/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4762384
Learn color theory, something like David Hornung Color, it's a summary of all the important color theory from the past 100 years like Josef Albers' book and the Arthur Stern book. You have to understand how to see and think about color objectively, be able to describe colors with hue, chroma, and value. Study real life, study photographs. Then it's studying from studying from masters and analyzing what they're doing, Richard Schmid Alla Prima shows a lot of artistic color concepts. James Gurney's books are also a good resource but more of a reference than something you can directly study/learn from.

You need to understand values and local color. This is how colors appear in comparison to their neighbors and what a color looks like in greyscale. The darkest yellow will never be as dark as a dark blue or violet. Linran's color tutorial is also a very good thing to understand how RGB sliders work in digital, that will help make a much more cohesive palette than using something like HSB/HSV.

James Gurney's youtube channel is also recommended. It helps to understand traditional pigments and how they mix, like gouache and watercolor to understand where artists are pulling from or how they know about such beautiful greys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kQllLy_X4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJf4e5kAKWg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2fZdGZKP1k&t=152