Creating Realistic Color: A Primer for Beginners

Creating Realistic Color: A Primer for Beginners
https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Creating-Realistic-Color-A-Primer-for-Beginners/1327686468
As a professional illustrator, some of the most common questions I hear from beginning and aspiring artists are related to color:
    "How do you know what color to use?"
    "How can I learn to see more colors in my reference?"
    "How do you mix and match the color you see in a reference?"
    “How can I create realistic color in my own work?”
This class is for anyone who has ever asked these sorts of question about color, or struggled to create realistic color in their own painting.

We’re going to unpack these questions (and others!), and tackle color for traditional media artists in a systematic, comprehensive way. In the class we'll cover 5 essential skills related to color, and will learn to:

Identify basic color characteristics, like value, saturation and temperature

Build color harmony & relationships and use the color wheel

Build a palette and use single-pigment media and blended pigment media

Use comparison to accurately see the colors in your reference

Mix colors you see in your reference, and match them in your painting

We’ll have a series of sit down lessons where I’ll unpack each of these concepts, and then a detailed demo where I’ll create a painting from start to finish, explaining all of my color decisions as I go.

Would you like to be a Author?