Color dimension two: Value

…The first dimension of color was hue, the second dimension of color is value. Value…is the lightness or darkness of a…given color. In traditional painting, you would add…white to lighten a color, and black to darken a color. The principal digitally is…the same, but the methodology has changed…a bit. Since we're talking about vector artwork.…Suffice it to say that you want to avoid getting too light, or too dark, with…your illustration's color values. If your color values…are too light, it may appear washed out,…or faint. And this can make viewing critical…detail hard, to impossible. If the value is…too dark, everything can easily blend together, making…it difficult to discern the shapes in an illustration.…

When printed, both the lighter or darker…valued illustration can cause reproduction problems, as well.…So you wanna find a good balance between…the lightness and darkness of the colors in…your illustration. So they communicate your ideas…clearly and form a nice contrast for your…viewer. I'd like to show you more about how to do this now. So the primary…