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The Big Long Tutorial: Part 01
Published: 2010-08-14 05:29:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 67547; Favourites: 2731; Downloads: 2715
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This series of tutorials will teach you the basics of colours/light/shadow, and how to apply them.Part One: Tones, Hues, and Saturation.
Part Two: Colours, and Intro to Light/Shadow. shesta713.deviantart.com/art/T…
Part Three: Light/Shadow Continued shesta713.deviantart.com/art/T…
Part Four: Putting it all together. shesta713.deviantart.com/art/T…
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Featured Here:
infinite-heart.deviantart.com/… & fantasystock.deviantart.com/jo… & magicnaanavi.deviantart.com/jo… & deejb.deviantart.com/journal/A…
Re-made & posted on Graphisutra:
www.graphisutra.com/tutorials/… & weeklychallenge.deviantart.com…
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* UPDATE Oct. 2013
Just letting everyone know I have revised this tutorial, I will re-upload the old version for you to look at as well.
(Though the content is pretty much the same.)
* UPDATE Sept. 2010
I can't even begin to explain how excited and happy I am, so much positive and helpful feedback!
I never would have thought that wirting this tutorial would have been such a success. I truly am thankful!
ANNND, this is my first DD! I think I nearly screamed and jumped for joy when I saw it!
Thank you so much to *Leonca for suggesting it and for ^FantasyStock for featuring it!
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EDIT: It would be nice if you could visually show the spectrums on a hue cube, and not just dots. It makes it easier to see and visualize, especially since a lot of people use a hue cube for color picking. Thank you so much!
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Two minutes reading through this guide taught me more about Saturation and desaturation then a 40 minute long video lecture on youtube did.
Thank you very much for making this so easy to understand.
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Your wonderful tutorial has been featured here
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Ive just discovered deviantart muro.Ive drawn and painted for years.This has opened up a whole new universe to me,and I would like to thank everyone envolved.
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Oh..wow...
Thank for this amazing tutorials! TTuTT
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it is great, thanks, but i still find it hard to understand
TONES, and its difference between saturation... Especially neutral
tones... Is it a saturation of one specific warm or cool tone?
or is it a whole big group of saturation of neutral tones?
And in the next tutorial you mention that you have to
choose the group of colours when painting,
but they still have tones-warm and cool, so you still
may use the colour that is not in your chosen group?
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Saturation is not specific to warm or cool, in fact it can be any colour. Saturation is simply how "intense" the colour is, or its purest form.
What I mean when you should choose a group of colours when painting, I simple mean to pick a colour scheme and stick to it - of course you can break any of these "rules" because they aren't actually a rule. It's just a guideline.
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ohhh just how intense, so it applies to black and white too?
i love your tutorial, i like that they are some guidelines, something like a "rule" that you can follow and that can help you to paint something "correct".
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Well black and white aren't technically colours, they are shades. Black is the absence of all light and therefore had no colour, while white is the absorption of all light and all colours.
But yeah, its colour theory.
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Thank you! Will be returning to your lessons for sure!
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Umm.. the sentence isn't finished on the cool undertones bit
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The undertone thing still kinda confuses me
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Take a look at skin tones, for example. Does yours look more pink, yellow, olive?
If you hold up the colour red to your face, does it make your skin look like its really tan and orange? Or does it look pale and cold?
Technically its all "peach" or "brown" - depending on if you have light or dark skin. But the undertone of it can make it seem warm or cool.
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thanks so much sine i didnt know where to plAce light and dark parts in my drawing
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Glad that it helped, I have another tutorial which has further information on light/dark here, [link]
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This helps a lot. I usually can't get the right tone colour I want, and now I can :3
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Happy it helped you. c:
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this whole tut i learned in school in my trade. i taking classes in print shop and graphic design. trust me half the book is the difference between cmyk and rgb and how rgb is evil and should never be used. but there was a whole chapter that discusses everything in this tut. its nice to have a reference note for home though. thank you.
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amazing and very helpful. thank you very much for sharing
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Amazing tutorial, both concise and easy to understand! Thank you!
Congrats on the DD btw!
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This is going to be amazingly helpful, thank you!
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Honestly, I fell in love with this tutorial, I love, is well understood quickly and I think the colors are as one would like to paint them instantly, you're good at this
I say goodbye
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Thanks! I'm happy it was of so much use for you!
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I love this, unfortunately it doesn't work for me since I am colorblind and 75% of the things on here don't show up as they would to someone with normal vision lol
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I'm glad you enjoyed it despite that fact.
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Props and appreciation for this very handy and useful tutorial. Congrats on the much deserved Daily Deviation.
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Schoolwork comes first
Any ideas on what I could work on next?
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I would love to know how to use brushes
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This is actually very useful to me. Thank you for making these available.
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