/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2718260
Literally the only thing you need, the rest is crap.

>>2698705
>>2698732
Grind this book with gouache/tempera. You'll learn both how colors work together and how to colormix.

>>2610469
Get this bad boy and do the studies that are in the book.

>>2507006

I'm digging now through this book and I like it, saw it recommended by other anon also.

Basically what's different than only learning color theory is part how to make your own color studies and how to analyze color. This book is filled with tips how to describe color and how to build your visual library.

It's very extensive though. I found out through reading it that there's a lot of knowledge related to color. It's good though that author starts simple, you know, complementary colors on a wheel of color, what are earth-tones, how do colors interact or how light influences our seeing of color etc.

I'm also a total, total n00b on the topic, but what I gathered from various sources:

1. Edges of color seem to be incredibly important, especially to painters. Schmidt in his "Alla Prima" puts a huge emphasis on that and I saw painters on their videos also talking about them.

2. Medium is important. If you do watercolor, you want to start the lightest possible because you can't go darker with it. On the other hand, with gouache you start dark because you can always go lighter because you have access to white.

3. Values aren't a meme, it's one of the 3 components of color so if you have those strong, you could focus on learning more about Hue and Saturation. Hue is pretty intuitive to grasp, so what you would like to do in your situation is probably to focus on understanding the color saturation and do color studies related to it.

I will dump few pages related to color studies from that book.