10 Colour Schemes You've (probably) Never Heard Of!

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   creation of free arts education become a member  on patreon so it gives it a little bit more depth   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 join a virtual class to learn live from our  professional artists get creative assignments   individual guidance and real-time feedback on your  artwork start today and level up your practice   if you learned something new like  and share this with a fellow art   nerd if you love receiving quality  and free arts education subscribe if you enjoyed this video here's a couple  other videos you can check out next

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Length: 10min 51sec (651 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 16 2022