From the course: Color for Design and Art
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Helping colors get along - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Color for Design and Art
Helping colors get along
- Colors don't need to have anything in common to get along with each other. Complimentary colors, for example, they come from opposite sides of the color wheel and neither has a trace of the other in it's DNA. And yet these, they can look great together as long as the two colors have clear differences in value. And that said, there's definitely a time and a place for palettes made from colors that do share in common qualities. Like when a hint of gold and yellow is added to all the colors of an illustration to give it notes of warmth while also lending the palette a look of inner connectivity because of the in common hints of gold and yellow. I first learned about using tints to harmonize palattes when an art teacher he saw me struggling to get the hues in one of my paintings to look like they were getting along and he told me a trick about mixing a light transparent color of some kind and floating it over the top of an entire painting as a way of bringing unity to all it's colors…
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