either side so a tetradic scheme is a slightly wider double complementary so it
creates a wider x on the color wheel right so this is a much more colorful and bright version of all
the other complementaries that we've seen previous right tetradics are what you see with more e-rated
games think about the splash art for like mario or even kirby kirby as well like the splash out for
kirby a lot of kirby art uses this so it's these four right here that's what you see a lot with
curvy art mario uses these ones the ones that i have circled right now are very mario-esque
you'll see a lot of those more e-rated games using a tetradic scheme because tetradics are easier to
make very bright because they're wide enough away from each other where the contrast won't
be too jarring so it creates this nice bright bouncy color scheme you can leave these at almost
complete max hue and they'll still feel just okay because of how bright and bouncy they are
last one this one isn't really a scheme this one just takes a bit of explaining this is why i don't
really need the wheel for this one this one is called discordance or a discordant color scheme
i need y'all to answer a question for me right so if i take this yellow choosing between this yellow
and purple yellow is obviously weak if you were to blend these two together that yellow would get
lost in that violet right so violet in this case is a much stronger color compared to the yellow
right we look at this violet it's very very strong compared to the yellow because the yellow will get
washed away discordance is switching these two around so if we took a discordant color scheme we
would make this yellow the stronger color and the purple the weaker one it's switching up the color
strings does that kind of make sense discordance is something that you add on to previous color
schemes like the colder colors were overpowering the warmer colors that's just because that's how
it would be normally because normally blue is a stronger color compared to these bright colors
right but with discordance it switches it around so if we took this yellow hue this is still yellow
remember that brown is just a derivative of yellow to red right if we took this kind of color and if
we took our yellow and made it the stronger color compared to the purple that becomes discordant
you could do this with any colors it's just uh yellow and violet or purple are like this have the
strongest contrast so it's taking value strengths of your colors and switching them so that's what
this is called your value strengths so your value strengths are just how strong it is with its
values right a lighter values like a really really light gray really really light really light colors
have are weaker than say like your blacks right white will not will not do too much to a black
like right so when we take our value strengths of our colors you switch them around so if
violet generally has a large like a heavier value strength compared to yellow you flip it around so
then your value strength of your purple is no longer stronger than the value strength of your
nose yep that's what discordance is discordance isn't really something that you use separately
compared to the rest of the color schemes that's why it's like yeah it's there but like you know
it's not like a whole other color scheme it's just something you add on to the other ones
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