Art Lesson Time!!
I saw this picture floating around today and I would like to educate y’all on why this argument is total bs and I’ll even give y’all a lesson on primary colors in general:
There are three versions of the primary colors:
Red, Yellow, and Blue (RYB)
Red, Green, and Blue (RGB)
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYB/CMYK)
These three primary colors all have different purposes. The RYB primary colors is the most common triad of colors. We learned this in preschool it’s so basic. RYB is for traditional art.
RGB is a lesser known triad but it plays a huge role. If you’re on the internet a lot you may have heard of RGB and it’s for screens. Your computer uses it, your TV uses it, your phone uses it, etc. You typically use RGB when making digital art. However, there is an exception...
Which leads me to CMYB. You only hear this group of colors when it comes to printing. You see it on ink cartriges and that’s it. This quad only appears in association to printers and one other thing: digital art. If you plan on selling your digital art as prints, use the CMYB scale in our art program when drawing. There’s often a setting you can use (in Photoshop for example) that allows you to switch between RGB and CMYB.
To conclude, there’s no one universal primary color set. There are three: RYB, RGB, and CMYB. They all have their own purpose:
RYB for traditional art
RGB for digital art
CMYB for digital art being sold as prints
Hope this post helped you out!
