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Intro to RGB Sliders - Realtime DEMO/TUTORIAL
🕑 Added 2024-06-22 08:43:42 +0000 UTCGuys I recorded my voice... apologies for the terrible quality. I don't have a mic right now so I just used my headphones. I'm still getting used to my voice as well as explaining my concepts in a structured/coherent way so please bear with me throughout the video!
I figured that seeing me work and figure things out realtime would be more helpful than a highly polished and edited tutorial- Making art often involves a lot of problem solving and improvisation, so watch me struggle and try to talk about my process while doing so haha.
As I do more of these, I'm hoping to improve the quality and delivery of these videos; please let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback!- I take all of your input into consideration. Thanks for looking Patreon fam!
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NOTES
I credit a majority of my color choices to the RGB Slider and how it forces me to think about color in more of a traditional sense- which is temperature and tone as priority in my color-picking process. This is HUGE when it comes to finding the right colors in my paintings.
RGB Slider basics
1. Moving slider left + right defines color's intensity and brightness/value simultaneously
2. The closer the sliders are to each other, the more neutral/gray you color will be
3. The average position of all 3 sliders define brightness/value as well
Practice balancing all three of the sliders to find your desired color.
Demo
1. Base shapes
2. Establish ambient/background color
3. Use that color, and adjust sliders to reach next desired color
4. Rinse and repeat, using existing colors (or bg color) to find next desired colors, using RGB slider
5. Shadow block-in using multiply layer
5. Introduce more subtle hue shifts to base colors
Comments
Nicole Manson
Just wanted to come back to this post 4 months later and say this transformed my color workflow!
Nicole Manson
This one was crazy helpful and also so weird!!! Weird in that I have never ever picked colors this way, or learned to do this in the tons of digital and trad art classes I've taken. But for the first time EVER I found myself picking colors I'm happy with, that actually work together. Thanks dude!
Nick Star
Personally, I like to use the same multiply color for both form and cast. Making sure that they are dark enough + designed with decisive shapes will help it stand out. I'll make a tutorial on lighting and such soon, sry for the late reply!
eunbunnys
hey spec! loved this tutorial, i was waiting for smth like this!! wish you could do more on colours and stuff. just wanted to ask you regarding shadows - do you use a separate colour for cast and form shadows? and how do you make these pop? last thing - whats your process on highlights and lighting!
