From the course: Color for Design and Art
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Seeing and fixing problems with color - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Color for Design and Art
Seeing and fixing problems with color
- I'm going to open up an illustration here in just a minute, then I'm going to color it poorly. And what I'm going to do is point out how the palette fails, then I'm going to show how I will fix it. After that, I'm going to do it again. Another poor application of color, and another fix. And then one more time after that. Three very different and very common color problems, and three different solutions. And hopefully these demonstrations will put some useful ideas in your head for the next time you come across similar color-related issues. So, here we go, my illustration and a poor application of color. Now, to be honest, it's not like this is a complete disaster. It's pretty nice colors really. But still, I do see a problem. It's subtle, but since we're professionals here, or soon-to-be professionals, we're all about fixing problems, right? No matter how subtle, or how obvious. It's the teal and the orange. They're about the same value. So, wherever they touch, they tend to blend a…
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