This.
and i thought only bob ross knew what was up
this single post is more useful to me then four years of art schoolÂ
We did it in color study class on my college and itâs incredible the difference between using red/blue/yellow than cyan/magenta/yellow. The purple was colored like shit, so as the greens. Than we tried the actuall primary colors and it FELT SO GOOD!
I JUST TESTED IT IN MY ART PROGRAM AND HOLY SHITÂ
IT WORKED REALLY WELL
On the left we have dissapoinment; on the right, love.
Then why do they teach us that RBY are primary colours in Pre-KG????
To mess with our headsâŠ.
Or because they think that cyan and magenta are too difficult for kids to learn? Lame either way
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Okay, no. No no no no no no no no NO.
Listen up you fucks because Iâm not wasting thousands of dollars on an art degree to watch yâall fuck up basic color theory.
Red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors
If youâre using p i g m e n t.
Do you hear me? When youâre using traditional media, fucking actual goddamn paint, Bob Ross style, your primary colors are!
When you use paint, your primary colors are red yellow and blue and donât forget it.
NOW THAT CHANGES COMPLETELY WHEN YOU GO FUCKING DIGITAL.
THE DIGITAL PRIMARY COLORS ARE RED BLUE AND GREEN IF AND ONLY IFÂ YOUR WORK IS GOING TO STAY DIGITAL, ON THE SCREEN, AND NEVER LEAVE THE SCREEN, AND OF COURSE IF YOUR WORK IS GOING TO BE PRINTED. ON A PRINTER. WITH INK. THEN. AND O N L Y Â T H E N.
ARE YOUR PRIMARY COLORS.
CYAN.Â
MAGENTA.
AND YELLOW.
So say it with me folks!
Red yellow and blue, are the primary colors for traditional pigment thatâs mostly used in paints and shit. You use red yellow and blue when youâre painting traditionally, Bob Ross style.Â
Red blue and green is light, which is what youâre painting with when you pick up your tablet and go digital.
CMYK is ink, and ink only. You could use cyan, magenta, and yellow as your primary colors in paint if you wanted to be a complete dick, but theyâre not your primary colors unless your work is going to be printed using. i n k. The only time they could be considered the primary colors in a traditional medium is if youâre using ink.
Good day.
Also thatswhiskytoyouâs color mixing is bullshit because THIS:
Is my icon. I painted this using RED. GREEN. AND BLUE. AS MY PRIMARY COLORS and they turned out fine. Of course, I used the finger smudge tool first and then the color mixing tool and then the blur tool, but hey what do I know.
Clearly using the blur tool only doesnât cut it.
âOh but Leo!â You say. âYou used cyan and magenta in that color wheel!â
Well bitch guess what.
this is the digital color wheel. Iâd say I mimicked that pretty well, donât you think?
Oh and one other thing, notice how Blue and Yellow are directly opposite each other on this color wheel? Thatâs because weâre dealing with light, and with light, yellow and blue are complimentary colors.
Which is why when you mix them, it looks like this:
Which is a pretty neutral gray tone: They cancel each other out on the rgb color wheel when you mix them together.
BUT WITH PIGMENT THE PLACEMENT IS DIFFERENT
If youâll notice, yellow and violet are now opposite each other, meaning theyâre complimentary colors and if you mix  them, theyâll make a neutral gray.
But if you mix yellow and blue, same colors as before, YOU GET THIS:
Now keep in mind that the person in the video uses a darker blue, so they get a darker green, but the point is that it doesnât make that neutral gray.
Now what happens when we mix yellow and violet paint?
Ah yes, you get a bunch of muted colors the more evenly you mix them.
What happens when you mix yellow light and purple light?
I see, I see.
OH AND ONE MORE THING.
They didnât teach you about red blue green and cmyk in pre-k because when most of us were in pre-k digital art was still in its early stages and what fucking seven year old knows how to use a printer.
GUESS WHOâS NOT FUCKING DONE YET:
The reason the primary colors for light are so dramatically different from the primary colors for paint and ink is because your eye only receives combinations of red light, blue light, and green light. Our eyes do not have a sensor (cone cell) for yellow light. So when we paint with light, red green and blue are our primary colors. Because of our eyes.
Furthermore, paint primary colors are colors that cannot be created by mixing other colors together. For paint, they are red yellow and blue, because you cannot mix orange and green to get yellow. Mixing orange and purple paint does not make red. And mixing green and purple paint does not make blue.
Mixing blue and green paints will make cyan. Mixing red and blue paints will make magenta.
Thatâs why cyan and magenta arenât primary paint colors.
However, you canât mix yellow and blue ink and get cyan. You canât mix red and blue ink to get magenta.
And thatâs why cyan and magenta are the primary ink colors.
Brighter and stronger paints are created through tints and shades, through a thorough understanding of color theory and a few quality paint recipes. Not by bullshit posts on tumblr designed to mislead you.
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Iâm so glad people jumped in cuz I was about to get real tilted. Fuck, unless you actually learned this shit donât tell people what they can and canât do.
i learned something today. thank you
This has been really interesting to read. But I am curious where warm and cool colours fit in. In high school art I was taught there was a warm red (makes a great orange) and a cool red (excellent for making purple), a warm blue (makes good purple) and a cool blue (makes gorgeous greens), and the same with yellows.
I later learned that historically pigments were made from things people could find in the environment, like rocks, bits of animals, metals etc. And so the colours you could get for paint were restricted based on the technology of the time. So I can imagine they would have been less fussed about finding a single red/blue/yellow for all purposes.
Hereâs a pic showing warm and cool colours. [x]
