/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4307360
color theory is the cryptonite of this board OP and you know it. i doubt more than 10% of /ic/ has ever actually tried to read these 2 goddamn books. everyone just keeps recommending them because this is the only thing they ever heard about. i'd really like to see anyone here try to actually use any technique or idea from gurney's book.
and that one cgma video course about colour is just horrible.

my only honest recommendations are this set of exercises https://creativecolor.wordpress.com/color-exercises/ and johannes itten's book, though its highly theoretical i think it has a lot of good advice for artist with high level of reading comprehension. i enjoyed it a lot but i had to take notes and look for additional reading material to fully understand it. still, its not a painting manual. i wish i knew anything better, ive been searching for a long time but to no avail.

>>4307365
i think OP means a book about how light affects local colours, how to pick colors for shadows, how to apply color theory to painting etc. theres a lot of books that tell you what complementary colors are or "light is warm so shadows are cool" but there is a serious lack of a book that will actually tell you how to pick the goddamn colors.