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>>6899352
I don’t wanna sound like a retard but on proko’s channel there are a few good vids on color.
Seek the Marco Bucci’s ones, greatest takeaway is rather than painting things we should paint the light source.
Basically you got the base colors and unless it’s an overcast day you will rarely see just that, sunlight has some inherent color in it and any artificial light has some kind of saturated color transferring over anything it touches.
Now this color, the light’s hue, PULLS whatever bass color it hits in its own direction.
If it’s orangish and you got a really saturated red, the red will move over the color circle to get closer in its hue to the light source’s orange hue.
Now the same goes for the shadow colors but in the opposite direction, keep in mind the color wheel.
Now rather than getting closer to the light source not only are going to lower the value but also move the hue AWAY from the light source’s orange hue(opposite orange we have blues and purples).
This likely means desaturating your color to colder greys.
The vid is pretty good on the topic, but color theory should be the stuff you learn all your life.
You got people like Goethe who weren’t even painters but were absolutely fascinated by the concept and spent decades trying to understand the phenomenon.
Also try exploring munsell’s color theory and the idea of color as a space, I had this useless art book on color from an obscure German painter, Otto Von Runge, and ended up finding gold mines on color theory in it.
Like the idea of the secondary colors being a continuum standing in between the primary hues, or the idea of grey being the axis of color with black and white lying on the top and the bottom.