The digital color wheel

…Digital illustration provides us with a palette…of millions of colors to choose from. That's…great in theory, but practically speaking it's…creative overkill. In general, you only need to…remember 12 colors in order to formulate any of the millions of colors you could…use in your illustration. Whatever your creative…penchants are color wise, having a firm grasp…on the basics of color, how they relate to one another and how to combine them…to form new colors, will help you as…you create and select colors for your design. So,…let's take a look at the venerable color…wheel which simplifies the process of understanding and…using color to help us lay a solid,…creative foundation for our experations of color in illustration.…

When you think about color, I want you…to think about the traditional color wheel that…I'm about to show you here. And the…traditional color wheel starts off with the primary…colors. These are the three primary colors, red,…blue and yellow. Now, within the traditional color…wheel you have the primary colors, and then…