From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color
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Solution: Demo of deconstructing color
From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color
Solution: Demo of deconstructing color
- How well did you do in remembering the color? I'm here with Susan, a graphic designer by trade, one of the reasons why we chose watercolor to make it a real challenge. Testing her color memory and sleuth-like skills to create a match for the color chosen was our plan. So Susan, shall we reveal the color? - I know it's really far off. Whoa. - [Teacher] Ta-da. - [Susan] Wow. - [Teacher] So what's the difference between the Van Dyke Brown, which is the original color, and your color? - That one, the Van Dyke Brown, is really cool and I was going more for like a burnt umber, burnt sienna. I remembered it as being much warmer. - Mm hmm. So, it is much warmer. How can we get it closer do you think? - I'm gonna guess by adding a cool blue. - Okay, so when you're trying to decide about a cool blue, there are quite a few blues you could choose, and in this case there's Cerulean or there's cobalt, and I'm gonna choose cobalt because it's sort of orange, what you started with, you kept…
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